Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-19

the monument of the day, of the event. of the bat
tie of Bunker Hill of all the brave men who
shared its perils alike of Prescott and Putnam
and Warren the chiefs of tho day, and the colored
man Sdem,w is reported to have shot the gallant
Pitcairn as he mounted the parapet Cold as the
clods which it rests still the silent heavens to
which it scars, it is yet vocal, eloquent in their in
diDidudl praise
In commendation of Peter Salem, Titus Coburn,
Alexander Ames, Barzili Lew, Cato Howe, and
other colored Americans who Performed duty on
Bunker Hill, it was anticipated that delegation
including some descendants of these colored pen
sioners, would have formed part of the procession
from Boston to Charleston, in the late celebration,
but a combination of unlooked.for causes prevent
ed. The ,olored MasOns, too, but for independent
obstacles. would have augmented the procession
AS Gen. Warren was n Mason, the celeration was
under Masonic auspices, the whole would have been
IN harmony with the occasion. The banner they
intended to display contained the names of the
above colored men, with brief mention of their in
divdual positions during the battle while the re-
verse read as follows:-'Extract from Gen. War
ren's speech, March 5th. l772, in commemoration
of the Boston Massacre: "The UOice Of your fathers
blood cries to yOu from tie ground: MY sons, scOrn
to be SldreS'!"'
Apropros to this extract may be noted the late
news from Washington, that Joseph Warren New
comb the only lineal descendant and family repre-
sentative of the revolutionary Warren living, has
been turned out from clerkship, because he was
supposed not to recognize the nationality and di-
vinity of slavery, as expounded by the Democratic
party and Fugitive Slave Law Mason. Because he
will not be slave the government will not employ
him. And this prescription, be it remembered,
was concident with the celebration Bunker
Hill. OF what real significance monuments
erected to the dead fathers, when their living
are ostracsed for most remotely initiating the very
deeds which emblazoned the name and fame of the
fathers with inperishable renown? 1t is said that
when the proposition was made to Mr. Newcomb
20 deny any affinity with free soil politics, he
piled, Tell the Secretary that will see him at the
bottom Of the bottomless pit before | will de-
grade myself. Answered in the spirit of him who
said, My sons, scorn to he slavesp
Hon, Robert c. Winthrop. in his recent speech
at the Musical Festival referred to the negotiation
at Ghent, where the band master in dilemma,
had recourse to the eolored servant of Mr. Clay,
who whisted Yankee Doodle which, being lotted
down as he whistled then played by the or
chestra thus afording edifcation the allied SOW
eseigns. Whether that boy bond or Free
continued Mr.. Winthrop, i know not; but think
both South and North would agree that he earned
his liberty, and his citizenship too that OCCASION
Suppose, in the spirit which seemingly prompted
this admission. Mr.. Winthrop had, on Bunker
HILL submitted such extract as the following,
from Gen. Warren's speech in Boston, March 5th,
l772:
That personal freedom is the natural right Of CO.
cry man, and that property, or an exclusive right
to dispose Of what he has honestly acquired by his
own labor, nescessariy arises therefrom truths
which common sense has placed beyond the reach
of contradiction. And man or body of men
can, without being guilty of fragrant injustice,
claim right to dispose Of the persons ur acquisl
tons Of any other or body of men, unless it
has arisen from some compact between the parties,
in which it has been explicitly and freely granted.
To be sure, Senator Mason would not have ap-
plauded these sentiments TO the echo, but the lib
ty-loving masses would have glorifed and CRATE
fully remembered the deed, which is more than
can be predcated of Mr. WIS 6efercntial tribute to
the slaveholding and slave'hunting Senator.
The senator from Georgia once threatened to
call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill. The
presence at this celebration of Senator from Nir-
ginia the author of the Fugitive Slave Law-the
menace and the fact-corroboratng the predcmi-
nant influence that slavery exerts over public men
at the North, foreshadOws what some already
prophecy, that instead of Liberty being sacred,
even at her shrine on Bunker I1il this Mason and
his accOmplices may soon so subjugate white free
men that the monument may give place to the
To(o)mbs.
But to return from this disgresson. The Ma
sonic order claim to be preemincntly band of
brothers, recognising, in their mystic tie, all at
homo or abroad, who, by grip, sign or password
give proof of initiation and yet, as an organza-
ton, they have never, in the United States frat
ernise6 with colored Masons. A veteran anti
thority, informs me that Primus Hall, Boston
Smith, Thomas Saunderson, and others, endeavor-
ed to obtain a charter from the Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts, but did not succeed The refusal
is said to have been founded on the color Of the
applicants This denial prompted them to seek a
charter from England, in the year 1858, through
the medium of a captain by the name of Scott,
said to have been brotherin law of revolution
ary John Hancock, and the said charter, with Con-
stitution, was forwarded from London. Sept. 10,
1884, and signed by Lord Howard Earl of Ehng-
ham, (acting Grand Master under His Royal High
ness Henry Frederic, Duke of Cumberland, who
then head of the Masonic body in England
VIM. White as Secretary, and ROLAND Holt, d. G.
Nj. and thus originated the Prince Hall Lodge
the first coored lodge in the United States. Prince
Hall and other colored Americans received their
degrees in English lodges, and colored Masons Wis.
iting them to this day are always received as
Brethren.
On the last 4th of July, these words were sus-
pended across State street. Reader within your
view is the sacred spot where fell the first martyrs
in the cause of American independence How
many passers by were conscious that among that
pioneer party Of American revolutionists, Crispus
Attuck, colored man. was the first to attack, and
was himself the first martyr? Henry T. Smith
of Boston, has issued large and handsome litho.
graph (executed by Chapney) of this scene, which
gives due color to the occasion, by assigning At
tncks his true and leading position but j. F.
Schroeder, ID. D., is now publishing the life and
times of Washington, with illustrations by Chap
pei, and in part six has an engraving of the Bos,
ton Massacre, from which Atucks has been Who'll.
ly omitted. Whether any reference will be made
to him in subsequent numbers, we have not now
the means of judging. And yet BOtta, IIewes-
of teaparty reminiscep epces-Goodrich, and other
historians in substance concur with John Adams,
in his plea for the British soldiers that 'Attucks
appeared to be the hero of the night, and to lead
the people : in acknowledgment of which, he was
buried with great honor from Faneuil Hall, and
John Hancock on March 5tb, IVA, invoked the
injured shades of the slain, including Attucks
and Judge Dawes, with galaxy of SUCCESSORS
Lowell, Church. Austin, Tudor, Mason, and others
-eulogised tho 9Th of March martyrs for thus
ushering in the day which history has selected as
the dawn of the American Revolution.
General Washington had none of this Democrat
10 squeamishness about colored men and their pat
riotism. lie not only slept under the same blank
ct with Prmus Hall, but throughout the war, he