Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21

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which will not pinch single meal from the poorest.
We ask it as end of justice and democratic
equity to those who have sought here a refuge from
expressions in the Old World know the impress
sion with which many regard their arrival here );
but | ask q more generous view. However little
their appearance may promise for their moral ad-
vantage to this country, better question is their
worth as the germ of future generations. Yet we
need not refer TO the future only thousands who
left the Old World 20 years ago, can point to the
monument of their labor enriching all our Union.
They come at tho rate of more than a thousand q
day those already here are but the advanced
guard the movement extends eastward IL has
reached Hungary and the Danube it WILL ere
long, reach the Don and the Nolga and Cossack
and Circassiau may yet drop their instruments of
war, and turn furrow side by side on the peace
ful prairios of the West And still more eastward
the movement will REACH ill the human tide will
flow the other way The population of Eastern
Asia already begin to feel the impulse thirty or
forty thousand Chinese have found their way into
California and more Of the Eastern nations will be
drawn into the current. From both these streams
will we not receive million souls year, Ii
is here that our religion is to grupplc with and sub
due all the Paganism of the earth-the missionary
and the schoolmaster may stay at home their
work will be here. The duty of our country is to
Anglo-SaxOnize and Chrstianize let each in this
vast multitude who can read and write, communi-
cate freely with those they have left behind, and
the best means for this end will be set in motion
In the name of religion and political freedom we
ask Ocean Penny Postage. Letters penncd in
tongues which never were printed in America, will
then carry lessons of our laws, our freedom, and
our religion, to regions which an American news
paper never reached. 1t is the interest of despot
ism to screw newspapers down. OF three millions
of foreign born citizens, one has come from the
Continent. From Germany, during the past year,
the emigration to America and Australia could not
have been less than 100000; each of these would
write at least two letters n year. and the contents
Of these wOull he malp IN nj lpne ri,
millions of men. This would be better teaching
than newspapers could give. We ask il as an act
of good will to the foreign born population of the
United States. If any one knew with what heart
rcnding lamentations they have parted from their
relatives, he would support the scheme which makes
frequent correspondence between them feasible.
One-third of all the letters between the United
States and Great Britain are to and from Irish
emigrants; four-ffths Of the commercial cores
pondence goes to England and Scotland the cost
| oi TINS IS charged by rich men TO their customers
--and thus the whole sensible tax is imposed ON
the poor. There is another great principle to which
We can appeal, which distinguishes this country
from all Others namely that the necessares of life
shall not be taxed because the tax would, compar-
atyely tal on the poorer But there is Il precous
article on which the hearts of three millions of our
cOuntrymen and women feed with ms great a hunger
as they ever felt for bread. We ask that this nee
essary may be held as sacred from taxntion.-
thousands IN Europe live for weeks ON short allow
release letters
from friends abroad Mr.. Burrtt related two
affecting incidents of this kind. 1t is for us to
spreau AnglO-SaXon labor, language and religion
over the world. We have an ample field for the
work we have now one in which God himself has
opened his bank of pure and uncoined cold. which
was kept until tho payday of labor, by him who
would stunt the aborer to n shilling day. hun
dred years ago the Ango.Saxon race did not ex-
coed twenty mllions it now exceeds sixty; in a
century hence it may exceed 500, 100000. Would |
n tn ngTn GF...... Al.
those vast populations? What can do it better
than the establishment of Ocean Penny Postage ?
Do you wish to all brought under the religious
influence of this nation? Then nothing can so
well produce that effect as the system which ad- |
vocatc.
Mr.. Burritt's address was frequently and loudly
applaudcd.
The Hon. John p. Hale was introduced to the
meeting. lie said he was reanimated by contrast
OF what occurred eight years ago in the House of
Representatives of the United States. The postage
thcn varied from g cents to % cents there was a |
proposition to reduce it to and 10 cents mem-
Der from Southern State opposed IT, giving as
his ground that 1t device 10 create deficiency
IN the revenue and thus give a prctext for n high
protective tariff. advocated this measure (said
Mr.. ilale) because advocate every measure which
tends to give an impulse to thought, and now chan
nels to its expression; and because | oppose all
lm9cdlments in the way of human affections In
tue last Congress Mr.. Ncnablc, of North Carolina.
SAID that to maintain that the Post-Ofice should
support itself was as absurd as that the navy
should, by pirating on the commercial world. II
Is ptiiul position for the United States TO levy
tax ON the diffusion of enlightenment A tun o
iron from Liverpool to New York costs 81; why
charge ; 200 for tun of letters? Like them the
telegraph conveys intclligence why not levy tax
on the lightning of heaven? a sentiment Of
Nashington's may be enlisted in this cause" In
peace prepare for war;" How? Not by massa.
cres but by fortifying against the contingency of
war; Inc lnstrumentalties Of peace should lie
employed in time of peace so that war shouId
never come and what better preparation for neace
than that here proposed? 1t would put the world
under bonds 10 keep the peace. DO not fear tho
Immigration here. Let million year come and
Ior thousand years and more; we can give every
nun, woman ana child one acre and half of land.
10 You want Ocean Penny Postage? .You can
nave 1t. llowY by saying so. Congress will saw
~ is their duty, first to learn and then TO exeeue
tue VIII oi their constituents. But remember Con-
grcss never moves till the people move it. There
Is great ucai SAID about the iillibusterng spirit
address myself to it, because we ought to address
ourselves to every one. You want to reyolutionize
the world how can you do it? Not by buyinp
and shipping old muskots but by the Ocean PennT
POSTAGE This will be the best way to shake the
SNtr It On ms throne and help the Sultan who is
better Christian than the ruler of Christendom :
ureat applause. How is it to be done? Let Il
DO brought before every man, woman and child
ana send so many petitions that they cannot he laid
on the table Applause.
MI Tappan mentioned some statistics. The
English overland Mail to India is sent in 302 boxes
OF which 800 contain only newspapers, sent IN +
place of letters, to save postage Their wranners
show that the friend who endorses them is we'll n
and where he is Iu England, in 1898, the number i
OF letters mailed was 75,OOO,OOO. The rate was '
reduced and IN 1852 the number was 4OO,OOOO 600 /
In the United States the cheap rate Commenced in Q
1913 there. were then 24,0OO 900 of letters mailed i
IN looU tins number increased to SO 10000 The r
lower the rate the greater the revenue. n
The following petition was then read and adont-
ed = N "'u "uoPN y
TO he Honorable Senate and Hou,e of Psor...,,. !,
Tires ia Congress AssemJled; '1''''''''"'
me citizens Of New-York assembled in publc
meeting in the Broadway Tabernacle Jan. G. is54 h
Hon: Jacob a. Westervelt, Mayor of the Civ
presiding, Tor the purpose of considering the sub "a
Je1u oil ocean postage, respectfully represent s,
That they are fully of the opinion that the nres ii
ent high rates Of ocean nnsLa re are n - T.: :.