Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-31

%Cottuue.l laden from those sunny climcs,-
These fortunes are too often purchased by
crime.
While in India, Mr.. Thompson became
copnizant Of a case Of Migrant injustice which
had been perprtraied Oh the Rajah OF Sattara
by the East India Company. With his won
ted courage and zeal, he took mp the case of
the injured man, and began, when he retur-
ned to England, The hopeless task of appeal
inc TO the Company's directory. lie could
hardly obtain a hearing, aud was treated with
a c%ontumeliuus disrespcct which might have
dishtartenrd one less firm. The electors Of
Lambeth, by the largest majority ever known
in England, have placed him in a position,
howevtr, in which not only the East India
Company, but the British Government shall
listen to him pleading The rights and wrongs
of India.
In ISl6, he made one Of his most brilliant
public displays against Slavery, and %electri-
fed the people OF Scotland with his adjura-
tons TO the Free Kirk to send back the mo-
ncy which she had meanly consented to re-
ceive from American Shareholders If orato-
nv could have carried moral conviction 10 the
hearts of Candlish and Cunningham, that
money would have been cast out from the cof-
frrs of their treasury as an unclsan thing
Ii humanity and justice could have been EN-
throned in the bosoms ofthese 'reverend doc
tors'' by the force of cloqucnce, Scotland
would soon have been free of the shame Of
that money. But, alas, our countrymen have
the bad fame Of loving gold too well--of wOr-
Shipping Pluto too devolcdly; and verify, these
Ec ~ Kirk doctors have conducted to dee
pen this national stain. They uttered a few
mystical, metaphysical sentences, eondemnl-
tory of Slavery in the abstract; and then they
followed these sentences by a few others, APP
proving of it in the concrete. They shouted
down the members of their own Synod, who
dared 10 talk broadly out in condemnation of
the acceptance of that slave money; and they
| scornfully deridrd memorials that were pre-
sented to them by their Christian fellow
countrymen, in favor Of our poor brethren in
bondage. They wrote a few sorhisms, which
they called a remcnstrance and testimony 10
the Churches in America against Slavery;
and, shear it, We of Gath; publish it abroad
in Askelon''-lhey kept the money.
George Thompson is above the common
height, and possesses n handsome active
frame. His form inclines to lightness in its
proportions, rather than strength; yet his
shoulders are broad, and his fine flexible voice
issues from "a well-formed, capacious chest.
In complexion, Mr.. Thompson is dark. His
features are ihinnish, but his face is highly
intellectual. His eyes are especially keen
and piercing when they are lighted up with
that enthusiasm which appertainS TO his fine
nervous temperament. He made his debut
lately in the House of Commons, and it was
a successful one. Canning and Sheridan,
two Of England's most accomplished orators,
during the days when the British Parliamept
was engaged in debating Parliamentary re-
form, aud in the impeachment of Warren
Hastings, both failed when they first attemp-
ted to address the House.
George rhompson's maiden speech was
in connection with Indian affairs, and / it was
well delivered, and as well received. lie is
now studying English law, in order to quail
ify himself for the duties Of barrister; and
as unlikely things have come to pass as that
he may yet be high Chancellor Of England
and sit upon the wool.sack where his frs
patron sat.
If George Thompson has attained to wcalt
and fame, it has never been by worshipin
the wealthy great, or spending his talents il
the defence of wrong, however powerful
He has ever plead the cause of suffering hu
manity, with a strong, earnest, eloquent er
thusiasm, since the day that he threw dis
may amongst the vestrymen Of Clerkenwel
to the hour when he delivered his last orr
tioR in the halls of st. Stephens. J. d. S.
EdiuJurrh, Scot.