Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-23
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LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA.

BR. JONES; "Tbngs is workin," as a man once
said. True, things are working, and that to some
purpose. The union saving business is now in
active operation. A great amount of talent, capi-
tai, management, intrigue fraud and deception
are in requsition to put down the crisis, and the
more the doctors and priests an politicians, and
graudmas try to put the cry down the moro it
won't cease. Their efforts to stiae free discussion
in Boston, Rochester, Syracuse and other cities
only make the great Of the people Of the
country speak more freely, think more vigorously,
aud act more energetically. And even Cleseland
may bulldog, for the time. and with the dregs
and ptyings cf her doggeries and other name
less houses, to do the barking at the command OF
g Uni.ed States official, and gallanNy unite to re-
turn poor, helpless woman to slavery in order to
insure the contempt even Of all truly III such
thing can be) high minded slayeh9ldcvs, and save
the unior But will all this make slavery eternalP
Far from it. The days of slavery are numbered,
and for this reason are the frieds Of the system be-
coming SO desperate as to do any thing for little
more respite. A felon in his cell, knowing that
% morrow is his last day, would give millione, il
in his power, for a months or even one weeks re-
lease. Just so with this culprit. The jury of
clVlIZeu WOTlu Uuo UehIu NO CHIteI VI CIlmcI uuu
placed ths mark ofcoudemnatiOn On his brow, and
one country after another is pronouncing the sen
tence of death upon him. Despotic Russia, with
all the tyrannical proclivites attributed to her by
other nations, juryman in this case, has about
pronounced the word guilty upon this victim which
has 50 long been destroying and tramplug down
humanity.
In the face of such All array Of condemnation how
long, thinx you, Crittenden compromises,
union saving conventions. ard pro-savery gag
lave, keep back the doom fslavery on our shoresY
The whirwind has arisen the storm has come,
and nothing human check it. An idea has
broken lccss--the idea of liberty-and no fetter
Of potentatei tyfant priest, king, or government
can arrest its mission. POpes have had their in
QUESTIONS, princes their halters and gbbets des-
pots their guillotines, Jews their crosses, and ru-
ers their servie armies. but all have not stopped
the progress OF this Immortal idea-the universal
rights of man. Tyranny may cause much suffer
ing yet; in is throes of despair it will make tre-
mendous struggles for prolonged existence, but
its day Of doom has come.
Our Union savers here have suffered much tribu-
lation but whether their sacrifices, bowings-down,
drink-offerings. and deep servllity will be heard
by the powers below-down South--is problem
get unsolved. Politicians have congeed, :hey have
caused the lower law priests to congo, and induc-
ed some of the working men to show the supple |
knee, but it don't seem to charm the South much.
Mean while we have some thorough, sterling anti
slavery people here who do not make much ado
but they are looking on with intense interest," and
are quietly at work. 1t 10 the an:-slavery feeling
hero which procures the services Of such world
renowned lecturers as Sumner, Bescher and those
eminent men, who ioW speak for liberty. even if
the one is a preacher and the other politician
And they draw immenee audiences, too, who not
only admire their talents, but approve their senti
ments. Mr.. Summers subject was Lafayette
The manner in which he viewed it made it grand
theme for liberty. His description of the charac-
ter Of the noble Gaul, proved bis subject to be an
abOltionist-just such man, who il he we're now |
to 60 in most of the Southern States would be liza
BILE to lose his liberty if not his life. Mr. s. is
fine looking man, an impressive speaker; and bis
highest enconiums of Lafayette. and especially
where he described him as an anti-slavery man,
met the decided approval of the audience, end
often elected warm applause. So free speech is
not quite dead here yet conservative as this city
really lie. &
think the sorrows of those union saints who
are wailing and weeping and almost gnashing their
teeth for the sake of the Union, pretty aptly
described in these words: "Men's hearts failing q
lhem, for fear, and for looking after those things
which ere coming on the earth; for the powers Of