Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-16
From the Ohio State journal.
DIsCARDIEG NORTHERN NOsTRUMs.

~ V' SVu'uoEh brethren have made upon tho
"nti-siave'y sentiment Of the north. We, which
Is to say, our people, have suffered in many ways
Tor that our sin of thinking slavery not 80 divine
an institution as otherwise. Now, we have been
given three seconds to leave a Southern city where
we we're suspected Of abolitionism. Now, the Wig
ilance committee has refused us warning, but has
tarred and feathered as OF once. Now, we have been
hanged against our convictions of Justice, and now
we have been roasted in the society of slaves ac-
cused OF receiving arsenic from us, for the purpose
of sending the angelic spirits of their masters to
heaven.
These personal sacrifices have been so frequent,
that our newspapers briefly note them as facts,
now. They refrain from comment, for that would
neediessly exasperate our Southern brethren, and
sur up unpieasantness in this sweet family of
States.
But we have not merely suffered these PERSONAL
inconveniences, but our trade has suffered, also.
We have been wounded 10 our best speculatiops.
Not merely have our peddlers been hanged, but
their wares have been refused admittance to south
ern purchase. In order to break down our manu-
iactnrers, Senator Mason wore a whole suit of
homespun for several days. We cannot recount
the injuries which have thus been inflicted upon
our prosperity, and indeed, the wonder is that we
etiii keep up an appearance of doing we'll.
Inc last blow remained to be given, however.
and now at last we have it.
We are all proud, in the North. of our patent
medicines. Great part of our journals are taken
up in the benevolent effort to mako known to the
pubic the virtue of the innumerablo sovereign
remedies, which annihilate disease and make hu-
mainly immortal. N. P. Willis, one of our great
poets, puffs cough medicines in his published let
tiers to G. p. Morris, another of our great poets.
of the Gospel, females in delicate health.
statesmen, lawyers, mechanics, all classes, certify
to the efficacy of our pills and potions: and chill
dren cry for them.
The prOprietors Of these blessings to the human
race have willingly impaired their benefits to the
suffering generations of our Southern brethren.
And in this missionary work, they have been en-
couraged not only by approving consciences, but
by the round profits which have accrued. Among
the rural and patriarchal people of the South, o
sweet simplicity prevails, which is favorable to the
sale Of tho sovereign patented remedy. They have
taken and paid we'll for a vast quantity of Nor
thern specifics, little suspecting- that innocent
and c~onfding poople!-that in the guise Of our
indictments they were introducing the precepts
of abolitionism into their afflicted bowels; and ap-
plying those incendiary principles to their cuts,
burns, sprains and bruises, in the form Of our pat
ent liniments. While they were ministering to
the health of their bodies, they were unsuspect-
ingly undermining .heir own political belief. In
former times, this sad truth was moi so we'll known,
but now it has come to light, and our Southern
lb,o,bron . raEo1iota hy rofusip0 20 bo
dosed any longer with abolition nostrums. In this
crusade against Northern remedies, a religious
journal, the Tennessee Baptist, leads off in the
spirit OF righteousness and ratiocination.
''If one buys Northern ~jewelry, getting five
cents worth of gold for IS, it is only a little af-
fair, nobody is hurt, only egregiously cheated; but
when you are sick, and resort 10 the hundred and
one nostrums, lotions, pills and sarsaparilas, ETC.,
gotten up by Dutch ard Yankee spectators in hu-
man miseries, you are possibly something more
than cheated positively injured. Do you know
these foreiguersH Have you any recourse upon
them if injured? If you ind their stuff useless
and yourself imposed upon, can you expose them
SO that they can be made to feel it? If you see fit
to use medicines prepared by others than your
own physicians why not inquire after Southern
remedies, prepared by Southern physicians, and
sold by Southern druggists or vendors in your
midst-men whom you can expose aud whose
profits you can check, if they cheat you"
Their reasoning is well calculated to fire the
Southern heart, against our self-appointed mission
aries of hygiene, and what follows lie equally well
calculated to inspire our southern brethren with
confidence in their own native and domestic cure
alls:
"We believe that there are Southern remedies for
every complaint, from the dreaded ague or incipi-
ent fever to a choice cut, bruise or burn for which
no one wants to post fol the far-off doctor. Each
family should keep some simple, effective an d r.
liable relief on hand, ready for a moments relief.
"We embrace the above sentiments. We be-
lieve that there are better medicines put up in the
South by reliable proprietors, that are superior to
articles prepared by Northern Dutch vendors. The
Southern remedies advertised in this paper, we
have no doubt, excel the patent Pain Killers and
Ready Reliefs, and Ague and Liver Pills, with
which Northern vendors deluge our land. Let
them be fairly tested, and if they are found to be
impositions, the columns of this paper are open
for them to be exposed, for cheaper terms than the
proprietors obtain them to aid their sale"
There certainly seems to be sense in all this
particularly in the last proposition, where the
godly editor Of the Baptist proposes to turn a
righteous penny, by advertising exposures of
quack-medieines. This is ever the way with your
Southern patriot in the fire he kindles against
the North, he has his own modest fish to fry.
But The editor Of the Baptist goes on to instance
a remedy of Southern origin as follows:
"We learn that where the Ambrosial Oil is
known and used, no Pain Killer or Railway, etc,
can be sold-the people want nothing else. We
can say that we have found the Oil a far more GER
tain and effective relief of chOlic and sore throat
than those, and the Oil is pleasant to take, while
they are severe. When those Ague and Liver
PILE have been tested, no Northern Pills will be
sought for, in our opinion. They are purely veg
table-they-they give immediate relief--they
give nc pain"
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