Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27
WHERE SHALL WE FIND HIM7

In q late Bugle there is 4 sort of parallelism
drawn between the notorious Gllibuster Sanders
and the world renowned patriot Kossuth. Some
might feel rather indignant at having characters
so opposite put in the same category. Let such
take q second thought, and they will find that
though Kossuth has not labored to sustain the in
s%titution of slavery as Sanders has, or, expressed
a wish to have "a plantation with slaves" as did
John Mitchell, he has eyinced as little sympathy
with the chattel, and been as guarded in his re-
Dukes for slaveholding, as either of them.
When in this country he no doubt thought it
would be good policy to be silent. His non-com-
initial did not pay" The friends of freedom
saw well enough that he was not pleading for man
but scheming for Hungary-perchance for Kossuth;
and the South had adopted the sentiment, "lIe that
is not with us is against u.s." But when that
governor went to England where ''slaves cannot
breathe" and that too after he had lost hope Of
material aid from that country with whose insti.
tutions he declined all interference, while he was
urging them to interference with institutions across
the seas-when in Victoria's land he would be ex-
pected to raise his eloquent voice in favor of uni
versal Liberty, if the love of it was in him. Many
looked with hope to see him stand erect and show
himself the philantllropist as he had shown him.
self the politician.
No notice of such n manly position has yet glad
ened their hearts, but instead, such unmistakable
soulless woods as are gathered from the London
" Times" with the domestic party struggles
(he knows as we'll as any man living that they are
all referable to slavery of the United States, and
with the opinions attached to them we have moth
;pn 70 a., Cnoh n bnort1ovc haipp tho friopd IF
Liberty! Who believes it? though unprincipled
politicians are prone to represent him as the imma-
culate statesman an exile who merits universal COM
mensuration in his privations and sufferings in the
holy cauLe. Pshaw! How shall we distinguish when
men use words to cypress or to conceal their
thoughts?
No one doubts the oriental eloquence CT the
celel rated Magyar. his available knowledge of his,
tory nor his skill in turning it to profitable account
in making out his case, though there are those who
doubt his philanthropy.
In his Future of Nations" a lecture delivered
in New York, when his mother and sisters were OF
their passage to this country, is a rare specimen of,
even. his tact.
After giving a moving sketch. not long enough
to weary his hearers, but we'll calculated to arouse
their sympathics for the purpose of obtaining Pc
cuniary aid fol his mother and listers, he glances
at the nations of the past whose histories are
scarcely distinguishabls from fable, apparently for
the purpose of guarding the people of the United
States, against a loss of their prosperity and even
their national existence unless they establish them.
selves on the Rock of Christ"
Briefly but most eloquently he casts a retrospect
H. I.-ao ,,o. uoIa i'll "a. l-1.l -
Tyria with its Hundred cities; Baulbec with its
gigantic temples; Ninevah with its ramparts and
Babylon with its wonderous walls. These had
severally advanced to more than moderns have
achieved, and yet they have all passed away. He
says with all this oblivion before the eyes, of those
who were so proudly prominent "Mep still speak
Of the future"
His sentiments would not be over grateful to the
merchant princes of Gotham, nor to the politician
of the land, had they not been received as they
were ntended-mer distractions. Comparing
position with that of the ollen time, he says.
when you remember the politicians of ancient
Greece, acknowledging no other basis for the secu-
rity Of the commonwealth than virtue, and zee the
political system of our day turning only upon
manufactures, commerce ana finances, will you say
that our age is more virtuous"?
1t is after this he declares there is no security
for a nations permanent existence but in religion,
and that he divides into the dogmatic and the NOR.
al; the former the business of the individual; the
latter must be insisted on for the benefit of society
He says that touching the moral part, "There is
no christian people on earth" He says further
1.-The mysteries of dogmatism and the manners of
Unrshin antar avan into polifioa md t,,.o tba saalaa
of hatred and affection" but not the law of morali-
ty which should be paramount in all human rela-
tons. Moses ordained but negative, Christ positive
virtue. Christianity he indicates is not refraining
from eUil but doing good.
These are great truths set forth deliberately
by the author, but what was the design in their ut
terancsf Simply to more the audience to contrt