Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-03
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Reception of Vim. W. Brown in London.

We copy below, from the Libcretor, the
remarks Of w. w. Brown, at a public meet
ing held in London, on the 9th ult., for the
purpose of welcoming him to England
George Thompson introduced Mr.. Brown to
the meeting. The Mr.. Jones alluded to, is
an Englishman by birth but a residence of
eighteen years in New England has prepared
him for the work of ~apoligizing for the bru-
tai prejudice against color existing in in this
country hence he attempted to disprove the
the assertion of Geo. Thompson, made in his
remarks Introducing Mr.. Brown, that there
is a cruel and inhuman prejudice existing in
our Northern States against the colored peo-
pie. Mr.. Thompson of course established
his assertion by numerous and undeniable
facts.
MIR. BRowN, on coming forward, was
greeted with loud applause, which for a time
prevented him from proceeding. He said
he feared that the eulogy which his eloquent
friend, MIR. Thompson, had heaped upon him,
q raised the expectations OF the meeting
TOO high as regarded what they should near
from him that evening. To remove that inn
preston, however, he would state, that he
was nothing more nor less than an American
slave, born and brought up under the 'pecu-
liar institution of Alnerica@iIear and laugh
ter y having passed twenty years of his life
in slavery, and making his escape from
bondage without education, and never in fact
having had a days schooling up to the mo-
ment when he then appeared before them.
Under such circumstances, the meeting he
was sure would be ready to make all allow
ances for any defect that might be observable
in his mode of address. (Cheers.) He pre-
sumed they had all heard something of that
peculiar institution of America from which
he had so unceremoniously graduated
(Laughter.) In the first place, what was the
slavery of the United States? So much was
said about American democracy, American
republicanism, American philanthropy, and
American Christianity, that when American
slavery was spoken OF, people generally sup
posed that slavery, amid all those glorious
institutions which they heard so mach about,
must be rather better than slavery III any
other portion of the world. But what was
the fact? Wa it so? Why, the slave OF
the United States was q chattel a thing, q
commodity, without any legal right TO own
himself, or TO receive the avails OF his labor
deprived of the privilege OF protecting him.
self, his wife or children. He spoke no
from theory or hearsay, but from actual eX-
perience, when he thus described the work
ings OF the slave system in America. lie
was not only an American slave, but tho
son of an American stakeholder; and they
would see in the latter fact another hidcou'
feature OF the damning system of slavery
(Hear, hear.) The slave in the United States
was unprotected by law or public sentiment
and occupied the same position as Il man
hnrsa n .lnn In II nIlIs tI.Npl which Ina
had escaped, the horse in fact received NOR
protection than the slave, ior if the quadru
ped was numerically beaten, an action NIGH
be brought against the man for the offence
but if a slave was tlogged with however-so
much severity, a cry was Immediately raise
among the by-standers, Give it the niger
give it himr (Hear, hear.) If a slave feel
that God has given him a right to occupy
higher position than merely toiling for tn
mar who claims to own both his body an
soul, and attempts to make his escape, til
blood-hounds are put upon his track. and
caught, he is dragged back again into 81,
very, thrown into a dungeon, tortured, an
finally sold from his wife and children, an
sent to be worked upon a cotton, sugar, {
rice plantation in Louisiana or Mississippi
(Hear.) The Constitution of the Unite
States made a man in Boston a slavehold,
in common with John G. Calhoun of Soul
Carolina. Every citizen of the United Stat'
was bound by the Constitution of the coul
try, in the event of the slaves attempting
get their liberty, to take up the musket an
shoot down those poor slaves. The law
1898 gave the Shareholders a right 10 go in
the free States TO catch slaves and drag the
back again TO bondage. Why, as to Bosto
the citizens of that place, only six years og
paid $500 for the purchase of George La
mer, as he was being dragged away, with
the very sight of Bunker Hill, to slavery
Virginia. Another law forbade the men
Boston to feed escaped slaves under a penal
of $500, and the costs Of prosecution. III
Americans had introduced slavery into Me
leo, where it had before been abolished, al
were Of that time attempting to get posse