Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-12
HUNG BE THE HEAVENS WITH
BLACK"

with feelings of the most sable melancholy we
have to record that our once glorious country has
become tainted with negro equality. This free and
enlightened land, where t. hato n negro is the
first Of christian virtues, has been contaminated
through its representative at the court Of St. James
by shaking hands with a colurcd person. The de.
plorable event occurred at the debate in the House
Of Commons on the Italian. question, and is thus
described by one Of the London papers.
"The American Miaister, wearing the distinc.
tion OF a plain black coat, enters the seats reserv-
ed for the diplomatic corps, where his simple dress
is ut once conspicuous amid the rich uniforms and
g~littering orders which all around him wear. The
Swedish and Netherlands Ministers follow with
the Minister from IIayti, whom, though what is
politely termed a gentleman of color, Mr.. Dallas,
nevertheless, cordially recognizes and shakes
hands with"
Mr.. Dallas is the representative of the nation
consequently when Mr.. Dallas shook hands with
the ~Ilaytian minister, the entire commonwealth
shook hands with a niger cordially too. The
people Of these United States have been represent
ed in the presence Of all the great powers of the
earth as glad to meet and shake hands with a mig
ger. This i'm plies a previous acquaintance. Very
likely Mr.. Dallas, and through him the entire
American people. have met this niger before, anC
characteristic, dined with bim;. wined will
him hob nobbed and got tipsily silly with a mig
ger laughed at his African jokes, and sung "w'
wont 20 rome till morning." together. Perhap
British and foreign diplomatics, knowing the pc
culiar feeling of our people on the African ques
ton, have taken malicious delight in bringing Mr.
Dallae and tIronoh linn tho wbo1a nofiop in oon
tact with this niger at the same table and per
haps use hath bred in Mr.. Dallas, and through
him in the American entire people, a londness fol
African society and African odor. This is sale
to be the effect Of custom in this country, in more
ardent Chimes Ohio State Journal.
We hate to spoil a good story, but shall have tt
In this case. The above report which originated
in The Times, is fatty contradicted by a cores
pondent of the 4. S. Standard, an English gen
+leman whose position enables him to keep posteC
in regard to such matters. lie says -
"Pray. do not for one moment attach the slight
est credit to this story. In the first place, it can
not be true, for the sufficient reason that the Hay
tien minister was not present at the ceremony
But besides this, no American Ambassador to TIL
country has ever had the Republican courtesy o
courage to recognise as his friend or equal eve
the representatives of negro States in alliance wit
England, who have been received at the Court G
the Queen and in the highest circles of Englis
society with quite as much honor as himself, an
perhaps with more genuine regard and respec
The probability is that The Times reporter mil
took the Spanish or Portuguese minister for til
uaytien, or he may have sacrificed truth for tn
sake of a little establishment. However that ma
be, Mr.. Dallas must not receive credit for an al
tion which he is incapable of performing"