Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-24
SALEM CoLUMmANA COUNTY, OHIO SATURDAY JULY o. 1853


had lived lcng.t time on the island, where thin
he was American Consul III added many thing
to the original, and brought the statistical detail
| down to recent times, and in various ways enrict
ed the original. In his preface he does not stat
that he intends to make any abridgement of tn
original or to omit anything. But in July 1856
j Won Humboldt wrote article for the SpcnrSch
/ Eettang, complaining that the entire seventh char
ter Of the Spanish work was arbitrarily omitted
That chapter related to slavery, and in it be di'
cussed the matter with freedom and hum anti Y.-
! Mr.. Thrasher omitted it all
! In 1858, Julius Fruebor published two hand
some volumes on America which arc not 70 ynlua
BILE as his reputation and the judgment OF hi
friends would lead one to expect lie sent cop
to Mr.. humboldt, who, in his acknowlei gmeni
again expresses his Indignation the treatment hi
work had met with at Thrasher's bands. He say
his work unmutilated can circulate freely il
France and Spain but the Americans are no
allowed to read his thoughts the institution O
Slavery
| think no American library contains all Mr.
llumbol1 It's works. Even the great ones we're want
ing in all the public collections Of New England un
I'll the generosity of Mr.. Bates enabled the Publ,
Library OF Boston to supply the defect. | have
not been able to find a copy of the Spanish trans
lation of his Essay on Cuba. with which to com
pare the American work; but have made care
iul examination of the French original and find
Importance. l select a few which relate to sla
very. Mr.. HUMBOLDT says
1T is the 1uty of the traveller who has closely
studied what tortures and dcgrades human nature.
I'd bear the complaints of the unfortunate to such
as Gao relieve them. have studied the condition
OF the blacks in countries where the laws, religion
and national habits tend to soften their fate and
yet, quitting America, feel the same adherence
Tor slavery which felt in Europe. 1t is in vain
that intelligent writers, seeking to hide the barbara.
ty OF institutions by the ingenious tricks Of lera
ry art, have invented the words 'Ncgro'P of
America, Black Nassalage,' and Patriarchal
Protection':-that is peryerting the noble arts of
reason and imagination by deceitful comparisons
or captious sophisms, in order to disguise the ex
cesses which affct mankind, and which prepare
the way for violent convulsons. Does any one
think he has the right to endeavor to avert our
pity by comparing the condition Of the blacks with
that OF the serfs of the middle ages, or with that
stats OF oppression at which some classes in the
North and East Of Europe are grooming still?--
These comparisons, these tricks Of rhetoric, that
lisd ainul injustice with which some men reject as
numerical even the hope of the gradual abolition
II slavery,--hese weapons are useless in the pres
mt time. The great revolutions which have taken
,lace On the Continent and the Archipelago of the
Antilles since the beginning of the present cen.
ury, have influenced public opinion even in the
country where slavery exists: i. begins to be mod,
fled by them /
Without doubt, slavery is the greatest of all the
wills which have afflicted mankind
I'VE cannot sufficiently praise the wise legisla-
ion of the new Republics of Spanish America
which at their very birth, have seriously busted
themselves with the total extinction of slavery
n this respect, that vast portion of the earth has
IN immense advantage over the Southern part of
he United States, where the whites, in their strug
lies with England have secured their own liberty;
'ut where the slave population, which is already |
fnstar ,,a
White. If civilization should be transferred, in
tead of being extended; if at the end of the great
nd deplorable convulsons of Europe, America
etween Cape Ilatteras and the Missouri, should
ecome the chief seat of the intelligence of Chris
anIty, what spectacle would be offered by that
entire Of civilization, where, in the sanctuary Of
berty, we might be present at the sale of negroes
fter their owners decease, and hear the sObbng
the parents separated from their children! Let
s hope that the generous principles which so long
ave animated the legislatures in the North of the
jnited States will, little by little, extend towards
he South, and to those Western regions where, by
n imprudens and fatal law, slavery and its inqu-
les have passed the Allegheny and the Mississippi,
.et us hope that the power of public opinion the
rogress of intelligence, the improvement Of NOR
Is, the legislation of the new continental Repub'
cs of Spanish America, and the great and aus
icious event. the recognition of llaltien Indepen-
ence by the French GoveJnment,-eithert through |
u ecast and fear, or through more noble and disn
crested feelings,--may have happy influence in
meliorating the condition of the blacks in the
ther West India Islands, in the Carolinas, (O in
iuiana and Brazil
After reading the noble words of this great man
Orn in monarchy and living always in the sun'
hine of royal favor, it is with a sckening feeling
f disgust that turn to the vulgar and inhuman
ant of the noisy American official who pretends to
ranslate his book. He thinks freedom never
rosper with the colored people of Cuba-they
ave no great desire for it: they have never been
exposed to it by community of language, and ia
ility of access to the blood thirsty teachings of
european philamhropy,' The 'blood,thirsty teach
lgs are the self.evident truths that all men are
reated equal, and endowed by their Creator with
ertain unahenable and equal lights; among these
he right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happ
ess.'
Let it also be remembered, that Mr.. Iumboldt
one of the men of science whom American
hurchlings have sought to brand with the name
Atheist 1t is an old word, by their fruits ye
hall know them Cetainly, this great philoso'
her is not one of those who are continually crying
Lord, Lord = but when did he fail to do the duty