Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
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| Kossuth, who found neither time nor place to
condemn the grievous wrong of slavery when he
was here amongst us, has ct length found brief
utterance on the question. He seems, after scme
years of experience, to have found out the fact,
that Shareholders are not to be trusted as the
friends of freedom. Had Kossuth learned this
fact earlier, he might have won a more enviable
reputation than that he now possesses. His popu.
lar triumph in America proved the destruction of
that high esteem with which the world had before
regarded him, as the fearless friend of universal
liberty. lie was willing to sacrifice American
slaves, to secure the appreciation and aid of Amer
lean despots. But he leaned upon a broken reed,
which has pierced him with sorrowful disappoin,.
ment. We now rejoice that he is wiser, and has
learned that European Republicans can hope for
no aid from American slave owners.
Kossuth is a regular correspondent of the New
York Times. The following is the closing part of
his last communication
"Well. one thing l will never be able to under
stand and that is--that the United States of
America do not even claim to have q voice in the
settlement OF such matters of general policy. That
the Government OF your great Republic do not care
about the justice or injustice done to any particular
nation-that1 have learnt to understand, though
| cannot commend that they don't take any inter
est in the maintenance of Turkey, and, therefore,
don claim n voice in the regulation. of her partic-
ular destinies-that | deplore, but after what |
know OF America, do not wonder at but the great
Republic of America should permit the condition
of the Christians in the East, the balance of power.
the political equilibrium of the world, and the mar
thine code of international public law, to be dis
cussed, modified, arranged by whomever in the
world without even demanding an official commu-
~nication on the subject and without claiming the
right of knowing what there be passing-that l
never in my life will be able to understand be-
cause it is a self-inficted ostracism from among the
powers on earth; it is a voluntary abdication Of the
political standing of the Republic, and a spontane.
Gus selfdegrada ton to the condition OF Japan or
Paraguay.
Blu this is your matter, not mine. / am sorry
for it, because | would, in the interest of mankind,
he glad to see the only Republic of this, our age,
standing high in the estimation of the world-a
living check to every infraction of the common law
of nations and a moral fulcrum to Justice ard
right.
Oh. if your nation, with all the light she has in
herself, would but elevate herself for one moment
to the moral height of true Republican principles
and with a noble resolution, cast away that curse
from your future, and that stain from your escutch-
on, Sdrery--low different would be the standing
of America in a few years! Her brightness
would eHace the brightest page of mankind's his
tory;-but with that incubus paralyzing the Union,
nothing ever can be expected, but CONFUSION at
home, disrespeet abroad, and a speedy decay of
of a national life, dying without having come to
age.
Hoe tonte dericata clades-everything which is
de ,lorable dates from that source. No foreign
power should be admitted to NEEDLE with domestic
affairs of any country; but a great, enlightened,
and, above all, a Republican nation, should know
by herself to be faithful to right-to do what is
Just, and to cure the cancer gnawing upon her own
heart. Where the difficulties are great, there the
glory of overcoming them is the greater. Small
matters may be done by small men, and small ma
tons. 1t is worthy of great nations to do great
things. Besides, freemen should never think il a
hard task to be just, or else sooner or later they
will cease to be free.
Next time will entertain you about the Ostend
American Diplomacy.
Yours, &c., KOSSUTH.