Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-30
PROM Frederic pousins's Paper.
OUR INFLUENCE ABROAD.

"0ur country is bound to allure tho world to
Liberty Ivy the Lcauty of its example, George
Bancroft.
The uttcrance Of such n sentiment, at THE cold
season of tho year, is rather illtimed, and ~altogeth.
et inappropriate. 1t must had died on the ears OF
MIR. Bancrofts audience, the moment it was utter.
cd. The people naturally exnect in the course OF
human events, to be compelled to listen to such
rhetorical huurisEes. on the Fourth Of July, when
every body knows that truth has taken leave Of
absence, not being willing to have a part yr lot il
the ~clap-trap oratory Of that festive dty.
If the Lecturer was speaking ironically why
then, it was well enough but, if he presumed up
on the gullibility of his hearers, and pnlmed thi.
nonsense upon them as Truth, his conduct is very
reprehensiGle.
"Ou- couatry Is bouRd to allure he woyld IN Lib
erty by the beauty of is crdmpie!' So said George
Bancroft, Esq, in his Historical Grafton recently
delivered in the city Of New York.
We would suggest u slight alteration ia the
phrascolugy Of this sentence. In order that it
may speak the truth, it should read, Our country
is bound to allure the world to Shdre'y''
Is not this n slavcholding nation Ono unac-
uuainted with the facts of the case, would Judge
from this choice sentence we have quoted, that
shis is q land Of Freedom, unpOllutcd by tie foul
footprints Of the Tvrants who arrogrte to them
selves the power to crush out the humanity Of
millions, and reduce them to n level with the brute.
iluT ~ Urn " Lf't'tH' iliA'' W ''h -
the example Of the United States? Where is It's
beauty? Is thorc any thing very beautiful III
whipping women, buraing them with red hot
irons, setting bloOdhnundS upon their track. tear
ing their infant children from them, and selling
them with horses and other cattle? Is there any
thing very beautiful in this example? This is II
government which mikes it n crime, punishable
with fine and imprisonment, for a man or We.
man to feed the hungry, aud clothe the naked.
no man can be n christian and obey its dclnuniacal
enactments. Would Mr. Bancroft have the world
initiate the example Of the United States, when
she snatched a minister of the cross, from his
lIeaven-appointed labors, aud by the help OF rum,
and bayonets, and canuOhS, and men lost to all sense
of shame. or honor, thrust him into the hell Of
Slavery? The Jeauty Of its example! is there
anything beautiful in theft, and murder, and pros
titution, and all the black catalogue of American
Slavery? Any thing specially beautiful in onr
chains, and thumb-screwS, and branding -irons ?
Anything very detachable in the contemplation OF
the slave code? o what Il beautiful example does
America set before the world But Mr.. Bancroft
saws we are alluring the world to Liberty. How
BY legislatinG in favor of Slavery? BY pulling
down the old barns OF Slavery, and building great
er? Where has Mr.. Bancroft been living, tina
with all his wisdom ard crudition, he has nO
found out, that the great object Of this Government
as Developed IN is p0itcy, is the extension, the con
solidatiou, and the perpetuity OF 4 system ct rob
berry, and plumber, and oppression, APPLY charaC
terized as the vileSt that ever saw the sun.
The nation is ruled by n horde Of dosa0ts, VIII
would if possible, hurl the Eternal from his thron
in order to get at the hearts blood of the negro
Tho influence of the American Government abrUut
is only an influence for evil. Our theory is wei
enough but our practice is as far removed from it
as the east is from the west. While making lou,
professions in behalf of Liberty. no nation umdc
heaven is so powerful I'm ally of Dcspotlsm. W.
are a kissing and "a by word among all cililized M
tons. Even the heather blushes at our inconsis
toncies. We may preach about Freedom forever
but until the three and a half millions of men
women and children, now writing in the dust
are cmancipated from their t~hraldom, all our non
sensicnl rhodomontade about free thought, an,
free discussion and free nstitutions-al the III
meaning swaddle Of Fourth of July orators, COZ
corning the ''beauty Of our exampie'-wili be IT
gardei by the world" to which Mr.. Blncro
alludes, as a sounding brass, and q tinkling cyn
bal.-w.