Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-05-10
CHE Anti BnaIc,
SALEM, ONO, NAY 10, 1856.
HATRED OF COLOR.

Few Of the most thorough abolitionists even,
realize fully the injurious effects produced upon
our national character by the prejudice against
color, and few, indeed, are those Americans whose
minds are completely emancipated from its in
fnence. a European, to whatever nation he may
belong, whether English, German, French or
Italian, looks upon q man as q man, and treats him
according to his intrinsic worth, or, at least, ac-
cording to his own standard of worth, independents
ly of such considerations as the color of his skin
or the texture of his hair.
The grandfather of Pushkin, the most celebrated
of the Russian authors of the present century.
was a Guinea negro, who, through the force of his
talents, himself to the car, by whom
he was married into one Of the oldest of the noble
families of that country the poet, himself, was
tic intimate friend of the last emperor; in
France Alexander Dumas, whose African extrac-
ton is quite visible in his physique, was tutor to
the sons of Louis Philippe, at whose table he not
unirequently sat, a distinguished guest, while he
was the only Frenchman, with the exception of the
royal family, who was present at the marriage of
the Duke de Montpensier to the sister of the queen
Of Spain. The Rev. James W. C. Pennington,
formerly a slave in Virginia, and forbidden by a
law of that ''model republic" to learn the very
alphabet, after obtaining his freedom by flight, and
educating himself il the Northern States, received
from the ancient and onorable University Of
Heidelberg in Germany, the decree of l.. L. D.;
nevertheless, upon his return to this country, he
could not dine in the commonest hotel until after
the servants had left tho table, and in some of the
so-called free States would still be obliged to take
his coat in Tho gp;rrar ~ a ~ ,rbap - yoll;,o
This erection of a standard SO false in its nature:
this immense disparity between our theory and
our practice, can have no other effect than to cd
ucate a nation of political hypocrites and, as the
standard in the church is the same, our religion is
an admirable counterpart to our democracy. In
the state the A~frico-Amcrican is thrust aside from
the polls and denied all voice in the framing of the
laws a strict obedience to which is nevertheless
more rigidly exacted from him than from the
white man and in the church he is, (f he be al
lowed to enter it at ALL, showed rudely into the
negro-pew in some obscure corner; and this is
done let his moral worth and his piety be what
they may while the white church member, even
though his vices be perfectly notorious may have
his pew from year to year under the very drop
pings of the sanctuary. No one accustomed to
looking upon things as they are and tracing causes
to their effects can doubt, for a moment, the cor.
rupting influence of such n state of affairs.
The existence, all over the country, of q class of
people whom every rufian and rowdyi is privileged
constantly to insult in the grossest and most vulgar
manner, outraging every feeling of humanity and
delicacy,a and whom almost every lad in the country
is taught, by q debased public sentiment to des-
pisa md ri6ion1a coppot bnt ,,o,1l bo,J o,l
tyrannical national character.
One of the most striking results of this hatred
of color is the uniform want of sympathy on the
part of our people with the nobility of character
displayed by the coJored race. Deeds of high and
heroic daring and nexhaustible endurance; the
grand achievements of unbending will and inexo-
rable determination, when performed by these peo-
pie awaken no sympathetic throb in the bosom
Of the American; the deeds of the men who fired the
shot at the Battle of Christiana, -oft the hero whose
blood stained the waters of the Susquehanna Mt
Wyoming, and ihe unconquerable heroism of Mar.
garet Garner are. at best, registered as items of
news to furnish gossip for the passing hour. If
these acts had been performed by Poles or Greeks
a month would not have elapsed until the men
would have been wearing Parker coats and the
women Margaret Garner mantillas.
While every schoolboy who studies history is
made familiar with the names of Tell and Arnold
Won WinkelriOd, of Wallace and Hampden, of
Joan of Arc and Charlotte Corday, when does he
hear even the mention of Placido or Toussaint
LOuverture? If the names of these are uttered
in his hearing, or referred to at all by the author
he is reading, it is but for the purpose of strength
ening his hatred of the negro race with a repeti-
ton of the false and distorted story of the "hor-
rors of St. Domingo"
When the Republic is proclaimed in Europe, it
will be under more formable auspices for the broth.
erhood of man than those which marked its advent
among ourselves. L..