Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-15
BOSTON IN 6

The disunion demonstrations a. the South, would
naturally produce union saving demonspaiions at
the North; hence, while Charleston in Soath Care.
lima is announcing the Union, Boston, 10 Massa.
chuse'ts' is exalting it. The one moJs abolition
lists because they are opposed to slavery; Ard the
other, because the agitation Of tho slavery Que ,iun
uls'utbs the equilibrium If the Union. Neltbnr
manifestation should DO objected to, so long as the
feeling EXIST; better it should he acted our, than
be repressed TO rankle and gather new strength.
While secession on tho part Of the South will in
all probability involve no governmental conflict, it
will doubtless be accompanied and followed, NJ
1t has been preceded by many instances Of irdi.
vidual violence, by lynch Law in the South, and
mob law in the North. The demonstration in
Boston on the Ord Of December, though differing
In details was tho same in spirit as that which rul.
ed there twenty-five years ago. 1t is true, the
population OF Boston aid Of the State possesses
tar more anti-slavery intelligence now than it did
then, but not enough, we fear, to stand by and de-
Tend the Freedom Of speech except within certain
Limitations; and in the manifestations on the occa-
sion referred to, there can readily be identified the
mobocratic respeetabil:ty aud Standing which ri.
nm2hed there n quarter Of a century since, and
the same Official imbecility which at tina. time dis
graced the city.
When in '3S Philadelphia burned Pennsylvania
Hall, and her Mayor Swift and his police played
into ihe hands Of The mob, we feared il would re-
quire n miracle to make her a decent city, and eff
face the stigma which 1883 had burned into her
history. But when we contrast tho action of
Mayor Henry, who last winter SO notly stood by
Gcurpa w Enrtia ,n,l ,In cra.l,. r. ...l -.
umphantly defending his right to be heard. and
catching and c"ging the sons OF Philadelphia atis-
'ocra's WHO attempted to apply the gag, with that
oi Mayor Lincoln Of b .ston, who suffered a Union
mob To plumber tho abolitiOnisis of their rented
hall, hnrl Mt the coiored men there in attendance
epitbets coined in the lowest mint of negro hatred,
and whose highest idea Of official duty was to close
the hail after the mohocrats had held their meeting
thus virtually applying the gag, ard doing What
the mubocrats themselves were unable to do; when
We contrast the conduct Of tbesa Two officials. we
are almost tempted to believe that Philadelphia
Will enter into the kingdom Of An,i.Slavery before
Boston is within sight of the promised land.
We have elsewhere given the resolutions Of the
mobocrats led or by Richard S. Fay and J. Murray
Howe, and also those adopted by the meeting held.
hy the Abolititnists in Martins Church, belonging
to n col1red congregation, and which meeting, il
seems, the police did guard against serious inter
runtions, but did not however, protect the colored
citizens of Boston on their way home, nor did they
prevent the destruction of property belonging to,
or occupied by that class Of community.
Surely the heart OF Carolina will be made GLAD
by these mobocratic achievements, for Boston has
won from the South The need of "Well done, good
and faithful servant"