Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-13
q NECESSARY WORK.

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aDongLass' Monthly ia an uccouut Of an anti
slavery meeting held by Parker Pillsbury 10 X, oh.
ester, ooinmends most earnestly the efforts OF Mr.
n TO drug out,ffom under tho ruins Of the Re.
publican party, the few abolitiouists who yet re-
main alive. This il a most necessary work, and
yet a work which ought Beser to- have had an en-
istanec, and never would, had the appeals, and
entreaties, and warnings Of Disunion abolitiOnists
bsen needed, and principle, inStead Of policy been
recognized as she rule of right by those VINO pro-
lessed to hate slavery. In view Of the utter
wreck Of tho faith and usefulness Of 90 many,
whose life was once full of promise, such prophets
of anti-slaverS as Mr.. PillsburY nigh. we'll take
up the lamentation of a former time whose mourn
full echoes are yet rosounding through the ages:-
20 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killess the
prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto
thee, how ofteu would l have gathered thy child
rem together, even as q hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and ye would not".
A few years since IL was proposed to build up
a political party which should be most cunningly
constructed. IL was to contain q weak dilutiou Of
anti-slavery, SO weak as TO be no obstruction to its
growing in popular favor, but strong enough to
give it's peculiar flavor to those who sought for it
there and was TO retain withal enough Of the
Conservatism and negro haired of the old parties
to commend ii to respectable Wings nnd Demo-
Gratis. The party was formed, and baptised with
the name Of Republican," and strange to say. Is
came to be regarded by many well-meaning, but
deluded abolitionists as the beau ideal of political
reform. Those who beheld the rottenness OF its
timbers, and who perceived the unsoundness Of
tba Cancellation unop urhtoh IL rasto1- raiaa1 tha
voice Of warning and though they we're able to
to save here and there one, many abolitionists
rushed blindly to their fate, stalking life, liberty,
and sacred honor upon the political venture, aud
loosing all.
1t is far pleasAnter to the true and consistent
hater o. slavery to wage war against the institu-
ton itself, thsn to expose aud denouDoe instru-
mentalities which really support it, while :bey
seem, even to the very elect, to oppose it. And
yet tho latter is as necessary o work as the form
or, and oftentimes has first to be doae because
these nstrumentalitie i~nserpose themselves as
shields to protect slavery itself. Such was the
case in the opposition Of ubolitionists to the Re-
publican party. To say aught against its anti
slavery character was construed by the auti.slasery
men connected with it, as o personal NATTER
Feelings Of individual antag onism were eDgender-
ed, and it was strongly limited that the Disunion-
lists better be fighting slavery, than warning with
the opponents of that institution. Their duty,
however, remained the same and their predic.
lions Of the action of the Republican party, and
their exposition of its character are fast becoming
consolidated into history, with every shade as
dark as it was depicted. The anti-slavery mem
bers of that party are beginning TO doubt their
own identity, and the character Of their associates
makes them hope the present is not a reality. but
a hideous dream from which they will soon swak-
en-. The superstructure they laborea so hard to
build, they find is nos the Temple of Liberty sbey
supposed they we're erecting, and instead Of en-
during forever as o monument Of Justice and
Equality, It is even now falling about them, and
out the moral life Of thousands. MIR.
and others have FASTENED to the rescue. !
may doubtless thus be saved, and q few may
escape. Will such learn experience BY
the past, or will they again pursue the same
course. and those Of them who are left have to be
dragged out from the ruins of another party p
viii they thus continue no: only to render no aid
for the overthrow of slavery, but by their atand-
onment Of principle greatly increase the lsbors Of
abolitiOnists, and proloug the captivity Of the
slave. --..- ,-r.
"a burned child breads the fire." If political
abolitionisis possessed as much wisdom, Il would
be we'll for society and for the slave.