Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-19
SALEM, OHIO, MAY 10, 1860.
PRESIDENT MAKING.

This is ihe week the Republicans assemble 10
Chicago to nominate O candidate for !he Presiden-
cy of the United States, with the hope Of his cleo
ton. From present appearances, Presidential
candidates will be plenty the coming fall and so
for as the recognition of the slaves right to free
dom, and the colorod name to equality is con
cerned, we apprehend it mItters but little who
wins the stakes. There are doubtless those IN the
Republican party who desire to effect the deliver
ance Of the slave, if not directly, then indirectly
but we have no faith that the great macs of the
party, and especially of the managers and mould
srs who have assembled at Chicago this week,care
aught for the slaves welfare, or propose to labor
with n view to his redemption, either immediate or
remote. We have their assurance that such is the
case that they have no design of interfering with
slavery ,ehere il exists ; and 10 view of this decla-
ration, the question has been pcrtinently asked,
Do they intend to interfere with it where it does
not eristf
So lar as the question of slavery-or its extern
sion, rather-has been made the issue between the
two great political parties, it has been discussed,
not with reference to it's effects upon it's victims,
but in relation to its bearing upon the white man;
and'te ehite mans party has in all its movements,
given assurance that this name is descriptive of the
character Of the organization.
While freely admitting that the Republican par
ty has in it many men whose antislavery feelings
party machinery has not wholly crushed out, we
have always commended there was infinitely less
difference between the position of the Republican
and Democratic ~parties-making due allowance
for the fact that one was Ont and the other In
than the anti-slavery friends of the former claim
ed was the case. The difficulties experienced by
the Democrats at the Charleston Convention, an
the opposition made to the Douglas men by the
seeeedeIs, does not We apprehend, prove that the
Northern wing Of the party has taken an advance
position, but simply, that the South has become
more exaetiDg. We think our Republican friends
will agree with US in this view Of The matter. John
P. Hale, in q recent speech in the Senate, declar-
cd Of the Northern members of the Democratic
Convention, "they went to Charleston, and deliV-
cred speeches containing sound Republican doc
{, zine, where the Republicans would not have been
permitted to CO.
Admitting this to be a statement Of fac.-and
We are not disposed to question tive feel inclin-
cd to ask, whether the necessity for the Republi'
can party has not ceased to exist, seeing that it's
mantle has fallen upon the Douglas Democrats
who preach sound Republican Doctrine, not in the
North, where speech is measurably free to all, bu.
at Charleston, South Carolina, where the Gospel of
Slavery, according to Calhoun, has heretofore
been taught. To be sure the Republicans have not
had much Of q feed at the public crib and it may
DO desirable, in q loaf aud fish point of view, to
continue the organization yet awhile longer that
the Outs may be made glad by becoming the
ms.