Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-13
William W. Brown.

Tho London Standard Of Freedom, of Sept. s,
contains q report %. q meeting hold al Croydon
20 welcome NJ. Brown. 10 was lbs hrst public
appearance in England, and NE was greeted, We
arc happy to observe, by a large audicnoe.-
GEORGE THOMPSON, NJ. p. whose name is
treasured in the hearts of Abolitionists in every
part of the world, having introduced Mr.. Brown
to the assembly, the latter made a very appro-
pirate and effective speech. Hero is one of its
best passages:
Let an American STAKEHOLDER be warmly
received in any part of Europe, and the whole
body Immediately rejoice that one of their
number had met with such an honorable re-
cepton but let him be received here as eve
ry man should be who had robbed a large
portion OF his countrymen of their liberties,
and the Americans Immediately take that
reception to heart, and it exercises great in
fluence upon them. No meeting could be
held IN this country, no matter for what pur-
pose, but especially of a moral and religious
character, to which the shareholders ofAmeri-
ca were not anxious to send representatives.
lHear.) If a Peace Congress was called to-
gether in Paris, slavery was present. And
why was that? Because the shareholders
wished to make slavery appear before the
world as good and tolerable q thing as pos
sible. Among the first persons whom he
(Mr. Brown) saw on the floor of the Paris
Peace Congress were two Shareholders from
America, who came over to England in the
same steam-vessel as himself. Whether they
were or were not delegates, he could not say /;
but they sat among, and had the same badge
or card of admission as the delegates; and
yet it was known to a number of the men,
bers of the Congress that those men were
shareholders. (Hear, hear.) Now had those
individuals been received in Paris as they
should have been received consistently with
their true characteristics en-stealers-it
would have created a great stir in the United
States. Had they been regarded in the same
manner as people would unhesitatingly look
upon a horse-thief, or one who commits a
light-handed act of injustice against his fel-
low-men, they would not have dared to re-
main in that Congress; but, as it was, they
continued there as any other members, until
the close of the sitting. He (Mr. Brown,)
however, thanked God that the anti-slavery
cause had made such progress within the
last twenty years, that if shareholders were
sent over to represent the United States in a
Worlds Evangelical Alliance, some Garrison
would make his appearance on the otside
when the meeting was adjourned, and let the
friends of freedom throughout Europe know
that shareholders had been there and thus
they would be prevented from accomplishing
that which they had designed. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) If at a great Temperance Con-
~vention, shareholders were sent here to rep
resent America, some Douglass would there
make his appearance, and create such a stir
as would defeat their purposes; and if they
got up a Worlds Peace Congress, some fugi-
tive slave like himself would break loose
from his chains, make his appearance upon
the platform, and let the people know that
slavery was not that respectable thing in re-
ality which some American delegates would
fain have it appear. (Cheers.)
Mr.. THOMPSON followed Mr.. Blown in his
usually eloquent and happy style. In the
| course of his speech he said
Mr.. Brown was an american abolitionist of
the right stamp, and as such would not only
be hailed as a friend and a guest, but united
with as a fellow-laborer in the cause of uni
versal freedom and he would find many
who would be rejoiced to strengthen his
hands, and the hands of that most worthy
and courageous band who were waging a
sublime moral war with oppression, under
the flag which twenty years ago, had been
unfurled by the Hndaunted Garrison, and
ever since, without a stain and without a re-
verse, had nobly braved the battle and the
breeze.
But the chief reason why the man before
us should be welcomed with cordially and
enthusiasm was that he was q colored man and
a fugitive from slavery, (Cheers.) He was
in complexion, in origin, in suffering, in SYM
pathy, and in prescription, the bona .fde rep
resentative of three millions of men in chains,
N of tens of thousands more held down
by the manacles of a hated and inhuman
prejudice against color. His recognition that
night, therefore, was not a mere welcome
extended by that assembly to an individual,
but a recognition by those who represented
fairly and truly the sentiments and feelings
of Great Britain, of one who was the repre-
sentative of the enslaved and the down-trod-
den in America. Let William w. Brown
accept it as such, and believe that, in taking
his hand as that of a brother and an equal,
we take the hand of every colored man, in
Guiding the meanest and the most despised,
found within or without the realms of slave
ry in the United States. (Cheers.)
A resolution of welcome was introduced by
Rev. DR.. Campbell, late missionary in India,
and adopted by the meeting.
This meeting was the commencement of an
extended anti-slavery tour which Mr.. Brown
has undertaken through England, Ireland and
Scotland.
The New FLORIDA WAR.-It seems, after all,
hat a large proportion of the reports of outra-
ges and murders committed by the small band
of Indians remaining in Florida were untrue
mere creations of fancy, designed to get up a
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