Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-05
Cant Take Care Of Ihenlssly,s!'


Frederick Douglass has recently visited his
old place Of residence. New Bedford, from
which he writes TO the North Star IN the
following gratifying strain respecting the
colored population of that city;
An investigation into the character and
conduct OF the colorcd people of New Bed
ford would be sufficient to reltltc all the SLAM
der and cobwciI sopbistry of otw enemies.
No nun can look upon that population, aud
sec It's order, ncainess, industry and honesty,
without acknowledging that liberty Is the
true element both FOR the black and the white
man. The colored people of that place arc
mostly from the Southern States, and ma
ioiity Of them have worn the yoke of bond-
age, tire CALLING chain of slavery. They
came to New Bedford poor, friendcss, with
out money, education, OF recommendation
they came to fnce bitter prejudice of the
community, aud to bear up under climate
too cold for Southern constitutions, unused
to the exercise of fieedom-strangcrs to the
rights and duties of citizens; yet under these
and many other disadvantages, ! venture TO
affirm, without the slightest fear of contra
diction, that people ireer from crime, more
upright in their dealings, moro industrious
in their habits, and moro neat in their per
sons than are the colorcd people of New
Bedford, cannot be found among the work.
ing classes of any town or city III the Ameri-
can Union. ] contemplate the colored peo-
pie of that place with yirtuous pride, and
point tie shareholders nj the South and their
allies at the North 10 that people as nn em-
phatic denial and killing reiiitation of all
their malignant ISLANDERS. Some of the most
successful wlulemcn out of the port of New
Bedford arc colorch men. There are among
them not only good sailors, (men who coin
mand the highest wages,) but good naviga-
tors capable of taking ship safely 10 any
quarter of the globe. There are of these
industrious aud enterprising men, not fewer
than forty now in California. They have
shown themselves as keenly alive to the at
! fractions of gold MS their white iellow-ciil-
zcns. am glad of this proof of a common
origin, Il common identity. Willie in New
| Bedford, had the pleasure Of rcrising sew
eral letters from number of old and init
matc friends now in the gold region. These
letters gave me II far more favorable impress.
sion as TO the probable success of the gold
hunter, than any letters which have seen
floating about in the newspapers. II is quite
evident from these interesting letters, tha
the wealth of California is, as II ought to be
/ shared by colored MS well as white men,
= Not ono of the company OF colored person
: from New Bedford expresses any regret ,
), going 10 California, aud oil seem delighte
\. with the prospect before them.
C For once, Labor has found place whri
!, it bids fair TO be amply rewarded. Tie so
l. handed thinker is there no match forthe lar,
o iis,ed nortr. The bluck man can dig go
e us well MS the white man. Why won't Il
&c Colonization Society send some of its vi
it Tins to California, instead OF sending the
% all TO Liberia? Ii il would do the iormC
il and leave of the latter, it would be mo
l. likely 10 convince the colored people OF
D, disinterested desire TO benefit their condiio
y than any efforts now making are likely TO