Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-04

reproving the misdceds Of the Spaniards in the
New World condemned the traffic in men, de-
nounced those who engaged in IL directly, rs well
as those who supported it indirectly. Benedict
XIV. renewed and confirmed the ordinances OF his
predecessors. Plus VII. used all his influence
with the conqucrcrs of Napoleon to procure, by a
special treaty, the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
And, finally, Gregory ANl marked his barbarous
reign by one laudablc act in raising, in his turn,
his voice against the commerce in negroes. 1--WE
warn and coniure" he said in the encyclical lettor
already referred to, call faithful Christians for
the future, neither to harass the Indians and ne
groes to rob them of their substance, nor to re-
duce them to Slavery. e. nor to carry on that
nhuman traffic in which the negroes, as if they
were brutes and not mon, are bought, sold, and
subjected to the severcst toll, contrary to every
dictate of humanity and justice"
A participation in Slavery, then, whether Of
Indians or Negroes, has always been considered as
highly criminal by the Popes. Would they SO in
varably, so perse,eringly, have denounced sys-
TEN in which it is impossible to see either crime
or a irroHg, or eren a peccddIoP
! Thus Christianity, even through all the corrup-
tons Of Roman Catholicism, has preserved its
Anti-Slayery character. 1t is to repudioto IT,
therefore, IN its very essence to accuse Christ Of
being an advocate Of human bondage.
Since you found it necessary to sanction your
opinion by three great names, it must be confessed
that your choice, though made, no doubt, at haz-
ard, is most unfortunate one. II could not have
been more so, perhaps, if for Moses, Socrates and
Jesus Christ, You had substituted Kossuth, Mnz-
zni, and Victor Hugo. For the living can protest
better than the dead.
! Kossuth, notwithstanding his cautious rctiracy,
while in the United States, might defy you to
produce a single line of his, single word in favor
Of your strange doctrine. The spirit of all his
speeches is that of the immortal act Of his glori-
Gus dictatorship: the Abolition Of scryitude in
Magzini, himself the pcrsonihcation Of devotion,
has given evidence Cf his sympathy with suffering
of every kind of his hatred Of every form Of tyr
amy. lie attacked directly, and with passionate
fervour, the Slavery Of the United States in an
article published in Boston in lS46.*
/ Victor Hugo beside an admirable letter in which
ho avows his firm confidence Of yet seeing Amer
ica purify herself from the most shameful Of all
pollutions, might point to you that passage Of his
f! ChatimeHts!
BEurope, en- rougissani dit: Quoi! j'avnis dcs
rois
Et rAmcriquc dit; Quoi j'Ovais dcs csclayesi
Such men, Sir, are the true precursors Of the
Universal Republic. She recognises no others
Whoever approves of oppression, it matters not
under what name, it matters not of what race, is
an enemy of the Universal Republic.
But if the Universal Republic is nothing to you,
if Ireland alone has any interest for you, her cause
is but badly served, believe me, by separating II
from that of other victims of tyranny, her rights
of n vast portion Of Humanity.
The Joy of Ireland happy at your delveranco,
: will be dashed with bitterness to know that, in
another cause, you are in open disagreement with
+ her most ilustrious patriot.
, hear the indignant voice Of 0'Conncl crying
out from the tomb his beautiful words of 1887;
"we are all the children Of the same Creator
heirs of the same promise, redeemed by the blood
of the same Redcemer; and it matters not tC
f what caste, to what color, to what faith VIC may
bcong!"
When your profession Of faith upon the subject
Of Slavery shall have crossed the Atlantic, grov
Gus will be the disappointment Of your friends, 81
has been ours, the democrats OF various nations
gathered together here in New York. In place o
, n journal which would be, we had hoped, an anti
dOc to that already established, which is also Irish
but devoted to dcspOtism, you have given us in
stead merely second cditio. of that paper.
Why then should the Citizen enter into compcti
ton with the Freemdn's JournalP Is it that tw,
journals are needed, one to eXtol the odous cruel
ties of Pho Mono and kings blessed by his bloody
hands, the other to sanction the atrocities of Amer
4 ican planters this to riyct the chains Of tn
blacks, that to riyct the chains of the whites p
= The FTeemamS Journal it seems to me, is quit
equal to the double labor.
: Ii the sale Of the Cjtizcn shall soon enable yo
= to purchase a plantation in Alabama VIC shal
, of liberty, suIsisting ly Slavery. We shall r'
i grct, too the lot of your unfortunate bondmen, t
T whom the whip is promised in advance.
: l regret, Sir that am not able to subscribe thi
u letter with a name better known. But in th
absence of the chiefs the obscure soldiers Of til
e Universal Republic must do their duty,
ALEXANDRA lloLlNsKI
h -soe also his letter to Mr. Ashurs published in this
il other papers in August ast.-Ep. sriNBAEDl