Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-27

that the marshal make return of his proceedings
to the next term of this court. Judge Taney then
ordered the marshal to adjourn the court:the judg
es retired in the same order that that they had
tered, greatly rejoicing that they had once more
saved our glorious Union
From the Liberator.
LECTURE IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
Passing through Wilmington, Delaware, on our
return home from attending the Progressive
Friends meeting at LongwoOd, pa we gave a
lecture on Slavery in the Odd Fellows Hall Of
that place, by special Invitation. The audience
vas not large, whether from indifference or
timidity, we know not but select, intelligent, at
tentive and respectful throughout. Notice of the
meeting had been given in the papers, and
placarded throughout the city but 30 great has
been the change wrought in public sentiment
within the past ten years, (chieby through the eX-
ample and active influence OF our estimable
Quaker friend, Thomas Garrett one OF the most
remarkable men now living,) not the slightest OPP
position or uneasiness manifested at our
presence. Friend Garret sat by side on the
platform, and gave the benefit of his counte-
nance, as well as extended to us a warm.hearted
hospitality, in which so many have shared. espe-
cially the needy and the outcast. By priority of
age, his interest IN the of the slave began at
an earlier period than our own. A veteran abo-
ZIONIST, he has stood at his post in slave State
for more than thirty years, the faithful, uDdis-
guised, outspoken opponent of slavery and never
has shrunk from sheltering and succorins the
poor fugitives, more than two thousand of whom
land this is no secret) have safely passed through
his hands, "bound for the land Of Canaan" OF
course, all this has been done at great pecuniary
cost, selt-sacrifce and imminent peril. A few
years since, he stripped of every farthing of
his property by the courts, on the ground Of har
boring fugitive slaves, and reduced from cOmpe-
tency to po'erty. His life has been repeatedly
threatened; the bowie-kniie has been presented to
his breast, and the revolver at his head but none
of these things could ntimidate or discourage him.
Possessing q dauntless spirt,a lion-like courage
blended with lamb-like gen tleness, uncommon
tact and sagacty admirable perseverance and in
flexible determinations a massive personal presence,
exhaastless sympathy land the largest benevolence,
he has never faltered, when multitudes would
have abandoned the field. No one who knows him,
doubts his sincerity, the purity Of his motives or
the disinerestedness of his acts. His is per-
fectly nnique--and will be found quite as remark
able that of the venerated Isaac Il. Hopper.
AS we drove into Wilmington with him in his own
carriage, we noticed with what pleasure his be-
neyolent countenance was hailed by the colored
people about the streets, manifested by various
unmistakable signs. 1t was literal fulfilment Of
the declaration of Job-"When the ear heard me.
it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave
witness to me; because l delivered the poor that
cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none
to help him. The blessing ofshim that was ready
to perish came upon me and caused the widows
heart to sing for joy. was eyes to the blind and
feet was TO the lame. was father to the poor;
and the cause knew not searched out. And
broke the jaws of the wicked, and the spoils l
p.ucked out Of his teeth"
We doubt whether there lives the man in all
Delaware, who really is more respected for his in
tegrity Of character and rare moral heroism than
Thomas Garrett; or one whose memory will be
more proudly cherished by that State, long after
she shall have emancipated every bondman on her
soil, and inaugurated tho reign of freedom. She
has now less than two thousand slaves, and if she
would ransom them, even at the highest market
price, in single year it would more than pay"
as pecuniary investment. Her lands would i'm
mediately augment in value, new blood would cir
culate through all her veins and every branch of
industry art and science would feel the lifegiving
impulse.
The colored population of Wilmington is about
twenty-five hundred, with scarcely slave among
them. Considering that it was the first time we
had spoken in that place, it was singular that
not single colored man was present at our lee
ture. They had been duly apprised of our coming
by friend Garrett, and urged to attend but, for
some unknown cause, by the exercise of some
mysterious influence. they stood aloof. Possibly,
and very probably they were Ito some extent at
least) deferred from coming to the hall, through
fear that some outbreak might take place; or in
consequence Of our great unpopularity, whereby
they might subj ject themselves to fresh reproach.
If we had allowed such feelings to dictate our
course, we never should have espoused their cause
at the risk Of all that man holds dear.-We con-
fess that we were both surprised and panied by
their non-attendance under circumstances which
even as matter of curiosity, she uld have brought
them out in considerable numbers. 1t they did
not absent themselves through fear but from utter
Indifference, the fact is still less to their credit. II
10 okaA
er selfrespect, a manly behavior, lively interes
in the cause of their enslaved brethren, and not
cringe and bow to those who despise and perse
cute them. Nothing is gained by a cowardly sub
serviency.
Whether in our lecture we kept bacs any testi
mony that we ought to have delivered on the occa
sion, or whether we spoke as we speak at home
without concealment and without compromise u
may be ascertained by reading the comments OF
the Wilmington press, which we have inserted
upon our first page. 1t will be seen that we did
our work effectually, by the manner in which we
as "ths notorious gger-worshipper, blasphemer
and disunionist"- selfsacrifeing asserter OF
nigger rights and redresser of niger wrongs
"this national traitor and ango-ethiopian amalga
nation champion"--"this puppy" with "his
niger worshipping satellites"-with other Bill
llingsgate epithets of similar character ;-and
the "Gazette' veracously representing us as
using language "only calculated to deceive the
weak and misunderstanding with malice
and hate" $50 wicked, calm and callous," as to
remind it "of the meeting of Satan, Sin and
Death in Paradise Lost. the platform only lacking
another figure, (besides friend Garrett and ourself
the one being Sin, and the other Satan J that
'execrabe shape to complete the imaginary
group" >,
There is no reply to make to suca ribaldry. 1t
is sad to think that the press is in the hands Of
such miserable wretches; and still more sad to
think that any community is so low or misguided
as to make it profitable and popular to print such
atrocious libels. We need not assure our readers
that we exhibited slayey in its true character
measured it by its own code--condemned it out OF
its own mouth that We cast no undue reproach