Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-01-29
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.


dwelling place, And we are glad that the
faithful effort of these British Ladies', is bear
ing fruit at home ms well as in this country,
where it was especially designed to act
The writer, after of course, disclaiming all
intention of supporting slavery, says:
might, indeed, just hint at the very i'm
portani fact, that it is decisivcly agreed thrO-
out the United States, for most vital, national,
and political reasons, to permit no agitation
on this question; aud, moreover, that any
extra. national suggestions ut this particular
time must needs he especially unacceptable,
when n party has just attained to power
which is peculiarly pledged to resist any
change with respect to The slave question.
| have not n word to say against the terms
| IN which the geuilewuucu whose names YOU
quote have Framed their address; hut ear
nesily and respectfully suggest Ia them one
consideration, which, if their address I've AT all
responded to, will inevitahy-l venture to
speak on something of amhority--be rotor
ted upon them, not ~ muci ns II reason
| against the possible Justice of such an ap.
peal, hut certainly It's n reasor against lis
proceeding from England.
II is simply this. The American ladies'
will say
"FcllOw. women of our uoniher country,
If you desire suhjrct on which to excrcis.
your modest synpaihy, we niu hound to hid
you look at home. We inireat YOU, in the
name of oar common woinanhou,l, To apply
your endcavors aud Your influence to n work
which you c1n accomplish ii YOU really have
the WW. Our travelling conntryInen report
io It's that Ia your metropolis aud in your
rural dlstricts-Oue most niournflI aud ter
rifle contrast ever meets their cyes-thr en-
treme OF dcsiluton aud despair lace to face
with the extreme of fulfilled luxury and
physical enjoyment. Aud they consider that
unless timely remedies be applied, this disor-
der and wrong will result very calum,ously
To Your entire social system.
" We tell you the simple and ensily tested
truth, when We say that in the Uniird States
there is none of that sort of misery whrh
we ARE ininrned is the normal condition (so
TO speak, OF the London poor. Not even in
New Orleans, or amy similarly circunstnnced
place, is anything of the sort to be found
10 Ils, aud 1--WE belieye) likewise to the vari.
Gus European nations, the reported condition
oi tie London poor has long been nnttcr Of
most snddeniBg aud mourniul wonder.
Therefore we do not we rrpeat) think
TINT our arIstOcrntic English sisters hnve any
sympathy TO spare for our generally we'll
cared for negroes, until they are seen To he
practically taking to heart the great problem
OF diminishing this flagrant scandal hy de-
voting their leisure and their wealth to tlint
object, by uiingliug atircionatviy with those
forgotten members of the same REDEEMED hu- |
maniiy, by hearing hope and reclni,nmnnt to |
the cold hearts OF those who az present enter |
aud quit this world, for no apparent purpose
but To winess luxury aud he themselves out |
casts. Oh, bear your benign sympatlies, |
genllewOmen at England to Your own mnle |
and icIale sufferers! Try what the blessed |
Influences of unsiaIrd wumanhoUd may vet |
effect OH the unheeded victims OF cnslaying |
such MS il may be the rnnin |
salvation of ourselves not TO have encounter |
cd. Apply yourselves to this, aud YOU shall |
not lind reason to complain that we do not |
pear you compnny in mitigating whatever !
horrors of n like kiud we can discover here |
Believe TINT that we are not so ignorant OF
w0manly pity, 20 untrue To our sex, so for |
geiiul OF our common humanity, as to acqui- |
esce IN any system of cruelty aud torture, |
whatever may he the exceptional Instances !
OF such from which romance writer's may |
draw those conclusions which are naturally |
so startling to you.
"Once more,-we will believe that YOU are |
not merely 'sighing for wretchedness,' and !
stunning the wretehed,' when we see you |
mnking true effort to harmonize, by means
of your magnificent resources, those dread |
nj ihce-to-iace OPP osites of which we spoke. !
We will believe that Your feelings nre not |
all too delicate for ure ! We will believe !
that your syinpathies with the remote mise !
ries of which YOUR orators tell Won are more
than mere sentiment, when we see you doing |
something, making some strenuous surrender |
of personal ease and comfort, to remove !
from your doors the greatest spectacle of
virtual slavery which las far as we eau Learnt /
the whole world contains.
"Rrsign some lnrger portion of your |
your pleasures, your vacnnt hours, |
your influence, 10 the unreclaimed mass thar
is weliering behind your palaces, crying
aloud in bitter despair, Usque quo Domino
ana convlctlng you, we say not OF conscious |
hypocrisy, but of that which subjects YOU, in |
the eyes OF Some, 10 the suspicion of unreal
iiy and partizanship."
Believe me, Sir, nothing would induce me |
TO ask 10 nespass thus on your columns but !
tint l am 80 well assured how impractical,
how hopeless of result, is this well Intended
of the circle of genilewomen mem
toned in The Times. trust have spoken
of them with all the respectful Difference
which their sex aud their high position de-
mand, und however feeble my words the
thought which ] desire TO suggest may not
be utterly disrcgnrded.
] remnin, Sir, your
faithful servant, II. G. ID.
Nov. %.