Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-07
Hbe Anti 5laprrp Buole.
Correspondence of tho New York Tribune.
A LETTER FROM MR.. BYLEs.

A LETTER FROM MR. BYLES.
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BosToN. Dec 10, 1859
. I have been meaning to write to you ever since
"a matched up the poor dear old Union again, last
vsek. The venerable sufferer is as wei! Us could
bc reasonably expected. and, with care, may las'
. . short time longer. l should have relieved your
,anxietv as TO the condition in which the Operation
~ of last Thursday morning left the interesting in
valid before this had been able 20 collect my az
;,a,ed faculties, and command my shattered
nerves. You know have never made any secret
of my weakness in relation to the world to come,
Not only am in no hurry to explore its secrets IN
person, but ask it as particular iavor OF all
and singular who have made the journey, not TO
, como back again my account can walt per-
4. ,fectly we'll. You may remember that in some
communications had in my letters with some OF
your Spirtualst friends year or two ago.
frankly con 'essed that was afraid Of ghosts, and
I am as bad as ever yet. : Imagine, then, my emo
. tions on finding myself, by broad daylight III
room full of dead men-ol detunct politicians
: ID was an awful 81 .ht. A churchyard is gay; the
2 Cstucombs cheerful the Potter's field lvei'
place of resort, in tho comparison. There was Out
ono live man TO be seen about the PLATFORM ana
that was Mr.. Caleb Cushing who acted the part
of Undertaken, Sexton, or rather Resurrection
man, on tho solemn occasion. protest to YOU
have been afraid to 20 to bed in the dark ever
since.
rai But. observe tell you all this in the strctes
confidence. Please don't say anything about IT.
If our Southern brethren uro content to accept II
az a meeting Of Live Men, let them Don't eH-
nose Boston to be sacked 10y the Jefferson county
Al. =
Coptipentals the Tenth Legion, and the rest OF
the Virginia Militia which your correspondents
have given us such terrible accounts OF. Dat " Is
ms sev. have been told that SS edenborg says
that there are some people who have Oeeh uc"u IL
ch,ndred vears. and have rot found it out yei.
Wall. these are of that kind. There were no less
than sir departed Governors among the NUMBER
dead men, every man of them-rery dead inueeo
5-.loro ,inoe slaid out cold"-dead. beyond the
po,sibi,ity Of resuscitation by the humanes' Vi
Humane Societies. Aud go 1t was with many
others, mighty men in their day and generation
full of mower once, from whose nostriis tue hs' hs'
breath of public life departed long ago. " no 'he
ras.tag and bobtal were that signed the call anu
made up the body Of the assembly, lcannot spoak
from actual knowledge; but could not detectthe
name of single living polititian--that is, OF any
who had tho breath Of Massachusetts, lite IN them
sunpose there we plenty ofDemocrats, OF courses
gbut YOU know enough of Massachusetts poitlcs 10
know tha. these never mean te'have any polsica
.x;.tence in the State. Anything that they say
., Al has no more signfcancy in this matter than
2.ba s,v;nos and doings Of any of the White Trash
=; ,hs Slave States, should they hold meeting to
4a.,,are their determination "t) maintain the
CONSTITUTION and the Union. (which is TIE ,lneri-
.n for catching egroes and letting their masters
do lust what they likewith themselves
Having thus gently slid down from the back OF
nv allecory. before it threw me over It's mead
for tbey are still as headstrong as Mrs. MaiaProp
said thew were on the banks OF the Nlle-l wouiu
nav in plain pedestrious phrase that 1t the slave
holders are satisfied with that demonstration they
ara much more easily pleased than they used to
to be. There WAS not name on the Call or
a man on the platform, that represented human
being beside himself. AS far as influence Is con-
eerned. the names might as well be copied from
tho tomLstones in Copps Hall and the Kings
Chapel burying grounds, and the men brought
up,
"By some devlish cantrip slight"
from the graves there. as Tam o Shanter saw them
in Alloway Kirk. There were plenty OF ox-Ex-
" higs who once had weight and consequence In
the State and nation but every man who hoias
Massachusetts, offce,or who thinks nc has chance
of getting one, KEEP. clear of the Call as II 1t
were infected with the smallpox, and stunning
the meeting as if it were a lazaretto. Even the
Mayor, Mr.. F. w. Lincoln, an old Webster wing
and set up originally by the llunkers, though az
ceoted eor some inscrutabe reason by the kepuo-
licans. was kept in the back grounds. His name
was on the list of e-Prcsdents, which does not
necessarily imply knowledge or consent; but
could not fiud it on the Call. The reason must
have been, as be the proper person to pre-
side at such meeting, that he and his friends
knew i. would be fatal to bis hopes of reelection
She uext Monday.
The moral effect Of the whole thing is just this:
II YOU propose making descent on Virginia, Mr..
,Rvssett positively declines being "counted in"
.Ho wouldn't 20 with that crowd He won't run
With tha, 'masheen. So you must MT reckon
upon him. Nor yet on Gen. Gushing. lie will
not carry the loads of laurels he reaped in Mexi-
90 to that market You must do without him too.
And should you apply to the worthy old
Wing milliopaires such as the Messrs. Appleton,
for the sinews of war, you will be sent away emp-
~. Thus that meeting may save you this much
trouble, If you ever thought of taking it. There
sWere good many very respectable gentlemen OF
great wealth and much private worth, who gave
their names and their presence to that meeting i
but so far as weight and influence went, they
might just as well have sent their fooimen or
eoachmen in their stead. AS there is no limit to
the gulibility of an old State-street Wing, it is
very likely hcse worthy persons really think that
they are Of some Importance; that what they said
in Faneuil Hall of some more consequence
than if they said it at their OWN dinner tables. II
The Courier should tell them that Mr.. Webster
Tor even Mr.. Everett, to make ihs s,ppo.i;on I