Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-04
0thCllOS in New Orleans.

The New Orleans people are delight
ed with MAcREADY in everything, but es-
pecially in Othelio, upon which the cri-
tics shower roses. This is very ingenu.
Gus, but surely no less impoliiic. The
good souls do not perceive the dangerous
tendency of great acting !avished upon a
black. Nevertheless, with its columns
filled with advertisements of unawa
slaves, and Of slaves 10 be knocked down
by the hammer, The Daily Picayune of
(Feb. 15,) says of MAcREADY's Othe1lo,
I" We have never yet seen anything so
brilliant such acting would redeem The
vices ofthc stage. were they tenfoA what
they are" This may be very rde on,
we repeat it, 10 tell such truth is very
foolish.
The Daily Picayune is, we believe, a
very important print. 1t has Art as an
accessory 10 its political and social lite-
ra,ure. The tile is adorned with the
figure ola female-very white, of course,
secuted upon something invisible, and
holding in her lap a nest Of young peli-
cans, POLITICALLY fed by the hen pelican.
The right hand Of the lady-the finger
and thumb holding abranch Of something,
African night-shade, il may be-reposes
on a sugar-tub whilst a ship-a slave.
clipper, we presume-looms in The dis
lance. There is. no doubt, deep and
delicate meaning in all this. The lady
is MISREPRESENTATION Liberly-and The
pelicans, young citizens of the South,
reared upon black blood purchased by
Liberty 10 nourish them. The sugar.
tub is blood again, turned into pleasant.
ness and flavor.
This is all as it should be but, Plea.
yuae, be consistent. Wherefore praise
OtheHo on The stage, and advertise the
black for sale For instance, here we
have two separate sales Of slaves, one in
siXty-seven lots, the other in sixly-two-
of slaves of both sexes and all ages 10 sui
all buyers. Lot 10 is, " RosALINE al The
brcast;" and lol Ga is, "OLD BETSY
aged 80 gears! This may be all very
proper in a Model Republic; but we holc
that to praise the black on The stage, may
in the end, awaken sympathy for him il
the market. Again, who shall say tina
the many escapes o. slayes, advertised il
this P~icayune, may moi be attributed tc
the admiration vouchsafed 10 Mr.. Ma
cREADY! Hear the enthusiastic and fool
ish critic ;-'' What could we say of Ma
cREADY, but that he carried into his per
sonalion Of the Moor, the same elaborat
study, matchless elocuiion, and consum
mate art, which we have admired be
fore
And then, " the house was full and ra
diant with beautiful women. A dolt coul
not play i'll TO such an audience J" A
this is, we fear, so much Indictment I
the black blood of New Orleans 10 de
camp or rebel. And we have the resu
in some ten advertisements for ten runa
way slaves +; all of them, we doubt no
simulated by the praise and sympath
lavished upon the actor, 10 take il I'M
their heads to think themselves huma
! being! Here is" JOHN, aged abol
; % years, 5 feet, A. fne-looking and nea
dressed" WILLIAM or billy, abor
Is or II years old, dark complerio.
, slender built, with fore-fnger off rig
J. hand F" and MARY, a bright mulatl
and rather handsome-has a very impe
linent air and bearing !" and lastl
BRAzILE, speaks French aud Englis
is about 81 years old, a dark mulano
fcopper.color, has a Roman nose, ra1h