Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-16
From The Liberafor.
Rev. DR.. Chalmers and Daniel 0'Con-
nell.
EDINBuRGH, June LIST, 1917.

nell.
EDTNBuRGu, June LIST, 1917.
DEAR GARmsoN
Tn Rev. Thomas Chalmers. D.. d. the
great Scotch Ally of American sllveholdprs.
and apologist for slavery, was found dead in
nus bed Yesterday morning, May 3lst. having
oled during the previous night. His last
WI and testimony touching slavery was Civ
en- IN May, 1913, in a letter, published in
lfIHE WITNESS,' in which he came TO the
rescue of Doctors Candlish and CUNNINGHAM.
and the Free Church, to save them from the
deep disgrace which their alliance with man.
%stealers was bringing upon them. In thai
Setter, DIR. Chalmers labors to make the peo-
pie OF Scotland believe, that Christ is in To-
wing and sympathizing fellowship with A.
merlcan man-stealers; and also to Justify the
rec Church in receiving them to her COM
tmunion as Christians. He is dead, and has
ieii that letter unrecalled, and his iniquitons
plan for the abolition of slavery, by compel
ing the slaves 10 toll and pay their orpres-
snrs Tor the bodies and souls that God had
gwen them, unrepented of. The influence
OF hls rame and character will now 20. so
long as 1t exists, to sanction slavery, with all
It's horrors, and to stamp Shareholders, who
ltherd men and women with brutes, as Chris
tians. 1t is painful to speak of the dead. and
expose their injustice and their guilt; but
fidelity TO humanity requires that the odium.
which we seek to bring upon man-stealers,
should, also, fall upon DIR. Chalmers. as their
ally. Better that the name of Chalmers
should become a kissing and a rcproach, than
That man-stealers should find a shelter under
his reputation. His sympathies have ever
been with shareholders, because these have
been his frmest friends and supporters in his
clerical office. Man-stealers will claim him
as their own. VIII the slaves Will the
e%nslaved victims of the American church and
American republic rejoice over DR.. Chal-
mers They cannot but feel disgust and ab-
h%orrence at his very name for he identified
himself, in heart and life, with those who
turned them into brute beasts. and sold them
and their wives and children at auction.
How different will be the feelings of the
American slaves toward DANIEL O'CON-
NELL! He, too, is dead, having left time
on the 10th of May, in Genoa, while on his
way to Rome. Daniel O'Connell has filled
a larger place in the public eye than any man
of the 18th century. Whatever may have
been his faults, he was true and faithful in
his rebukes Of the Democratic Shareholders
of America. He was the friend Of the Amer
lean slaves, and his memory will be dear to
heir hearts, in the day of their redemption.
W nile Shareholders curse his memory, their
victims will bless it. When the slavehold-
ers thought to brine him TO silence, he spurn-
ed their gold, and hurled it back, determined
not to stain his hands or his cause with their
ill-gotten gains. Daniel O'Connell could
not be bribed to silence. Rev. DR.. Chal-
mers was bribed. The politician spurned
and sent back the blood-stained dollars the
Rev. Divine clutched and kept them. The
statesman identified himself with the imbru.
ted slaves the lheologian Joined hands will
man-stealers. They have both gone to settle
their accounts at a higher tribunal but, or
earth, the name OF O'Connell will be alec-
tionately and reverently cherished by eman
cipated millions, while the name of Chal
mers will be eXecrated.
The people of this united kingdom are
passing through a fiery ordeal. When | left
London a fortnight since, bacon was % cent,
per pound beef and lamb, 81 cents per h.;
the four pound loaf of bread, 81 cents fowl;
two dollars and a half, per pair; and all arti
cles of food in proportion. But no efficient
action is taken, by any class, to call attention
TO the causes of the existing distress and fam,
ime. In my way to Scotland, | visited Oar
lington, Newcastle, and Carlisle. All friends
are well in those places. Il. Pease is now
at a water cure establishment, near llkley.
II. C. WRIGHT.