Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-03-29
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From Parker Pillsbury.

DEAR FRIEND: At time when slave hold
ing and slave catching arc the way in which the
American people are working out their saliva
ton, and when the American Congress gravely
proposes to excommunicate and dsmember
Austria from diplomatic intercourse and ma
tional fellowship, it may be well perhaps to
publish to the world the view which the latter
nation takes of those crowning American gra-
ces, slare-hoiding and siaUe-huRiing.
Before me is an extract from an ordinance Of
his Imperial Majesty of Austria, dated 25th
june 1926. Please insert it in the Bugle, If
you deem it of sufficient importance.
"In order to prevent Austrian subjects from
participating in any way in the Slave Trade,
and in order to prevent slaves from bad treat
ment, his Imperial and Royal Majesty, in con-
formity with the existing laws of Austria, (vz
Section l6 Of the civil code, which determines
that every human being, in virtue of those
rights which arc recognized by reason, is to be
considered a civil person, and that therefore,
slavery, and every exercise of power relative to
the state of slavery, are not tolerated in the
Imperial and Royal Dominions; and further,
in conformity with Section 7S of the first part
of the Penal Code, which declares every him
drance of the exercise of personal liberty, a
crime Of public Uioicnce has been graciously
pleased by his Sovereign Resolution Of the %
juno, 1926, to determine and order as follows:
Art. ]. Any slave from the moment he
trcads on the soil of the Imperial and Royal
Dominions of Austria, or oven merely steps on
board of an Austrian vessel, SHALL BE
FREE"
And Austria is to be expelled, excournuni-
Gated from the Church Of the Nation. Her soil
is free ia "Frcc Soil" Her rockicst mountain
peak is freer than the ground pressed by Bukcr-
hill monument, and baptized in the blood of
Warren. Her decks arc Free Soil. The mean
est widowed skif or skow that floats on the
Danube under Austrian ownership, is sane
tuary of Freedom to the flying bondman while
the deck of the proudcst war ship in the Ameri-
can navy would be the altar on which his libcr-
ty would be sacrificed, burnt offering for
ever.
And we cast off Austria as an unclean thing
And we talk Of Free Soil We have a Free
soil party. 1t is small party, but where can it
find free soil enough on which to pitch its tent
Not surely under the stars and stripes.
And the American government has consttu-
ted itself one vast hunt-and its game is hu-
man beings. From mon erect, tho people are
now bowed down into blood-hounds, to bark
and bite when ever the Marshal gives COM
mand. From the West and South, the States
have submitted, until now the Massachusetts,
kennel has been opened and the dogs have been
ordered to the scent. All eyes arc turned in
this direction. VIII Massachusetts, submit p
Yes, she will. Every political party will sub
NIT in good time. The Wings have put on the
brass collar and wear it as mcekly as tho Demo-
Gratis, and the Frecsoil mon are beginning loud
ly to cry Peace, Peace, and deprecate agita-
tion. The Massachusetts, Legislature has been |
all winter in session here in Boston, where
Southern hycnas arc prowling night and day,
and where free citizens of the Commonwealth |
ore seized as slaves, and where whole Church.
es almost of colorcd people have to disband |
and fly to Canada, to escape the fangs of their
fellow Methodists and Baptists, and where men
of all colors and callings are hunted and held
for trial for the crime of Humanity; that Leg
islature has been all Winter in session, an eye
witness to such proceedings as these, and has
not yet lifted finger to protect us, and proba-
bly, has no design of so doing. And yet there
is Freesoil enough in the body to elect Charles
Sumner in the Senate, and House of Represen-
tatives also, wanting only two votes. Such is
the energy and zeal of the Frcesoil party in
Massachusetts, at a crisis so momentous and
fearful as the present.
In Congress it has done scarcely any better.
The Senate did literally nothing at all, and
the House of Representatives helped them.
Giddings of your State spoke out as man--
as himself. But the rest were dumb. If there
were no opportunities, they should have made
opportunity. The whole session, as it seems to
me- was one great opportunity. And if they
could do nothing, they should at least have had
the grace 10 have gone home and so reported to
their constituents. The Freesoil Senators, evc-
ry one, dishonorcd themselves and disgraced
their cause. So did the Representatives with
the exception have made Perhaps they did
the best they could. If so, let the party, for
the sake of humanity and the freedom of the
slave, scamper back to non-existencc,
"And to its speed, add wings"
New Hampshire votes to-day for State and
indeed for all its officers. The fate of John
Atwood will be merited, whatever that fate may
be. His first letter was worth more than the
Governors char-the next deserved more than
political damnaton.
d Yours as ever,
PARKER PILLSBURY.
IL.