Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-15
SALEM, GoLUMBIANA co, OHIO, DECEMBER Is. l849.

encourage the timid friends of Peace. The
long martyrdom of the American Peace So
ciety had at last received a Crown of Glory
in this world. The Sorrows of my Lord
Plumb Cake were swallowed up in Victory.
If these things seem TO be luminous Of the
speedy coming of the Reign of Peace, Mr..
Burritt will have enough of them. lie need
have no fear as to the success of the Frank
fort Congress, as long as Philanthropy can
be combined with HalfPrice, and u cheap
trip of pleasure erected into u Virtue.
l have already overpassed my usual limits,
but / must make one or two remarks by way
of improvement TO my discourse on this text.
And, first, it is to be noted that nome of the
speakers alluded to the observable fact, in
deed the condition precedent of the Meeting,
the agreement that no allasion should be
made to European politics! OF what value
should we esteem an Anti Slavery Conven-
ton which could be held at Charleston, $.
c., in the City Hall, and entertained by Mr..
Calhoun and MIR. MacDutfie, on condition
that nothing should be said about American
Slavery! Would Mr.. Burritt think such a
Convention a step in a GeOmetrical Ratio of
Anti-Slavery Progression? Secondly, that
while all the speakers were g%loriiying MIR.
Victor Hugo and the Protestant Pastor CO.
querel for the great words they were speak
ing for Peace, they omitted to mention that
both those eminent friends of Peace voted
in the Legislative Assembly in favor of the
infamous attack on Rome! And thirdly, and
10 conclude, that the Members and Friends
of the Board Street Committee, Messrs.
Surge, Scoble s. CO., wioi are of tSeS pakl
syes TO sit in Convention with Garafsbn, or
TO act with him against Slavery, on account
of his h~eresies, had no scruple i'll giving the
right hand of fellowship to Victor Hugo, and
placing him at their head, a man infamous
Tor his writings and his private life, who,
within two or three years, was the object OF
il criminal process for the seduction of the
young wife of his most intimate friend, under
aggravating circumstances, from the conse-
quences of which he escaped by pleading his
Peerage, while his poor victim had 10 under
90 the rigor of the law, and who is probably
not more orthodox on the Sabbath question
than Garrison himself! Nor did they OBJ
ject to fraternize with Girardin, of as indif-
ierent a reputation as Hugo, with his hand
red with the blood of Carrel. whom he killed
in q duel. Mr.. Burritt appears to be an amia-
BILE and well-mcaning man, but he is sadly
mistaken if he thinks that the persons who
made up the Paris Congress are those who
are to ~regenerate a fighting world, or if lie
accepts the c~ivilities of the French Govern
mept, extended to them on the condition OF
their holding their tongues, as a sign of the
Progress of the Peace Cause. They prove
directly to the contrary. Had the French
President esteemed the Congress as anything
more tlan u harmless humbug, which could
make no impression on the warlike spirit OF
France, and its members as inoffensive peo-
pie to be civil to whom could do no harm
and would look well, Mr.. Burritt may be
assured that the Congress would at leasfhave
had to endure the martyrdom of being con-
demned TO Exeter Hall.-D. Y.