Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-08

CONCORD, N. II. August, %,

CONCORD, N. H.. August, %, 1860.
To THE EDITOR: My two last letters had respect
to general operations in the West. Now that
the days of your anniversary are settled, is there
anything for me to say in regard to that most i'm.
portant event
Your annual meetings are, almost always, every
way, successes. Can we do more and better this
year than usual ? All the voices of Nature and of
God seem to bid us upward and onward. The
past year has borne away into the eternities, a
Record of fearful import. The African Slave
Trade is now q ommerc at once so dreadful and
so extensive, as that its weeping and wailing make
the Atlantic ocean almost as the Lake of Fire and
Brimstone' in the visions of Patmos. kidnapping
too, at home, in Ohio, and all around is becoming
as lawful and l~audable, as Buffalo hunting on tn Q
Prairies. The last declarations of Abraham Lin
coin on the rights of the nominally free people of
color, are in effect; but diabolical combinations of
the bred Scott decision. Under them, what is
the Wanted Declaration oe Independence but "a
sounding TRADE of Glittering Generalities . His
readiness and willingness to run and bark on the
Fugitive Slave Track, he had before fully avowed.
Democracy to be sure, is divided. but not dead.
God grant it may be soon 1t is doomed, nay,
ttHSftC hl > u " bOthO puI pObO,
it still fingers and bowls, like the last lion of a
desert, ut bay against the advancing tide of civil,
zation. Perhaps it waits, that Lincoln Republi,
canism may divide With it a common grave.
Then will the true friends of the slave see, that
free colored prescription, and slave-holding in the
District of Columbia, and the imprisoning of IIy-
ats and Booths, and noble John Bsowns. for dar-
ing to initiate Moses and Lafayette, if not Jesus,
are just as cruel and devilish, done by a Lincoln,
as a Douglas? Ohio is full of brave men who
are ready to die for the slave. Nobody doubts it.
But Ohio and the whole country are invested with
troops of ravening politicians, who take that noble
devotion, and pervert it to purposes that challenge
Democracy to match in baseness and depravity.
Can yout meeting throw any more ligh. on such a
gloom ?
The Church is d daily making her malignity to
the cause of the enslaved, more and more known.
The orthodoxy of Cheever is no more respected
than the heresies of Garrison. The Methodist
General Conference at Buffalo, showed that the
Churches can no more war upon slavery in their
own ranks, or from their own high fortresses, than
side ~ side with the Lords Amounted, in the
Anti, Slavery host. The new Tract Society has
thrown of the mask and grihs as scornfully, and
s~pitefully at the true anti'slavery cause, as ever
did the old society, its Jezebel Mother. The New
York Independent has a breath as pestiferous, a
fang as poisonous as its Satanic Prototype, the
New York Observer; aud at the speed it now
bounds onward in infamy, it will die a devil, ere it
is half as old. And our whole popular sentiment
is singing in grand 0ratOrio of Stocks and Divi-
dens, of Sports and Divertisements, of Trade, Poll
tics, Religion, Revivals. COurtships, Marriages and
Families, as sublimely serene, as though Eden
bloomed on every hand; instead of tho blazing
scenes Of desperation and deprayity, that would