Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-10
Gbe Anti 9Iaperp BtoIs.


From the Pa!ussvils Press.
We have some where read of an anxious lover.
who after long and ardent pursuit Of the object
Of his affections, and when bis prospects of success
had become hopeful became doubtful concerning
the real value of the prize he had so ardently
sought, so that when he came to press for n final
answer to his suit he was fully as we'll prepared
for disappointment as for success.
We spprehend that many ardent ant-slavery
men who have long labored for the success OF the
Republican party, now that success seems proba-
ble begin to feel doubt whether the victory will,
after all, be any great triumph The undignihed
Difference to the Slave Power, manifested by Re.
publican representatives and leaders, has provok-
ed the indignation aud shaken the confidence Of a
vast number who had been led by their hopes to
Look upon the Republican party as the firm, sin
cere and uneomp mpromising friends and champions
of Freedom. The recent conduct of the Repub-
can Legislature Of Ohio in treating the authorities
OF Kentucky and Tennessee, fresh from their out
RACES upon peaceful republican community, to q
costly and lcentiOus banquet at the peoples ex-
pense, and bestowing upon their discreditable
guests the most fulsome praises and adulatons has
greatly weakened the moral power of the party in
ern Counties.
Other symptoms of weakness or insincerity in
Republican leaders tend to confirm this distrust in
honest minds, The readiness of Republican SEN
atorY to confirm the inquisitorial committee concer
ming the Harpers Ferry affair even after the slave
holders had refused to include among their duties
an enquiry into the seizure of United States arms
by Border Ruffans for the against Free State
men in Kansas, the anxiety of Republican repre-
sentstives to purge themselves and their coustitu-
ents of all sympathy with Brown and his brave
companions, and of all endorsement of Helper s
book, the speech OF Sherman, congratulating Re-
publicans upon the election of Pennington and
enumerating among its good results that "Slaves
had risen in value" IA speech which had moro
than reconciled US to Sherman's defeat, )-these
and other innumerable tokens of the anxiety Of
prominent Republicans to conciliate the Slave
Power, and it to beg leare to be, have for
feited the prestige, weakened the moral power
and greatly sapped the available strength of the
Republican party neutralizing the zeal of its
earnest friends. So profound politician and
shrewd master of political science as Richard
Golden, NJ. P, predicted the failure of the Repub
lcan Party from this very pusillanimity, or as he
termed it lack Of pluck, Aud the brayesti wis
est of Republican leaders, Cassius NJ. Clay, in his
late speech in New York attributed the failure Of
Sherman to the same cause, and stated that if Re.
publican representatives. had met the insolent de-
maud of the Shareholders for the reputation of the
endorsers of Helpers book with due contempt and
defiance, they could have elected Sherman and or
SaniLed the House in three days.
The Cleveland Herald Of Saturday, with editor
ial comments, gives the account of the recent vio
lent expulsion from Arkansas Of Mr.. Tewsbury,
n northern teacher. Mr.. Iewsbury had been es
tsblished in his business for ten years. and it was
not even pretended that he had in any way inter
fered with their cherished 'Institution." lie was
however waited upon by q committee of slavehol
ders and required to sign paper certifying to the
rightlulness of slavery and promising to fight in
its defence when necessary. Upon his refusal, he
was warned to leave the State within 80 hours,
under penalty of "lynchiug," and acceeding, left
his property and business without time for its ar
raugement or security. The editor of the Herald
it seems to US, virtually commends this outrage,
by comparing it with the action of the friends OF
Freedom in Oberln, who lately detected motor.
ious slave-hunting and kidnapping Deputy Mar
shal in their midst and forthwith expelled him.
The Herald gives the preference to the slavehol
ders, because they allowed SO hours for the teach
er TO escape, whereas the people allowed the slave
hunter but one,-thus assuming that the slayo
hunter had as much right to pursue his business
ns the teacher his.
According to the Herald's logic, our friends il
Oberlin who drove off the official kidnapper are
just sc times as guilty of outrage as the ruffan'
of Arkansas who drove out peaceable school
master, because they gave the kidnapper but one
hour whereas the schoolmaster was allowed 3d.
And at this rate the people of Painesville are still
8 times gutier than the citizens of Oberlin, mas
much as VIC gave Jennings and ;his same Marsha
Dayton only Is minutes to make good their escape
whom they honored our village with like visit
Jennings and our friend of the Herald, in this
instance measured conduct by similar standard
for Jennings complained on the occasion alluded
10 that "PainesvilIs was ten times worse thar
Oberlin"-and left curse which We were hap
py to receive as compliment.