Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-28
REFUGEES.

America receives exultingly the political refugees
from Britain, while Britain reciprocatcs the favor,
and ioyfully welcomes the fugtiyes from social in
Justice and personal slavery, In this exchange OF
| good Offices, Great Britain has much the best OF
tho bargain. In the first place, her tyranny is not
for moment to be compared with ours She dooms
no man or woman to chattclism for his or her COM
pcxion. For this curse of color she proscribes no
one from the amenities Of society or the protection
Of law. She does not drive of her native born
children singly and in companies of scores to cs-
cape scryitudc worse than death. This tcc do,
therefore is our disgrace the deeper than hers.
And then again, she has the advantage in that
those she receives from are far before those she
sends us in point of character and usefulness.
Professor Allen, William and Ellen Crafts William
Wells Brown arc characters who do honor to them
solves and usefully and crcditably employ them
selves in their adopted country, for the advancement
of morality and the furthcrance of free principles
while those to whom VIC have recently given refuge,
are leaguing with slaycholdcrs to defend and per-
petuatc their internal crimes, and are fostering
that meanest of all follics prejudice against color
and class Thomas Francis Meagher has silently
but surely compromised with Shareholders, has re-
ceycd their adulations and honors, and in return
quietly given his sanction to their crimes lie has
cloouently discoursed Of freedom to the men who
forge chains and own human beings by the score
and the hundred and the freedom he advocates is
quito fratcrnal with chaltcl slavery. 0'Donahu
mas proved himself so vulgar, brutal and drunken
a blackguarl that his conduct has shamcd all
\ decency even in communities where babes are sold
by the pound and delicate women are exposed
naked to tho cutting lash Of the ocherous oycrscer.
And finally, john Mitchell, world renowned for his
advocacy of liberty, out does Legrce himself, in
his coarse pro.slavery ayowals Slavery with him
is not even pecddUo lie desires the possession
Of an Alabama plantation, we'll stocked with slaves,
and would enforce ;he robbery of their labor and
persons with the LASH the thumb-screws the stocks
and the paddle and what other appliances the hell
ish ingenuity of slavery invent to extract labor
from human muscles. And this inhuman monster
is feted as the champion Of liberty. We know
nothing like it in the annals of even American
| Shareholders. lie is intclligent-he comprchends
4 the principles Of lbcrty-he is himself just from
, prison-hos just shook on his chains. Ills hear
has not been hardened gradually, as are those o
Shareholders generally. But he springs at onc'
lloh 'iic ehuhPionn"'p VI Hoeuo"' '"o i"'i" "V''
strosity which his shameless ayowals show him t
BE-. And our tyranny has exchanged the heroic, am
liable and truly useful and worthy Crafts ant
Browns for such as he. Surely it is true we hav
the worst of the bargain in the exchange Of citi
zcns.
What Mcagher and Mitchell doing here ou
citizens all now know. On our FIRST page may b,
, found some account Of what American cxilcs ar
doing in Britain.