Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-10

IiVI"Iuhole, except perhaps, 20 lS0lated house
holds, but simply through feeling of humanity.
The slave will be the sole victim of his own errots
but the responsibility before the tribunal of con-
sciences, will rest those from whose preiudiced
distorted, untrutbful discourse he has contracted
these errors. In slandering the Republican party
the Southern politicians have been mining their
own hearth-stones, and organizing genuine Car.
bonari 10 the negro quarters. The plot, (if plot
there was,) panic, and subsequent terrorism
in Texas-the rhobs lynch,ng5, and massacres,
which have spread indeliblo infamy over that
State, making it hateful in ;ho eyes of the civ
ilized world, as Mount Lebanon, the home of the
bloody and fanadcal Druses, are the direct pro-
ducts of the lies hurled at the Republican party
by the champions Of slavery. The black cloud Of
icalumny with which they sought to cover the
brightness Of the Republican cause has broken in
o rain of Are and blood over that State This rn.
dreamed-of catastrophe should apprise them oi
the danger which such an immoral course exposes
them to. Had they contended with the Republi.
can party in its own asowed character the slave
would pay no more attention to the controversy
than Of old to the controversy between Whig and
Democrat He has no eympathy whatever with
only country which hc dfeads is that terra
incognta which he calls "down the river" the in.
habitants of which, he believes, are morally and
geograpl ioally antipodsl to those of Canada.
1t will therefore be conceded that tie Sinples!
and most eectual ,0ay for subduing everything like
excitement among the negroes and restoring complete
quiet is TO represent the Republican party in lis true
light TO the people Of the South to paint it as it
is, without conceang a single supposed blemsb,
instead of drawing hideous caricalure Of it in
red and black. Let it have fair hearing, and be
Judged by its merits or demerits instead of being
summarily condemned as militant a5olitionism.-
With their teaching thus reversed, (for reversed
ii will be If the truth shall be told) the negroes
will unlearn their as quickly as they learn
cd them. There will he no more plots OF Internal
contrivances of any kind. whether on the part Of
blacks or whiesi no more Of those Srarta-Helotic
practices, of which Texas has so recently been the
ssngunary thsater. Neither will there be one
tenth as many emigrauts to Canada from the
Sordor slave States. The contentment Of the SER
vile class is the surcst guarantee their owners can
have. When discomfort sets in, no matter from
what cauSe fugitives are numerous.
For these various reasons, we submit to the Or
gans of pro-slavery opinion the question of the
prudence, as we'll as justice and proptieiy Of their
distinguishing between Republicans and Abol-
tionists - between Abraham Lincoln and John
Browh--between she supporters of the laws, and
the fllibuster rsvolutionists They can only in
flame the prevailing madness by petsisting in
their extravagant falsiaeations. The stigma of
Abolition has lost its terrors in the North-the
term having been applied indiscriminatey to all
opponents Of National democracy and the same
loose application of it heuceorth can havo no 9th
er effect than to confound to the popular apprehen-
sion in the South, things which are radically and
essentially distinct We do not hesitate
to proclaim that they who accuse the Republican
party OF q purposej hidden or ayowei to let loose
the slaves. are the prime authors of thos6 negro
phoba paroxysms in Texas and elsewhere, and OF
those "stampedes" which are held to constitute
the peculiar grievance of the South