Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-07

political life, and fan into patriotic iervor
the spirits of an oppressed aud abused peo-
pie.
Oh, We canonized sages of the Revolution
ary era, permit Briton to thank you for the
work that you did for your native land, hu-
manity, and for the world.
| Oh, ye sons and daughters of Revolution
nry sires, suffer one who comes from that
country whose proudest boast in coming
| years will be that she was the mother of this
mighty nation, to implure yon TO act worthy
your high descent, and suffer one also free
from suspicious, from scandal aud from re-
| proach, to share your recolcctions, TO sym
| pathizc in your achievements, to cxult with
you in the glorious prospect that lies before
you in this wide spread land of your iuheri-
tnnce, TO call you my brother, and to wish
| you from my soul brothers God speed.
Fifteen years have passed since my for
mer visit to these shores. They have been
years of progress, both in the Old World and
IN the New. In England, lam happy to say,
our course has been onward. Upon no
great question has there been any retrograde
step. The great work of the abolition of
Slavery has been consummated. Eighty
years ago, il was judiciully dccrced that a
slave touching the soil of England should he
FREE. Since that period, the Islands of
Great Britain have been all hallowcd ground.
No fugitives from bondage have been drag
ged from our altars and our hcarlhs. We
have endeavored TO fulfil the Lcyiticul law
by suffering the slave TO dwell in security in
our midst, and there never have been want
ing those, who in obedience to the Chris
tian precept and in view of u coming judg-
ment, were ready to shelter the wanderer,
TO feed him when an hungered, and to clothe
IN laI 4
terrain the Saviour in the person of the
meanest and lowest of his brethren. Still
thank God the language OF Cowper is true:
Slaves cannot breathe in England if their
lungs
Receive our air, that moment they arc free;
They touch our country and their shacklcs
fall.
Soon may it be so in every country calling
itself Christian and free. Contemporaneousy
with the United States of America the Ari-
can slave trade was abolished aud suisse
quently, after struggle oi'twenty-fivc years,
the act for aboshng Colonial Slavery WAS
Obtained. Nine years later un act was pusscd
by tie Government OF India declaring slave
holding illegal aud ieouiOus throughout the
whole OF our vast Eastern possessions.
Truth demands the confession that op-
preston and injustice in thousand lorms
are still 70 be found in all parts OF the Brit
isfi d0nfnion. tsfrife INC fovcrs or ireetfoin
and the friends of philanthropy have been
laboring TO extrpate the foul systems OF
Slavery and the slave trade, and in other
ways have been seeking 10 fnelorate the
condition of their fellow subjects and of the
human race, others of my countrymen have
been waging unholy wars-have been tramp
ling OIL the rights of the weak aud defence |
less in various parts of the world-have been
sustaining institutions and monopolies inju- |
rious TO the interests aud in violation of the |
rights of the people.
These are admissions which, however hui |
initiating, every candid Englshman is bound |
to make. lie is bound also to receive meek |
ly the reproots of those nations that have |
been more mindful of the first claims of the
industrious and neritorious millions.
Citizens of Massachusetts, come among |
you as u friend AS tar as am permitted |
to call myself the representative OF any por- |
ton of my couutrymen, | represent those, |
who, equally with myself rejoice in your |
prosperity aud sytnpathze with you in all |
your efforts TO perpetuate liberty among |
yourselves, aud extend it throughout the |
world. Ii there be any in England who |
envy your greatness-any who lament over
the success OF your great cXpcriment-any
who would gladly see You halt in your go-
rious career-any who would, if they had
the means, impede your progress-with such
| have neither connection nor sympathy
leave them to seek fellowship with the des-
pots and re-actionares of Europe, and TO the
vigiant attention of Barclay and Perkins's
draymen. Standing here as an individual
man, i can declare that as concerning the
destinies Of nations and after the success of
the efforts of Relormers at home TO obtain
for the people of England their Just rights,
l desire nothing more earnestly than tho
stability and extension of the institutions of
this country, as far as they are intended and
designed TO secure the liberty of the human
race, without distinction of condition or CO.
lor. As an Englshman, thank God that so
many of my countrynen have found home
and a country here. | lament the causes that |
have compelled too many of them 10 emigratc
TO these shores, but i rejoice that here they |
have found welcome-honest employment |
"a homestead-the privilege of citizenship |
and a home for their children. May they |
prove grateful for the benefits they have
reaped on this soil, aud may they render to
God suitable return by becoming the bene-
factors of all who, like themselves have eX-
perienced the evils of misgovernment-may
they never steel their hearts against the cry
of the helpless, or take part with the OPP
pressOrs of their fellow men.
If it be imputed to me that have identi-
fed myself with those who are held in Sla-
very on this SOIL and have sought to pro-
mulgate the doctrines Of emancipation, nc
knowledge the justice of the impeachment,
and plead guilty. My offence reaches far
beyond the limits of the United States. My |
aspirations for freedom are as wide as the !
soil polluted by the footprints of tyrant.--
In advocating the rights of humanity, 1 !
know of no geographical boundaries. |