Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-18


sances 10 Africa, and in an instant they stand
up clothed in all the attributes calculated to
make them Missionaries and teachers in the
work of civilization and Christianity"
have asked them to put this and that together,
and reconcile them if they can. My audi
ence, sir, gives the lie to the charges, and my
audience will give the lie to them to-nightby
endorsing these resolutions. And | hope, sir,
that when the proceedings of this meeting
shall go over TO England, and shall meet the
eye Of Mr.. (agent) Miller, that they will have
the desired effect upon him,-thai they will
teach him that if we are low and besotted in
this country, it is American Slavery and the
Colonization Society that has made us so I;
(Applause) that if we are vicious, American
Slavery has made us vicious that if we are
idle, American prejudice has made us idle
in shert, that American Slavery and the A.
merican Colonization Society have been the
instruments OF making us just what we are
in our vices. applause
If we are ignorant, | ask 10 whom is it at
tribltable but TO Slavery and the Colonial
ton Society. The one has said, that if we
wished to obtain a knowledge OF the Arts
and Sciences, we must be colonized and
the other, when we have knocked at the door
of the college and academy, has said TO us,
go TO your fatherland. We have been treated
shamefully. aye shamefully! Here in your
city, not long since, was written over The
door Of one of your places Of public exhibit
ton, "No admission for dogs and negroes"
laughter.) Sir, | believe that American Sla-
very instituted that notice in that place of en-
hibition. In Philadelphia, a few weeks ago,
] saw a notice intimating to respectable &C.
lored people " that they could gain admission
to see the waX.figures on a certain day and
hour, taking it for granted that this was 10 be
felt by them as a rivilege. What but Amer
lean Slavery and the American Colonization
Society prompted the notice in that paperl
Now, sir, | call upon this audience 10 give
their unanimous sanction TO the most radical
sentiments contained in this resolution. And
why do | say i'll Sir, a distinguished man
long ago has said " eternal vigilance was the
price Of liberty" wish to repeat that mot
to, by saying that eternal c]igihance is the
price gc.our safety as a pcQpie in the United
States. (Applause.) How does il happen
that in the State Of New York there are thou
sands of colored persons DISTINGUISHED ! How
/ does it happen that the same is true Of the
I State of Pennsylvania, Of Connecticut, and
: other States Can we trace it to any otheI
s source than the one TO which have referred
r ] apprchend not. Sir, | believe that Henri
y Clay, with all his oloquenre, on one hand
and Jehn-C. G~nlhogp,swiflf all his derihsh
G (lauGhter) on the other, would not come be
c fore this meeting and attempt to sustain thei
e charges. And why? Because, as my frien,
II. &. Wright said of another movement no
long since in Philadelphia. " their movemen
n carries upon its face a lie." And what is tn,
n liel Why, that Africa is our faiherland.-
Now ! apprehend that if we SHOULD note ant
e count this audience, we should be obliged t
a@D,~ - III H. ~. IL - -
r the colored people was almost anywhere els
l. than Africa (grcat Iaughter.) | think, siI
n that their origin would be traceable to yer
nearly the same spot where are found you
1t Clays, your Calhouns, your McDnhies, an
your Wises (renewed laughter.) ! apprC
lie bend thatit would be found in any other d
roction than Africa at least. But my RENAL
not directly applicable TO my audienc
a. alone. A distinguished man said long age
a. that " in the veins Of many a slave is know
a. 10 course the blood OF the noblest of OF
Southern planters" Well, sir, why does
r happen that in the southern country we fin
il a law unlike the law Of any other country be
l. meath the canopy Of heaven? We find tn
If law there 10 be that the child shall follow tn
d condition Of the mother. Why is this9 ST
1t if the people in the southern country were I
- follow the condition Of the father, We kno,
very well what that condition would be-
Ell daughter and applause). Now it seems
y me that the patrons Of the Colonization Soc
n ETY. need 10 change their phraseology, and
10 they insist that we 90 TO Africa at all,
IN should be on the score that Africa is our M
E. tier and not oUr faiherland Oaughter). ! d
not, Mr.. Chairman, wish to convey the id(
s. that if Africa was my fatherland ! should
b. ashamed Of it; very far from it. For in vie
v, Of the vices of the white American on the oil
O. hand, and the virtues Of the colored Americi
ty on the other, ] think we may be decided
n more proud Of our ancestry than they can
We Of theirs, so far as the last one or two hu
at dred years is concerned. We have ever
nd thing else to be ashamed of on our part, al
VI | am not here TO deprecate the Colonizali
of Society on the score of being ashamed
ed Africa as my fatherland.
,e- One word more in this connection. w
" look around our country at the present tim
er and what do we behold We find comir
er TO our shores day after day, week after wee
S; month after month, thousands and tens
nd thousands Of those who have heretofore bee
is. a population Of paupers, and they receive
mt hearty welcome as they pour in from ever
Ier country and CLINE, from every tongue an
lat kindred. Now, sir, il is strange that Will
Si- the doors Of the American people are throw
in widely open, and all classes from ever
Ia country are allowed TO come, and are wei
o. coined here, it is strange, | say, that iher
On are not some other reasons than those give
he why a peculiar class of the American pc,
e. Pile should be transported out Of The counlr,
p | believe, sir, that the scheme is unconstit
en- tional as well as unchristian. do not kno
ty a section or passage or word in the America
y Constitution recognizing the removal Of an
Sc portion Of the American people unstained l
&c crime ;.and ] have never heen satisfied wi
ne the GOODNESS with which, in too many ipsia.
E, ces, the propositions Of the Colonization S
n ciety have been received by the colored pc