Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-24
THE suPERLATIvE DUTY OF THE PAT.
RIOT.

There has been a difference of opinion 10 tho
various ages and nations Of the world in regard to
what constitutes true patriotism. Marcus Curtis
thought that tho sacrifice Of bis life by leaping in
to the gulf from which pestilcntial yapors werS
issuing and destroying Rome, was the greatest
evidence of patriotism that man could give. Leo.
midas considered the defence at TLermopolys
against the invading hosts Of Persia, as consti,u.
ting a Spartan's highest duty. In more modern
times some have thought that to die for liberty
uron the block or gallows, ne well as upon the bat.
tie field, was a manifestation Of patriotism whose
value none could deny.
In q Republic such as this, unlike any other re-.
public Of ancient Ur modern days, and peculiarly
situated in regard to our peculiar institution"
there has necessarily been n considerable differ.
ence Of opinion as to what true patriotism 70.
quires. Sumo have contended that It should seek
out and adopt means to ezolt the moral standard
Of The nation. develope its intellectual resources.
ind increase its industrial products; and some
have fanati3ally asserted that every true patriot
will take the Declaration Of Independence in ono
hand and the Golden Rule in the other. ard labor
to bring the practice Of tho people into harmony
with the two.
Ihai sncb are altogether mistL ken we have The
assurance of The Republican State Convention Of
Indiana, whose members have mapped out tbs
Patriots path, and made it so plain that the aim.
plest can comprehend, and the weakest perform
tho work. |. is / briefly summed up in this:-Thk
preservation Of the american Union, ns witness the
following resolution passed by that Convention.
Resolved, That We regard the preservation Of
tho American Union as the highest object and du.
~ " patriotism, and that it must and shall bo
preserved, and that all who advocate disunion are,
and deserve the fate Of traitors."
How the Union has been, and is to be prosef,.
ed. is rs we'll known to the politician as Is tho
commonest recipe in the cook. book to the super.
in'endent Of a cooking stove. A Union saving
meeting now and then. with resolutions calculated
for a southern latitude; a copious interlardinp of
political harrangues with professions of devotion
to the Union; on great occasions a fraternaI ming.
ling in Bachanalian revels of Southern and North.
ern legislatures, q mixing Of black spirits and
white, blue spirits and grey; and to give a spice to
such manifestations OF patriotism, and evidence a
sincerity which might otherwise be doubted. il il
well to occasionally shot an nsurrectionary abo.
litiOnist, or hang some John Brown who dares not
only to be free himself, but to make others free.
Such is the most approved recipe for preserving
the Union, and its efficacy can be testified TO BY 40
many certificates as ever affirmed the virtues OF
any quack medicine. Where 1.-THE highest object
and duty of patriotism" is so evidently within tho
reach OF all, who would not be a patriotH And
who among the Disunion abolitionists can have the
hardihood to stand up with the name Of traitor
branded upon his forehead by the Republican
State Convention Of Indiana, and with the decla.
ration of that body ringing in his ears, that he
deserves the traitors doom?