Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-05
A DEMAGOGUE.

Among the host of Demagogues our republican
sol! has produced there can hardly be found one
moro n accomplished, than the recently superseded
minister to England. He can he a temperance
man if occasion requires, and can drink raw whis
ky with any Irish crowd with n gusto. He can be
IN abolitionist or q slave.catcher, a non-extension.
list or q Nebraska man as may best serve his polit
ical purposes.
AS he returns to this country to cure if pos.
sible his election to the presidency, he does not
dcspise q certificate of character from those whom
his Democratic associates are wont to revile as
British abolitionists. Hoping doubtless, it may
he useful to him in securing the votes of Northern
Democrats, and hoping so to guard his speech that
his laudations of liberty shall not prejudice his
interests with Southern slave-driyers. 1t was a
delicate task to e~ulogise liberty while taking leave
of England and returning home to lead the party
of Slavery. But Mr.. Ducnanan is an adept at his
trade and he succeeded to perfection with his Eng
lish auditors rs he doubtless will with many Of his
democratic partisans.
The London Times Of the 18th Of March. in,
forms us that, LAST night the Lord Mayor, and
Lady Mayoress entertained Mr.. Buchanan, the
American Minister, and a select party at dinner in
the Egyptian hall Of the Mansion House, as a
mark of respect and consideration on the occasion
Of his leaving England"
In the course of a reply to the Aattering speech
of the Lord Mayor, Mr.. Buchanan said:
"With regard to the two countries, what n dread
full misfortune it would be to the whole human race
if they should ever again be involved in war.
tHear, hear How it would injure and throw
back the cause OF civilization and human liberty,
(Hear, hear How it would delight the despots of
the earth to find thoset two nations destroying them.
selves, and in that way destroying every hoped
for progress to mankind! (Cheers.) / hold that
there can be no political slavery where the English
language is the language of the country. IRE
newed cheers.) 1t is impossible-and so far from
there being any Jealousy, SO far from its Icing
proper that there should be any jealousy in either
country as to the honest and fair extension Of the
frontiers of either, it ought to be considered a bles-
sing to mankind that they should have the oppor-
tunity of extending their freedom and liberal insti-
buttons over all the unsettled parts of the earth.
(Cheers.)
We are inclined to think that some Of that Anne
rican disposition for self laudation and doughfaced-
ness, which we fnd so national a characteristic
among us, must have been legitimately inherited
from our British ancestors. Elise the Lord Mayor
and his guests would not have received with
'"Cheers, renewed cheers"-the ~palpable falsehood
of the American Demagogue, "thas no political
slavery can exist where the English language is
the language of the country" The passage was
designed to 60 down with honest liberty loving
Englishmen as a laudation of liberty. 1t was de-
aigned to make the impression that its author was
an enemy of slavery. And yet South American
Democrats may understand it only as a rhetorical
flourish covering an invitation to England to unite
with the Republic in a grand fllibustering foray
in extending sour Institutions on a grand scale.
Should the invitation be accepted, it is to be hoped
that according to Mr.. Buchanans suggestion, they
will Limit their extension efforts to "the unsettled
parts of the earth" We should have much less
objection to this than 10 the efforts to extend the
peculiar Institution to the settled countries Of Meg
leo, Cuba or Nicaragua.