Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-30
From the Tribune.
Universal Peace Congress.
LorpoN, July 25. 1851.


The fourth Annual Congress Of the friends
and champions Of Peace, universal and per-
petual, was closed last evening, after har-
monious and enthusiastic session of three
full days. The number of Delegates in at
tendance was between eight and nine hun
dred, while the spacious area Of Exeter Hall
which is said TO hold comfortably thirty-fve
hundred persons, was we'll filed throughout
and densely crowded for hours together
Having been held ut most favorable time
and at the point most accessible to the great
body of the active friends of Peace, pre-.
sumo the attendance was larger than eveI
before.
Two thoughts were suggested to me by
the character and proceedings of this assem-
blage--first, that of the eminently popular
and plebeian origin and impulse of all the
great Reform Movements of our age Every
great public assemblage in Europe for any
other purpose will be sure to number Lords,
Dukes, Generals, Princes, among its dignta-
ries; but none such came near the Peace
Congress; very few of them take part in any
movement of tho kind. In the list of Del
egates TO this Congress, under the head of
Profession or Trade you find Merchant
Miller Teacher Tanner Editor 'Au-
thor Bookseller Jeweler,' &c, very rarely
Gentleman or Baronet,' and never high
or title. rejoice to say that Minister or
Clergyman appears pretty often, but never
such word as Bishop or Archbishop,'
though the most liberal of the Established
Hierarchy, Archbishop Whately of Dublin,
sent brief note expressing sympathy with
the objects of the meeting. Aud think
among the clergymen present there was hard
y one belonging to either of the two Church.
es which in these realms claim special and
exclusive patent from Heaven for the dispen-
sation of Religious Truth.
The other thought suggested by this
mighty gathering concerns the character and
efficacy of the organizations and sec.s in
which Christianity is presumed TO be embo-
died. Let a Convention be called of the
friends of Peace, of Temperance, of Person
al Liberty, of the sacredness of Human Life
or any other tangible and positive idea, and
many hundreds will come together from dis
tant nations, speaking diverse languages, and
holding antagonist opinions on other import
ant subjects, and viii for days discuss aud
deliberate in perfect harmony, unite in ap
propriate and iorcible declarations of theil
common sentiments aud in the adoption eI
measures calculated TO ensure their triumph
But let general Convention of the follow
ers of Jesus Christ be called, with a view tC
the speedy Christianization ofthe world, ant
either three-fourths would keep away or the
whole time of the meeting be wasted in au
acrimonious quarrel as TO the meaning .oi
Christianity or the wording of the Shibbo.
leth, whereby those who were should be dis
tinguished from those who were not entitled
to bear the Christian name.
This contrast implies great wrong some
ichere, and Cor which somebody must be res
ponslble. merely suggest il for general
consideration, and pass on.
j rejoice IN being able to say that the gen
eral tendency of the speeches was towards
universal Emancipation, mental aud physi-
cal. doubt whether an English audience
composed in so large proportion of the con-
ventionally respectable classes ever listen
ed to so much downright Democracy be-
fore. The French speakers, the French wri-
ters, were full of and the great event, at
least of the last days session, was the en-
trance of a body of fifteen French workmen,
representatives of the Working Associations
of Paris to the Worlds Exhibition, who came
in body to pledge their hearts aud hands
TO the cause of Universal Peace, and to as
sure the Congress that the Laborers, the Re-
publicans, of France, were eminently pacific
in their ideas and purposes, and that the pre-
servation ofthe Republic, which is the i'm
mediate object of their eXertions, is valued
not more in its relation TO their personal
rights and aspirations than as step toward
the formation of Il European confederacy of
einancipated Nations, and thus as the cor
ncr-stone of the temple of Universal Peace.
The Speeches of these Workmen Just from
their benches in the workshops of Paris
were every way admirable, and were recei-
we'd with the hoartiest enthusiasm. They
breathed the true spirit not OF Peace only
but of hearty cooperation in every work cal
cuiated TO promote the moral and social we'll
being of mankind. The wretched cant
which implies natural enmily between France
and England, or any other two nations, was
emphatically repudiated by them, and every
variety of torcible expression given to the
earnest desire of the LaboriDg Classes of
France that Peace, Freedom and Brother
hood shall prevail, not in their own country
merely, but throughout the world.
Mr. CosnEN had made his great speech on
the preceding day, wherein the grievous ex-
pensiveness and hideous immortality of Stan
ding Armies were wildly portrayed. lie did
not hesitate TO speak straight out on the sub
iect of the demoralizing influence of Armies
on the People among whom they were quar-
tered or posted, and the broad track of moral
desolation which an armed force every
where leaves behind it. If the facts in tins
connection were but generally known,
think there would soon be loud call from
Christians, Moralists and Philanthropsts for
the entire disbandment and dispersion of
every Standing Army. EMILE GIRARDIN,
Editor of La Presse,' spoke more especial
ly of the enormous expense of Armies and
the ruinous taxation they render necessary.
Mr.. Golden spoke again yesterday, in more
immediate denunciation of the enormous
Standing Army maintained by Austria, not
merely throughout its own bnt in other coun-
tries also, the Loans which its Government
is constantly contracting, and the gulf of
bankruptcy TO which it is rapidly hurrying.
lie said there were intimations that another