Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-10
From F. Douglass Paper.
DfaytOn and SayreA

Had Drayton md Sayre been confined in
Turkey, instead of America, for attempting
TO give freedom to some seventy Hungarians,
Instead of like number of Americans, they
might now be in the suit of the Magyar, re-
ceivlng the applause and honors that ore.
showering upon him, by the Americas peo-
pie, aud 10y the government which now holds
them in painful and loathsome bondage.-
The Cnhed States, in the view of the Mag
var himself aud of the civilized world omt.
be looked upon only ms selfcondemned
lypocrite, so long MS she holds Kossuth ia
honor and Drayton and Snyres in disgrace,
.! how uccIIrscd and nuneless is that crtf-
city, which loads our own countrymen with
chains, and bars them from the light of day.
for the very net which il honors with nations
al pageant and n crown of glory, when per-
formed by brave men in the extremity of
Europe
And what is our government saying to tho
American people 10y the honors il is bind.
ing about the brows of the noble Kossuth
Is it not, that lac deserves the worlds hon
ors, for drawing his sword aud shifting the
iymnny, that sits like n nightmare upon the
bosoms of his suffering cOunirymen? Is il
not saying, it would be deed worthy of
like honor, were the generous and brave
people of this country, To snite the tyranny
that shuts Drayion aud Sayres from the light
of day, pull down his prison, "not leaving
one stone upon another" aud let the heaven
hOnored captiyes go free
For three long years, those glorious men
have been shut IN the national cells with the
vilGst of criminals, separated from their fam
lies, and all the means Of comfort aud ell
joynent, save what they derive from con-
sciOusness of innocence, and the justice due
TO worthy actions. Three years ago, the re-
voluionOry cannon in Europe announced
that kossuih had headed the armies Of free
don't The roar OftlIose cannon came boom
ing over the waves to our shores. Our nn-
| ,ional artillery gave back the report IN Joy
ons thunder tones AT the Capitol. The eartll-
quake of applause shook the continent
Draytnn and Sayres were there, and wero
| thrilled 10y il. Under cover Of the shouts for
freedom, some seventy men took refuge in
| their vessel that lay ia the Chesapeake, as
the means of recovering their liberties. For
the crime of receiving those seventy men us
lfeemen, who were claimed Ms slaves, Drny-
ton aud Snyre nre seized ana, plunged into
prison. The tliuDhcrs OF freedom, whicl,
| echoed from continent TO continent, died
upon their ears when they entered the dun
geon, aud there their acquaintance with tho
worlds history ends. Their existence has
been u blank. The progress of events in
Europe aud America has been unseen by
them. Their country has been their dun
geon their history, its wretched and gloomy
details. The noise oi European battles foe
freedom reached not theh ears the issues of
the conflict so gloriously begun, came not to
their dark abodcs.
Aud now, after this long and dreary blank,
discomfted hero of that revolution which
so thrilled their hearts, comes by the invi-
tution of Congress, aud the providence Of
God, to receive unequalled lonors and np-
plause ut the very gates of their prison.
Great God shall they utter their curses, and
clulk their chains, in the ears of the gener-
Gus and lberty-loving kossuth Shall such
Inconsistency and cruelty be perpetruted in
sight of plying Heaven? II our govern
ment will send an embassy TO Europe, to
procure from the Russian and Turk the lib
eriy of Kossuth, shall they hold in inglorious
bondage the great hearted Drayton aud Say
res? It would seem us if such an astound-
ing contingency, aud cruelty; sucll ineanness,
hypocrisy and injustice, would wake the slee-
ping thunders of Freedom to lay the walls of
their prison in the dust. Heaven knows, we
wish il may be done in the presence Of the
great Magyar. 7.