Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-14
Selections.
address Of George Thompson
TO THE coLoRED PEOPLE OF BOSTON


Brethren and Sisters IL accept with hui
mility and gratitude the welcome you have
this night given me. You might have ex-
tended that welcome TO many more worthy
Of your thanks than myself; but you could
not have bestowed il upon one whe more
deeply appreciates your kindness.
am rejoiccd TO meet with you in this
place, dedicated to the worship of HIM, who
hath made of one blood all nations of men
to dwell on the face of the whole earth.-
May His blessings be upon us! May the
Spirit of Him, who came to preach deliver
ance to the captive animate aud guide U.s.
abe spirit of fortitude, which sustained him
the spirit of meekness, with which he
bore the Insults, the scorn, and the persecu-
tons with which he was visited by his enc
mies-the spirit with which he expired on
the cross,-saying, "Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do"
Looking at the events which have occur
red since | last had the pleasure of being
among YOU, must address you in language
of thankfulncss, congratuation and hope,
rather than in the language of coincidence,
comniiseration and pety.
Whether look at the aspect Of the holy
cause of emancipation in this county, or
throughout the world at large, see abundant
cause for grateful praise TO the Divine Dis
poser of events, and the most cogent rea-
sons for exclaiming, "What hath God
wrought"
A century ago, and the children of Africa
were ffiendless and unpitied. Fleets of
slave-ships traversed the Atlantic, unmoest-
ed, carrying from the country of your an
cestors cargocs of wretchcd beings TO be the
white mans slaves on the continent and is
lands of America. The pulpit, tho press,
the platform, aud the Senate, were dumb
Mammon and Moloch reigned supreme, un-
disturbed. At length the God who hears
the cry of the prisoner raised up man to
be the champion Of an oppressed race
That man WAS Thomas Clarkson! Proceed
ing from Cambridge TO London, TO publish
his Essay on the African Slave Trade, he
sat himself down by the way-side, aud con-
secratcd himself to the cause of Gods down
trodden children.
He was the foremost minister Of grace
The new Las Casas of a ruined race;
With angel might opposed the rage of hell,
And fought like Michael till the dragon fell
The God who had called him TO the great
work was with him; to guide, TO succor,
and to bless. He was soon surrounded by
men and women prepared to be his coadju-
man was raised up to be, in the Senate, the
champion of Negro freedom. That man
was William Wilberforce. A man Of the
rarest intellectual endowments-of the most
winning and persuasive eloquence; of the
highest religious principles; and ofthe most
undaunted courage and perseverance. While
Clarkson gathered around him the phian-
thropisis of England, and traversed the
country dffiising everywhere his own spirit
into the minds of the Christian and humane
men and women of the land, Wilberiorce
enlisted the sympathy and support of the
most illustrous of England's statesmen.
Though sneered at BY the gay, unthinking
aristocracy, as sickly sentimentaist
though denounced by the selfish and the pro-
fame, as a fanatic-though despised by the
fearful and unbelieving as man who had
proposed to himself an unattainable object
he prosecuted his sublime and angelic ca
resr until the sign manual of the monarch
was put TO an act for the abolition OF the Al
rican Slave Trade and the commerce in the
human species was declared piracy, punish
able with death.
These holy and devoted men lived to de-
vote their energies TO the work of abolshine
Slavery; and as in their former enterprise
they were permitted TO see their efforts
CROWNED Will buCCcSbs lhO 'NhS,uo'S ""
berforce was not taken from his labors or
Garth to his rest in heaven, before bill was
introduced in Parliament to abolish slavery
throughout all the Colonies OF Great Britain
He then died-exclsiming with one OF old
"Lord now lettest thou thy servant dePar
in peace, for mino eyes have seen thy saliva
tion."
Did he die as he had long lived, the oblec
of derision and contumely? No. Natlor
went for the loss of its brightest statesman
its purest patriot, its most beloved phlian
thropist.
Princes of the blood royal, and peers
the realm, bore his pail, and followed all
him that could perish, to the resting place
which grateful people had assigned himi
tbe Abbey of Westminster.
His predecessor in the god-like work lives
20 see the last remnant of Slavery aboishe'
throughout the wide extent Of Britain's do
mipions, and then, full of hOnors and o
wears. descended to the tomb, amidst tn
blessings of the redeemed on earth, and tn
songs Of the ransomed in heaven,
So sleep the good who sink to rest, 49,
By all their country's wishes blest
when Spring with dewy fingers cold