Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-06-12

,lence, that she loves man; and that shc
loves liberty for white men is no more evil
dence. that she loves liberty; than being n
sectarian is evidence of loving Christians
lle. alone, loves man, who loves all men:
md he, alone, loves liberty, who loves il for
NIL men. The stakeholder iaucies that he
loves liberty. But he mistakes self-love for
the love of liberty. Did he love liberty, he
would love to see il enjoyed by his slaves
Srenuousness for his own liberty, so far
from being an evidence of his love of liber-
~, is characteristic OF all other tyrants, MS
well as of himself The "libcrty", which
Edmund Burke says the stakeholder is pre-
eminently attached to, deserves not that
name. True liberty is beautiful aud holy
thing, which cannot, possibly, be appreciated
by one, who is "pruud, Jealous, stubborn,
naughty; aud as such is the stakeholder
characterized by Burke.
That America pratcs much of liberty
proves hut her sell.lgnorance or hypocrisy.
That she, whilst holding millions in bond
age, one hour of which is worse than a
whole lile-time of Hungarian oppression,
should presume to send ship for Kossuth,
aud to express sympathy with Hungary,
proves only, that she either has no eyes to
see herself with, or that she wiinlly shuts
them. Again, is il not the nllectatiOn of NIL
nffactntions, aud the farce of all iarces, for
America to complain of the interference of
Russia with the cause of liberty in Hungary +?
40 man, that judgest them, which do such
things, aud dOest the snnew llayti had
gained her Independence. Napoleon resort
ed to the policy OF starving her into sub
mission to his despotsu. lie called on
America to concur in this policy; and
America was shameless enough to concur
in il. Congress suspended trade with llayti.
Scarcely less shameless was she in instruct
ing her representatives in the Congress nt
Panama to oppose the recognition of liayti
as free and independent State. But these
are not the only instances In which Amer
ica has furnished Russia with precedents
for her attack on Hungarian liberty. Mexico
and Columbia were about to deliver Cuba
from the yoke of Spain, and her slaves from
the yoke of slavery. For this America
threatened them with war and they desist
ed. Nay, in her diplomatic intercourse with
Spain, she went so far ms tn threaten to take
possession Of Cuba and Porto Rico so de-
termincd was she to prevent the iudcpcnd-
ence Of those islands, and the abolition of
slavery in them. But "the cream of the Joke"
is, that America, which now dcnounces Rus
sia for crushing the cause of liberty IN Hun
gary, did actually call on Russia to help her
crush the cause of liberty in Cuba!
] am not of the croaking number, who
believe, that the world is getting worse. On
the contrary, am among those hopeful ones,
who believe, that it is getting better. j am
not sure, however, that, among those great
political revolutions, which good men love
TO contemplate, there is single one, which
helped to make the world better. Tint the
world has been benelitted-hus been moved
upward-by some Of these revolutions is u
common admission. But, in my esteem, the
praise is to he bestowed less on the reyou-
tions, and more on the growth of those great
and good principles, which the revolutions
did, but so imperlec,ly, illusira,c--iid, but
go partially carry out. Highly priced ns arc
these revolutions, they, nevertheless did
more TO cramp and peryert, thnn TO dcyulope
those principles. This is not strange, seeing,
that the revolutions were chiefly the work OF
patriots, aud that the principles were nursCd
in the bosom of philanthropy. The seed,
which philanthropy is ever sowing, becomes
n very different harvest in the hands Of mere
patriots from what it would have been, had
the reaping been left to the sower. Very
distant, perhaps, is the day, when philHn-
thropic political revolutions shall take place
revolutions in the name of the human
brotherhood and for the human brotherhood.
But they will yet take place ;-and, when
they do, then mere patriotism will he count
ed as very poor thing. Glorious battles
will be fought in those revolutions. say
not, that swords and guns will be used in
them. Perhaps, they will not be. But,
whether they will, or will not be, philnn-
Thropy can, at all events, he pretty safely
entrusted with the selection of her own
weapons.
| Om, my dear Douglass,
With great regard,
Your friend,