Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-06

Daniel OConnell to do so. Let us Judge o
men by their times. Daniel O'Connel
stood in the midst of the British people tn,
champion of eight millions of Irishmen.-
He knew their rights. He knew that the,
had been most lamentably, wickedly and at
rociously denied them for long series o
years. He went up to the House of Com
mons ms their champion. He had behin'
him the great Irish Party, as Daniel Webste
has behind him the great Wing Party of th,
North. And when the slave question cross
ed his path, did he bow his head? Did h,
trim his sails TO the British breeze2 In or
der to secure personal elevation, or the tri
umph of his own peculiar cause, was he ev
or silent when he ought to speak, was h,
ever absent when he ought TO act? No
Sir Thomas Buxton has said that just nfte
he had stood all but alone in the House o
Commons, and been obliged to agree witt
Lushington, that when he spoke in behalf o
the slave, Lushington should applaud, anC
when Lushington spoke, he should applaud
in the year 1923, the moment Daniel O'Con.
nell entered the door of that House, he stood
at their side, proclaiming that Ireland should
wait till doomsday, before he would absent
himself from an anti-slavery meeting in Ex-
eter Hall, or from division in the House OF
| Commons, whenever his voice or vote was
needed. 1t is now considered an easy thing
to oppose chattel slavery; and some think,
yes, the pulpit tells us, il is an easy thing to
make speeches in the Meodeon and in Fan
Gull Hall in that behalf that there is nothing
OF unpopuarity or of sacrifice in il. Let
me ask such an one to come and take his
share with us and try. To see the best
years OF life wear away in the advocacy of
principles, which, except to the eye of faith,
are hopeless; and in reply TO the taunt of
fanatic and mschiefmaker,' to be able to
point to no step ofpalpable progress, though
won with so much toll, for which the malice
and systematic misrepresentation of the
press have not prepared the public to an
swcr, 'Ay and but for you, we should have
had IT ten years earlier aud ten times more
perfect; to stand sueing, in others be-
half, for a hearing, and be scorniuly reiiI-
sed by those, who, but for your opinions,
would gladly have aspired TO loose the latch
ct OF your shoe; TO bc so hated that tho
weakest press may pcrvert your sentiments,
ana load you with opinions you never utter
cd or held, and yet safely deny line of cor
fecuon; and thus to go through the world,
utterly misunderstood by those in whose
good thoughts it is no weakness to wish TO
live; TO see those who sprung with you into
the arena reap laurels and win confidence,
which, if honest effort, uncompromising
speech, and readiness for every toll, be any
claim, You have equally deserved; TO be so
distrlsted, only for opinions sake, that you
dwell an alien in the land of your birth, us
much cut off from sympathy or profession
al progress as an Irish Catholic in the days
of William I'LL. TO risk bankruptcy in obey
ing commands which the pulpit breaches dd
naUSedm, and then fines you for practising;
III wishing to help any good, aud not unpop-
ular cause, to feel that the best way YOU can
do II is TO give unseen, and not load il or its
friends with the heavy burden ofyour friend
ship; TO be branded us an outlaw, stigma
tized as traitor, all encouraged TO vlify,
degrade and insult you;' this, it seems, is the
primrose path of daliance, bed of roses
If you aspire to taste of real martyrdom,
get cushioned in fashionable pulpit, and so
order your speech that all men may speak
well of you, and that is seftlena That is
taking up the cross and bearing it, But as
for the otler, how easy is it since now it
steers clear Of the faggot, and runs no risk of
the Jail
Let me ask such objector TO assemble
his fellow-citizens in this manner in this or
any other hall, and then let him look about
nfter he has made an earnest or an honest
effort in behalf of noble principle and
most unfortunate clients-three millions of
a race robbed and spoiled, scattered and
peeled, meted out and troddcn down. Let
him see that the very reporters that sit be-
iind, while they have respectful word for
every other meeting that takes place in this
,ity, never fill the columns of the daily press
With any thing else than caricatures of the
conduct and bearing of an ant-savery as
'embly. Why is il that no daily press in
New England, no daily press either in New
fork or Boston, undertakes to report us with
he slightest fidelity, but always interlards its
sketch of our meetings with abuse, in order
o make il palatable' Iappeal to most if
lot all of the newspapers in this city in sup
lort of this representation. For Tray,
3lanch and Sweetheart all bark at u.s.
Now, Mr.. Webster contends, and other
men contend, you aro told in the periodicals
md pulpits of this city, that the anti-slavery
Enterprise is nuisance. | have here an eX-
ract from letter of Webster, Just published,
o the Newburyport Committee. Mr.. Web
ter quotes n letter from n distinguished
riend, who says that he does not doubt that
he anti-slavery enterprise, from its COM
has done evil, and nothing but
vii, continually. Applause in the galleries.
Vow, we are told If we would only be still,
bsent ourselves from the public eye in re-
alton TO this subject, there is some where, |
nov not where, great body of anti-slave-
y feeling that would come forward and do
he work. What evidence is there of it?-
What evidence is there that there is any
uch ant-savery sentiment any where? In
yliat corner Of that community, in which
he pulpit breaches abuse of Garrison, and
he press caters with caricatures Of all anti
lnyery meetings, before which reluctant
tatesmen disgrace themselves, (for, however
'ur Marshfield friend may offer to hunt
laves with alacrity,' common charity bids
Is suppose, for the honor of human nature,
hat these sad speeches are groaned forth
ei'sctanthh) in whit corner of that commu-
'ity sleeps the anti-slayey thupderbolt which !