Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-01
From the New York Tribune.
MORTARA AND SAMB0.

martyr OF the hrst order, by tue Deuoc'htic he'
brews Of the city of New York.
am an abducted Niger" rejoicing in the ro'
mantle name Of Sambo.
don't rccOect precisely whether ever enjoyed
the luxury of maid to attend me in my daily
peregrinations. My impressions of my infancy
are that was though so black, the jos and de-
light OF my parents that cakes and moasses
formed important items Of consumption with me,
and that my rambles extended from tie paternal
abode to the playground and on Sabbaths to the
chapel. suppose have soul. at least so our
minister used to say but then he was "nigger,
and might be mistaken, or from monomania or
vanity, imagined such state of things
Time passed on-a few happy years we're mine
when was suddenly and ruthlessly abducted"
from all that was near and dear to me, and con
signed to tie tender mercies of Virginia
planter From that hour to this, have never
seen nor even heard of any parents. But let that
pass. / became. and Us am told,
chatte" capable of manual delivery, Of sale. bar
ter and exchange. entertained a notion that
chattel meant something that at sll events could
not think or reflect; bu: believe "Massa" class
es me among the order Of "instinctve beings" q
sort of black Newfoundland dog, who can fetch
and carry, and, when not quite up to tho haark
land niggers are really sick sometmes), to be fog
ged, only that the dog with his thick, rough coat,
has the best Of it, What "Massa thinks about
my "epidermis" being equally thick, don't pre-
tend to know am painfully conscious it is 9th
erwise. Dogs, some say, have paradise, and
family hope there is "a good time coming" yet ioy
me when shuttle off this mortal coil.
But why do these religionists and philanthro
psts make such an outcry about Edgar" and
utterly ignore "Sambo"f From all accounts, Ed.
gar is tenderly, affectionatey cared and provided
for by his Papistcal abductors, and may become
bright and shining light of that Church-may be
permitted to kiss the POpe's toe, may commit all
manner of infantile pcccadioes, and receive abso
luton from their usual paternal fagellations-nay
may in process Of time become "My Lord Card-
ral," or even Pope Edgar L." and be clothed in
purple and fine linen and fare sumptuousfy every
day. But what can l do to elevate (would could
eren say liberate) myself? Such men have been
known as President Roberts (of Liberia), Freder'
/, ick Douglas, and others; but Hebrews and Chris
tians alike that is democratic white ones, regard
0 them as ithey twoud q comet, or the fossil re
mains of some huge mastodon, q sort of "6usu,
$ ndture," startling the world for moment from
its propriety, and perhaps inducing the stray
thought, well, that niger had something like n
soul, or more than the allotted brains supposed to
, exist in the cranium Of black"
But, sir, have one consolation left to me in this
oasis of toll and misery, which, thank God, neitb
democrat (he he jew or Gentile) nor even the Pres
iaent of tie United States, can deprive me of. 1t
is this-That try to do my duty in that state of
life which it pleased not God, to place me
and humbly trust that when | come to die, !
may find, in another and better world that
though the Ethiopian cannot change his skin, the
gates of Heaven may be open to even such q
blackamoor as your humble servant,
e SAMBO.
, P.S. If one of the Vice Presidents of the
late Morara meeting will exercise his legal abil'
e ity in giving to the world definition of "a hu.
t man being' as contradistnguished from "chat'
tel" shall feel greatly Indebted to him.
, Lord Napier, it is stated in the English ourn.
ais is about to be recalled His toadyism of the
Slave Power has disgusted the friends Of freedom
. in Washington, who will not regre, his departure
l The correspondent of The Tribune says:
"The social and political influence of the Eng
lish envoy such as it is, has been given unmis
takably to the side Of the Shareholders. Though
known to have expressed in private, his contempt
for the peculiar institution when surrounded by
his own countrymen, he has, nevertheless, Judged
it xpedient q matter of policy, to seek to Oon'
ciliate the South, and to disarm the slaveholding
interest Of its hostility to England and its dread
of English interference against slavery. He
seems to have become impressed, very soon after
his arrival in this country. with the most unnatur
al idea thai the real power Of the American gov
ernment was welded by shareholders. and to have
paid court to them accordingly.
"He has turned the cold shoulder to the Repub
lcaps here, and last session expressed his approx
al of the Lecompton policy of the President. His
leanings in this respect were very different from
those of Sir William Gore Ouseley, whose anti.
slavery sympathes were strong and we'll known
a circumstance which sufficiently accounts for the
y;ruence with which he is assailed by the pro-
slavery press of ,he capital.
Lord Napier's pro-slavery proclivities have
done mischief among US, by encouraging the di'
plom atist of the South in their insane notion that
in case they secede from tn, Union they can OBJ.
tain the alliance and the protection of England.
An English minister, careful only of the interest
Of his own country, and therefore not averse to
fomenting our own domestic difficulties, might
deem it polite to encourage this deluson, though
he knew, as undoubtedly Lord Napier knows that
however indifferent the English aristocracy may
be on the question Of slavery, the deepsettled
convictions an feelings Of the great middle class
of English on the subject are such that no Admin.
istration would dare to enter npon an alliance
with the slave States in hostility to the free States
of this country. 1t may safely be assumed that,
in the event of separation, or an attempt at
separation, England would not touch the slave
States with q forty foot pole,