Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-25
The Cunard Steamers.

The last New York Sunday Dispatch, in
noticing the sailing Of the first Of the Bremen
steamers, gets oil some paragra phs which
predict awful disasters TO the Cunard line
flom this port to Liverpool. 1t seems to be
all over with British Steamers. henceforth
and forever. The .niggers'' have got pos
session ofthem, and the universal American
nation, which ticks all others, will Withdraw
its patronage. Just hear this New York
Apostle of the pure "Anglo Saxon race
"The deliberate Insult to the people and
government of the United States. lately per-
petrated by the managers of the Cunard line
Of steamers, at the instigation of the British
press, and with the approval, no doubt, of The
British government, may now he resented in
the only manner which the authors of such
an insult are capable of feeling. No Ameri-
can, who has any respect for himself or his
country, can henceforth embark in one of the
Cunard steamers.
40 satisfy every true American of his
duty in regard to the Cunard line of steamers
the line carrying the English mail, from
Boston, via Halifax, to Liverpool, we have
only TO state the fact. that since the last pas
sage Of the negro Douglass, an order has
been given, that negroes shall be entitled TO
all the privileges of first cabin passengers
Any man may find himself seated every day
at the dinner table, with a negro on each side
of him, and if he does not take an entire state
room, NAV be compelled to share it with a
negro. His wife and daughters may be seat
ed opposite his own boolbIack, or, walking
the quarterback, may be rendered the polite
civiIiIies of his artist in whitewash.
"American passengers on this line OF
steamers have heretofore been compelled to
/ ltLtan IN n nanro 1actnro ah,,ginr thair al,
try and institutions; and now. by an express
order, they are to be compelled TO associate
with negroes on terms Of equality.
ave are satisfied that the statement o
this fact will be sufficient. Let the CunarC
line henceforth be appropriated expressly Il
negroes, and their English and abolition
friends, while the French and American line
will receive, as they will merit, the patronage
OF the rest Of the world"
This final suggestion, we set down as tn
most rational and philosophical plan of re
seniing an insult offered by one ''govern
ment' TO another government" that eve
came to our knowledge. Let all who woulc
not suffer that most awful Of calamities which
can possibly befal a 'true American" demo
cratic, freo-and-equal republican, to wit: sit
ting at table with a negro, just resent this In
suit which the British Government has offer
ed to ours, by taking passage in some vesse
which does not allow negroes to take cabil
passage. That's the doctrine. DO it, o y
pure and superior Anglo-SaNons, born neithe
in England nor SaXony. Let not the black
ness Of skin. come between the wind an
your nobility. Show the potentates Of FL
rope that you are too high born and hig
bred to suffer the 'poli,e civiliIies" OF Il
persons who black your boots and whitewas
your ceilings, not by blowing out the brair
! of them, but by keeping out of their way
! Why, this plan marks the progress Of II
j age. We remember the time when the Ne
Workers would have proposed to mob III
5 Cunard steamers-to iyneh Them bodily
!, East Boston, for such an outrage upon II
pride and dignity of true Americans. No
they only offer to deprive them OF their pun
Anglo-Saxon and holy presence, coun;enanc
and support. Good
: But the sFrench lines o thou pure an
s~potless albinosity of the Sunday Dispatch
e tho French lines, chi What it Alexsnd'
Dumas should take it into bis hIt1ly, copy