Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-26


sions which her imagination, her memory,
or her friends could suggest. In fact, when
we come to siit the matter, il consists nine
ienths of retaliation and MS il is the pecu-
liarity of the British press to tell foreigners
everything that goes wrong in our country,
the lady's task is not difficult, and the result
will be no novelty to the British reader, nl-
! ways excepting tie style of the document.
! When we have said that Mrs. Julia G.. Ty-
| ler's line is principally retaliation of the
most screechy and indiscriminnte species,
we have expressed our opinion both of the
Sutherland address aud of the American re-
ply. No address ought ever to have been
published that could provoke such retalia.
ton, and when such an address has once
been published aud repudiated by the good
sense Of the country where il appears, the
persons to whom it is addressed will show
much better taste by leaving it alone than
by p,peatng the error. Ia fact, it is rather
to the credit of the American ladies that no
one has yet been found to reiort but the
mistress of tobacco plantation, who wields
the pen with n significant ieiceaess, and
who has been singled out MS one of II thou
sand at n reply. Our fair castigotor does not
leave a raw place untouched. Ireland, the
metropolis, the Dunrobin estate, the old slave
trade, the Duchess of Sutherland's diamonds,
our prcssgong-nay, the very amount of Our
poor rates and charitable collections, our
Queen, our bishops, our statesmen, our cot
ton imports aud Our crocodile tears, are all
lashed in succession with mcrciless dexter
ty.
There is not point of the whole body
polite that does not come in for n share of
the chnstisement. For all this we have TO
tliank little coterie OF lady philanthropists,
who were too much affected 10y the suffer-
ings Of p" Uncle Tom" aud his heroic young
friends, 10 remember those models Of excel
lence were born and bred under the very
system denounced. Our vocation as our
naists brings lis into too close familiarity
with the brittle nature of our own social
fabric, aud we hesitate TO throw stones which
our opponents will be too glad to throw back
at our heads. The tcmcrily OF the Suiher-
land appeal served only to show that the fair
appellants were not sufficiently acquainted
with the evils much more within their reach
aud their sphere of obligation.
But ne cannot be quite resigned under
Mrs. Julin's lash. The crushed worm will
tuin, aud the school.boy will demonstrate
from the block IL he lins shadow of a
ground for complaint IL is rather too much
even for Mrs. cx. President Tyler to write as
II England had done nothing, suffered moth
ing, paid nothing, in the cause of abolition.
We cannot admit that we are perfectly un-
changed sirce The days when Queen Anne
and the King of Spain divided the spoils of
the slave-trude, and that our statesmen, leg
islators, prelntes aud peeresses are Just the
same sort of people they have been Tor two
hundred years. In order to carry out this
vlnlput nsifinn fla f,tir Inlin is nlliual
to set down the cause of Wilberiorce aud
Clarkson-to what does the reader Imagine
10 envy of the United States. to revenge
for their successful revolt, to grief at the loss
of their market, (which, by the bye, we have
not lost,) To the nelarious design of sowing
dscortl between the northern aud southern
states, and to various other motives, intelli-
gible to certain class of feminine under
standings, but utterly inconceivGble to any
ordinary man.
We must also beg to ask the fair ranger
of Sherwood Forest, Virginia, U. s., just to
look at the comparative space on the map
occupied by her country, washed, as she
snys, by two oceans, aud the British lsles.-
She will see that we may be excused for
finding more difficulty in feeding thirty
millions than the Americans in feeding
twenty.six. II, in defending her own insii
tutions from British interference, she really
let ours alone, she would do enough, and
more than enough for her part in the quar-.
rel. But she does not let our institutions
alone, and 10y attacking them at every point
she gives up her vantage ground, and almost
justiiies the Intervention of the Sutherland
house phlanlhropists. The royul aud aris-
tocratic institutions she speaks of nre more
than thousand years old, aud, even il we
wished, we could not be easily rid OF them
nor cnn it bc denied that they contributed
much to the formation of that national char
meter of which the United States are so H.
lustrous result. We have also little
affair of our own to settle with Mrs. Julia
G. Tyler.
What right has she To assert that the
Sutherand.house address originated in the
newspaper press? W., at all events, never
heard OF it till it had passed the concIave in
question aud received many signatures. To
us il is the crIIellest cut of all TO he thought
accomplices in that singular proceeding
As for The patriotic eulogies of her country
with which she has adorned her reply, we
are only 10 happy to acknowledge their gen
eral truth. We appreciate as they deserve
the territory, the rivers, the two oceans, the
soil, the hurbors, the cotton, the rice, the to-
bacco of the uHlted Suites; and even though
we have heard all about them before, we
are glad to he reminded of them by so
beautiful and accomplished n young lady,
but we do not sec why all these magnificent
advantages should prevent measures being
taken with view 10 the ultimate abolition
Of slOyery.-l London Times.
Such great evils have arisen from the sue
cessiu efforts of spiritual advisers" TO pro-
cure death-bed bequests from dying sinners,
through a skilltul management of the i'm
preston that a man can buy his way TO
paradise-that a bill has been introduced
into the Pennsylvania Legislature declaring
all henuesis TO religious and charitable in