Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-10
Advice.

On the 2i ult., meeting was held in the Isl
and OF Jamica attended it is said by many
prominent citizens, at which the following
resolution was adop;cd
Resolved, That at this moment when several
of the States OF America cvincc their desire to
cXpntratc tho free colorcd and black inhabitants
residing among them. it is desirable that the
people Of this island should hold out the right
hand Of friendship, and offer them home aud
a country in which by their skill aud industry,
the culti' alton ot our waste and fertile lands
will insure wealth and prosperity.
The Pittsburgh Commercial Journal in COM
mcntng upon this resolution, says taun;ingly:
Here we think is n new field open for the
Garrisonan orators. They have told us how
many aud how great arc the disadvantages which
crush the free black man. The subject il by
this time fully understood and appreciated.
The most important facts set forth in the arsu-
mcnt are acknowledged. This part of the sub
iect is therefore fairly worn out. The new step
we would propose is to urge the blacks TO prove
that they are not the idle, scrvilc race they arc
so generally describcd to urge an abandon
mont Of tho backing brush for the slrdgc ham.
mcr. Let the study negro be advised to give
mcnt Of rcaping fields of golden grain. Ii this
advice were offered with half the perseverance
and energy which has been wasted in reciting
the wrongs Of the blacks, il would probably be
accepted, and until It shall be practically acccp-
ted, 1t will be vain to look for an acknowledge
mont of the natural rights OF the prescribed
race"
We seriously doubt whether tho man who
would write in the strain of the above paragraph,
has any adequate appreciation of "thc disad-
advantages which crush the FREQ black man."
We are confirmed in this opinion by the fact
that Mr.. Riddle receives and endorses the new
Wing platform, which subjects every such col
orcd person in the country to the hourly danger
Of kidnapping, without defence OF redress. II
he does appreciate the wrong, it only proves his
act, one of promeditatcd and unmitigated injus-
ticc, and his advice so Aipantly offered to abol-
tionists and colored people is nothing else than
gross and positive insult Advise men to drop
the shoe brush and the razor, expend their mo-
ncy in the purchase of land and devote thcir
time and labor to its improvement, and then
pledge the whole power of the whig party and
Oh tnc government so lar as IL can influence II,
to grant impunity, protection and reward, to
any william who will seize them, tear them from
from property and home, and consign them to
slavery. This is an exhibition of hcartess
cruelty and insult of which the acceptance OF
the Wing platform, is worthy precursor and
preparation.
We can inform him however that the advice
he offers to the colored people is in itself good
as all abolitonists believe. And it is that which
for years they have themselves given, and on
which muldtudes Of tho eolorcd people have
acted. II is therefore no "new" step to which
he urges us. With regard to the waste of time
in urging the wrongs of the blacks the topic
has been pressed not upon the blacks but upon
their oppressors. Ifit has proved unavailing, II
has been not from any lack of necessity for the
effort, but from the contumacy and persistent
wickednoss of those who continue to maintain
the oppression, after the fashion of "anti-slave-
ry' wings, who accept, after all their light, the
slave catching law as a fundamental part OF
their creed, and do their utmost to elect prcsi-
dent to execute it,