Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-01
ANTI-sLAvERY IN ENGLAND.

The following statement in regard to the actor
of the British and Foreign Anti-Sla,ery Society i
from the correspondent ofthe Wesleyan. The state
mont in regard TO the AntSavcry Reporter i
quite correct, A marked improvement has appear
ell in its iberaly condor and earnest Auti-Slaycr,
tone since Mr. Scoble retired from its Edtorship
Bssdts this as we have previously noticed, Rich
Ard d. Webb, publishes the Anti-Slavcry Advocate
small monthly sheet but conducted with very
Extraordinary judgment and ability. Its editor i,
Ultimately familiar with the whole Anti-Slavcr,
history of this country, with the position of the po
htlcal parties and the churches here as also will
the differences and relations Of the different classes
OF Anti-Siavcry men among u.s. Besides which it,
Editor is most laborous and out spoken abolition
ist
The correspondent of the Wesleyan says:
The nnti'slavcry party in this country have. fo,
several years past, been in very disoreanized CON
dtion. Notthat there has been any want ofpublic i'm
terest in the great question of American Slavery,
but the British and Foreign Anti-Slayerv Socciv
has been feeble in It's action and l-adyised in fs
policy. To trace the course of that society since
its reconstruction after the great battle of freedom
was fought in the West India Islands, would he
10th tedious and unnecessary. Suffice il TO saw.
therefore, that instead of enlghtening tbe nuLlic
and showing what the people of this country could
10 towards etlccting its abolition. and instead of
seeking to induce the British Churches to utter en-
ergetic protest against the raorous course of their
eu'religionsts across the Atlantic, it was content
70 show in long and dry reports tccming with sta
tistcs that iew cared about reading that the col
cred population were progressing in the West In
dies, and that the evils of which the planters com
planned were partly occasioned by their own mis-
management and partly by our Free Trade meas
ures with regard to sugar imported into this king
dom. That these questions were of importance
should be the last to dspute but they ought never
to have taken precedence of the interests of the
three millions of enslavcd human beings whose
fate so darkly bots the escutchcon of your great
Republic. Then, again, in the Anti-Slayery Re
porter the organ of the Society, all mention of the
labors of the American Ant-Savery Society, and
their friends, was carefully avoided and whatever
may have been the cause of that silence, this much
is certain, that many earnest Abotionists consid-
cred that such paper should be the vehicle of
communicating to the British anti-savery world
everything Of interest that was said or done by
American Abolitionists irrespective Of the parties
to which they belonged and what added mach W
tho dsunion and bitternes Of fseling, was the way
in which the late Secretary (now in your country
mixed up his private hhtreds with his public du.
ties. For example, the Rev. Edward Mathews, the
Agent of the Free Mission Baptsts came TO this
country to give information the slavery question
and to collect funds for the Dawn Institute ofwhich
his society was, at that time, the tenant. To his
surprise he was coldly received By the Secretary
hndy 70 his further astonishment, he found Mr.
Josiah Henson raising money for the same beneyo
lent object, professedly. lie of course complained
to Mr.. Scoble but that gentleman at once becam,
apartizan of Mr.. Hensons and, without nstitutinl
proper inquiries, published in the Reporter that ht
alone was entitled to collect money for the Insti
tute in question. This extraordinary conduct, ad
ded 10 other circumstances, still further alineateC
the affections of many Abolitionists from the socie
ty. But, happily Mr. Scoble resigned his impor
tant Office and made way for one who possesses,
believe more Catholic dnti-slavery spirit, bette
tact keener perception Of his duties, and mil
der temper Irefer TO Mr.. l.. A. Chamerovzow.-
The advent of Mr.. Chamerovzow as leader of th
great ant-slavery party in this country, wns mos
Opportune, and so far he has surpassed my mos
sahguine anticpatons. But, while he has stille,
the storm of passion, and silenced the voice Of Sian
der, he has not, can he yet, organize the scat
tered anti'slayery forces, nor make all of on,
mind as to the various parties in the United State
md to the best modes of action in opposing thu
formidable curse of chdttel slavery. But / thinl
he will succeed in bringing about something ik
union, and in adopting judicious and energeti
measures, in the carrying out of which the friend
of Mr.. Garrison, of Mr. Tappdn, and of the Libert
Party, can all heartily join; and in these audabl
aims he is receiving sympathy and cooperation o.
all hands.