Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-27
WIIOE NO. 314.

dcnuatOn OF that Americans couutrv--lau-
gunge, he il remembered, not uttered by an
obscure private individual, but by the most
popular rnemlfer Of the British Legislature,
man possessing not merely Cis-Atlantic
or transatlantic, but a world wide reputa-
tion-a denuncintion which il was known
would go forth TO every part of the globe
where the English language is spoken. A
week has now elapsed since this withering
reprobaton was uttered, but not a word OF
reply or remonstrance has escaped from any
representative of the people thus publicly
branded as the most guilty nation on the
face of the earth. The same result must
now follow in the public mind Of Europe, as
would ensue in ordinary Judicial proceed
ings--that the indictment having been pub
lcly preferred, and eyiden 70 adduced in sup
port OF II, against the United States, for the
capital crime of slavery, aud the defendants,
although present at the place of trial, having
refused TO plead TO that indictment, iudg-
ment must Of necessity go by default, and
the world must bencelorth take il as an es-
tablished fact, pro oonfesso by Americans
themselves, that they are verify the guilty
people which MIR. Thompson charged them
with being.
The price of admission TO the Soree was
one shilling; and Notwithstanding the oc-
currence of Peace Congress gathering, and
other important meetings on the same eve
ming, nearly one thousand ladies and gentle
men were present.
Alexander Duval having moved and james
Anderson (botb fugitive slavesl having sec
onded, resolution that WIN. Wells Brown
do take the chair, il was carried unanimous
Iy.
The Chairman, (wbo upon taking the chair
was received with loud applause,) in open
ing the proceedings, remarked that, although
the metropolis had of late been inundated
with meetings of various characters, having
reference 10 almost every variety Of subjects,
yet that the subject they were called upon
that evening TO discuss differed from them
ALL Many of those 10y whom Inc Yves sur
rounded, like himself had been victims to
the lnhuman institution of slavery, aud were
in consequence eXiled from the land of their
birth. They were iugitiyes from their ma
tive land, but not fiIgiIiyes from justice, and
they had not fled from monarchical, but
from a so-called republican governinent.--
They came from amongst people who de-
cared, as part Oftheir creed, that all men
were born free, but who, while they did so,
made slaves of every sixth man, woman and
child in the country. QIear, hear.) He
must not, however, forget that one of the
purposes for which they were met tonight
was TO commemorate the emancipation of
iheir brethren aud sisters in the isles of the
sea. That act of the British Parliament, and
lle might add in this case with peculiar en-
phass, OF ihe British nation, passed on the
l2ll day of August, 1888, to take effect Oh
the lst day of August, 1881, and which en-
lranchscd eO0,O00 West Indian slaves, was
an event sublime in its nature, comprehen-
sivc aud mighty in its immediate influences
ana remote consequences, precious beyond
expression To the cause Of freedom, and
cncOHrageing 10 the hearts Of all en-
lightcued aud ust men. This act was the
commencement ofa long course Of philan-
tlropic aud Christian efforts on the part of
some OF the best men that the world ever pro-
duced. Ii was not his intentions TO go into
a discussion or a calculation of the rise and
fall of property, or whether sugar was worth
more or less by the uct of emancipation
But the emancipation of slavery in the West
Indies was blow struck in the right direc-
lion at that most inhuman of all traiicks, the
slave trade-n trade which would never
cease so long as slavery existed, for where
there was n market there would be mcrchan-
disc; where there was demand there would
be supply; where there were carcasses
there would be vultures; and they might as
well attempt TO turn the water, and make il
run up the Niagara river, as 10 change this
law. 1t was often said 10y the Americans,
that England was responsible for the exist
ence of slavery there, because il was intro
duccd into the country while the colonies
were under the British Crown. III that was
so, they must come to the conclusion that, as
England abolished slavery IN the West In
dies, she would have done the same for the
American States, if she had had the power
O do so and If that was so, they might safe
ly say that the separation of the United
States from the mother country was to say
the least a great misfortune TO onc-sixth of
the population OF that land. England had
set a noble example, 10 America, and he
would TO Heaven that his countrymen would
follow the example. The Americans boast
cd of their superior knowledge, but they need
not boast of their superior guilt for that was
set upon hilltop, 100, so high that il re-
q,ired not the lantern Of Dogenes to find it
out. Every breeze from the western world
brought upon It's wings the groans and cries
of the victims of this guilt. Nearly all coun-
tries had fixed the seal of disanpfobation to
slavery, and when, at some future agi, this
stain upon the page of history shall be point
ed at, posteriiy will blush at the discrepancy
between American profession and American
practice. What was TO he thought of peo-
pie boastng of their liberty, their humanity,
their Christianity, their love ofgjusliee, aud
at the same Time keeping IN slavery more
than three millions of Gods.fchildren, and
shutting out from them the lighuof the Cos
pei, 10y denying the Bible to The shve ? (Hear,
hear.) No education, no marriage, every
thing doue to keep the mind of sthe slave in
darkness. There was n wish on the part of
the people of the Northern States TO shield
themselves from the charge OF saveholding.
hui MS they shared in the guilt, was not
satisfied with letting them OF without their
share in the odium. fs@angA
Aud now, q word about the Fugitive Slave