Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-26
British 0piaiOns.


The Anti-Slavery Reporter for June, the
organ of the British and Foreign Anti Slave
ry Society, is exclusively occupied with the
discussion of american Slavery. The sub
ject also occupied a prominent place in the
discussion at the anniversaries of their eccle-
siasticOl and benevolent associations. The
philanthropic portion of the British people
ofall classes, seem impressed with the eff
cheney of the social influence in eradicaling
wrong. And they have resolved to make
the most of the present occasion, and deal
with plaiuness with our numerous country
men, there assembled at this time. We
fail to produce desirable results. The quo
tations we give are from the moderate class
of British abolitionists-ihose who sympa-
thise with the American aud Foreign Anti
Slavery Society, and who ARE shocked with
the infdelity of Mr.. Garrison With what
spirit they administer their rebukes may be
judged from the following extract from the
Reporter:
But in whatever we may say or do, in
this matter, we have no right to assume any
pharisaic attitude of personal superiority TO
those who have been trained from childhood
to see no wrong in the social system under
which they live. II they choose to point to
the various forms of injustice which exist
amongst ourselves, we would not palliate
those wrongs 10y one word of apology. They
may even humiliate us, aud it will be right
and wholesome that they should do so, by
adyerting to the immortality of such detesta-
be doctrines as those which were recently
put forth by Mr.. Roebuck, in the House of
Commons, respecting the eXtcrmination of
aboriginal races We must admit, with
grief, tha. an English legislator has been
found 10 proclaim naXims OF tyranny as a
trocious as any that have issued from Caro-
lima or Alabama. We may truly say, how
ever, that no English Minister would dare TO
act upon those maXms; aud, whatever NOR
al deficiencies may appear in Our conduct as
nation, they may be exposed by every one
amongst us who feels them, without qualifi-
cation and without fear. We would neither
conceal our own shortcomings, nor be blind
to the virtues of those towards whom we
would address the words of brotherly re-
monstrauce. We know well that slavehold-
ers can be generous truthful, humane, aud,
us far as is consistent with their unhappy
position, just
The Reporter contains the Resolutions of
various bodies refusing fellowship with slave
holders or their northern abettors. These
we have not room TO insert
The following are extracted from speech
es on the subject, delivered before the Con-
gregational Union of England and Wales:
The Rev. JOSEPH FLETCHER rose to move
resolution, denouncing the system of slave
ry as a whole, aud the Fugitive Slave Law
in particular, which he deemed "a law
which no one who would obey God rather
than man could consistently and righteously
obey"
MIR. Fletcher then adverted 10 the Crystal
Palace, and remarked upon the singular fact,
that the principal sculpture presented by the
Americans was slave and that not slave
of the present day, or of their own country,
but a Greek slave. lie thought ii very sin
guar that an American should have to go to
Greece for slave; for in Greece, at the pre-
sent day, slavery had no existence. Yet such
a statue bad been deemed suitable to repre-
sent the taste of America in the nineteenth
century, so remarkably was Jonathan blind
ed TO the nature of the associations which
must naturally gather around such statue
as that In England, with all its faults, moth
ing of the character ofAmerican slavery ex-
listed. 1t had, however, its squalor and
wretchedness, and many things of which
they had reason to be ashamed, even before
Americans let them, therefore, not take too
high ground, and not indulge too freely in
boosting. But they could glory that slaves
could not breathe on Britain's shores. The
moment they tread our shores, they are free.
He hoped the resolution would pass with