Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-10


and it is no mistake Of the Printer either. for
we have two ambassadors one a Minis,e.
Plenipotentiary, the Other most undeniab.y
an Envoy Extraordinary. The Minisy,,
Plenipotentiary is the Hon. Lewis McLane,
whose business it is to deal with the cold
and leshless heart Of the British Govern
ment, and in the spirit Of selfshness to play
a game at diplomacy for the benefit of the
clique who sent him. He represents the
two hundred and fifty thousand shareholders
of our land, and it is for attending to their
interests he receives his $4,000 salary and
outfit, for we think that is the moderate sum
the people have to pay in this case. There
was great pomp and parade in his departure
from our shores, and in his presentation to
Her Royal Majesty. As it would some how
or other be a great letting down of dignity
for Foreign Ministers TO use merchant; ves-
sells, we send them out in ships of war, in
national vessels. We suppose Lewis Me-
Lane had to put on q court dress when he
was introduced to Her Majesty, and he prob
ably assumed as diplomatic an air as possible,
for he was invested with full powers, and his
credentials were properly authenticated, bear
ing the sign manual of the President.
The Envoy Extraordinary is a very differ
eat parsonage from the Minister Plenipoten-
tiary. The one is an american STARE, the
other an American gentleman. The Hon.
Lewis McLanc would scarcely condescend
to notice the man whom our laws declare to
be a chattel personal, but on whom nature
has enstamped her patent of nobility and
yet the mission of Frederick Douglass is as
far above that Of Lewis McLane as human
ity is better than party, as honesty is better
than falsehood. He goes forth as the un-
paid ambassador of enslaved millions he
represents not the bondmen of this nation
alone, but is the true-hearted advocate of the
oppressed the world over. No national yes
sci was commissioned to bear him to the soil
oil Brltain; no booming cannon gave notice
of his departure. The only sound that fol-
lowed him from our shores, was the bavinp
OF bloodhounds and the curses of baficd ty-
rants. His mission is not to deal with the
British Government as a diplomatist, but
with the British people as a Man. He plac-
cd his hand upon the warm and throbbing
heart of the Peasantry of Ireland, and the
children of Erin half forgot their own wrongs
in their sympathy for the chattel slave
With native, untaught eloquence, he poured
forth hie burp;nr ,rorJs ;,,a A.. -
Scotch people-the descendants of the Black
Douglass-anl their hearts beat responsive
to his own. He touched a chord in the bo-
SONS Of the crushed laborers of England.
and 1t vibratcd to his touch, for none but tho
oppressed can truly ieel for the oppressed.
The credentials which he bears arc written
upon no parchment scroll by the dainty hand
CT President Polk, but are SCARED indclibly
upon his back by the heavy hand and whip
OF an American stakeholder. And when the
steamers bear to our shores the dispatches of
the American Embassadors to Britain. we
care comparatively little to learn what Me-
Lane and the British Government are saving
or doing about boundary questions or other
points of governmental policy or government
tai etiquette, to what we do to hear of the
doings of Humanty's Envoy Extraordinary
with the people Of Great Britain - how his
eloquence is enchanting their attention, and
his appeals sinking deep into their hearts
how the common people hear the truth glad
ly, and are coming up to aid in the deliver
ance Of the slave. God bless the Envoy
that America has scourged from her shores,
and greatly prosper his labors for humanily's
sake!