Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-04

All friends Of civil aud religions liberty,
oi u good government, aud an active COM
nercc must desire tie hcarlirst nniOn be-
tween England aud her transatlantic off.
spring. One in origin in language, in liter
"lure, IN onr common law, and substantially,
also, ~ uur common capacity for municipal
and constitutional govcrnmcnt-onc in the
souycnirs even Of the past. save the great
quarrel IN which halt OF Euglnnd's best aud
greatest men wished success to the colonisis.
one, we may truly say, even in our leli zion
itself, according To Lord Bacon "thc great
bond OF luuuu liic"--ior their sects are
nearly all offsets nf nur own: no two great
nations of the wnrld have so Iunny points Of
union, are 50 capable ol netting together for
their own common good and the good Of
the human rHcr.
In capacity l;,r self government the French
are evidently n century behind us both, aud
Whatever The refinement g. civilization of our
volatile ueiglhurs, IL is not OF kind to blend
easily with the more practical and steady
energy Of the English character. Jonathan
indeed differs from us in manners. II Mr.
D'isrncl wants, as we hope he will, an en-
iarged staff of ilicome-taY collectors, Amer
len could support us with any number, who
lars we were worth; nor will our genuine
Nnnkre fail to instruct you in the great sII-
perioriy of every Estates man" 10 every
Engishman; the Frenchmnn will indulge
any amount of vanity without lowering YOU.
Jonathan is bothrude aud proud-the French
man only vain, but polite wilha. Jonathan
uilronis us twenty times, aud seals Our lips
in naughty silence, or, al best, opens them
in cute replies where Monsieur would only
anuse us; aud yet we like Jonathan best
There is true English blood in him after
all we can trust him better. We can SYM
pathise with him more easily. lie il not
proudrr ut heart than Germans and French.
men think half their English visitors; but
he is Just foreign cnOJgh to treat us with n
little of our own sell.impnraucc. The
chief difference is, that he, not heing yet out
OF his national teens, though ovcrtopping in
stature so many of the older nations, feels
obliged to tell us he is the man he il, while
we, as his parent can take our manhood for
granted. We love him heartily, notwilh.
standing these little things; and being got
now far too big for the cnue, wc must wait
patiently for his mature age to cure him of
his NONSENSE.
There is, however, one vicc-an inherited
Ol'Y hllS '-hlllNil w UlHllJ why's hbNe lllplt
to destroy unity of sentiment between Eng
land and America than all other minor faults
aud lollies on either side. Slavery is the
nalady, the cherished maludy, which can
never be otherwise than loaillsomc 10 Eng
lish feeling. From the times Of WiIberIorce
aud Clnrkson, with their noble band OF condju-
tors, all but few interested men have nl-
hbed nm ineradical hatred of slavery. Ever
since the question has been moOted in Eng
lish courts of Justice, the bench and applaud
ing nation have argued bnt mnn could not
set his foot on the British shores, and remain
a slave. We glory in British soil, as possess
ing nobler treasure than California, or than
! a portion Of tie United States every foot of
il Gun turn q slave into man. Nor is this
mere natural vanity.
The great body of the people fought a
long and hard battle with powerful interest,
mighty in Parliament by boroughmongering
aud bribery, and rather than retain slave
in the least island in our dominiOns, il added
E20, 100000 to its already enormous debit
Americans must allow that we have shown,
by the best of all tests, seli-sacrfice, an
inextinguishable hatred of slavery. The
United States, however, cling TO il, and that,
too, under many damnatory circumstances.
II flies in the face of their celebrated deed of
Independence, which declares That all men
are born free aud equnl. 1t convicIs their
attachment to that deed of grosscst hypocrn-
cy and selfishness.
Slavery is attended in the Southern States
with its worst aud most revolving cruelles
aud evils. We need not recount tue horrors
of the whip, the chain, aud all kinds of bod
lily punishment; of the unbridled licetious-
ness of masters, aud their selling their own
offspring, perhaps, most readily. OF the
cruel separation of husbands, and wives, aud
families, Of the impossibility Of redress
when The evidence of the colQred man is
rejected. All these tales Of horrors, though
! but too tue, makes UP but one-hult the Hls-