Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-02

sci declares to me that he has written four times I,
the agents on the very subject and has received u,
satisfaction. 4 few other citizens have written
and some cmigrants have done SO: lut who In,
ever mot with their compliments in any publ,
paper, while some oxocruble towards, who com
plain most Of the Society aud everything American
talk one thing here and another thing To the State
to please the people have their letters puhlishe,
lin all the papers. Not only public but even al
private letters OF such persons as President Fob
erts, Judge Benson, and their adhercnts, arc al
given to the public, and then brood OF youn!
.asirants for Office and colonization patronage fol
low IN the wake tf their elder brethren Ever
many new comers will write fine things OF this
country which they never have seen, and Ol whlcl
they have only read
"Tbcy toll. or tho boo,i;os ,,1i ,r,o ,,oro. s,,r
49,, '''''" Wy ''0'0 ,'"'
! anu i'n'! '"pIorcS 'hoy VIII never Know
Il would rather be right than President"
shall maintain the cause of God and humanity and
the POOR cniurant and native regnrless of cuuse-
Qucuccs | know that lv different course
could soon rrow rich hy the suffering and death q!
these poor pcoplc. For. in nearly every town and
county, there is Il one man powcr for that county
a man NAV held all the Off cs of Government. and
besides be lnwvcr merchant. udge. and acent
for the S,cietv and If he rhnoses il is NOT diirrlt
to turn the money and effects of these peonle into
his own Golfers But if | have health and the
same amount Of brains | can hesume wealthy ,iT
that be \ yirtue) yithout mid from the Colonizo
ton Society," this feeble government. or the mon
who see their da aruerreotypcs in the croup have
pictured For every moutbrul Of beef we vet we
are all equally dependent on the natives. When
ihpv cL,nsc n * cE nm rnyv - (which oftcn han
mems \ and mako war omopo themselves we can
ret M meat sometimcs for months. We have no
re,,lnr r,nrknt. Int when 4 Laef is occosi,nollv
L,',,,,Lt ~ r,orlot Ibnva soar, .iv dilrront LonG
nnllj9g NJ two no,,nds Of beef while the butcher
wos rt,tti,rit ifr fins onorrclnr and nlov;nr =
ro,,nI,r "r,I r,,,o,, G,r littlo mont aud solinn,
is fbrrc onvtliTor lilo snn,,lv And rhv is tLis9
Bor,,,sc s.orrrlT anv of tLe 'rconIe in his ritv
,nrl Lut rcorIy oIi .it d,,vn and doncnd nn III
ina Lv trado with tha u,,;ycs and Tins vL;Ic =
few wifi capitnl grow rich, most of them live only
from hand to mouth. Since all alike depend on
the natives for their living why need any one fear
to do right for the value Of the patrunirc of the
Society or the smiles of a few in transient power?
Their policy with the natives has been an unwise
one. The latter are not found in our schools, and
seldom in our churches One teacher tells me he
has about sixty scholars, hut not one native
While they give no encouragement to education
among them! fearing thew will get power some
day. they sell them any quantity of muskets with
which to blow out our brains when a wiser policy
would be to make it a penal ofensc to sell then,
muskets and powde., but educate them, regard
them as men, and incorporate them in community.
There is but very ittle regard for poor emigrants
yet value them mosG because they are the work
ing men, the bone and sinew Of the community
They are the only men that would cultivate the
soil and become the PRODUCERS and without such
the country will only struggle ON as now, in poy-
erty, till it meets with some reverse, and falls as
colony into the hands Of some European power
Think of the fact. We ouly live on the sea-board.
or n few miles up the rivers. We have not single
road five miles into the interior All the region
behind is land unknown. The hundreds of
tribes in our rear have only to unite, and they can
at any time drive Us into the ocean. And yet,
hear the windy speeches of our orators one might
suppose that all Africa had been conquered, and
cur lone star banner unlurled in every country
from the Cape OF Good Hope to the Mediterranean
from Guardltui to Cape Ncrd.
When pullishcd in TIE TRIpryt in 1851 nv
views in favor of African coonizatinn could not
believe that the opponcnts Of the scheme had ut
tered 50 much truth In that communication the
only thing have since found to regret was my
advocacy Of the proposed line of steamers to this
coast and this rcnret is only for the reason that
there is MS vet no suitable preparation made for
cmigrants as to comfortable houses and prorer
medical attendance hy the American Colonization
S1cicty nor the United States Government Sill
have charity enough to believe that if the for
mcr and latter knew these things as they are. If
the Society was not able the Government itself for
humanity's sake. would do something to mid them.
MANY Of us un,y cn,,rrs CLAIMED prr hands with
inv ihnt tlo Shirley which bos iu.t orriyrI
brought no cmirrauts: but our ioy was soon turn
ed to sorrow when we learned that the Sonhin
Walkcr wuul1 snuu arrive v.ith a lorrn uu,,Lcr
from P,Itimcrc TnGrtnn,to wretnhcs9 . Wb,,
will thny 4, in the midst Of those driyir,, re'Ds
hacked down in these lrokv nuts in which gentle
men in the State, wouId NOT keen their horses md
lyorite drrs The state oi tLin'rs here years ooo
I in REGARD to the treatment and suGcrir,e of c6,i
Grants was heart rcndinr and almost Incredible
and vet no one who had not the means and opnor
|tuniiy TO leave the country dared renort them.-
Thcy have greatly Glanced RON for the letter. and
vet tlcre is Il dark cha9tcr that never has been
written. An the letters from Liberia. nuIisbcd
in miners in the States pi sc too heh colorins to
every tbina nrrtoininr to tbis conntry. It is no
/ Paradise, NO Elysjum- no EIdorodo. tits the last
refuge of the onpresscd colored man. and a couu.
ttrv that could ms easily have been subiugated Lv
the whites, il they had no other. and were thus
compelled f. make the same sacrifice of thousands
of lives. We northern cmicrnnts Ly the Isle dc
lCuLo have Cnred we'll cnou%h. and tbus for our.
soI,ns b,yo NJ, yor, s,oci,I fuiTc cornrloint On,