Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-28
Che Anti- 9louerp Bll9le.
THE EMANCIpATED WEST INDIANS.


Extract from speech by Rev. Mr.. Bleby at
Abingdon Mass.
The peoplc are willing to do all they can to
raise themselves, and they 40 raise 'heusoNes'
have heard since have been here' that coloreu
neons in this country do not make efforts to raise
themselves ont Of their degraded position. | a
yoice-.That is not true.0lf it be true, do not
wonder at it. | do not see how any people can
lift themselves up against the os preJuuice
,har, in tb;s country. When | came into Boston,
t.o or three weeks ago. / went into a Hotel, and
the first thing that arrested my attention was trs'
A play bill hung in the ONCE OF the no'ei' on
which read -'Colored people admitted on.y TO .ne
aaIIerv, That alone was sufficient to satisfy me
,hat thew are luboring under diseouragements,
difieulties and prejudices which must exercise a
blightine influence upon them, ana must neceSc
sariIy keep them down. The eoioreu peopie VI
the British colonies have outived ali this, TO great
ontont Lord Mulrrave, when he oame out as
Gnvernor. in 1882, took noble ground In this re-
snect The law which had placed the colored peo'
ple of the colony equality with the whltos
had inst come into operation. Formerly III All
those islands, now IN the oou.h' cootuu nun
could not sit IN the Jury box,--(A A yoice-'Iie can
not in the Northern States nor ON coroner's S
Jury. he was not allowed 10 exercise the elective
franchise: he could not hold any once unuer gov
ernnent either civil OF military, ana up " "'pIh
short time, he could not inherit PtopeilJ eAIep'
a
was nassed and went into force, which ala away
with ali their legal disabilities; STILL they were
subject TO the same discouraging prcJ that
find existing here, to a great extent whi'e man
would have felt himself degraded by situns DOWN
70 table with colored man. Lord Mugrave de-
termined to put his foot upon this evil, and he IN
yited some of the most intelligent and respectable
colorcd ladies and gentlemen those whose
wealth. intelligence and position IN society entiti
ed them to such marx OF oistinc'ion'-O nis
In maie n OOlnt TO
dance with coiored ladies himself and he introduc
ad oolored pentlcmen to Lady Mulgrave as part,
ners with Whom she danced and when some OF
the gentry gave the cold shoulder to these coiored
guests be caused it to be lntlmated 10 tAem' that
II thew expected invitations to the Government
Uonse his quests must be treated by them with
the same respect and courtesy he manifested to-
wards them himself Loud cheers) That Sir
did more than anything else know OF 70 put an
end to the reign of pref judice upon that isiand'-
on equal terms with the whites; they met together
In nriyate parties; and soon the colored people, by
the exercise of the elective franchise, acquired
considerable degree of political power; ana now
it wonld be the ruin of any public man IN 'ama
ca TO have it known suspected that ne cherishes
any prejudice whatsoever asaihs' MS 'e"o" 'n'"
on account OF color
Sir. the colored people, removed from under the
dscouraging influences TO which have referred
show themselves able to cope with the white man
under any circumstances. iaKe, LOT instance
the nresent head Of the Jamaica goyernment--Ed-
ward Jordon. a coored man; his dark skin and his
frizzly hair show him to be nearly allied to the
African race on one side he is to the white race
on the ,ther. | remember the time when Edward
Jordon,-who had acquired all the learning nc
had from our mission schools stood withih the
shadow of the gallows, aud had very harro" es'
cane for his life,-and for whaU 1t was IN the
days of slavery, and he was leader In the anti
slavery party He had taken an active part In the
agitation which ended in the removal OF the legal
disabilities of the free colored people, ana then
he stood up to agiate for the abolition OF slavery,
having started newspaper called the Jamaica
Warchmanj and IN the pegipni9g .. io1L, .nefe
was pro. slavery man, who had been leader In
that party, who suddenly came over to the anti
s,cvery party, and took active measures to ameli'
nrato tba condition of the colored people, and pre-
mare the way for the abolition OF slavery: "ei
sir. in the ne wspaper controversy 10 whicn TINS
gave rise, Mr.. Jordon wrote tne ioiio"ing sen
tence.-.We are glad to see Mr.. beaumont coming
over to the right side, and We shall be glad with
him and all the friends Of humanity, to give a
long null n strong pull and pull all together,
and bring down the system by the rum KNOCK on
the fe.ters and let the oppressed go iree' lhat
was the sentence. The following week. as nc sat
in the Supreme Court, reporting for his paper, to
his utter astonishment, he heard his own name
% reclaimed by the clerk under lhdietment ior
canital felony--constructive treason lie had
never heard whisper of it before, but he was ta'
ken from his seat, placed in the ieion uoch' ana
arraigned upon that capital charge' uau IL was
with the utmost difficulty that his counsel, MI
Walks oIso colored man, succeeded in getting
his trial POSTPONED for two days, TO prepare MS
defence. The prosecution failed, because they
could not prove the publication OF the paper but
there was regular plot against the llte oil Mr..
Jordan, to which tho Governor, Lord Bolmore, Ito
his shame be it said,) was party, he having