Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-26

ltl 10 AhNN ~ NARN -" N''N'J a'1
fully-if you will not do something. and do
it Immediately, 10 arrest the progress Of this
awful Famine. Most of you are blessed with
competence, many of you with wealth.
Show that these gifts are blessings, and not
curses. by coming forward with an open hand
and liberal heart, cheerfully 10 contribute of
your store to those who, though children of
the same God are bound to you by the ties of
an infinite and universal Brotherhood, are yet
pale with cold and hunger. and see no way,
unless it be afforded hy your timely help, to
put of the day, (Which has coIDe to hundreds
Of their bre'hren,) Of actual starvation.
Much is bring done in tiis country anil IN
England, hut the e~Xigency is one which calls
for the action Of the whole civilized world,
nay Of the Universal Human heari. The pre-
sent rs one ct those epochs in the history of
Man when all geographi al lines sink into
insignifcance and ohscuriry, and the great
fact OF our common origin, our common ma
ture and our common destiny, rises before
every mind, and reveals, IN its triple liz, the
unseen yet inseparable cord which binds us
all together in one indivlsible family. living
under the same armament and rejoicing in
The light and love Of the same Father. With
this fact lighting up the best hearts in all
countries, who can doubt that the cries Of
this people for food will he responded TO in
every quarter Of the globe, and that bread
will soon he scattered among them like man.
ma from Heaven! Indeed the response is
already heard, and a smile Of hope is begin
ming to brighten the wan face Of the country
as with the morning twilight of a better day.
The Society Of Friends in England have
alone raised about hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars. Queen Victoria has subscribed
about ten thousand dollars MANY Of The no.
bllily have contributed literally, and the con-
,ribution boxes Of the English churches are
t becoming vocal with the silver music Of
charity.
Soup houses. (soup kitchens they arc call
= ed here) are springing up all over the eoun-
f try private individuals and public commit
2 tees are attempting to fdthom (that they may
provide for) the deep and everyday augment
ing distress; Government is spending mil
q lions foI the employment Of a i'm I'll portion
S Of those who can work and without doubt,
if we Americans do our duty, sufficient n
a ergy will be developed to NEE, the almost
n unexampled demand.
Daniel O'Connell has given notice that he
shall call on Parliament (Which meets to-
morrow TO contribute thirty millions u pouna,
n sterling, at once, for the simple and easily
comprehended purpose of buying bread and
n putting it directly into the mouths of his starv,
i ing countrympn. The following burst of elo.
! quence WAS the peroration of a speech which
| heard from him last Monday at a crowded
3 meeting in Reconciliation Hail" 1t was
S delivered with tod hing eloquence, and cx.
cited such a round of applause as an Irish
multitude can alone give, and Il Daniel o.
C Connell alone arouse.
d MY plan is, that England should immedi-
ately borrow 40 millions-that she might
n ransack the world for food. 1t will he an IN.
an -.lI.--- - IL H..
ar to be sure it will-but it will be 40 millions
to purchase the lives of the Irish people.
he have been sneered at by some, and laughe,
e at by others. | have always answered.
/" What will you propose-what remedy hav,
you?" son, we will allow merchants t
e bring corn into the country" See the price
Q you now pay for corn, compared with the
prices at which it was purchased in the orig
inal market. There is no chance of saliva
S ton for the country, unless the landlords
come forward manlully, and boldly insis, up
on the English Government providing food
f tor the people.
Talk of drainage! why drainage is very
good, as regards next year, or the year after
-, and as to the cultivation of the waste lands,
those lands would produce no crop for two
4 years at least. Now what sort of a remedy
4 is that! 1t reminds me of a PHRASE. Live
= horse, and You will get grass" They say
to the people Of Ireland, 4" live for two years
d upon the air, and at the end Of that time YOU
will get potatoes" Oh! it is melancholy to
think Of tit is really ludicrous. In Cork
e the county which | represent-they are
dying by fIties coroner's inGuests are nc
i longer held, and so numerous are the deaths
that a suficiency of collins cannot be had
Most affecting instances are related of The
kindness and devotion Of she peasanlry il
those unhappy districts. One man wen
seven or eight miles tn get work-he didn'
taste a morsel for forty-eight hours, so tina
h he might he able to purchase a couple of stonl
Of meal for his iamily-he carried the pro
visions till he reached his own door, wheI
he dropped dead of hunger! And when sucl
things occur, and are becoming familiar, an
| to he talked 10 about political economy
and told not to interfere with mercantile spec
a. %ulation | say to the English Governmer
Is interfere foi human life ,-save human bC
is ings-give food to starving ,housands-thro'
is the shield of your power and weallh-yo
in are powerful and wealthy-over the Peep.
H. Of Ireland. They have suffered much froI
e. your tyranny and oppression-you have vi
IT. lated every compact You entered into wi
IN them-you have emptied their Golfers, al
now they cry to you-shoul to you-Shri
OF to you to do something to save them fro
of death and if you don't do SOM thing to sa
ma them, yonr w destruction may not be
of mote. They have been in yonr battles 4
IA right arm of your power--your flag never y
an waved in triumph that the commingled bio
ny Of lrishmen was not shed for its altainmrr
III Never was there a contest by sea in viii,
by your decks were not wet with their bIooC
al and in the hour Of their calamity | call upC
We The Government Of England-to save II
I'm country. ] call upon the Irish gentry first
nd rally and make IA demand-a loud and a On
lte tinct demand-not IA demand trucking f
te) petty relief. but demand commensurate vii
gil the magnitude of the evil-to rescue tn
for country from destruction. call upon tn
m Irish gentry to speak ont IN a voice OF thu
An. der-I call nnnn England not 70 dare % It