Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-02
WHOLE NO. 47S.

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,cd to my friends that e had to stay in them
hould surely expect to die. | saw nothing elso
II these except what tho emigronts had brought
and upon this uaggagc many Of them had to mako
their seats. Some Of these stalls contained eachi
whole families Of six to ten and fourteen, DIR. Ja-.
! cob NJ. Moore, who was employed by the agent
: here to attend item for the six months Gcclurcdi
to me that they had no place to keep their proyis--
ions except under their beds and there, ut any
time you would find their rations Of salt beef salt
pork, rotten fish, &c. with all other indcscrbable
ueccssarics. Besides this there are always some
sick persons in bed. This tersr is no huDiJug It.
Is stern reality: and, ui IL family Of six, afteri
two months they never will find three successive
lays that all Of them well, short of six or nine
months. Thus maintain that the best house in
town, and the best of medical skill and the bestt
oi fresh food are nothing too good for emigi ant
if he can afford it, while passing through the
ordeal OF acclimauJn. But such is the develop.
ment of hope in the Airic American 1.-THE Fow-~
lers will sustain mel that whatever may DO thor
suffering and misery he endures. as he
escapes them he torgets the past,and descants with
rapture on the future. Who does not know how
miserable seryiIe ard degraded is the condition
Of the fl &c coured people in the States ?-and yet.
Messrs Pennington, Fred. Douglass & Co. preach
to these people the certainty Of elevation, and
sOca, and political equality in America, while thes
million educated free from their preiudices, could
not come to such conclusions in their widest
dreams Of philanthophy The former would accom-.
plish much more good for onr race if they would
come over and help us correct the abuses and OPP
preston here, and make this country whas it
might be, than by staying there, and Wasting their
energies in eXhausting efforts, which always avail,
nothing lave ust taken the pains to m easure q
hut one story high, with one and earret
twelve by sixteen feet into which seventeen of the,
emigrauls Of the Banshee were placed, AMI in,
which they remained nearly two months, till the
fever broke out, when they were separated, leaving
ten in the hut. Another hut close by has four
persons in one room, twelve 10y fOm teen feet This
10 the way they live. We think they have, in Mr.
II. ". Dennis, an honest upright faithful and at.
tentive agent but there no better houses to be
obtained for small rent, and he is not furnished.
with any Money by the Society, but is compelled
to trade, and twist many ways to meet the cash
payments for the rent, Iursing and washing. &c.,
Of the emigra nts, COMPEL the Soceys creditors
to take trade, goods and provisions when they do
not want them lie has the confidence of this
community, and we all think lie will DO right. and
give satisfaction TO the emgrants, to the full ex-.
tent Of the power and means conferred upon him,
by the Society lie is the man perhaps the only
man here that does ever did give his whole at.
ention to this business exclusively. The emf.
grant by the lsla de Cuba have petitioned to the
Directors of the New York State Society to send
their friends in future to Mr. Dennis; hat il seems.
to unfair unless they also gave him an addition,
/ III small salary. Such man, if he were whito,.
possessing the same qualifications wond receive
II salary of twelve fifteen hundred dollars while.
NOW he receives only six or seven hundred. Any
man like him make four times this amount by.
trade; and shall be sorry for the poor emgrants.
| if they lose him.
| 10 class of men are more needed in this country
than thoroughly educated and skillful physicians.
never have heard Of country in which life is So
cheap. But here again is one-man power The
Society employ regularly but physician-Dr.
IEoherts-whose estimate of poor emigrants is very
small. While lac viii visit sume few of the repu-
ted wealthy families of Northern enigrants tAres>
times day uncalled the majority of the rest can
ot.p nd tha
declare to me that they send and send, and send
again. and he will not them himself once in
two or three weeks, and sometimes in two three
months, but he will send them boy heather
native with caone oil, and pills, and will doctor
them in this way, and if these do not cure, they
must die. One poor family. and the single men,
have been treated i'll this way. People here gen.
orally build houses 10y peice-mcal, occupying some
years III completion. The Doctors time has beers
absorbed III building his house this year, and |
think some years before. Now, in these circum-
stances the Society should have employed some
one to assist him in medical practice. This nag,
cct Of duty is partly owing to the want of Geape-.
ttiun and an independent supervision By some.
IagCnt or commissioner who is too honest and brave
TO be influenced in favor of wrong by kind treat
mcnt, good wine, or splendid dinners / have
heard this same complaint twice, in whispers in
the States, and hundreds Of times here. But poor
Iacn the mass of emigrants are, they dare not
make any complaint public against the Society or
its agents, against the Government functionaries
of this Republic, fearing the loss Of daily bread,
if not their lives. Thus, glaring wrongs have OK
listed here for long time which the rich grow
fat on, and the poor, for their lives dare not meddie
with They tell us must take men they are
we must not disturb their passiOns-we must not
aror Sc their preiudiccs TO take men rs they are,
in any such sense, Is to leave them worse than you
find them an ANGELS spear must be had whose
touch will bring The toad proper shape through
it start up devil. would rather live serf
der the Car Of Russia, than in country where
must employ physician, in whose carefalness,
responsibility, and skill, lave no confidence.
The want Of competition keeps some men always
at the poAt from which they started, and the de-
pendence Of the community renders tEtm Iett%
kings The truth is, when emigrants come here,
by hundreds mt time, DR.. Roberts has more than
he properly attend to, with the occasional
assistance Of DR.. j. NJ. Moore. But this is no
son that he should do less than his duty. In JUS
tico DR.. Roberts, may here say that ! have no.
fault 10 find with him except in his medical prac-.
tice as the Societys physician. In my intercourse.
with him as citizen, kEh hifa us kind, generous.
and Uttuble most persons meet with Besides
he is yet young man, and, if he would study and
carefully is capable Of rising to the head
and leading the anof the medical fraternity in this
country, have personal quarrel with, nor enmi-
ty against the Doctor. But individuals have COM
planned of this aud other wrongs to the agents Of
the American Colonization Society in vain. AS n
last resort, | write this publicly in behalf Of many
hungry orphan children, aud wretched widows
made desolate by the loss of their husbands who
have died for the want of food or medical attep-
dance, in a strange and foreign land. ] do not
4 wish the Society to throw him overheard, but SIM
Iply demand greater degree of attention to poor
emigrants-a higher grade of skill and efficiency in
himself and then pay him a better salary. Because
this is dear country in which to live comfortably,
and the man who gives his whole attention to any
one DEPARTMENT. business deserves to be well paid
d Ii is a common saying here thatwe have either q
feast or famine, and it is no less true in regard to-
physicians than provisions. Report says that
! two medical young gentlemen of Boston are
, about to sail for this city. We shall give them q
hearty welcome and then we shall have four ply
scians,-Drs Roberts, Moore, Laing and Snow.
den. The latter two gentlemen will need eonsidsyl