Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-11

W w AtANh IAiANAlAt III 'A~N
of the House Of Stuart-not indeed that we
ran away from our master, but what was bet
ter still, our master ran away from us. Gap
plausc.) In the character of a runaway slave,
then, ] have great pleasure in introducing
Frederick Douglass to your notice, and what
ever may be the state Of society in America,
| can say with respect to England, that the
fact of his escaping from slavery, of his pos
sesslng an African extraction, and a tawny
skin, is no exclusion, but on the contrary an
Introduction to the best society and popular
favor. cloud Applause.)
Mr.. DOUGLASS then came forward and was
warmly received. He spoke Of the embar-
rassment he always felt in addressing public
assemblies, and mentioned that il is now eight
years since he escaped from the house of
bondage. A slave who escapes from the
Southern into the Northern States is free, un-
less he is claimed by his master. When he
escaped he changed his name, TO prevent de-
lection, from Frederick Bailey TO Frederick
Douglass, by which he has since been known.
Three years after he escaped from Maryland
into Massachusetts, he attended an anti-sla-
very meeting, and told his own wrongs and
the wrongs of his brethren in bonds, and so
pleased were the abolitionists with his speech,
that they insisted on his going forth to New
England to tell the things he had seen, felt,
and heard during his period of enslavement.
He did so for four years, and during the lat
ter part Of the time experienced great Difficult
ty from being unable TO convince some of
those whom he addressed Il at he had ever
been a slave. He was induced to publish "A
narrative giving facts and names, and he was
led to this country that he might be out Of
the way of his master during the excitement
consequent on the publication of this MARIA
tive of his experience of slavery. His iden-
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declared that he would have him, cost what
it might. He had consequently left the vaun-
ted 'land of the free and home of the brave,'
the eagle with its beak and talons, for the
name of the British lion. 1t was, however,
his intention TO return to America, as he felt
he could not fully do his duty without rum
ming some risk. He defined slavery to be
the right which one man claims and enforces
to a property in the souls and bodies of men.
From the relation of master and slave a fl God
of evil necessarily arises. Cruelty is insep-
cradle from it, for no man readily bows his
neck TO the yoke Of a taskmastcr, and there
being no hope OF reward, there must be the
fear Of punishment-whips, thumb-screws,
gibbets, whipping-posts, dungeons, blood
hounds, are the legitimate accompaniments Of
slavery. He could tell of TIE physical evils
of slavery; he had on his own back the marks
of the slave drivers lash, which would 90
with him to his grave; he has four sisters,
one brother, and an old grandmother in a state
of slavery. He did not experience the most
cruel treatment, inasmuch as Maryland is a
slave-breeding State, and therefore it is for
the interest of the master to treat kindly his
slave. Yet he had seen cruelties which
would move the heart of the most hardened
man on the shores of England. He had been
awakened at midnight by the clanking of
chains and the separation of families, who
were torn assunder from each other. AND
this was the work not merely of the impious,
but the religious part of the community. His
own master was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and a class leader in that
church. Methodists are quite as much adj
dlcted to slaye-breedlng as any other Glass;
lie had seen his master Tie up a young wo-
man., a cousin of his own, and cause her to
stand Tour or five hours on the end of her toes,
and lash her with a cow-skin until the warm
blood dripped at her feet and in justification
of this, he would quote that passage of scrip
ture. 'He that knoweth his masters will and
doeth 1t not shall be beaten with many stripes
, Not long since a man and woman were bro't
to the auction block. The auctioneer said to
the audience, Here, gentlemen, come for
ward, examine for yourselves, the woman is
sound and her limbs were brutalIy exposed
to the gaze of the expected purchasers. Her
husband stood by, and after lis wife had
been sold, he besought the man in the elo-
quence OF silence TO purchase him also but
he was struck OH to another man, and as
they were about to be parted he besought
5 that he might take a farewell of his wife,
This privilege was denied him in his at
tempt to do so, he was struck over the head
t with a loaded whip by the negro driver, and
r he dropped dead at his feet. His heart was
, broken. [Sensation.
Three millions of people are denied by law
I The night to read the name of the God who
made them. He designated all the Ameri-
can professions with regard to freedom and
!. equality as consummate falsehoods, and said
= that America is now seeking to perpetuate
e and extend the conquests of slavery, and wa
\ ging a bloody war with Mexico that she NAV
5 establish slavery on a soil where a semi-bar-
, barous people had the humanity to put an end
to 1t. The Americans were great religious
professors, but revivalS of religion and the
: ~revlvals of the slave trade 90 hand-in-hand to-
gether; the church-going bell and the auc-
. tiOueer's bell chime with each other; the slave
r prison and the church stand in the same
street; and the groans of the slave are drown
ed by the religious shouts of his pious mas
; ter. The blood-stained gold of the slave
goes to support the pulpit, while the pulpit
covers the internal business with the garb OF
e Christianity. Here are religion and robbie
C ry, devils dressed in angels robes, and hell
n presenting the semblance of paradise. Mr..
: Douglass proceeded at great length in this
strain, observing that various religious bodies
in this country are connected with those o
! the United States, and urging that no fellow.
ship ought to take place whilst the latter
e continue to pursue works of blood and muir
S der.
) At this stage of the speech, the Rev. WM.
Horror, Superintendent of the Sunderland
e Wesleyan Circuit, said he did not intend lc
5 interrupt the proceedings, but he hoped, after
Mr.. Douglass had concluded, he should be
n allowed to put to him two or three ques.
tions.
n Mr.. DOUGLASS said he should he happy to