Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-29
A SOUTH CAROLINA LECTURER.

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A SOUTH CAROLINA LECTURER.
Mr.. William Gilmore Simms, the Lone Star
of Literature in South Carolina, has come North
to give us his ligh, this winter as q popular lectur-
er. He made his debut in New York recently. Of
his first lecture, which was we'll attended by a
respectable audience the Standard says:
In violation of the proprieties which gentlemen
who are so unfortunate rs to have been born out
of the limits Of South Carolina usually regard as
sacred, MIR. Simms, in the very commencement Of
his lecture, illustrated the manner of the planta-
ton by abiding to Senator Sumner as an lass"
and "a reptile" In spite .of this and other in
decencies, he was heard patiently to the end. Sup
pose a Northern man-Emerson for example,
standing before q Charleston audience and ventur-
ing TO apply to Preston S. Brooks epithets which
should convey the Indignation and disgustgeneral-
ly felt at the North in view of his brutal assault
upon the accomplished Senator from Massachu-
sets; in what manner would such an allusion
probably be received? Might not the speaker
deem himself fortunate if he escaped without u
coat of tar and feathers-nay, if he was not even
assassinated on the spot? Verify the impudence
and audacity of Southern men has no parallel
save in the bringing servility of the North.
We add the Herald's report of the second ap-
Yointment. The New Workers are after this en-
titled 60 some credit for their selfrespect. Who're
could have been all the Buchanan and Brooks
Democrats that they, did not come out to do honor
to this bright South Carolina Star. But probably
like their Caroliua friends, they have a more ap-
precia,ing taste for brandy than for books, for the
bully and the slave-driver than for any sort of lit
erature, even that of the poes who.defends and
sings the honors of their exploits:
Sims LECTURE.-W. Gilmore Simms, accord
ing to advertisement aud previous announcement,
uro 70 ,Ialivnr tho second larturn nf hic ,nurso in
the Rev. DR.. Chapin's church last evening-sub-
ljeCt, The Apalacllians, II Southern ldyl, descrip-
tive of Southern life, manners, scenery, &c."
Five minutes before eight o'clock, the time appoint
ed for the lecture, there was an audience of three
persons present. The church was well lighted
and warmed, but none Of the Committee having
appeared, the sexton only admitted the people to
the vestibule of the church. At eight o'clock
there was an audience of six persona, not includ-
ing the reporters. From eight to eight and Il half
a few others dropped in, making an audience, all
counted, Of thirteen gentlemen and four ladies.
The lecturer still not appearing the gas was turned
off, the doors locked, and the assembly adjourned
sine die, looking at their tickets.
PASSPORTS TO CoLoRED MEN.-We noticed last
week the refusal of tie Secretary of State to grant
passports to colored men, on the ground that they
are not citizens. The following is a copy of TIE
document finally issued
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
To ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:
Satisfactory evidence having been presented to
this Department, that Thomas Lo ,kwood, aged IS
years, mouth large, height feet | inch, chin ordi-
nary, foreheadN high, hair wooliy, eyes dark, COM
plexion black, nose fat, face oval, was born in the
State of Connecticut, and is a free man of color.
| tho undnreirnp1 SECRETARY of State of tha
United States Of America, hereby request all
whom it may concern, to permit safely and freely
to pass the said Thomas Lockwood, and in case Of
need to give him all lawful aid and protection.
Given uuder my hand and the seal of the De-
partment of State at Washington, this llth day of
Nov, A. D. 1856, and of the Independence of the
United States, the Slst.
IL. ST. WIN. l.. MARCY.
How this differs from ordinary passports we do
not know. 1t seems to us that the whole difficulty
was got up by the Secretary as a gratuitous insult
to the colored people of the country. lie seems 10
have taken pleasure in humbling the whole class
by denying the right of protection and then in his
magnanimity proflering it as a ~gratuity.
REV. NJ. y. CONWAY late of Washington, has re-
ceived a call to become pastor Of the First Unita-
rian Church of Cincinnati.
We give to-day a sketch Of one of Mr.. Conway's
recent sermons in Cincinnati. His coarse in the
ministry has proved him an earnest philanthropist,
liberal in spirit, with moral courage and indepen-
dcnce equal to the emergencies of the present event.
full times. In Cincinnati he has a wide field of USE
fulness before him, and we are delighted to find his
labors in the city welcomed with such apparent
heartiness by the more liberal minds. We trust
that continued fidelity to truth may be rewarded
by extended and long continued usefulness. The
Cincinnati Gazette says;
Gle has been greeted with a warm welcome in
this city; and as the Unitarian Society here was
never larger or in q more prosperous condition,
we have no doubt his genius, eloquence and piety
will exert q wide and happy influence.
In the Methodist Conference at Lynchburg, Va,
resolutions were adopted favoring an increased
effort for the diffusion of Seriptural knowledoe
among slaves by oral instruction..