Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-19

glad to have a copy.
In July last, the following Letter was
transmitted 10 the person to whom it was adj
dressed, and a few weeks ago it was return
ed under cover without a syllable in reply
AS children that are crammed with confec-
tionary, have no relish for plain food so men
in power, who are seldom addressed but in
the sweet tones of adulation, are apt TO be
disguised with the plain and |salutary Ian
guage Of truth. TO offend was not the in.
tention of the writer; yet the President has
evidently been irriiated this, however, is
not a had sympiom-Gor irritation, causeless-
ly excited, will frequently subsidc into shame;
and TO use the langrage Of the moralist,
'Where there is yet shame, there may in time
be virtue
Liverpool, February, 90, 1907.
LETTER TO GEORGE WASHINGTON.
1t will generally be admitted, Sir, and per-
haps with justice. that the great family of
mankind were never more benefited by the
military abilities Of any individual, than by
those which you displayed during tho memo
rable American contest. Your country was
injured, your services were called for. you
Immediately arose, and after performing the
rHnost conspicuous part in that blood-stained
tragedy, you again became a private citizen,
and unambiliously retired TO your FARM
TAere was more Of true greatness in this pro-
cedure Than the modern world, at least, has
ever beheld and while public virtue is ven-
Grated by your countrymen, a conduct so en-
allied will not be forgotten. The effects
which your revolution will have upon the
world are incalculable. BY the fame which
you have k%indled, every oppressed nation
xNtll. ho on,I1aI 80 naronft,o it, C.tf,rc npA
when man once knows that he is enslaved,
the business of emancipation is half perform
ed. France has already burst her shackles,
neighboring nations will intiine prepare, and
another half century may behold The present
besotted Europe without a Peer, without a
Hierarchy, and without a Despot. If mon
were enlightened, revolutions would be blood
less; but how are men 10 be enlightened,
when it is the interest of our governors TO
keep the governed in ignorance ? 10 enligh-
ten men, says your old correspondent, Ar
thur Young, lis 10 make them bad subjects
Hurricanes spread devastation yet hurti-
canes are not only transient, but give salubri-
ty TO the torrid regions, and are quickly fol-
lowed by azure skies and calm sunshine
Revolutions, loo, for a time, may produce
turbulence I; yet revolutions clear the politi-
cal atmosphere, and contribute greatly 10 the
comfort and happiness Of the human race
What you yourself have lived TO witness in
the United States, is sufficient 10 elucidate
my position. In your rides along the banks
OF your favorite Potomac, in your frequent
excursions through your own extensive
grounds, how gratifying must be your sensa-
lions on beholding the animated scenery
around you, and how pleasurable must be
your feelings, on rejecting that your country
is now AN asylum for mankind that her
commerce, her agriculture, and her popula-
ton, are greater than at any former period {:
and that this prosperity is the natural result
of those rights which you defended against
an aband oned cabinet, with all that ability
which men, who unsheathe the sword in the
cause OF human nature, will, | trust, ever dis
play. Where Liberty is, there man walks
erect, and puts forth all his powers while
Slavery, like a torpedo, bcnumbs the finest
energies of the soul. But il is not TO the
Commander-in-Chie of The American forces,
nor TO the President of the United States,
that | have aught 10 address; my business
is with George Washington, OF Mount Yer
non. in Virginia, a man who, notwithstand-
ing his hatred of oppression and his ardent
love Of liberty, holds at this moment hun
dreds Of his fellow beings in a state Of abjecI
bondage. Yes, you. who conquered under
20 > the banners of frcedom-you, who are now
:he first magistrate Of a free people, art
q. (strange TO relatr) a Stakeholder. That {
Liverpool merchant should rndeavor TO en-
rich himself by such a business, is not
matter OF surprise; but that you, an enlight
e1 ened character, strongly enamored Of you
own freedom-you, WHO, if the British for
ces had succeeded in the Eastern States
would have retired, with a few congenia
spirits, to the rude Businesses of the Western
~ wilderness, there to have enjoyed that blcs
sing, without which a Paradise would b.
disgusting, and with which the most savag,
region is not without its charms; that you
l say, should continue a Shareholder, a pro
prietor of human flesh and blood, creates il
,r many of your British friends both astonish
ment and regret. You are a republican, al
advocate for the dissemination of knowledge
q and for universal justice where then ar
the arguments by which this shameless dere
fiction of principle can be supported! You
friend Jefferson has endeavored to show tina
the negroes are an inferior order of beings
but surely you will not have recourse to sucI
a subterfnge. Your slaves, il may be urged
are well treated. That ! deny-man can ne
yer be well treated who is deprived Of hi
rights. They are well clothed, well lod ged
&c. Feed me with ambrosia, and wash
down with nectar yet what are these,
7r Liberty be wantingl You took up arms i
defence of the rights of man. Your negroe
are men ;--where then are the rights Of you
negroes They have been Injured to slave
Ty, and are not fit for freedom. Thus it wa
said of the French; but where is the man
unbiased common sense, who will asse
that the French republicans of the presel
day are not fit for freedom ! II has been sal
too by your apologists, that your feelings al
inimical to slavery, that you are induced
acquiesce in it at present, merely from m
e. tives Of policy. The only true policy is ju
tce and he who regards the consequence