Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-18

| OLD ADAM IN others. vet GuTn / am that all
| this is inst the wav TO min HE ;ng,ence 10
defeat his object. and 10 do mischief not TooI'
IN the verv cause he nrofessas 70 love viii
| the sinole eYcent;op ~ ono coIJ-Laar,ad nar.
| ricide. whose character / abho,. and whom I
| will not name. and who has. 7 fear, mn feel
| inc of true patrioiism or nietv within hin. all
the delegates from our country were tooether
| wounded and INDIGNANT. No ,vonda, Of !, (,
| write freely. IL was moi done in q corner
1t was inspiIed. I believe. from beres,a' ana
not from above. II was adan,ed n re.hindle
on both sides of The Atlantic. The flames of
national evaporation and war And This is
the pame which Mr.. Frederick Douglass and
his silly patrons are nlavino in Enr1and and
in Scotland, and wherever they can find 'some
mischief still for idle hands to do came
here his sympathizing friend-I am SO no
more, as ! more know him.
My own opinion is increasingly that this
abominable spirit must be exercised out Of
England and America before any substantial
good can be effected for the cause of the slave.
1t is adapted only To make bad worse, and to
inflame the passions of indignant millions 10
an incurable resentment. None but an iuno-
ramus or a mailman could think that this
way was that of the inspired apostles of the
Son Of God. 1t may CRAFTY the feelings of
a self-deceived and malignant few, but it will
do no rood in any direction-least of all TO
the poor slave! Ii is short-siohted, i'm null
sive, partisan, reckless. and tending only to
sanquinary ends. None of this. with men
of sense and principle.
We all wanted to reply, but il was too late;
the whole theatre seemed taken with the spir-
it of the Ephesian uproar; they were furious
and boisterous in the extreme; ard Mr.. Kirk
could hardly Obtain a moment, though MANY
were DESTROYS in. his behalf, to saw a few
words, as he did, very calm and properlv.
that the cause of Temperance was not at ali
responsible for Slavery, and had no connec-
ton with it. There were some sly agencies
behind the scenes-w know,''
Now tho mo,ivo for ren,osor,inr il III,
connoc,;on ahaN - ~ - J" /, ,he
smorsl scene srbIina end rinsj - ~
anraroot 7, ~ oLn;earI -
inrs,;ee to The scene ne ,a us@n;fv ~, ~
cd offence Vim have dro,yp casd;nnIu
Laan,;cnI n,,sa ~, SS"n"s'y
me az ma lrinr and def,c;nri lie Sasr,n IL az
bone ,hsroh, % L;ndla .aans, ~ ~ c. 80
it's admirers
Frederick Douclass. the colored aholition-
ist and ultraist. came 10 the platform, WelL
sir. what if | did come TO the nlatfortnl How
did [ come to III Did | come with. or with.
ont. the consent of the meetinu1 Had Won,
love of truth eoualled vour desire to cover me
with odium. YOU would have said lbat. after
loud and repeated calls from the audience
and a very pressing invitation from the chair
man, Frederick Douglass came to the Plat
FORM But, sir, this would not have served
YOUR purpose-,hat BEING TO make me ont an
Intruder. one without the wedding rarment.
fit to be cast out among the unbidde5 and nm.
prepared. This might do very well in Amer
lea, where for a negro to stand upon a tempe-
rance platform, on terms of perfect equality
with white persons, it would be rerarded as
an insolent presumption. not TO be borne with:
but, sir, it IS scarcely necessary TO saw. thai
it will not serve YOUR purpose in Eng-
land. 1t is now pretty well known throuo6.
out the world, that color is no crime in Enc
land, and ii is becoming almost equally known
that color is treated as a crime in America.
'Frederick Douglass, The eolored abolition All
tator and uhrGist, came 10 The platform -
Shocking! How could democratic Ameri-
cans sit calmly by, and behold sucb a llagrant
violation of one of the most cherished Aneri-
can customs-this most unnatural amalrama-
ton? Was it not an agra waiting and i1ntole-
rable insult, to allow a negro 10 Stand unon a
platform, on terms of perfect equality with
pure white American gentlemen? Monarchi.
cal England should be taught better manners
she should know that democratic America
has the sole prerogative of deciding what shall
be the social and civil position of The colored
race. But, sarcasm aside, sir, YOU claim tc
be a Christian, a philantbropist. and an abo-
Iitionist. Were Won trnlv entitled Tn anv one
of these names. Won would have been deiight.
ed at seeing one of Afric,s desnised chiI5re,
, cordialIv received, and yrarml1 vvoIoo",ad -
- woTId's temnerance niatfor'1 I'D ~ ou "
I nav ,rs,toJ as a msn and = h,o,Sor ~,
: ,he truth nrobahIv ;s ,bat ron S.It ha,h rou.
! self and ponr co,,n,ru ro IUHn go y,
, NV rrsserce ,here. a1, $500 H. !; ~
nnydanhtedIv nainG,l ~ 80 20 Do MS - "a'
! ,he same nIatform On q Ieue, With p ! ecu =.