Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-31

to protect the rights of man, It ought to be !
cHced from the category of nations and be I
with the sleeping despotsms that
have long sunk beneath the proud and ma
jesiic march of advancing civilization.
1t has often been said and repeated that
this country Is not responsible for the exist
enoe of slavery, that it was entailed ON us
by the mother country, for which, | have on
Iy one word to soy, that If you followed
Great Britain in the bad example of sustain
ing and upholding human bondage, now fol-
low her in the good and glorious example
Of emancipation. But this is not the only
argument urged in justification of the enslave-
ment ofthe African race, in America, peo-
pie whose ancestry from the very commence
ment of your first struggle for national inde-
pendance inl776, TO the close of the war of
1879, the second revolution, which, had it not
been successfully achieved, would have left
you shorn ofthe fruits of the Revolution of'76.
Their blood has sprinkled every battle field,
and commingled with the blood of the white
soldier as a solemn memento of equal rights,
and impartial liberty. Yet with these exam.
Piles Of noble heroism and devotion TO coun-
try, the cry of national inieriority is raised
to justify the uunumbered wrongs that have
been inflicted upon that unfortunate peo-
pie.
History informs us that the Ethiopian
race held the balance of power some 25
centuries ago, and that Egypt is the source
from which Greece derived her letters and
laws and politics. The most illustrious men
of Greece, such men as Homer, the father of
Poetry, Pythagoras, and even her great
law-givers Lycurgus, and Solon, and many
other celebrated characters of antiquity
went to Egypt to complete their studies
monument of their genius has already been
erected by omnipotent word. God when
praising Moses, says he was learned in all
the wisdom ofthe Egyptians" llerodotus in
forms US that the sccptre of the world pass
cd from the colored TO the white race at the
taking of Babylon by the Persans.
In three thousand four hundred and four of
the history ofthe world, in the reigu fApries
the last Egyptian King, the pyramids, those
solid columns that still excite the admiration
of the world, were reared by woody headed
negroes, ere they had condescended to have
intercourse with the rest of mankind. Ses-
astros, one of the greatest conquerors of
whom antiquity boasts, was a colored man.
The most reliable and accurate ancient His
torian was Heradotus, who was of Ethiopian
descent. We read of Carbagenan Han
nibe crossing the snow-clad Alps, and plan
ting the victorious standard of bis country
ON the broken thrones and despoiled gran
dure of the mistress of the world, aad hold
ing the Eagle of Rome in sunjcction
for seventeen years. If we come to u
more modern date, we see colored men
under the most extraordinary circumstances
elevating themselves to the highest point OF
moral aud intellectual greatness, Alexander
Dumas, the historian and moralist, is one OF
the most sought after aristocrats of Paris
If we come to the United States, itself dis
tinguished beyond all others for its prejudice
and hatred to the colored race, noted for
its cruel and oppressive laws, inferior in
point of civilization and refinement to the
most remote heathen despotism thut ever
cursed the world, for even among the orien-
tai nations surrounding the Jews, the slaves
were allowed many privileges and entitled
TO posts of honor, and the Eastern temples
afforded an asylum to the fleeing fugitive
and the man that does deliver him up when
once seen in the temple was considered O
ielon beyond the ordinary degree of human
deprayity and his crime was punished with
death. Butt il so in this country, in land
where shouts for liberty have been born or
the signing breeze along her Southern val
lies, until its echoes have been lost amiC
the tempests aud storms far up the proclivi
ties of her Northern hills? There is not
single spot of earth from Maine to Texas
from the sand banks of the Atlantic to the
broad and tranquil Pacific, where the scourg
ed and bleeding victim of oppression cur
stand erect and claim the protection of youl
Constitution and laws, as they arc construed
by the narrow hearted judiciaries Of this
country. Yet even with these almost in
surmountable obstacles we have colored
men, fugiiives though they are, whose intel
lectual requirements would do credit TO any
age or nation. Few such men, sir, as Fred
e,iek Douglass, once numbered with the
beasts of burthen, but now pleading his
country's cause with an earnestness as potent
and persuasive as a Clay or Webster. Few
such men as Henry Bibb. Though hunt
ed fugitive he has acquired no mean reputa-
ton. Shall i speak of the young and elo-
quent advocate of our cause Vim. H. DdL
who may be truly classified with the best
orators of our age, aud the other great lights