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

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Episcopal Church-its editors are VIM. Hun
Ter and Elisha Bates.
As this paper is an organ of the NJ. e..
Church, it is not only the organ of slavehol-
ders, but also of slave-claimants, there being
several thousand lave-claimant living in
Maryland and Virginia, no are member of
the brotherhood, and among these are some
of those who maltreated robbed aud enslaved
Frederick Douglass. Last week W. publish
ed the following scrap, which has been 60
ing the rounds Of the political papers:
FREDERGcK DouGLAss.-rhe Salem ObSer-
rer learns that the friends of this fugitive slave
in England have raised the sum of $50,
which has been brought to this country in the
'Acadia," to be sent to his former master,
that he may not be forcibly taken back to
bondage by the Shareholders.
The Pittsburgh Christian Advocate Of De-
cember ID, the first organ Of any pro-slavery
sect, which we have seen refer to this report,
has the following, among its editorial items
Of news:
The friends Of Frederick Douglass in Eng
land, DESTROYS that no wrong should be done
to his master in this country, and recogniz-
ing his claim to the services of Douglass,
have sent him $50, his supposed value.
Every one who is not the mere creature of
that sect, can see at a glance, that this is a
vile and Infamous attempt to shield the Meth
odist Church from odium-to try to prevent
it from becoming "a stencil in the nostrils"
of all good men. Pittsburgh Christian ADJ
vocate indeed! Why it is essentially a heq-
then advocate; and if the report be true that
this sum Of money has been sent over, it is
to prevent the Methodists, no doubt, as is sta
ted in the Salem Observer, from kidnapping
and then "dragging him back" to murder
him-to pay those Methodists as black mail
is sometimes paid to bandits, or as the Euro
pean nations used to pay the Algerine pirates,
or rather to buy them off from committing
piracies upon their merchantmen.
We presume that there is scarcely a poll
teal paper north of Mason's and Dixon's line,
so UNANIMOUSLY false, and SO debauched in mo-
rails, as to put the face upon this transaction,
(f it is true the money is sent. that the Pitts
burgh Heather Advocate has done.
To show what Fred. Douglass and his
friends in England, think of the shareholders,
and these thleving Methodists in America,
we publish the following long account of a
meeting in England, for which we bespeak
a careful perusal.
From the Durham Co. (Eng.) Herald, Sept. 25,
American SIaVCry.---PubIic Meeting al
Sunderland.
On Friday evening, a meeting was held a
the AthenPum in this town for the purpose O
hearing an address from Frederick Douglass
a runaway slave from Maryland, America
TIL large hall was well flied, and the pro
ceedings excited the deepest nterest-partic
ularly Mr.. Douglass speech, which was re
plete with thrilling statements, tervid denun
Citations, and stirring and eloquent appeals
We have rarely listened to an orator so gi(tet
by nature, and never to a man who more
thoroughly threw his whole heart into tn,
work in which he is engaged. On the plat
form were the Mayor (Robert Brown, ESD,
Caleb Richardson and Il. ]. Blackhouse
Esqrs., Councillors Thompson and Mordy
Mr.. John Hills, MIR. James Hills, and othe
gentlemen.
The MAYOR, having been called to tn,
chair, opened the meeting with some excel
lent Introductory observations. After obser
wing that there is no country in which tn
great question of civil and religious libert,
is so well understood as in Great Britain, HI
said should be very far from wishing Il
convey the idea that even in this country on
public liberties are placed on such a basis a
to prevent the necessity for the watch;ul ey,
OF public opinion to prevent encroachments
for in my judgment it is in the very nature q
power to seek to enthral and however on
arlstOcIacy may be- lauded as proud, wealthy
and in many instances highly Intellectual an,
benevolent, | am sorry to say the liberties O
this country could not be entrusted even t
them unless in conjunction with our popular
ly elected and faithful House of Commons
(Applause.) ! am not aware that there eX
lists any material difference between the stat
of society in Great Britain and America wit
respect TO the question Of civil and religion
liberty so far as regards the free inhabitants
but upon one point there is a great Inference
With respect to the inhabitants of this coun
try | have the happiness of being able to an
nounce that the Summer sun of England ney
er pOurs its meridian scorchine beams upo
-" ''''''D save \ApplduSt'J hndleVt
may be said with reference to the laborin
classes of sOciety-however they may crouc
beneath the burden of a cruel taskmaster
however sometimes they may have har
work, little wages, poor fare, and great dc
nestle embarrassment, whenever they retir
from the toll Of their labor to their domesti
hearth they may each of them say, 81 ca
look upon my wife as my own and my chi
dren as free" and cursed be the ruthless han
that dares to attempt to sever ties so tende
and bonds So sacred. cloud applause.)
am sorry that | cannot make the same statt
ment with regard to yon other land across tn
Atlantic, one of the fundamental principle
of whose constitution is, thatall men posses
equal rights. No principle can be more NJ
BILE than this, and no inconsistency can b
greater than for any country to maintain tn
principle as the basis Of republican institl
tons, and at the same time live every day
its practical violation. The specific object
this meeting, and similar meetings held
other plapps is n brinn tho forca .f mill