Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-31

this attribute in their character had attached
TO their names the quality of impudence, of
assurance, of audacity; but do not think
that there ever was a nation that has SO rich
y earned the character of impudence as the
| American nation.
! Why, sir, what is the whole tone of the
press? The tone not only of the press, but
that OF the pulpit, the senate, of men in high
places, with respect to the gentleman named
~ these resolutions, !, is that it is case of
foreign interference. That because man
nus seen tit to come TO this country TO do as
he has perfect right, to express his opinions
upon any one of our institutions, that, there
lore, he IS an mterloper, that it is case of
impertinent foreign interference, that he is n
man to be irowned down, aud il he cannot
be irowned down, he is TO he hooted or pelt-
ed down.
Well, | should really like to know what
| our country would have been without for
eign interference ?" What is the very pos
session of this country by the Anglo Saxon
race, but case of foreign interference p
When Our Pilgrim fathers came to Plymouth,
exchanged glass beads for broad acres, and
drove ont the inhabitants, what were they
bnt interlopers, and what was il but case
OF foreign interference ?" This country has
been built up by the interference of foreign
ers. They have modified our institutions
and the character Of our population. 1t has
been one continued course of foreign inter
| ference, and yet we have heard no complaint
of this interference with our affairs until O
foreigner appeared TO point his finger at the
plague spot of the American nation, that
which she was so careful to hide from the
public gaze under the complicated folds OF
Church aud State, before which she strives
! to conjure up the clouds and and mists of
prejudice so that we may not appear to the
nations of the earth TO be sick from the
crown of the head to the sole of the foot
! [Applause.
Americans did not repel the interference
of Polish Kosciusko, of the Scotchman Mer-
Ger, of the English Lee and Sterling, or of
the Frenchman Lafayette, in the struggle
with the mother country! They welcomed
them all, gave them commands in their ar
my, welcomed any one who would dedicate
his sword to the cause Of freedoms men
who, as Lafayette said TO Thomas Clarkson,
almost with his dying words, would never
have drawn their swords in the cause of
America if they had dreamed that it was for
the establishment and maintenance of
American Slavery lppplausc.]
There was no objection TO these foreign
tutcfioIJCIc, ttlCl WtTt WNfNDufCtf tdduOf
and when the chietest of them returned TO
this country after an absence of forty years,
with what triumphal procession did he
pass through the land, the nations guest!-
And how had he earned that triumph p
What had placed the laurel upon his brow,
and sent the whole nation shouting train
after his chariot wheels? Ii was that he
had done the very thing which now we com
plain Of, in regard TO q man who had dared
to come and interfere with the domestic in
stitutons Of this country. Now, ] must say
that this is very impudent nation (cheers,)
n nation that will make such distinction as
this.
My excellent friend here is not to blame in
that he was born on the other side of the
Atlantic,--at least have heard him say that
he did not think he was. Laughter.) am
not TO blame | am sure that | was born here,
although in this respect l have more TO be
ashamed of than my excellent friend. Jap
plause.) l confess | am ashamed of my
country. do not think it any thing to brag
of that i am an American. But God has
placed me here, and | must take my place
in the ranks, and perform the duty which
the great Creator has assigned TO ne. If
friend chooses TO come TO assist me shall
refuse him? Why what an absurd and
ridiculous nation is this, to shut the gate in
the face of its best triends-in the face of
one who comes TO tell us of our sins, to warn |
us of our doom; who comes not with trump
Ell and sabre and drum, but only with the |
words Of living truth, whose weapons are
from the armory of God. [Applause.l
Why should America have been disturb
ed by the arrival of George Thompson p
Why was il that the stones of Boston cried |
out against it, and that Faneuil Hall spewed |
him out, and that in Springfield he was
burned in effigy? lie was happy to see,
however, that he had met with resurrec-
lion. Loud Applause. America with
population Of twenty millions could not have
been afraid Of the truth that he was about to
utter: and there was nothing that criminal
dreaded so much as to hear The truth told of
ilm. Tell as many lies as you please of
1im and he will not complain. So was il |
With this nation. America feared the truth, |
rot George Thompson, For these rensons
lid 1t appear that ours was the most impu-
lent nation on the face of the earth, rs well
rs the most inconsistent.
FREDRIcK DOUGLASS, said Now, l think
hat we, as a nation, have no right TO claim
exemption from criticism from abroad.
naintain we have no right to claim that this
question of American Slavery Is question
lpon which and with which we have every
hing TO do, and no one else has anything
o do.
BY casting out the blacks from the sympa-
hies Of this country, from their benevolent I
egards and from their institutions for the 1
of mankind, they have preson'
ed them to the world, civilized and savage, 4
0 take up their cause and plead for them. {
I'm .tifoH This Il,
ry by larger number than ever before invi- 7
ed any lnan TO this land. He was invited
y 100000 of people. There was no letter {
ent, there were no voices heard; the death I
Ike silence throughout the South in regard c
D the groans and tears of the dowD-trodden
billions welcomed him with an eloquence J |