Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-17
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A REPUBLICAN REJOICING.


"A Republican Speaker lie elected, and slave pro.
.perty remains the same in Ualue.'-Cheers.
"A Republican Speaker is elected and the Union
is safe. And 80 it will DO when q Republican
President is elected .'-Sherman's Speech on Pen
ington's election.
We confess that we were slightly astonished on
reading the speech from which the above quotation
was taken. True. we never placed much faith in
the Anti-Slavery element Of the Republican party
as a mass, but we fondly believed that there were
some noble exceptions, that there wero men who
were connected with that party, who were really
at heart genuine abJlitionists, and who if they
could not Heaven the whole lump might at least
save it from utter corruption. And We rejoiced,
and were exceeding glad, when o few of their num-
Der had, by their seeming opposition to the pecu-
liar institution won for themselves the determin-
cd hatred of the Southern fire %eaters;' and when
the fat went forth throughout all the length and
breadth OF the land, that Sherman should not &C.
cupy the speakers chair, that if by a vote of the
house, he should be elected to that honorable
Office. the Union must ard should be dissolved, we
confess, that from ;he retirement OF our humble
kit,hen, We did watch with deep interest the long
struggle that followed. And often too, our cheeks
burned with the crimson hue of shame, as we read
over the noisy war Of words, and saw with morti-
hcation and regret, 50 many who had made loud
boasts OF their devotion to free dom, ready 10 bow
the knee to Bsal.' to cry out in their eager haste
to free themselves from the ~suspiciln of cherishing
anii-slavers sentiments, Great is Diana, the God
Of the Ephssians.' And as one honorable Cl gen.
tleman after another. disclaimed all intention Of
giving offence to their southern masters, and 10
their shame said they had indOrsed the obnoxious
volume. toithout reading il, knew nothing of It's con-
tents only by hearsay, and were eager to BAY ir
justification of themselves, like Peter Of old, i
know not the man nor his book, we looked in vain
for one among all that body, with the true nobility
of soul to stand up in the fesrlessnoss of his own
integrity and sindicate. not only his right to free
thought. but to free speech. But all were silent.
mute, and inglorious. And WI said,
'Ah, God, for a man with heart, head and hand,
Like some OF the simple great ones gone
Forever and ever by;
One who can rule and dare not Iie.'
And with a thrill Of admiration, we remembered
the fearless bearing OF one whom the world calls
uOb BiontI "uOnO ucNOblOu 10 humanity mas never
won him the empty title of honorable but who in
his prison cell was glorious; SO bold, 80 fearless in
bis defence of the rights Of man, and his noble
reply to the slavehOlding priest who with impious
hands would have administered to him the consO-
~lations Of the gospel Go, zoe do not porship the
same Godl' There is a m oral sublimity, and we
look 10 vain FIR itO equal upon the floors of Con-
gress. We could not help involuntarily comparing
i with the simple grandeur Of the stern command
Of Christ, when Satan would have purchased his
alteration. by offering him all the Kingdoms of
the earth Get thee behind me Satan.' But
the very atmosphere of Washington, as we'll as of
some other cities we wot Of, seems to be fatal to
the highest attributes Of manhood; and the men
who have commanded our admiration by their elo.
quencs in praise of liberty. az soon as they have
~breathed The tainted air of the capitol, and tasted
ne sweets Of Office, and seen in the distance the
SsEzling promise Of promotion, IL they Vag only
900 10 tie Goddes Of The South, Slavery, ere eager