Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-06
most daily occurs in the business OF the
slave trade.
Yours, in the bonds Of the Gospel,
A. &.
From ne LihsraiOr.
Slavery and Poverty.

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We think the following extract from Mr..
GdrriSon's speech at Exeter not out of place
In thls country, any more than in England.
we have those among us, too, who try to
raise a false issue, and 10 palliate the horrors
oil slavery, and excuse their own Indifference
by endeavoring to pat the free laborer into
the same category with the slave. Such a
man, II Intelligent, is a false friend to the la
borer. lie has embraced his cause for selfish
ends. Either his head or his heart is not to
be trusted. lie has either no true perception
OF the relative evils of human condition, or
he conlounds them for his own purposes
Ihe abolitionist is the true friend of labor cv-
cry where; and he who is not an abolitionist
Is a true friend of labor nowhcrc.-Q.
"Sinco he had been in this country, he had
heard people talk of the furnishing condition
OF the poor man here, and say we have enough
oil slavery in England, why need we trouble
ourselves about this slavery which is three
thousand miles of. Now, any man who
says that there is slavery in this country, is
either Ignorant Of what is meant by slavery,
or he Is a hypocrite-(chcers.) Any man
who attempts to run a parallel betw cen the
poorest of the poor in England, and the best
fed slave in America, and gives a verdict in
N"N HiOho Aiu lC 10 tNdu ~
every feeling Of liberty, and fit to be himself
a slave-(cheers.) lie was not there to apol-
oglze for British oppression, of which there
might be TOO much; his heart bled for the
suffering millions of this country-(cheers. }
But what did they gain by falsehood! No
thing. Show him the poorest man in the
klngdom-he did not care how mean he was,
how ragged, how little food he could procure.
lie knew one thing, that if he should ask
him If he would go to America and become
a southern slave, he would knock him down,
unless he should happen to be a non-resist
ant-(oud cheers.) He knew he would say
at once,
Better to sit in freedoms hall,
With a cold damp floor and a mouldering
wall,
Than to bend the neck and to bow thu
knee
In the proudest palace Sof slavery"-
(cheers.)
That was the spirit of Englishmen. NOV
the slave gets a peck Of corn a week /; do M
your poor get more than that do they nc
get some little variety? A peck of India
corn a week, two meals a day, the one take
about ten in the morning, the other after tn
tolls of the day are over, when he is too hap
Ply to be released, and allowed to go back t.
his miserable hovel, where all must mingl'
promiscuously on the cold floor, with moth
ing to cover them. Here he e~ndeavors to
make his little hoe cake in the best way he
can, and he has hardly caught a brief inter
val of sleep ere the cursed sound of the slave
owners lash awakes him from his troubled
dream, and he is again marched out to the
rice field, to waste the few years which con
stitute the wretched remnant of his life, ir
this ceaseless, hopeless labor-(hear, hear,
You have hardly begun TO run the parallel
yet you can 20 no further. | ask if men are
whipped here to drive them to their work
could you serve the humblest man in Eng
land so-(cheers.) How many mutillateC
bodies, bearing the mark of the lash or thu
brand of the iron, can you produce? TIL
British law would step in to protect the hum
blest individual, whilst the American slav
received no protection whatever.