Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-24
aBlack DuagIasso vs.. "BIack DanleI.n

"BlaCk DOagIaSS vs.. "BIack Daniel"
DR.. SNoDGRAss of Baltimore, has address
ed letter to Wendell Phillips through the
Lihcralor reviewing Mr.. Wcbstcrs historical
address The whole letter is exceedingly
interesting, f it were only for its literary
merit-but more than this, hc quotes Tac.
tus and Liyy to some purpose against MIR.
| Webster aud his lower law divinity. lie
then proceeds to quote from more modern
classics. He snys:
am reminded of the concurrent sent-
menls of speech which lOnce, in company
with n number of other Soulheruers, heard
! in the New York Tabernacle, from the lips
OF my "uugratetup qunndam fellow-cltizen,
Frederick Douglass, which will venture To
quote us iullows:-
O. The extract which our respected
/ correspondent here refers to, we do not
| find enclosed in his letter, aud therefore are
| unable TO quote it, much TO our regret. -
Ed. Lib.
! don't know, my dear sir, but | have given
offence to- some personal friend of Mr.. Web
slcr 10y thus using his name in connection
| with, aud referring TO his sentiments Thy
inplication) as contrasting with those of a
RUNAWAY nigger." II so, | excuse myself
! by saying that it is, after all, but the "Black
Douglass u.s. the "Blacl Daniel" Besides,
| have II "sirOng preference" as between
the two, for the sentiments of this modern
| black historian of the peoples wrongs, aud
! suppose have n rightto my preferences,
| as well us he; aud my prediction may,
l uprlnp- lac nppouutpI iar in uurt lao tho
fact that had the curious satisfaction, on
my return to Baltimore, after hearing the
! speech from which have Just quoted, to
/ find the city pretty well sprinkled, not 10 say
! flooded, with pamphlet edition of il, paid
/ for from my scamty funds, though not 10y my
/ urder-ineXplicahG MS that may appear;
| thus giving It's author nm unexpected hearing
! in the city of his childhood. But, if the
sentiments of this son of Maryland he not
| relished, because of the peculiar color of
| his skin, beg leave to quote sentiment
from II speech delivered 10y another son Of
| Maryland, William Pinkncy, in the House Of
| Delegates, in l79S, which is srikingly
coincident with the sentiments given above:
"By the eternal principles Of justice, no master
in this State could hoH his sidves for a single
! hDurr
sit will not do to talk like philosophers, and
act like uurclenling tyrants TO he perpctu-
ally scrmoniZlug il, with liberty for the text,
aud actual oppression for our commcn-
tary." "llere have cmigUn,s from
land of tyranny found an asylum for per
secuton, and here also have those, who
came as righDiLy free as The pinds Of hearcn,
found an eternal grave for the liberties OF
themselves aud their posteri,y!"
Having given these strlkingly forciblc
L.. IL. II.
| part of our history, strangely contrasting
| with Mr.. Webster's laltcr-day opinions
] will copy n citation by him (Mr. Pnkneyl of
Roman history, from whicl he quoted for
very different purpose than that with which
Mr.. Webster quoted from il, in the address
under nOticc:-
"The love of liberty is inherent in human
mature. To stie or annihilntr it, though not
impossible, is yet difficult TO be accomplish
ed. Easy to be wrought upon, us well us
powerful and active in It's exerlions, where
ever it is not gralifed there is danger
Crafty it, aud you insure your safety Thus
did Sylla think who, before he Gbdicated the
Dictatorship, gave freedom to ten thousand
slaves, and lands TO n number of egions.-
By these means Inc WIS enabled, nOtwih-
standing all his preceding enormilies, to
live unmolested, MS private citizen, in the
bosom OF that very country, where he had
enncted the most hateful deeds of cruelty
and usurpation."
Alas with what seeming diabolisn public
men of the North, such as Daniel Webster,
do their worst 10 cOunteract, if not 70 utterly
obliternte from the memory of our people,
the noble sentiments of those Southern men
whose opinions have become part of our
own history! Why is il so? Because the
very recollection Of them tormenis their
recrcant and npostate souls with sense of
their own Shameless tergiversations against
the Temple OF Liberty. Seeing their faces
now turned towards quite another temple,
II is surely not uncharitahe to supply such
a motive, where a less selfish one is absent.
a few words more, and shall have con
cluded this letter, which has already grown
longer than designed, by reason of the
quotations which hive felt moved TO mike
so freely, hut of which may plead the ex-
ample of Mr.. Webster himself with this
additional consideration, that | have given all
of mine in plain English. will conIude