Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29
RURAL, ILLINOIS, Dec, Is, 1850.
For the Anti Slavery Dugle.

1870 WV
If the Illinois candidates is elected. Ever since
South, especially, the kingdom of South Carolina,
nas taken on a Big Mad, and the neither lip Of the
poutcr, hangs down as long as o mason's
shoepskin, and %portonds awful revolutions. Uncle
Jam int Sam6 is greatly frightened at the course
Of this member Of the family, for he is an old
bach" and don't understand the business Of
spanking and training babies, and especially those
Of the game breed. Now Gen, jackson would
have administered a dose Of hickory oil, and hush
ed up all this fuss, were he at the head Of the
family.
Tho union savers have had q busy time for the
last few weeks. All sorts tf glue, wax, tar, and
similar sticky articles have been lavishly used, and
in such quantities, that, were they Of much value,
their loss would be sufficient to bankrupt q nation.
The most popular cataplasm that these union sa-
vers have been d~abbling with, is the hobby that all
the free states must repeal every law that squints
toward liberty. Nothing less than this will salts
.fy the South or take off that Big Mad, and will that
do III If Che free states are base enough to do SO
mean an oct, they will find that will DC but the
beginning Of their abasement.
Now uncle Jim (not SAM is q poor nurse, So
all the family is getting to work to notify the
wrath Of the baby, and they are making q pretty
lob of it. In their ordeavors they arc only caus-
ing other leverish juveniles to help Miss Carline
Isl to squall louder, Here is granny Bell, and
granny Douglas, and granny Corwiu, and don't
know how many other grand dams, mixing up
vermifuges, elizirs, &c, in the shape Of a~nodynes,
to eweeten the temper of the little creatures, and
the more they mix the louder becomes the squall,
and the confusion but increases in intensity. A
little catnip tea, backed with external applications
of raw birch, freely administered, would be a
cheaper treatment, and quite as eficacious as the
hotchpotch they have mingled together, However,
as the patients are afflicted with a very black fever,
perhaps the hydropathic treatment, with q free
adoption of soap, would be better still. For SOM
body well says that soap and civilization 60 to-
gether.
But 1 must not forget 10 tell you that not only
the granny doctors and quackopaths generally
have exercised their learned skill, with all the in
carnations Especially the CAN'T their books fur
nish, to cure this furious fever, but, you know flu
Their, when the case becomes desperate the priest
has to be called in, and say the prayers and do the
pow-wows, in order to lay the evil spirits, if thu
patient is going to cross the stygian river,-or try
and pray it we'll. In this city those preachers whc
are SO truly exercised about introducing politics il
the sacred desk livery sacred), on thanksgiving
day reared off their union sermons by the dozen
5 Next morning one paper contained some half-dozer
Of their eforts-but the baby squailed on, for sh
has the Big Mad awful. look for the hatient t
: commence kicking soon, and then the heels wi
c gyrate like drumsticks, and very possibly some c
e the grannies will have a few spoonfulls of doctc
/ stuff kicked into their faces, and even the spect'
c cles knocked off their venerable noses. Would nj
= that Sarre 'em righR
C say if the youngster wants to go, let her tro
1t may be that in the experiment, the story of tt
prodigal son will be re-enacted, with the %importal
variation, however, that nobody will be so glad
to kill O calf on the return Of the ~prodigal wal
derer.
Have you ever noticed that the bigger pile
g. man has the moro timid does he become? WI
ie first became scared at the Big Mad? The bank
of course, business men anne next, and as thl
arc the go-hetweens Of the banks and the worker
the card is generally so managed that the latt
Sc suffer while the former become enriched. Til
" state of things gives the croakers a fine chance
He show their talents. In every thing they can g
cd blue ruin-I suppose even in their looking glass;
es Oh, the union-the glorious union is about to
.es dissclved-there will be war, of course, and ha
to horrors, hail-there will be no chances for the /
10 Offices.
las Last winter Mr.. Curtis, Of New York, lectur
m here, and Mayor Henry m~anfully sustained h
'n- against threats of mob violence. On Thursd
US last the Union was to be saved here, the Ma,
Gil leading off by acting as president of all the Ii
ef- Dor Knees. There was q high cold ime" t
on night, for it was reported that ~fOrty-twO ARE
us were made on that night, of carousers, who "
ma saving the union by ALPHABETICALLY. I
eEs indicates that union saving and rowdyism go
ner gether. According to announcement that nj
lell M Cprt;s Of New York was IN lactura here Z
er' ing for his subject the Policy of Honesty. In
morning papers Of that day the Mayor came GU
a card, and said; if he had the power, he wo
i9l- not permit Mr.. Curtis to speak! And the prop
"@t tor of the Hall, which he had hired for that +
9rh- pose, also issues a card saying that be was o6fc
mer ly Informed that there would be a mob if the
alse turer attempted to speak, aud thereupon locks
my door. Don't this look as if tho mob and auth
lr d ties are not very ayerso to each other2 MondI
No" Inquirer publishes a card, anonymous of cou
ana which it states was largely circulated, and
''er' card was the call on all unionists to mob Mr.. {
It's. That uLion must be a weak concern if
cry friends are SO fearful of free speech.
into ~ or
work Of secession, | hope to see the plot car
wy out to the fullest extent. Indeed, | almost
'lIze the North will be go i%nefably mean as to do e.
on thing the South asks, and SO much more, that
maj will Ce induced to put off an event some lN
only which is 10 como as inevitably as that the m
Or l ing's sun will rise, if slavery is not peacoi
iFaI' abolished. The question has now to be settle
Toi'g a sort of scrub race between Southern pluck
'ery' Northern servility-and may the pluck bea
CELL dough-(aees and mud eatert!
tone, ~ n;
fairs? Free speech, and a free press. Bro. j,
Tue you and | we'll remember the time Wher
Tue scarcely dared utter a sentiment against sla
wing in any mart Of the countrV. The question is I