Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-24
j.. A. IL.


Ma. EDITOR: recently attended q reform
meeting, where gre at, earnest souls spoke to an
audience of thousands congregated in a beautiful
Grove. 1t was on the fourth of July, many came
there to celebrate what our Fathers, eighty.two
years ago proclaimed to the world, to be Ameri.
can Independence. But, alas, the throbing
hearts, of the thinking part of that crowd, must
have keenly felt the utter desecration Of the dec
~laration, "that all are created free and equal" as
they listened to the soul string truths uttered by
shat noble agitator of human rights, Mrs. Ii. L
m Brown. DR.. Butler Of Cincinnati presented the
Collins of a colored brother, who had escaped
iron bondage; asking human sympathy and
material aid to buy himself. That he might own
bisGOd given form might be a man the controller
of his moral nature, the owner of his soul, of
which he is Invested by the laws of this land
Where were his equality. his life and liberty ?
What was Independence day to him? Did not the
blood of his Fathers few as freely to wash out the
wrongs inflicted by the mother country as ours =?
But what Of that; his skin was a shade darker
than that Of his brothers. Marshals had ar.
rested him for the purpose of sendiug him back
to the land of crime and desolation, when -four
men endowed with human hearts, entered into
bonds. to pay the foul traficker in human blood
the desired sum and let his victim 20 free. All,
when will this foul blot be swept from America
fair soil when will the rights of her children be
respected? When, Oh when, will her dark sons
and daughters, with the same faculties of mind
the same moral sentim ents. the same affections
and springs Of action as ourselves, cease to be
driven to the auction blcck. and there amid the
shrieks and groans Of agonized hearts, be sold
to the highest bidder Not uutil our Country is
purged Of the foul aud corrupt laws, that hune
like weights about the necks of her children
not until the witherins b~lighting predjudices that
are piled mountain high be removed. Prejudice
rears its demon head in every avenue of life. AT
that meeting | Witnessed an occurrence between
two young men, where pref udice.presented itself in
its dark ard malignant form. The one whose
skin was of a lighter shade tauntingly insulted
the other, for the sole reason of his having Afri
can blood within his veins. He resorted to low
vulgarism, and to make more potent his insults
called him a 'nigger;" him whom he should have
taken kindly by The hand and cherished as q
brother. This aroused the manly indignation,
the demon of malice in the wronged one. lie
rushed at his comrade with blanched cheeks and
.clenched fist. and with a maniac glare. from his
dark eye, that told his deadly purpose. But the
craven, cowardly wretch was on horse back, or
he would have received his just deserts. Could
we go to the midnight chamber of that lone un.
cultered one, aud listen to the low meanings, the
outpOurings Of that crushed and BUNDLED spirit, we
should work more earnestly for the eradication OF
wrong, and the redemption of humauity-to do
away the deep prejudices, the ingratitude, and
treacherics that pervade our land. We should
strive to break the letters that bind the human
soul, raise man and woman from tho degradation
into which they have fallen, that we may have
men and women, with expanded s)uls, lovers OF
humanity, instead of mutual foes and oppressors.
MARY p. TODD.