Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-05

heart, While IL Wnlneu sanctlmOnf0uSIy about the
growth of the papOl power. Such a party could
not live in this country. unless ii yelled itself in
secret.
The great DR.. Barnes had admitted that there
was no power outside tho American Church that
could uphold slavery for an hour, IL it were not
upheld within it. Were not these men straining
at the gnat of Catholicism, while they swallowed
down atone gulp the camel Of slavery.
4. lie objected to this party on account Of its
prescription Of foreigners. The whole number Of
foreigners in the United States was about two mill
lions, and they we're ecattered and mingled with
the native population. Experience had shown
that we needed theirilabor, and he would, say, let
them come. .f.. r 3 Y
The growth of Itho foreign element had just
about kept pace with the growth Of the slave pow
or, and thus was able to counterfeit the latter
But it was objected to these foreigners that they
voted on the Democratic oilpro-slale y side. Well
even if they did, tit must be confessed that n con-
siderable number of respectable Americans did
tho same thing. But how much worse was il to
vote with theproslayery Democrats than with the
pro-slavery Whigss But the truth was, the great
body of the American people was pro-slavery. But
the ccnsusi showedIthat, foreigners were not, pro.
slavery. The States which had the largest foreign
elements as New York, Massachusetts,, and Wis
consin, were the most decided antislavery States.
The South contained but few foreigners.
Foreigners were not the only persons in Amer
ca who got drunk or profaned the Sabbath,-nor
the only Ignorant men. In his ownlState, Indiana
II of the population could not read or write.
ho opposed it because it ignored and subordina-
ted the question of slavery. This was admitted
by Senator Wilson, in the U.S.. Senate.
In conclusion, he asked what was to be done un-
der existing circumstances The real friends of
freedom should seek each other, and those who
have entered this order should retreat from it as
soon as possible. They should be patient in la
boring for their object and not strive for transient
success, recoilecting that the paroxisms of faction
have their appointed seasons, even the madness Of
fanaticism is but for a day, and that the time is
coming when our struggles will be to others what
those of our fathers were to us.
A vote was taken on the resolutions, and they
wereladopted Immediately after which the con.
vention adjourned.
EVENING SESSION.
Convention opened with singing, Immediately
D after which Mr.. Brown took the platform.
WIN. WELLS BROWNS REMARKS.
He proposed to speak Of the hatred that slavery
had created in the minds of the white people a.
gainst the colored population. This prejudice was
not on account of any inferiority in the black, al
though it was often asserted that they were not ca
pable Of improvement, and that those who were
r free in the North were no better off than Southern
, slaves but those5who asserted this, selected the
poorest and most degraded Of the northern blacks
to compare with the slaves, and if many such were
not to DO found among the black race, they would
D in that respect, at least, be different from the white
race.
The Ilack man had-not.the same motive to i'm.
) prove his condition as the white. Education might
S fit'him for q higher station, but could not secure
him employment in it, and besides only made him
feel more keenly the degradation of his race.
u This prejudice was not against the color. All
around him wore black coats, black cravats, black
4 gloves. Ladies in selecting a silk would refuse
S one because it was blue black, and prefer a right
> jet-a real slick, glossy black. (Laughter.)
If there was any prejudice on this subject. it
y was ia favor Of the black. Manyi:a poor fellow
" suffered in the eyes of his lady-loye because Ms
Is hair was not of this color, and the delicate nous.
tachc and i~ncipient whisker! why, the color is such
n a favorite one, that it is the fashion to dye these
10 black.
II He then related, in a very amusing mahAet, o
I number of anecdotes, showing the strength of this
prejudice. There was no such feeling in England
= or in France, and it had died out in Massachusetts
n During this convention some speaker had denoun4
ccd VIM. Lloyd Garrison and Abby Kelly as ihs4
dels, and declared they had retarded the cause
They had, at least, destroyed this prejudice in
Massachusetts,, and if this had been brought abont
by %inidelity, then he would say, give him the in
fidelity of New England in preference to the Chris
tianity of Ohio. Applause.
v REV. ANToINETTE L. BROWNS srEEcH.
Miss Brown said it had been remarked that IA
L fellow feeling makes US wondrous kind" She
could sympathize with those who suffered. from The
prejudice against color, because she had felt the
burden of a similar one--a prejudice against wo.
man. There were many places where she could
ID not 20, not because she was Brown, but becatss
IN she was of the tfarer sex. She had been debarred
from lectures in Andover, and from witnessing n
Il public examination, because women didn't 90
OF there" She had delivered u lecture at a Lyceupt
there, and one venerable man refused to speak in
the course because a woman had lectured in it
but another, with more liberality, declared himself
not afraid to follow even q woman, after q week OF
us ventilation. sr -
n, As the speaker who preceded her had given
- some "reminiscences, one from her might not be on.
IN of order. Near the centre of the State of New
re York, in the little lquiet village of South Butler,
n, was a feeble Presbyterian Church, too poor to paw
al an able preacher an adequate salary. There was
N; however one man found-a giant in frame and in.
ID tellect, but black in culur-who offered to preach
on without a salary and the Rev. Samuel r. Ward
he was installed over a white congregation.
The Presbytery demonstrated. They said God
an was a.God of order, and there was q certain order
or in those THINGS that il Monld not do 10 a;arana.a