Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-15
JUMP JIM CROW"

A few years since thore was a popular go pg, the
chorus Of which ran thus =
"Wheel about, and turn about, and do just so,
And every timo | wheel about | jump jim Crow"
We have not heard it sung so much bf late
years as we have seen it done, and are inclined to
believe that in this, as in most other things 'Prac-
tice makes p%erfect.'
When the Democrats nominated Gen. jackson,
the Wings earnestly protested against selecting as
a candidate for the Presidency, a soldier, with no
tried craftsmanship to Omm hiui, but rely
ing solely for success upon his military renown.
But the Democrats did it, aud elected their man.
The Wings finding that it took well with the PEG.
pie, subsequently folloS we'd the example OF their
opponents, nominated Gen. Harrison, and by the
prestige of the military renowD be had, ard that
mane Pictured for the occasion, elected 'Tippecan-
oe and Tyler too During that canvass the
Wings had no disposition to repeat their former
prophetic warnings of The danger of having q mil.
itary chiefsain at the head of public affairs. 1t
was all right. The same game was played by The
same party in the election Of Gen. Taylor, with
this difference; that the war that made him famous,
the Wings had declared infamous. But the mill
tary spirit was rampant, and on it the Wings rode
into power.
10 1856 the Republicans denounced tho Cincin-
natl platform, because among other ohjeo'
tons, it was susceptible Of two constructions
suiting both North and South. So terrific
were their denunciations of this double dealing
policy, thai any one not conversant with the ter
giversations of party, would have thought that no
Republican platform could by any possibility be
tortured into a double meaning-that wrench and
rack it's language as you would, it would say and
mean the one thing, and only .he one. In 1860
they have a platform upon which Bryant comes
and defends Free Trade, and Greeley advocates q
Tariff; from which Ullman aud Mann urge know
nothing principles, and Schultz opposes where Cor
win stands and threatens imprisonment-and if
need be, hanging-to the opponents of tho Fugi-
tive Slave Law, and Giddings and Lovejoy deny
its coustitutionality; which pro'slavery Conserva-
tism uses to quiet sectional agitation, and restore
to the country its former lethargic peace, and pro-
gressive Abolitionis:s to crib, cabin, and con6ne
slavery, and thus ultimately destroy it.
In sc theaepublicans denounced the Democratic
because they insisted that Fremont was a Cath
olic, and tried to use the alledged fact to defeat
his election thus unfairly dragging into the contest
the real or supposed religious opinions Of the can
didates. In 60 the worry same game is played by a
portion Of the ReptbliC an press, and limitations
are made that Douglas is a Catholic, or at leas:
favorable to Catholicism, because his wife is said
to belong to that church, and that therefore he
ought not to be Presid eht.
Many more instances Of a like character might
be mentioned, all showing that though politicians
may not sing IL, they continually
"Wheel about, and turn about, and do just So,
And every time they wheel abou. they jump Jim
Crow"