Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-24
ADRIAN, Nov. lS IL

ADRIAN, Nov. 18, 1860.
To THE EDITOR: Perhaps | should feel osbomod
Us wen as mortified at obtaining so few sub-cri.
pers for the brave little Bugle. But some time,
lean 1t not be soon,) you must go where I have
been and try for yourself. Ore thing operates nm.
taVorablv' and that is, that Salem, Ohio, is not 70
well known on the shores Of the Mississippi River
as is New York, nor is the Bugle so well relisbed
as the New York Herald and Tribune, Even
Boston, IS but little known, and less talked about
though now a village approaching two hundred
thousand people, besides the Editor of the Liber;
ator, who seems altogether the best known man Of
his town and state.
started up a Doctor of Drugs the other dav,
and frightened him from his pr%opriety, by uninten-
tionaily las he said,) disclosing the secret that
we aoolitionists are Disunionistsl Not more fran.
ticalS did the old philosopher shout Eureka,
Eureka, II have found it, | have found it) at his
great discovery, than dill the astounded Doctor!-
1t was in o most crowded meeting, not one indivi.
dual Of whom seemed to share in the surnriso-so
that really, the doctor discovered his own 6eniqdt-
edness, rather than anything else.
You must not suppose however, that because
the people do not read our papers, they do not
read any newspapers. l have travelled where
Roads arc scarce, and Bridges more.so-but no,
where newspapers DO not penetrate. And almost
every little town has its Bookstore too, as well as
its Post Offce-a wondrous contrast in this respec,
from what | saw any where on the continent of
Europe, after leaving Paris.
But the people do not hno0 the Bugle, and very
few rant the Liberator. Republicanism of the
most conservative kind, is the highest Anti-Slove-
ry virtue, west Of Ohio and Michigan, with rare
exceptions. VIM. II. Seward, abiding o,fhogro-
.phicaay to Stephen A. Douglass, said, 'No man
can ever be President, who spells Negro with two
.ggs'," l fear that must blast the hopes of most of
his own party in the more Western States. mig
ger" and "NIGGRRs," are tho common words:
sometimes led too by an adjective that makes you
fear their fate in the next world is to be even more
deplorable than here,
Prejudice against color is nowhere hereabouts
deemed a crime or cruelty. The worst feature of
the 'Dred Scott Decisionj' is as truly Republican
as it is Democratic. Whenever the colored man ia
denied tho right of suffrage, he is yirtualIy told
he has emo rights which the white man il bound
to respect" In that greatest Of governmental
rights, are included all the less. Taxation with
out representation" was the revolutionary cry in
l776, and why should it not avail the taxed and
trOdden-down cOlored man, all over the Western
States! And why might he not have bis La Eav.
cite too, in the struggle,as well as the Henrvs and
Washingions theirs2 A paper advocating immo-
date emancipation of every slave, and a dissolu-
ton of the Union, to that end and then 'aegyo email.
ay,' in all respects, after that, will find the eoo,es,
KIND OF patronage on these prairies, you may be
sare' ana even to travel, lat your own expense,
and proclaim these doctrines, is a "porking out of
your o"" safeaf'0H" in the most literal manner TO
be imagined; and if you do not do it literally
"~'h fear and trembling" ii must DO far moro
because you disregard danger than because no
danger exists, as my OWE experience has more
than once proved. PARKER P%lLLSBURY.