Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-05
The Farewell 10 George Thompson,

Liberator presents in the report OF the Fare
we'll We don't know what to do for you. 10
cut up the speeches is murder and our poor
little Bugle cant begin to echo them, and do all
the other things you ask of it. All we can do
this week is to give Mr.. Quincys introduc-
tory. Letters were read on the occasion from
S. G.. Howe s. c. Philips, s. L. Sowell and
Frederick Douglass, ,-cxcusing their absence,
and expressing their sympathy with the object
of the assembly.
After the close of the supper Mr. Quincy
said
! Ladies and Genilemen,-As believe you
have now disposed of the matters upon the
table, suppose it will now be the regular
course to proceed to the Orders of the day.
| | presume it is not necessary to tell you
why you are here tonight. On this point
! you need no information from the, and 10
! exhortation to accomplish the purpose for
! which you have nsscmblcd-to express your
{ wishes for u good voyage, and happy re-
! turn to his family and friends, of my hon
orable friend on. my right, loud cheers)--the
/ friend of us all, the friend of America, the
/ friend of the slave, and the friend of the
world. (Renewed applause.) l think, my
friends, those of you who were in attend
ance at faneull Hall the 18th day of Novem-
/ ber, in the year of grace 1850, will perceive
some trifling contrast between that occasion
and the present-between the welcome ex-
/ tended TO our honored guest 10y Mayor Bige-
low and Marshal Tukey, and the expression
of friendship which is uttered aud embodied
this evening, in this sea of iaces'-if we
may be allowed, OH such an occasion us this,
TO use without profanity the sacred language
of the Godlike-to look upon such a sea OF
faces as this, all smiling with pleasure, aud
radiant with satisfaction,--nOt, indeed, at the
departure of our friend from this country,
but pleasure and satisfaction at the thought
of the infinite good which he has done
pleasure and satisfaction that he consented
again TO come among us, alter the treatment
the country had once given him; pleasure
and satisfaction that the objects of his mis-
sion have been so fully and gloriously ac-
compishcd; pleasure and satisfaction that
the verdict of the country has repealed the
sentence which Boston passed upon him,
through the silence and cowardly inacton
of her Mayor and Chief of Police. loud
cheers.) think, my friends, this must be u
very happy night for the whole country
We are certainly very happy in view of the
sembled, in the presence of my honorable
friend, in the recolectons which cluster
about him, and in the anticipation that we
shall yet see him here again among u.s.
Enthusiastic cheering) We nre certainly
very happy. Well, all the rest of commu-
nifty are very happy; for if we may believe
them, the very thing which they desire is
abont to accur-the return Of George
Thompson to his native country. We have
hedrd great deal of sympathy expressed of
late for the family of my honorable friend,
bereaved by his absence; for that unhappy
constituency of the Tower llamcts, sitting
in sackcloth and ashes, and refusing to be
comiorted because their representative is not
there-(great laughter and applause)-fo
the starving millions of England, who are
stretching out their hands in vain for their
tried friend. We have heard many excel
lent citizens, greatly exercised, oxcaiming
'Whcn is MIR. Thompson going home P
Isn't it time for him to go back" (Peals o
laughter and applause.) 1t seems TO me
considering our national horror of foreign
interference, that this is dabbling a little in
the affairs of the mother country Great
Britain may DE left desttute,-for she is de-
prived of one of her most eminent Senators.
But do not know that this is any concern
indeed, may be allowed TO long for the de-
parture of our honored guest for he is a
very dangerous man. This man has done
what venture to say no other man aud no
other body of men have ever done. You
know we are brave nation. You know we
can whip all creation. You know we thor
oughly flogged whole tribes of Indians aud
halfcivlized Mexicans. You know we say
we are not afraid of any body. And yet the
whole country was aghast with horror at
the advent of this friend of ours, all simple
as he stands before you. Why, the whole
pulpit were transfxed with the idea of this
terrific spectre coming amongst u.s. Now,
what is there so very terrible about my ex-
celent friend here {? So far as | can Judge
from your faces here, you do not seem to feel
in much danger of his laying violent hands
upon you. Why, then, was the whole ma
ton so amazed and terror-stricken when
George Thompson approached these shores?
As the Canada neared the city, the terror in
creased As the plank was lowered, ms he
made his descent from the ship in which he
invaded our peaceable soil, one thrill of hor-
ror ran through all this vast country--if we
are to believe the papers,; aud hive heard
my friend Putnam here say or sing that eve-
ry thing is TO be believed that is in the papers.
Why was this? Why did the Genius of
America, as she sat on the Rocky Mountains,
feeding her symbol bird with human flesh,
why did she trembe when she saw this ene-
my approach the country? and why did that
most egregious fowl of hers shrek aloud
and put forth all 'the terrors of his beak,
aud the lightnings of his eye,' at the appari-
tion of this invader? Loud cheers.) Did
he rush down the plank upon this devoted
land, as the young Emmett said he would
have met an invasion of the French, with a
sword in one hand and torch in the other,'
ready to slay, burn and devastate all before
him? No, my friends, Mr.. Garrison here
can bear witness, that when this spoiler came
down the plank on that mission of destruc-
ton, he carried nothing more terrible than a
carpet-bag in one hand, and an umbrella in
the other tLaughter and cheers.) Still