Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-17
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American Hypocrisy.

We are called "great people" "wise
people," we are called, and we call ourselves,
n 4" free people . but the truth is we orc MS
vain-glorious, inconsistent hypocritical a
race as the sun ever shonc upon. II any one
doubts this, let him reflect upon the Kos
suth mania, which has driven this sober,
plodding, mntter of fact people Wild There
is the palpahlc proof of ~ assertion.
know very well that this popular Gnror
has the appearance of being genuine out
burst of generous sympathy, from the hearts
of liberty loving nation; but the decetiul-
ness of appearances has passed iuto pro-
verb, aud this "great excitement" about
KOssntlI, is only a dust kicked up to blind
the eyes of the world to the sham plilan-
thropy, and barc-laccd villany of this mis-
named Republic. Who is this man? this
kosSttli, who is at the present time create
ing such sensation, setting the whole coun-
try in blaze? The lion of the day, the
observed of all Observers? Why fiIgi-
tive from Austrian tyranny, seeking the
means to rid his country of CALLING yoke,
and make it free, great and prosperous like
our own that is all.
He comes among us, aud hanquets, toosts,
songs, aud speeches, are got up in honor Of
his arrival, aud money aud ilaticry poured
out like water at his feet Ii our patron
saint, Gen. Washington were 10 rise from
the dead and walk abroad living man as Of
yOrc, question whether lIe even could ere
aie greater tumult than does this same
Kossuth. To say nolling Of the homage
pnid to this new divinity hy Whigs and
Democrats, the Free Soil party is being mcr
ged in "AIngyOr party," aud the Cleveland
True Democrat, iorgcilhl (for the time nj
lrnsf of the millions pining in bondage in
this land Of iighi and liberty, and of the brave
souls baniShcd from our soil (ior crimes
which constitute the Magyar hero aud
dcn-god), has become Kossull's especial
organ! The ample pages of the Democrat
nre crowded with one subject and that sub
ject KoSsuih! Nothing else is seen, felt, or
known.
But the hosannas shouted in praise of the
Hungarian Hero aud the garments strewn
in his way, nre exchanged for brckbnts, rot !
ten eggs, and cries of cruelty him cruri- !
iy him!" When the tried and faithful |
friends of freedom in our own land proclaim
the gospel of liberty to the inhabitants
thereof A, the best, they are treated with |
indifference and neglect. Contrast for exam
pie kossuh's nutering reception in Clevc-
lnnd, with that accorded TO William Lloyd |
Garrison, the man who for years fought the |
host of oppression almost single handed and |
alone, who periled life, liberty, and every
worldly good in the cause Of n dcspisGd and |
down-trodden race and Frederick Douglass |
Tint man who might not inappropriately he
called the I" american KoSSuih," no less from |
the fact of his being fugitive from IA worse
than Austrian) oppression, than for his ge-
MUS, and tile briliancy of lis oratorial |
powers.
Garrison and Douglass solicited no aid for
hostile purposes. They desired neither men
nor ammunition, TO fight the murderous Hay |
naus of this boasted Republic. Their mis-
sion was peaceful one. The gospel they
preached, they learned from that Divine
Teacher whom this guilty nation falsely pro-
fesses to venerate aud obey, yet for them the
permission to speak their sentiments udmo-
lested, to the few who collected to hear them,
in the open air with no shelter hut few
struggling trees, was considered sufficient
welcome.
No house could be procured in all the
city in the afternoon of that memorable Sun
day, when those ilustrious men honored by
their presence the Forest City, to accommo-
date those "infdel agilators," and their sin
fidep hearers.
The Cleveland papers and people did not
run wild with excitement then, o no 1t
was reserved for foreign bravery and heroism,
to drive them crazy with newly awakened
love of liberty, and hatred of tyranny. 1t