Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-29
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.

Of your State capital. It is indeed distinction
wholly unexpected, and I fear hardly merited but
IL were afectaton to deny that 1t has given me the
keenest pleasure, and will always be remembered
with pride.
My warmest thanks nre especially due for this
high and authoritative recognition Of the cause Of
Irish nationality for which cause !, we'll as many
better men, have for years endured the most curious
refncmonts Of malignant vengeance at the hands
Of our country's enemies. And now that the
corrupt Parliament, Press and Administration Of
England are eagerly heaping deadly insults and
calumnies upon the names of their intended VIC
Tins it is to me at least, much more thar q COM
pensation that | am addressed with fraternal re-
spcct, and my hand is grasped in friendship by q
higher and prouder race Of frcemen than Europe
has known for two thousand years.
The course which | have taken as n journalist,
on some questions Of vital public interest, and
which has had the good fortune to meet with the
marked approval of the Legislature Of Louisiana,
was dictated by my own longsettlod opinions and
feelings. The ungenerous imputation which has
been made-that / took that course in order to
court and hatter the South at the expense of the
the North--the North where have made my home
must, to Southerners, appear irrational enough.
And even those who make such a charge must
themselves disbelieve it, for obvious reasons. In
truth took no thought of South or of North Mt all
of sectional interests geographical parallels Of
latitude but on great qeston OF social polity
arising for discussion, felt myself entitled, and
indeed bound (haying undertaken to conduct q
journal at all to deal with the same plainly and
independently. IL my conclusions differ from
those OF several politicians, orators and philoso-
piers OF these parts, perhaps it is because have
drawn mine from some considerable study Of his
tory and politics in ancient and modern times, and
not exclusively from the papers Of Old England
the lecturers Of Now England, and the Gospel ac-
cording to the apostles Of Progress" Once for
all, refuse to believe that human wisdom and
virtue were born about the beginnins of the nine
teenth century-were cradled in Exeter Hall
were sucked, like the twins Of Rhea Silvia, by n
sEe-wolf Tor strongmnded fcmalc) and have
reached their highest deyelopcmeut and bright,
consummatc blossoming in Garrisonian" OF
Boston, bowling against the Union, as q dog bays
the moon.
You will not condemn nor wonder at the zeal of
stranger and n refugee for that Union. In my
case it is not unnatural. To me, from my child
hood, the United States has been n sacred Unity
one and indivisibe-the complotest grandest achev-
ment and monument Of the wit and courage Of Man
in modern times. The admiration became pas
sion and the passion led far, and cost me dear:
but the dcarer it has cost me, the more jcalously
and proudly cherish now my old faith and hope /;
hopeless distance with the desire Of the moth
for the star CLEANS and waves above me at last
Nay Tie colours Of Gods Lo,c be torn asunder ere the
Stripes Of that majestic bdnncrl
beg, gentlemen. that you will convey to both
Houses OF the Legislature my warmest acknow-
Judgements OF their goodness: and assure them
that shall endeayor Mt an early day. to avail N.Y.
self of thoir invitation, and visit Baton Rogue.
With sentiments Of high consideration, have the
honor to be your obedient servant,
JonN Mitchell