Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-16

RASHISGroS, Michigan,

FANHiSGroS, Michigan,
~ February, 1851.
To rnE EDIroR: | bayo been so faT West dur
ing the winter, as almost to have lost sight Of you,
and the sound Of the ever brave Bugle has seldom
reached my ear, The Liberator l have somewhere
met, nearly every week, but the Standard, only
once or twice, in oil this campaign. And 1t gricves
me to think how few subscribers we have any Of
us added to the scunty Lists, myself particularly.
But the people now want "wsr dispatches"
daily and sOmi-dOily. Not even political Journals
ore IN much demand, that only come once a week.
or such papers as the New York Tribune and In
dependent, this cannot be said, Of course. But
the exceptions are few.
Till | came into Michigan, my meetings we're
quiet and orderly, almost without exception. Here
most Of them are disturbed, and some Of them
seriously. B, stop, and the New York COuvcn-
t,.as. have set the West a bad example. Both last
night aud the night before, We had some very seri-
Gus nnnoyances.
Mrs. Grihing has been attending m~eetiogs this
week aud a part Of last, with me, but the RufianS
show no more respect to her than they would to
me. 1t is not often that brutality sinks to such
depths as not to respect a lady; especially one SO
truly so, as Mrs. GriHing always shows herself to
be, before every audience she addresses. While
she was speaking last evening, some "lewd TEL
lows Of the baser Sort" con,rivod TO saturote the
atmosphere with pepper, and in C few moments
many persons we're neatly strapgled. The church
was very full, and the coughing was frigbttul.-
Every door and window had to be opened; many
rushed wildly out; one person tainted, and the
whole ssene for a short time, was most appalling!
Order however was at length restored; and we
carried on our exercises TO q regular close. In
this wo have succeeded so far, at every meeting,
to the infinite chsgrin Of the miscreants who have
assailed US.
Tho people in large extent, seem infatuated. 1t
is not Democrats by any means, who mob our
gatherings. Nor are they always pro-slavery dem
onstrations. The Republicans seem to think all is
safe or will be next month, and that very security
seems likely to prove their ruin. They will mob
US, and yet denounce all concessions and compro-
misses to. or with the slave power. The alarming
articles in the New York papers, l fear are COM
Ing too late. l have sounded the game note all
winter, but apparently, TO little purpose. When
after the outrages Of last evening, l read how
conspiracies were formed to assassinate General
Scott, as we'll as 10 seize the National Capital, and
how tAe New York Tribune and Independent were
both calling on the States and the people to rally
by thousands, and even by the hundred thousand,
to the rescue, you may be sure a change came over
the spirit Of the stupid dreamcrs who had shown
themselves to such frigbtful disadvantage. So
ever, where. Republicans are generally opposed
to any further guarantees to Slavery, and yet are
- A.. ~. ia .Ask A.. ..a EIa1-
to have to redeem their paper currency Of Lincolr
/, ballots with a specie payment in soid bullets, be
: fore their Zoe will be conquered. 1t is we'll tina
the New York Press has at length blown so louc
a blast. And yet it may bs even now, too late
. too late!
D, By a letter from Boston, IL seems there is a prop
5 osi,ion to petition for an amendment to the Con
%s,itution so as 'to give Congress the power. (f
have IL not slready,) to abolish Slavery in th
States" Thousands Of Republicans profess /
t hold the doctrine with Gerrit Smith, that the pov
{ err already exists, and cannot too soon be exercised
o And yet, when l proposed the peti,ioniDg at An
: Arbor, as an Antt-Slarery York. the ReSolutio
: found no favor outside the ranks Of the Disunior
lists. But the measure will be good for agitation
T Republicans, who mem anything by their do'
r srines, know little yet, Of the work to do. Almo'
s every one of their papers, in the West, excuses
n while the Democratic press encourages the mo
spirit now so rampant, from Massachusetts,
Michigan. The recent slave rendition at Clev'
land, with the full approval, apparently, of JudG
|, Spalding, and so many eminent Auti-Slavery R
publicaps, goes over the West, like the chills
death. Senator Seward too, with his base subse
8. vieucy, sits q nightmare on the throbbing hear
Of myriads. And The church, dead and damne
seems likely to complete The work which Sewar
Satan and Slavery have carried so far. With
few exceptions, (alas how fewD the pulpit is
poxerless to grapple with the great questions
g. the hour, as tho mice that steal their kernels fro
the stacks, ore, 10 raise the wheat which feeds I
world.
But my letter is growing too long.
PARKER PILLsBURY.