Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-24
From the London Morning Advertiser
Will KOSSuih be Safe in America A!
To THE EDIToR:

To THE EDIToR:
Sir-Your generous advocacy of Kossuth,
his nation, aud his cause, has been consist
ent with your advocacy OF civil, religious,
and personal liberty everywhere. You fore
told for him nm enthusiastic reception in
England, and the result has surpassed any
thing you could have anticipated. Ills wei
come has been hearty, spontaneous, aud null
titudinous, beyond any welcome ever before
extended in England TO foreigner, without
rank, title, government favor, or court pa
tronagc. In Manchester ] saw him, when,
even according To the Times reporter, 2O0,.
| 600 people turned ont TO meet him. | was
told 10y another reporter, mot from the
Times, on the same occusion, that the well
come he then received was fully as cordial
as that accorded TO our justly popular Soyer-
| eign herself
kossulis name is now among our house
hold words. will venture to say, that with
in the last month it has been ten times in our
hearts and on our lips, for once that we have
thought or spoken ofuny other public man.
lie is the symbol of the trust and love of a
gallant but down-troddcn people. His cause
Is felt TO be our own. Though housccss,
homeless, aud bereit Of political power, his
moral influence is prodigiOus. We know
that all the despots in Europe trcmblc at his
name. We know that the uubnught love
aud sympaihics of Great Biituin have added
immensely TO his influence aud his import
! ancc.
Well then, he is TO sail for America to-
| morrow. lie will, doubtless, he received
with great pomp and circumstance 10y tie
| government, and with hearty enthusiasm by
millions in the great republic ! rejoice in
the freedom of America, rejoice that she is
! the asylum of millions from the old countries
ofEurope, and especially my own, WHO find
abundance and comfort there, which no iu-
dustry could secure TO them under the lcudal
| institutions and bad land laws in ,lcir native
land But know that if America has great
| privileges, she is also country of terrible
| expressions and gigantic crimes. know
there is no country where so many mean
men do the crtellcst aud wickedest things
for tho suke of money. The slaves in Amer-
ca arc nearly as numerous us tho MTcynrs.
They are held by the people of 'liaii tilt
States, the slave States, in n eondido. 80
stripped of civil, religious, aud personal
rights, that the Russian scrls aud The ,efy
Nenpolitaus are happy in comparison. If
they escape into the free States, be they maids,
wives, mothers, little children, or old men,
it matters not. There are thousands in the
free States, who say the Union must be pre-
served at any price, and there aro multitudcs
more, so calous TO all shame, so atlIirst for
money, that they are ready at call TO play
! the double part of Judas aud the bloodhound
for a very riiling consideration in hard cash.
THUS, owing TO the slave system, and the as
sumed political necessity of maintaining il,
in order that the Union may be held together
of doing the wickcdcst, mcanest, most
abominahc acts of lrcachery and cruelty for
the direct love Of money, or the maintenance
of dctcstal,lc compact-it comes TO pass
that nm obtuscness of moral feeling, n blind
ness 10 the clcnrost reguisilions of Christ and
humanity prevail, even in the FREQ States,
which nrc not surpassed or cquaIled in Rus
slu, in Naples, or in DnhOmey.
This being the simple fact, ! nsk, is Kos
suth safe in the United States? | do not
doubt that he viii be warmly welcomed 10y
millions Of disinterested, sympath2ng, gem
Crons hearts there, rs well as here. That
the shareholders aud their tools-F'illmorc,
the President; Cass, the rank aud Jealous
upholder of slavery throughout the world ;
Clay, himself stakeholder; and Webster,
that recrcaut Demoslhenes Of America-that
all these wil welcome him, in order to cover
their own moral loahsomencSs, by the glory
of his name, and to make capital out Of him, !,
do not doubt. But then the shareholders
OF New York, Philadelphia and Boson-lhe
Tukeys, the Curlises, all the base tools of the
SHAREHOLDERS, who are ready TO betray anyb 10.
dy for u hribe the Minister of the Gospel, &?
who proclaim their readiness to see their own
mothers 90 into slavery for the maintenance
Of the Union | would like to know, is Kos
, suth safe from these They have sold lhciI
own souls. Would they hesitate to kidnaI
and sell Kossulh? Is he not fugitive--lh'
greatest, most marked, and most valuable o
all living fhgilives What would not Nicho
t las, or Francis Joseph give TO have kossull
. in his hands? They would gladly rewar1
- his capture with the price of the brightes
!, Jewels in their crown, or the ransom Of I
c province. | am sure this thing is WORT
c looking at. The United States nrc full o
men whose talent, readiness aud pluck nr,
= surpassed only by their yilluDy, and for Tho
: sake of stupendous reward, the hunters o
J women aud children, the professional be
q traycrs of innocence TO pollution, aud man
kind to the whip, will not hesitate, ii the op
portunity offers, to secure kossuh, hide him
Y hurry him on hoard one of their slave trading
!, Baltimore clippers, and make sail with hin
y to ST. Petersburg, Trieste, or some olhe
c Austrian or Russian port, where their re
ward would be as their inlamy is unialhoma
ble.
S Submitting this shocking and very possible
y contingency to your consideration and tina
: of your renders,
Iremain, respectfully yours,
. q RICHARD ID. WEBB.
= Dublin. Nov 10, 1851.