Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-03-06

since Writing tue above, VIC ma VIC arc mis-
taken in our statement, that the colorcd people
were excluded from Miss Grcenfclds concert.
They were assigned separate seats by her con-
sent. ard in consequence OF the insult thus Of
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LETTER to Louis Kos'u.h conccyning Freedom,
aud Siarery in hs United States, IN JehaD Of
the Amcrican Anti-Sior1y Society," Boiion,
Published by n. +. IYaiicR, for the american
AHti- Siarery Society.
This work has been forwarded to us by the
publisher, for which he will please accept our
thanks. 1t is an earnest and powerful expo
sure, and robukc oe the inconsistency Of prnc-
ticc with avowed principles. Kossutl's claim
to be the messenger Of God, sent to represent
the cause of humanity, y,"--his claim that he APP
pears "with the sympathy and confidence Of all
who arc oppressed" is contrasted with his dc.
claration ofncutrality to the slave, and his more
than neutrality, his friendship for the oppressor.
His laulations of the government, its insiitu-
lions and its acts, are put in humiliating juxta.
position, with some of the revolving features Of
slavery, and placed along side of the scathng re-
Dukes and terrible dcnunciaiior of Victor Hugo,
O'Conncl and George thompson. Tho book,
is a book of facts; and the apologsts for Kos
suth, will find it no easy task to answer its
stern logic, or disprovc its stubborn facts We
have no idea they will undertake 1t.
The Independent, one OF the ablcst and fair
est of this class, trcats it very cavalerly, by an
appeal to the popular feeling in behalf of Kos
suth, and a sncer at abolitionists, who may CO.
incdc with lis views, as "somo of the profcsscd
friends of freedom in this country" 1t says:
1t would be puzzle to inquire whether the
object OF this book is TO injurc the Of free
dom in Hungary by malgning Kossuth, or to
injurc the cause OF freedom in this country by
placing some of It's profcsscd advocates in hos
tility to the Magyar and his mission.
This is certainly very concise and cheap
method ofdispo.ing of tho book. A method
much moro brief, then just. The book as we
have said, is eminently book OF facts. On
these facts the Independent makes no issue
If their existence has tended to injuro the cause
Of freedom, who is to be blamed, the author, or
the publisher of the facts. Must they be con-
ccalcd and their influence 60 unchecked, that
kossuth may be glorifed: Freedom will never
be advanced by such subscrvicncy to personal
aggrandizement. Every real friend of freedom,
should be found hostile to the Magyar, and to
any man, or mission that shall be faithcss to
the slave in any land. That the Magyar has
been flihlcss to his own principles, is to be de-
plorcd, but not concealed. The paragraph gives
a most unworthy reason for condcmning the
book. Not that it is falsc in argument or fact,
but it is opposed to Kossuth.
a similar reason is given by tho Pcnnsylva-
MIA Freeman, for the approval of the work.
Speaking of the book it says "It bears the
signature of VIM. Lloyd Garrison, and is pro-
badly from his pen. To say this is to indicate
our opinion Of its merits"
This, il We understand it, is declaration that
whatever Mr.. Garrison may WRITE is from that
fact approved. We lay no special claim to in-
dependence of character, and yet VIC have sim
cere respect for it, which compells us to dislike
the passive adoption of the opinions Of any man.
1t is the very soul of sect-thc vital principle
of bigotry, the parent of ignorance and preju-
dice. Oae principal source Of our admiration
of Mr. Garrison, is his ntrcpidity and indcpcnd-
cnce Tho present pamphlet is now exhibit
lion of IT, In the face Of the popular huzzas to
Kossuth, which have been mainly called forth
by subserviency to slaycry,--ho sacrifices his
reputation, to his convictions OF truth and jus.
ticc.
But we need not preach on this topic to the
Editor of the Freeman. We are satisfied we
must misapprehend the meaning of the para
graph, or else it was written by Pro. Tcm.-
However, that may be, the sentiments to us,
more Objectionable, and far more inappropriate
in tho Independent, that it would bo in the
New York Observer. And far more to be con-
demncd in the Freeman than in the Independ-
ent. And this upon tho samc principle that
makes US moro anxious to convict our Free Soil
brethren of their short comings, then Fillmore
Wings of their bloody hostility to freedom. We
dislike to havo so poor a reason in commenda-
ton of the book, when SO many good ones are
at hand.
We hope tho book may DO extensively eircu-
lated and read. We think good cannot fail to
come of it, to the cause of freedom, the Inde-
pendent to the contrary.
Orders may be addressed to Robert +. Wall
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