Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-06
Foreign Correspondence.
LONDON, Aug. IL, 1851.

Wrote you from OnlO III July, little expected,
after the entire disarrangement of my plans, to
be at this time in London, amid the pomp and
spendor of this greatest of all pageants that tho
world has known. The spirit Of Peace, Of Uni
versal Brotherhood, has made II practicable for
the nations to come up, like children of one
great family and bring with them the treasures
of their toll, to deposit side by side in that mag
nifccnt Crystal Palace, whose airy beauty re-
minds one of all Fairy tales, rather than of any
thing real that has hitherto transpircd. You
enter the door, pass through tho gate, itself an
exhibition Of rare ingenuity and skill, and such
a scene rises before you as mortal eye never
witnessed, till the consummation Of this scheme.
You look up, nothing but q crystal arch so
brightly ribbed that it seems like fral net
work, is all that intorposes between you and
the blue vault of heaven. Tall old trees arc
growing there beneath it, and as you look and
wonder, you see the palms of India sending out
their feathory branches; the cacti of the trop-
ics mingle with the fir trees of the northern re-
gons, while tropic bloom is beautifully eontras-
ted with pale arctic gems.
The gush of fountains is heard you look for
ward, and there stands the wonder Of the Pal.
ace, lai &C fountain made entirely of cut glass,
and its constant play is the delight of every vi
sitor. In tho sun the delicate spray is turned
into beautiful rainbow, n second arch Of pro-
mise to long distracted nations, You pass down
the transcpt and look around you. Marble,
chisselled into speaking forms by the great mas
tiers of the age, you behold ranged on either
hand, but you cannot pause the first time to
study them, for your eye is attracted by the
banners that arc waving down the long isles on
either side, and you feel that the ends of the
earth are indeed met together. Even the dis
tant islands of the sea have here their place,
and nations long regarded as sitting in the dark
ness Of pagan night, have sent in their tostimo-
nal that they have faculties that are capable of
contributing to the good of their fellow beings,
and hence have claim TO receive good in re-
turn.
The display is most gorgeous. Silks and
satins, cashmers and velvets, coarse heavy fab-
RIGS for men, and spider web gauzcs for women,
furs from the polar SHOWS, and cotton in finest
NANNiS hOlAi NhC hOpiSSb JcMClo Va tlc IlCucSb
water; glass in every curious device, china that
is made to serve monarchs at their board, and
coarse earthen ware for the cabins of the poor
organs that send forth the glorious anthem, and
harps such as David might have played before
Saul,-yes, all the cunning instruments that
the sons of Tubal Cain could dcvise-funiturc
from the halls of sovereignty, and devices that
the poorest might be able to copy in their low
ly dwellings,-thc raw material from all lands,
as well as the cunning workmanship of skillcul
fngers-all is here grouped in the most admira-
bic manner and forms, not the triumphant arch
way of princes, but the regal throne fIndustry,
on which she has, from the hands ofroyaty itself
received her well earned crown. Here, the ma
tions can see the truo of all their comforts
Of all their prosperity. The nrtizan is tho real
hero,not the warrior, and to such is now the rib-
ute paid. To be a working-man is accounted
an honor, and have seen it call down thun-
ders of applause, when the fact was announced.
But did not intend to say so much of this,
for every journalist has given his description so
minutely, as those at distance might feel, that
thSAO 10 hOsAAAb iSAb W dSsNllDts We WnO HuNc
seen it, know that the truth is not yet half told,
and hence are ready to dwell upon it n the
risk of being thought to repea; what others have
said before.
But it was of other matters that I intended 10
speak. wanted to say to those toiling almost
hopelessly for the cniranchisement of the op-
pressed of all classes, fear not-thc weary hands
of Moses are still stayed up by Aaron and Hur.
Christians in great Britain are all praying for
you, that success may crown your efforts. You
cannot meet party of philanthropists that do
not express their most earnest sympathy for tho
oppressed and all who labor in their behalf
Gird up your loins then, and work, for as sure
as the arm of God fails not, so sure is your ul-
innate triumph. For more than one hundred
and fifty years, the true hearted in this land
cried out against the wrong; and for twenty
years it became political agitation. What is
now the RESULT The strong arm of British
power is held out for its destruction wherever
it has legal sway, while her moral force is wield-
ed where her civil may not reach. True, there
is some violent denunciation, such as we in our
sensativeness may be disposed to say, i'll be-
comes peopl ESQ long in the depths of the same
transgrcssion, but while it is so well merited,
let us not say word in self justification, but
rather tako the rebuke meekly and profit there
by.
But on our part, We can return the good they
intend us, both in kind and degree. There is
in the heart of English Society, monster evil,
slavery, if you please, that is setting its heel
upon the necks of millions, and they need our
strongest aid and sympathy as much nearly as
we theirs Perhaps in no land under the sun,