The Anti-Slavery Bugle, Salem Ohio, January 16 1846, vol. 1, 4 pages.
contains many short articles and a front page article addressed to “The people of the Free States of the Union” and signed by prominent men against slavery, notably John Quincy Adams. The issue was whether giving Texas statehood was a way to get another slave-holding state. A companion article on the front page addressed the Texas constitution which protected slave holders. The newspaper has a letter from someone in Maryland regarding the Black Laws, and much more.
About the newspaper, from an unknown researcher: “The Anti-Slavery Bugle began publication on June 20, 1845, in New-Lisbon (now Lisbon), the seat of Columbiana county. The weekly organ of the Ohio American Anti-Slavery Society, later known as the Western Anti-Slavery Society, this paper’s motto declared “No Union with Slaveholders.” After only six issues, on September 5, 1845, the paper was moved to Salem, probably because this city was more welcoming to both the radical group and its paper, which served as the most significant–and perhaps the only–voice of Garrisonian radicalism west of the Appalachians. Columbiana County’s long history of abolitionism and its location in the norhteast Ohio, close to the Western Reserve, put it in a favorable position for its predominately Quaker population to hear and adopt anti-slavery ideas. Salem was also an active Underground Railroad station. the paper achieved strong circulation numbers and reached readers beyond Ohio’s borders in states such as Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. This aligned with the Society’s overall goal of expansion, which is reflected in its name change from the Ohio American Anti-Slavery Society to the Western Anti-Slavery Society. The paper printed letters and speeches, including Sojourner Truth’s 1851 “Ain’t I a Woman” speech, along with calls-for-meetings… The last known issues appeared in 1861, though the newspaper did not officially case publication until 1863, when the emancipation of slaves, its primary objective was accomplished.