Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-09
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We have been favored. with n nasty private lelleT
from Mr.. Pillsbury, from which we AFRO sorry to
learn that hj9 health is still very much impaired,
aud he suffers much, yct he says, since the Man.
chester Conference, where he quite exhausted his
then feeble health, a. have been struggling
generally with hope and promise in the
a1cen LIANT, bu. not always" Az tho time OF
writing, the fore part of last month, he was about
his way to London, to be present at an
Anti Slavery Conference, which was to have been
held ON tho 10Th and S0th ult.
We venture to make the following extract from
the letter, which will he read with interest. 1t is
dated
BELFAST, Ireland, Nov, 1854.
made n tour into Scotland tho first Of Septem-
Der, and am now drifting back, so as to be at a
London British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Confer.
ence, on the Goth and Goth Of the present month.
| like Ireland well, all but the humidity of It's
climate. Aud you may be sure there are as fine
people here AS can be found below the stars. An
Irish welcome is all that Burns said of ono in the
Highlands -
ain heaven itself I'll ask no more,
Than just II Highland welcome"
That may not be Burns, but it is Pillsbury at any
rate; and why should not | be quoted, too2
But there are not many atolitionists in Ireland.
Religious bigotry and intolerance have kept this
for I huntiug-ground for ages. and it matters not
much whether Catholicism or its rival be in power
and place. The people have little to hope from
either, and so humanity can hope nothing from the
people.
But for Protestant bigotry, l am told Scotland
stands unriyallcd. There arc, however, many ex.
cellcnt people, in spite Of it-tosscd out of its fires
perhaps, JUS as volcanoes sometimes eject gem.
that nature has long hid in the bosoms Of the
mountains. a discussion between n Joseph Bar.
ker sort of man and a celebrated Divine, was /,
commence in Glasgow the week after | left. The
tickets were put at u pretty good price, but were al
sold lover three thousand) many days before the
time Of the first meeting. Perhaps hardly any
other city in the British realm would have carried
through - long, 50 large, and so liberal n COURSE
of lectures; SO that Scotland, although the most
unlikely to lead in any liberal religious revolution
Judging from present appearances, may, after I'll
illustrate the doctrine, The last shall be FIRST, and
the first, last"
The people arc disposed to laugh somewhat al
H'iS' NV 'Nh's 'N'hp 10 W. Otii
particularly ut her knowledge of and fondness fol
the works of Walter Scott. She, like other Amer
leans, fancicd him as popular at home as abroad
But a poet, rs well as II prophet, is more honore,
abroad than in his own house. Indeed, | do no
think that in this particular case, the honor wa
deserved. 1t is presumption in me, everybod,
would Justly say, to express any opinion on such
subject. But it seems to me-, fcW men of such pow
es have ever lived to smaller purpose than Waite
Scott. lie has perhaps pleased more men AM
women than any other mortal man and yet
think he that is least in the new Kingdom, comm.
and come, is greater than he. l do not believe h
has made the world q great deal wiser, nor an,
better, (nor therefore, really any happier) than h
found it.
The Scott Monument, in Edinburgh, is shc al
suricst construction ! ever saw, except the Britisl
House Of Parliament. 1t surely cost cnoug'
$50, 900 to be ali that a good as well as grea
man could deserve. But it has mo likeness O
anything in the earth beneath nor probably Il
the heaven above and 50 to worship it would b.
no violation of the second commandment. 1t is al
enormous Gothic stceple, two hundred feet high
without any meeting house on which to rest an,
then it stands on the lowest ground in the city
except The enormous cellar into which the ra:lwa
station is burrowoI, aud a few other buildings tina
can endure u subtcrranean existence. In wha
would be the bell deck, were the monument indec
a stccple, sits the poet, in the richest marble chi.
cling, with his favorite dogs. The monumen
may perhaps be considered as erected 70 both, 70
the writings of the knight show him to have la
about as much love to dogs rs men, and while me
were remembering him with two hundred perpeu
dicular feet of gorgeous and costly Gothic ston
work, l have no doubt the poet would have said t
them, as his life surely did always, g Love Inc, Low
my dog"-and it is well, therefore, that both b
pcrpe,uated in the monument.
To History, Sir Walter Scott is even unnecessal
lily false. At the same time, his writings arc vcr
often fatal to the taste for more correct reading
as well the brilliant and glowing pages of Macau
ley, as the more friSid and philosophic volumes G
Hume. His heroes are always men Of the worl
of the portd as IL is, not as it ought to beam
as he ought to have been making it. So, too, c
his women; whether Helen McGrcgor or Jenni
Dean Meg Meshilies Or Dianne Vernon. Nome +,
them belong to the women of an adrancipg "a,
any more than did Jael, the wife of IIebor, to tn
Marys who loved Jesus, or than did Jeptha'
Daughter to the Phebcs who were fellow preacher
with Paul, the Apostle. The best thing that
have heard of him is, that he lived to see and t
de2lUre the little purpose to which he had liveC
Scotland is full of alarm at the inGdelity of An
erican abolitionists. 1t seems to me, all the Vo
taires and Russeaus Of France could not so hay
alarmed the eighteenth century, The people ca
have no idea how few Of us there are, on the on
hand, and how obscure and unprctending the mo.
of us are, on the other. All Judea, and, indee,
the Roman Empire, quaking under the tread
scarce n dozen fishermen, could not have prescnte
a spectacle more instructive. 1t is more than
mere Hebrew Pastoral. when it is told how on
man may chase a thousand, and two put ten tho,
sand to flight. lie is indeed dim of sight, vii
cannot see the final issue from the beginning, whe
an immense. n nODular and wealthy churcb s,,nf