Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13
Ube Antt- 9laperp Buelr.
A RECENT TOUR IN OHIO.

WON Vi ue euteTpTlSe uuu pTOSpVTlty vi tne Color
I'D citizens of Cincinnati, as to leave no niche for
me to occupy other than hearty endorsement of
The tributes thus bestowed.
Balls magnificent Daguerrean Saloons are yet
in the asrendent. One of the partners is now
pursuing the business in the Pantheon Buildings,
London.
Henry Boyd's extensive Furniture Factory and
Warehouse is another noticeable establishment
1t occupies buildings on both sides of tho street.
and furnishes employment TO ffty-two hands, col
ored and white, who, with tho assistance of steam
power. manufacture every description of cabinet
and upholstery work. Such is the present posi-
ton Of the proprietor, who was once slave in
Kentucky.
ed r. S. Duncanson's studio contains many produc-
tions from his pencil, both portrait and landscape
we'll worthy the attention of artists and connois-
seurs. His most recent compositions, ''The Land
of Beuah " on which he has been engaged for
eighteen months, is AZ feet by 6, and is so happy
in conception. 90 admirable in detail and embodi-
ment, that the spectator almost imagines himself
actually in the scene it portIays. A plan was in
progress for its exhibition and disposal by shares
lit being valued at $1,000. The friends of the
artist anticipating triumph beyond this, how
ever, in series he IL about commencing, in which
will be blended some of the beauties of the Gar
den Of Eden" presented by him to Charles Avery,
Esq, of Allegheny City.
Two coored men are proprietors of large coal
yard. Two others have proved themselves such
excellent coopers, that they have been solicited to
vacste their own shop and accept situations with
white fellowcraftsmen where such an innovation
short time since would have been impossible.
One firm is competing successfully in the bust
ness of picking and preserving epicurean articles
for expectation.
Coored marketmen and grocers are quite fea-
ture in Cincinnati.
jain l. Gaines, as a business man and public
spirited ctizon, has long exorted leading and ac-
knowledged influence among his brethren.
o. A. ciafin Of 1adiaa ypho conductin0 E,;r
in aid of the Attucks Blues, a colored military
company. A splendid silk presentation banner
spread its ample folds to the gaze of visitors, al.
luding to which, lady patroness, after express
ing to me degree of satisfaction with the organi-
saton and it's objects yet confessed her regret that
the American flag afforded no protection to the
colored man. In substance, she embodied the
graphic lines of Campbel;-
"The white mans liberty 10 types
Stands blasoned by your stars;
But what's the meaning of your stripes2
They mean your negroes scars -
The fact that colored soldiery, named in honor
of Crispus Attucks, Co coored man, bo it remem-
bered. and the first martyr in the Revoluton,) can
now, in 1856, peaceably parade the streeds of Gin
cinnati, within stones throw of the slavery ours
ed soil of Kentucky, stands out in vivid and bold
contrast with the trial hour Of 1886. From that
tine to 1874, scarcely year passed that Cincin-
natl was not disgraccd by mObs against the color
ed people and their white friends. "PIusses and
types were thrown into the river other property
seized and DESTROYED, and persons maltreated, the
wild mob spirit being at times SO general and
strong as to defy law, and hold possession of the
city for several days"
became acquainted with some prominent color
ed citizens whose pro during several of these
outbreaks saved many families from outrage and
violence.
These mobs were ipstigated by Northern men,
Who with "South eide views" deemed knowledge
in the head, the love of liberty in the heart, and
weapons IN the hands, IA combination OF ele-
ments altogether too dangerous to be possessed by
coiored Americans: But SINCE then, redeem'ng
spirit mas oeen visible IN TINS as IN other portions
OF the STATES ana lts inDuehce mas SO warmed INTO
action the coiored men ara women aIsC that their
record now Is indeed one to be proud Of eXhioiting
as II does mechancai ingenuity artistic SKILL buSi,
ness a'tainments, moral development ana mental
!enhenIeh. !" ueeree h1' SurPnsscu ny any ott.P
I'D 'he ohioh, an example 10 tncSe c'her states
%nere c'Ioren citizens are o"shlng III .ne sun
shlne oil oqua' suffrage ana It's conSequen! ad'an-
'"ses,
!. Ahtnony Dufhs eiasuci'y OF spirit Wnon par
uc'Pa.ips us freeman anu orotner III tne ooer-
I'm rienhon' Prooess'on as con'r"s'eu WIN 'he eA-
plession VI s"un1as anu on ms
couhIchance as tne orsaiIeu nlop Vi Cos'oh hi'ii-
tary anu oln;iais uraggea MN oo"n csate street.
en- route 10 slavery was no less signihcant than
mas peeh tne chahge wrought IN the puDnc senn.
men, OF TINS hauon' Us gra.hy'hg result Oh that
'foolishness OF preaching which Tor the last
twenty-five years has characterised the radical an
t-slavery movement
Next to positive measures for the abolition of
slavery, the early friends of the cause pledged
themselves to "improve the character and condition
of the free people of color to inform and correct
public opinion in relation to their situation and
rights. and obtain from them equal civil and po-
htical rights and privileges with the whites" A
persevering application of this method is at this
crisis in public affairs, imperativey demanded.
See how readily the free North, as she is called
proscribes her colored citizens There are but
Eve New England States where they can exercise
the elective franchise. Twenty-Five thousand, in
the single State of New Jersey are not allowed to