Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-21

" ~ hAAN NhkANf w
can nestle ia the shaggy name of the British lion;
and, feeling this, we con feel no inspiration when
we look at the American Gag.
But l was speaking in reference to the gratui.
tous concessions Of some Of our Republican lead
ers. Some .hreo or four months ago, q bill was
under consider alton in the Senate Of the United
States for the purpose Of establishing a school for
tho education Of free colorcd children 10 the Dis.
trict Of Columbia. The matter created some dis.
cussion in the Senate, and, under the lash Of SEN
ator Mason and other slavc.drivers Of the South,
your own Senator, Mr., Wilson, 'caved in on this
question:, aud admitted, in the presence Of the
Senate, and with all Massachusetts, to read his
words, that the negro was inferior ('hear, hear.1
NOW, l do not believe that the negro is inferior.
Mans ability wholly depends upon surrounding
circumstances. You may take oil Of those races
that have risen from the lowest state of degrade
ton to tho highest eminenoe of intellectual splen.
dor, and you will discover that no race has ever
! yet been able, by any internal power and will Of
its own, to lift itself into respecIsbility, without
contact with other civilized tribes. Rome served
t as the scadJlding for the erection Of the tribes of
! Western Europe into that huge political constella'
ton whose drum beats follow the sun round the
'N''N' " = CNi'uS . ihhNCu III bllNhibJ nv
9 found the ancestors of this boasted English race
G a miserable set Of barbarians, bowling down to
stocks and stones, aud painting .heir bodies in fan
. tastic colors. They were carried to Romo by the
soldiers Of Ce sar, and sold IN the streets for FIVE
I dollars; and so thoroughly brutalized were they,
that Cicero, the great Roman orator, said thai,
the nearest slaves in Rene came from Great Brit.
} ain; and, writing to his friend Atticus, be ad7i-
sed him not to buy the worthless wretches Zap
plause). Emerson says that it took many genera,
tiors to trim and comb and perfume the Grst
b~oatlond of Morse pirates into royal bighnesses
and moet noble knights of the garter;and yet every
spark and ornament of regal splendor dates back
to the twenty thousand thieves that landed at
Hastings. You will find, after that, | think. that
there is no truth in the asserliJ IN that the negro is
inferior.
The men who justify slavery upon the assumed
inferiorisy of the negro race arc very slow to admit
these facts. They are ust as tardy in admitting
that the remains Of ancient grandeur which have
been exhumed from beneath the accumulated dust
Of forty centuries, were wrought by the ingenuity
and skill OF the negro race ere the Saxon was
known in history. We are informed that the scep.
tire OF the world passed from the colored to the
white race at the fall of Babylon. l know ethno.
logical writers tell us that we do not look like the
Egg ptian. They dig up an Egyptian mummy,
that has been dead and buried three thousand
years, that once tripped on the light fantastic toe
amid the gilded halls Of the Pharaohe, over whose
grave the storms of thirty or forty centuries have
swept, and because it DON'T look just like q Miss
issippi negro of to-day, set it down that there is a
difference Of species between them (laughter). l
Il admit that oaptnr;os n onoros;oo ,nIo. ,o.,;
f cal sun, may have worked marvellous changes, not
only in the physical but in the intellectual char
j acteristico Of the race-I know it has. All other
? races are permitted to travel over the wide field Of
history, and pluck the flowers that blossom there
t to CLEAN ny the heroes, philosophers, sages and
, poets, and put them into a galaxy Of brilliant &C.
MUS, and claim all the credit to themselves; but if
a black man attempts to do so, he is met at the
threshold by the objection, You have no ancestry
before you.'
Now, friends, I am proud OF the negro race, and
| thank God to-day that thsre does not course in
my veins a single drop of Saxon blood (applause).
The blood that | boast was immortaliged in Scot
lands song and story at q time when the Saxon
was wearing an iron collar, with the name Of his
Norman master written thereon (applause), There
was never such a subjugated race in the world as
0 we're the Saxons in the days Of William the Con-
querer. So thoroughly BUNDLED and degraded were
c they that Macaulay says it was considered as die
d graceful for a Norman to marry q Saxon as it
e is now for a white person to marry a negro. | am
Il proud Of the negro race. ] think that negro lOoks
just as we'll on paper, and sounds jus. as sweetly to
!, the ear as 'Saxon;' and l believe that by education,
n by wealth, by religion, the negro may make that
o name as honorable as ever was that Of Saxon
II while the Saxon, by the practice of the opposite
n vices, may drag himself down as low as the ne.
gro.
l believe that man, like certain productions of
tho vegetable kingdom, will grow better in some
b soils than in others. God has given us a goodly
!, land in which to build up an empire of thought; it
e ought also to be an empire o' freedom. Tho anti
slavery men of the country intend to make this
: truly the land Of the free and the home of the
= brave by coming to such meetings as these on
+ gala days. When Boston conservatism goes down
s to the Music Hall to air itself in Eyerett's lyirg
t eulogy, we mean to come here and criticise the
various political parties, 10 order to rescue this day
e from priestl5 cant and from political ~mockery.
IS Oh, no, friends; we cOlored men may we'll feel
n proud Of our ancestors. Why, we were held in
q very high esteem by the ancient Creeks. TLOre
70 is a Grecian fable that we descended from the
l gods. Virgil says that Jupiter, in his aerial char
lot, sailing through the skies. went so near the sun
q that it burnt his face black; and on that hypothe-
IS sis they account for the existence of the colored
e race The father of Grecian poetry, standing
b away back in the gray dawn Of history, has struck
n some noble lines from his Tyre, in praise of our
ancestors Of the sunny cline:
9 "The sirs of gods, and oil the ETHEREAL train
On the warm limits of the furthest main,
Now mix with m%ortala, nor disdain to grace
The feas: of EIhiopia's blameless race
, Friends, / have no idea that those men who talk
, about the inferiQrity Of the negro race really be-.
lievs it. They think it is absolutely necessary,