Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-14
Letter from Parker PlllSbury.
CoNconp. N. Il, Feb. |, 1859.

after another absence of about two months. Tho
first work to be done, is to write to The Bugle.
was glad to be released from New York.
The cold was intense. And then we hal to
! ride much, and always in scighs or wagons.
And those bleak hills, at dead of night, after a
long meeting, mercury at the bottom Of the
tube, and even then, like q tall man in bed,
wanting moro room to stretch down his feet, a
ride of half dozen miles over :hosc hills, is as
cool joke as you could ask to cniG'v. The
weather was unparalleled in tho history of the
last twenty years. Some ofthc sinners lost all
dread of hell-fro. They said il was the most
comforting doctrine in tho whole Calvinistic
Creed. But we did good work there, not
withstanding the elements seemed armed against
US.
We have Just been holding the Anniversary
of the Massachusetts, Anh-Slavcry Society in
Boston. How l wish you could have been
there. We may have had larger audiences at
some times, and a longer array of eminent
speakers. But it is doubtful whether VIC ever
had a more effective meeting.
Prominent among the topics considered. were
Kossuth, and Colonization especially the for
mcr. So universal has been the admiration of
the Hungarian Chicitain, that none but such
impracticablcs as We arc, could help joining in
the chorus
Bur abolitonists sec not ns other mon sec.
We have taken our stand by the side of the
American lIungariuns, and cannot consent to re-
cognisc any man or movement as deserving our
special regard, that would trcal them still low.
or, to rescue any other people. Tho Hungarian
pcasantry arc most wickcdy oppressed. But
they are not Cjatci Siacc7. If they were, if
they were just like our slaves, lie would DC n
mean creature, who would ask in their behalf
what Kossuth asks for his countrymcn.
Should We 90 to England and ask aid in our
work Of nt-Slaycry, and pledge and rcplcdgc,
and swear ana rcswcar ourselves to be blind to,
and silent upon the expressions and wrongs
done there, as he has, so many, many times since
tho last ofit We oush: never to hear tho last
of il.
Kossuth comes here for money and muskcts.
lie asks slave holders to buy him mu,kcts to
shoot tyrants. The Shareholder has no money
more than other robbers and pirates. Ko53uth
walks coolly among our auction blocks and bar
racoons, and asks tithcs and offerings of those
who buy and sell Kossuths as good as himself
and as brave, to be driven with cartwhip and
cowskin to the cotton and sugar plantations of
h., n,,r lsroIo,;o n, o,,1
Crafts must be advertised with mules, hogs and
horses, and sold at auction, that he may have
the price of them to buy guns, with which to
shoot the Austrians. lie says, only give me
the price of them, and you may sell them to thc
hell tomcnts Of slavery, and their children after
them forever, for ali that l carc--I will never
ask any questions. Sell just as many wives as
you please, and children too, together or scpa-
rate; by families, or "in lots to suit purcha-
scrs.' Only give me tho money to save my
wife and family, and my nation, from living un-
der government VIC do not like, and will $50
help me hcavcn,) proclaim you the greatest, the
frcccst, the most intelligent and most Christian
nation on all the globe. So speaks Kossuth.
We wish all men free. Hungary has no bet
ter friends than tic abolitonists. But in our
meeting, We bore mos. unmistakablc testimony
against its representative now in this country,
receiving honors and homage, Of which no arch
angel in heaven is worthy.
And Kossuth must inevitably have his re-
ward. lie has bowed to the government; lac
has crawlcl down to its very feet. lie has
ignored the slave, and struck hands with the
in a manner and degree, perfectly
novel in the history Of sycophancy and scrvili.
ty. And he will get of the government ncith-
or men, muskcts nor money. But he will get
in large measure, the contempt always felt by
those who deny boon, for which the supplant
compromised justice, humanity, and his own
manhood. Slavery has humblcd him in the
drst. 1t will now despse him, and send him
empty handed home. May he go a wiser and
better, ifnot richer man.
1t will be matter of rejoicing to the friends Of
Freedom every where, that the city government
of Boston, that sent back poor Sims, and turned
Fancuil Hall into barracks for soldiers to guard
him, aud then denied not only us the use of the
Hall, but even refused it to Daniel Webster lest
We should have too good ground of complaint
against il, it will be matter of rejoicing that the
Mayor and government by whom all this was
done, no longer disgrace the Offices they held,
but never filled. They have covered them
selves with an immortality of infamy, and have
gone to their own place. And we have been |
,crtni ittcl ooaip to ontor thc Old Cradlo of in
srty, and perform a glorious lustration. Our !
asst session was held there, and it was ono wor-
.hy the occasion and the place. A magnificent |
congregation thronged every part, and never
lid Garrison and Phillips acquit themselves
better. Garrison spoke mainly on Colonial
lion. Phillips introduced some Resolutions re-
ating particularly to the city government, in