Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-09

This sort Of thing may, and undoubtedly does, ID
this instaoce,deooto q change for the better, but it
infuses Into ones mind a very uneuuivocal feeling
Of contempt for those who are guilty of it, and hus
a most vicious effect upon the people, encottagihE,
as 1t does equivocation and cowardice eyersybefe.
Inc Governor enters upon tho consideration OF
the "unfriendly laws" that is. the Personal tib.
erty Bills, with the usual eff" Now be il doubt.
less quite familiar with the nature of ours. and A
manly Governor would, if he referred TO the spb.
Joct at al, either have said openly that II was oh.
JectionabIe and ought to be repealed, or. 1T least.
altered, or, on the other hand, havo given IL bs
sanction with equal frapkness. But frapkness and
strai~ghtforwardness are not the fashion now a.days.
lie declares shat every true Pennsylvania ad-
mits that bis first civil and political duty is to the
General Government, and that he frankly acknowl.
edges his obligation to protect the constitutional
rights Of oil who live under it's authority" Now
| beg to say that / acknowledge no such thing;
aud when l wish any one to pronounce upon the
question as TO whether I am a "true Pennsyiva-
niah," or not; l shall certainly no. I'd to Andy
Curtin.
Poor Governor Packer sneeked out of Office with
a recommendation 10 tho Legislature to convert
The Cotnmonw wealth again into q slaveholding State.
His portrait bas just been placed along side Of
those OF Other Go"ernors Of the State. a, Harris
burgh! Bill Bigler, one Of our Federal Senator'S,
will soon be at home now, and wha. Mot such
sneaks rs he, Packer, Foster the defeated Demo.
cratic candidate for gubernstorial hOnors, and 9th
es of the same kidney. under the counsel of so
experienced q leader as Buchanan, may hatch. wa
can ohly guess.
You may be interested to take a glance at affairs
in this county. They had q Union Of all parties"
at Westchester, the other day, for the expression
Of patriotic sentiments" / send you a few Of
them, in justice to the County l must soy the
worst, Could any thing be more Infamous than
the expression of such q sentiment as the follow
ing, after Ibe middle Of the nineteenth century,
and in q State founded as this was2
BY Thomas McMIcnAEL-The language Of
Commodore Decatur, my country, may che al
ways be right, but my country right or wrong."
And see how naturally love Of the Constitution
and the Union, and hatred Of freedom coalesce.-
Are they not rather one and the came thingi
By j. W. NEwLIN, The Constitution and Union
Of our Country Heaven grant o speedy a~rplica-
lion of tho celebrated hemp lozenges which cured
John Brown at Harper'a Ferry, to oil the enemies
Of either.
don't know how youthful the young man may
be who delivered himself Of the following
wish, but be has evidently been thoroughly train
ed by his elders IL what are called American
principles" He snufs blood afar of, like a
young iackal.
BY JONI NEwLIN, Jr.-Game-Msy the hunt
take place on foreign soil, and not in home enclo.
sores.
Such things seem disGohfdgihg, nc they are Ger.
tsihlJ dissfaceful in the highest degree. But in
reality a love of freedom is spreading and deepen.
ing in spite of all these things. and it lie your pri.
vilege and mine to lobour for that, and though eve
ry Republican ne well as every Democrat should
bow the knee to the dark spirit Of slavery"
HowARD ". GlLDERr.
nail have just read d speech Of the Hon. John.
Hickman, delivered q short time since in Pbils.
d~cl2hia, which, while it contains tnEh5 highly OBJ
jectionable sentiments, contrasts very f~avoraBly
with the public expressions of most politicians aS
this timc. lie declares most emphaticalIy against
all compromise, and says that no greater truth was
ever proclaimed to the American people than THAI
there is an eternal antagoni,m between liberty and
slavery, acknowledging frankly tha, there exists a
great struggle between rival sections and rival
interests" A bold statement of this commonplace
truth even is useful at such o time as this.