Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-09
william ", Brown.


We have, on several occasions, referred to
the cordial reception of this eloquent Fugi-
tive by the friends of the slave in Great Bri-
tnlr, and to the important service he is rem
dering to the cause of Universal Freedom by
his labors in its behalf We occasionally
receive copies of English newspapers, in
which we find most gratifying evidences that
our transatlantic coadjutors not only appre-
ciate his moral worth and his intellectual
endowments, but embrace with eagerness
every opportunity to hear from his lips a
true statement of the condition of the Amer
lean Slaves and of the measures in progress
for their delverance. On this subject in all
It's various aspects, Mr.. Brown is well quail
fled to speak, and hence the pleasure of
knowing that he finds attentive listeners
The latest papers which have come to hand,
with cheering accounts of his progress, are
the York Herald and the .Nelccdsiie Guardian.
From the first we learn that his meetings in
York were numerously attended, and that he
spoke with great talent and fluency.' The
people, after hearing him, resolved that the
inhabitants of the United States have no
fright whatever to use the word liberty
so long as slavery exists within their do
minions." We join the Herald in the hope
" that Mr.. Brown will pursue his mission,
until every city and town in England has
'recprocated the resolution passed by the
citizens of York !" for we agree with it in
believing that "the unanimous voice of the
people of Great Britain, thus earnestly ex-
pressed, would, at least, hasten the emanci-
patton of the negro population, unless the
. Americans be totally dead to Christian feel
ing, and to the sacred obligations imposed
upon them by that gospel they profess to
cherish, but the sacred precepts of which
they now so wantonly violate"
At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as we learn
from the Guardian, MIR. Brown was welcom-
cd in Soiree, at which between four and
five hundred persons sat down to tea. Rev.
J. Prngle presided. Mr.. b. made an ap-
propriate address, after which
The Chairman rose and presented to Mr..
accompanied with the following address -
d" This purse containing twenty sovereigns is
presented to VIM. Wells Brown by the fol-
lowing ladies, 1--WE omit the names and
some other friends of the slave in Newcastle,
us token of their high esteem for his char
acter and admiration of his zeal in advoca-
ting the claims of his three millions ofbreth-
rem and sisters in bonds in the Southern
States of America. They also express their
sincere wish that his life may be long spared
to pursue his valuable labors-that success
may soon crown his efforts and those of his
fellow aboitionists on both sides of the At
lantic, and his heart be gladdened by the
arrival of the happy period when the LAST
sHAcKLE shall be broken which binds the
limbs of the LAST SLAVE"
Mr. Brown responded;
He felt deeply indebted for this mark of
their kindness, and could assure his friends,
that the money they had so kindly presented
TO him should be employed in pleading the
cause of his enslaved brethren and sisters
This, with other testimonials, should go
across the Atlantic to cheer the hearts of
bondsmen, TO stay up the hands of the abo-
litionsts, and weaken the grasp of the tyrant.
lie could not forget the slaves of America,
for he had still (if lving) mother, Il sister,
and three brothers in slavery.