Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-24

New GAuDBN, 1Sth Jan'y, 1862.
DEAR MAmus: Your readers must have given
me credit for more modcsty than l claim, as l
sec ono Of the shortest letters you ever printed
from me, ends with Il am exceeding my limits
Now this is very unimportant, but the fact is,
wrote nearly as large a hand, as my first essay
in pcnmanship was made in, to the end that
your printers shouldn't libel me with any more
mistakes, and in consequence, my paper was
soon covered. In spite of this caution howe
vcr, find they have changed an expression,
which really had too little elegance in the first
place, to bear any such blundcr as "to,nd' in
stead of g. .oacd in kicking out from under it,
Sc" don't see any sense in that vcrson Of it.
Among ali tho good and bad things, which
have been said Of tho "grcat Magyar "tho
renowned Hungarian &c. SC. l have seen
nothing which so cXactly did my heart good as
tho Editorial of Mr.. Garrison in the I.ibcrator
me, it was quito unexpected. lie had already
spoken some faithful words, but not in the
spirit as it seemed to me, in which he had been
wont to rebukc falschood and trcachcry; and
was beginning to think "Garrison has after all
something of an "aminbe weakness" toward
this ,oorld's heroes and great men," But he
waited until Kossuth's course in our country,
was settled, beyond question or prophecy, then
raised his true blade, and never lowered it, until
every blow was dealt, that true man. in such
a case, owes it to Himself and God, to give
No more, no less has he done.
A motley host, hoarsc with acclamations,
follows Kossuth on his glittcring way but
time is coming, when he alone will be tho
worlds hero, who in the midst of its madden
ing confusion and noise, keeps his banner ur-
stained and his forehead from the dust albeit,
he may now be ctravclling on his way unheraldcd
and alone Whether Buckeyes arc more un-
| impossible than other people, do not know,
butthc foolcrics of his reception in this country
which thus far, are only bad imitation of that
which he had just escaped in England, appears
iarcicol beyond description, and so far as am
acquainted, oXcitc', only one emotion, that of
| pity, for the man who is subjected to it.
When the Hungarian Instruction first broke
out, TOO was enthusiastic, and watched Kossuth
| $50 far as l had opportunity as a star newly
kindlcd but the very idea OF his coming to
tho United States was sufficient to rcprcss it
once and forever and now 1 look back to It as
a childish dream. In an instant imagined
him bandying compliments with Fillmore, Cor
rather his prcdcccssor) and that was enough.
When all these "bad dinners and worse cham
poign, and 'corscr speeches, the desperately la
bored compliments, professions, and all that;
have vanished from his memory, like the har-
assing phantasmagoria of dream, what think
you will be left, TO nerve his heart and arm in
the hour of conflict and dangcri What mean,
out of all these y0ttoa up cnthusiasms, will DO
left in his memory, new source of strength
and courage and Of broader and more ardent
love of liberty;
lie has scattered gems of cloquencc profilsc-
ly as autumn its leaves, at great expense of
strength and endurance, and been rewarded
with little money and great deal of breath,
he will so back to Hungary, weary hcart-sicls
man.
What nonsense, to say "he cannot turn Anti
Slavery lecturer"i Who ever Mouqht of his
doing it, Nobody ever supposed he would
turn aside from his mission to advocate any
particular reform, Ipresume but if he cant see
an inch further than Hungary, isn't it apparent
to tho most common understanding that it is
mere folly to talk of him the spirit OF I4ibcr-
ty, incarnatc, and the greatest friend of hu-
manity now living"i
7, When Abolitionists heard the world hail him
by these, and higher titles, and knew that he
received them in tho name of humanity. they
were perhaps, n little WHILE so "mad" as to
hope he would not come to our country as he
has done.
"And in language eloquently false, eyinco
The harlotry OF genius, which like beauty
Too oft torgets its own self reverence
And looks on prostitution as a duty.
He who once enters in tyrnnt' hall,
As guest, is slare, his thoughts become booty"
did not think of writing another letter upon
this subject, of which many arc with good rea-
son wearyi but was moved to it, and feel re-
lievod now that it is done. This is all my
apology, Yours, as ever EA.I.