Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-17

HhcN up 10 'i'iincN, denOilnct II Inn as u
libel on the civilization oi the nineteenth
century, MS u bruic who had disgraccd even
l'lc brutality Ot the camp, when he dared.
III iIic face of Enropc, in the nineteenth cen
Jury, Tins tu outrage the common lrcliur of
The world. That is Ilnyuau; but hc luIlow-
ca the example of half the States OF this
Union. There, wouan-whipwng is the law
and custom of the land. There are "a hun.
drcd thousand men aud women in this ma
lion WHO lave n right 10y law To whip nil
non and u halt Of women in fifteen of the
Southern States. 'Ouc murder makes vii
ram; millions a llcrO' To whip one wnui-
an makes a'nOnStCr; but to whip millions
hi statute a to mako u country iu rcgnri to
7 which II is the highest wish OF Kossuih that
Hungary nny he like bert
In view Of this aud similar facts. say,
There Is not II word ui the language which ho
/ applies to Austria that is not equally appli-
cable 10 the land which imprsous Dray ton
and Sayrcs in tie inls of It's capital that
pursucs Slahrach without mcrcy-a land
whcro women are whipped hy stntulc-nud
! there is not n word OF all this eloquent culu-
/ ~ OF ourselves which is not applicable To
/ Austria.
/ send lafayette, therefore, 10 Austria.-
! kosSuth sheltered by the Crescent, hears Of
lle coming of Lafayette to Niennn. How
| his heart beats! Now from that voice, ven
crnble with It's age, strong in the millions that
wait its tones, | shall hear the voice of de-
! livercr. Now the heart of every down-rod-
| den Hungarian is to leap for joy; now sun
/ hcnm shall light up the dungeons Of my old
/ comrades, for Fnyetie hHs entered Vienna.
| listen The first note that is borne to him
4 down the winters of the Danube il HAT of
y EuNpffp tn tIn,,,.ts Of
7 cuiry into the capital of Hungary M Kos.
/ suth speaks OF the entrance of the Amcr.
/ cans into the cHpitnl of Mexico Tie listens,
aud every word of the eloquent Frenchuun
I 5 praise of the Austrian emperor aud Aus
l uinu Institutions: and hc says.--words kuS-
suih has used to the AncricUu5-'cling To
your Constitution and your Institutions
: Cling to them! Let no misguided citizen
/ ever dream of tearing down the house he
/ cause there is dsconnrt ~ one of the cham
I bers.' Aud suppose lac heats him say-'Let
I no misguided Magyar, ever dream OF tearing
,asindrr this beautiful empire of Ausrin, be-
cause there is discomfort in that ono rlun-
ibcr Of llungnry.' What would have beeu
{ bis tone in answering Fayetic He would
'r-sESgTSid -tlR lRcsFeaht What gis!,i have you
10 purchase safety for France, by sacrificing
TIE people of Hungary, and by cuOgi2.us
tyranisH l1rcmcndous chccring.)
Just such is the message that the hmcri
can slaves send back to Kossuih :--'iecrc-
nut! II you could not spcni free word
for liberty the wide world over, why came
you 10 this land stained aud polluted by our
blood' What right had YOU to purchase
with your silence mid for Hungary, or throw
The weight of your great mime into tie scale
of our despair? 80, nor said OConuell,
Il will never tread that American strand, IN
Ill she removes the curse of American slave
~ from her statute book 1t was well he
did not. Hardly any man ran stard ogainst
ule temptations of our great political iuiq-
uilv.
kossulh has come here on the glorious
mission ol rcdccmiug Hungary. God speed
him in every siep-hOnest sicp--ihni he
takes to lit up the Magyar, that he may raise
the nations OF Europe! But. O! ii he only
liil her MP by using for his lulcrum the
chains of the slave it lac only lit her mp
hy using lauguage which shall strengthen
llic lenris OF the opprcssor in this land,
which shall make those who love this Tn
ion lav the hatering uucion 10 their souls
(kossutl is an experienced nnn, he under
stands our institutions, and scrs nothing to
blame IN tnrn) )-ilen perish hungary. before
lac succeed
Tue very congress that invited this man
10 oIr shores, aud passed resolution pla-
cling national ycsssl NJ his service, Is the
very congress that passed the fugillNe slave
Bill. lie knows il. The very men who
sent for the Hungarian exile condemned TO
hopeless hundnge hundreds, who, but for
that law might have heen saved. Why, IT
Won had stood, as some of us have done, liy
tile domestic liresidcs of hundreds of iugi-
tive slaves, who had been happy NJ the
North for ten, fifteen, aye, twenty years, and
had seen ihe utter wrelchcdncss oi those
persecned ones, when they felt that father,
or mother, or wife, or child, must be horne
away 10 the Southern plantation, or must
make themselves eXilcs by going To Canada
or even TO England, and reflected that these
scenes are wrought 10y the very men who
have welcomed the great Hungarian to this
country, aud then, when he came, that he
had no words but words of eulogy, how
shonld you Judge his spirit?
|
! Bear with me in ono illustration more.
! Men are known by the company they Keep.
1t seems TO me right TO Judge kossulll so III
| this instance. Suppose n friend of liberty
had gone across the water six months ago
| Would he have sought the society OF the H.
luslrOus free spirits that were the apostles OF
the great ideas of That country, or would he
have gone 10 the court of the Cpsnrs ?
Would he have gone 10 the palace OF Vienna,
or to Meternich? Would he have gone to
the country seat of Haynnu, or 10 amy other
name Recognised the world wide over MS an
npostate to principle, TO humanity, TO equal
rights? Orwould he have gone 10 that hos-
slllh, that Demhinski,-to the men who are
now oXiles, or imprisoned tlrong lout the
length of The Austrian Empire, 10 the graves
of those who have been murdered on bnllle-
field in Ilaynnu's camp? Would not 'liclr
prisons hnye been the first scenes ol llIs vlsii'
ihut he might give his sympathy TO tic men
sylo were suffering in u cause so dear to ms
heartf Certainly. We go where we are
nagneiically drawn; we cannot resist r,sh'
ing into the arms OF those whose hearts p't'