Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-06
REMARKS BY PARKER PILLSBU2Y.

| know you will vote for the resolutions which
have just been read without any further discus
sion upon them. Nor can [ add any interest by
any remarks of mine, to what has been already
uttered. All / can say worthy Of the subject is
this: We have just had before US in the epeaker
to whom we have listened, an example of the kind
of men this nation is laboring to crush and des-
troy. The last resolution of the series l have read
to you draws our attention to the fact that the re-
ligiOn Of tho land encourages and sanctifes this
u%nexampled prescription of the greatest part of
the inhabitants Of the world for it is true, as our
friend has told us, that it is but q small portion OF
the race that are of this fashionable color.
In a certain picture of the twelve Apostles ex-
hibited in this country, eleven of the twelve are
painted white, and one,-Judas Iscariot, black
This is one of many such examples Of American
trucking and meanne;s. Ii was not so in the orig.
inal painting, for the Catholic church has never
lent itself to such base prescription. l stood, once,
within the great Cathedral at Antwerp, at a time
when a great multitude Of worshippers had gath
cred together. The rising sun illuminated the
mighty windows, ninety feet high,-of that col
losal temple, and gave Gu ndoscribabie grandeur
and beauty to the scene. l could look up, agains /
the ceiling, two hundred aud sixty feet above my
head, SO lofty, that Bunker Hill monument could
stand where ! stood, and have forty feet of unoc-
cupied space above it. Into that temple Of mag
nifcence and beauty, with its arches and arcades
and columns, all lighted up with the glory of
the morning sun, there entered an innumerable
multitude to adore the Almighty Father and Ma
kor Of them all! The mother was there with her
babes, the poor man, in his homely garb, -the
rich in their costly robes,-lordly mobiles disdain-
ed not to be there. Yet. among that great crowd,
there was no respect of persons, though | saw
som o around me Of darker hue than him who has
addressed US tonight. All stood there, silent, in
the glowing sunlight of the morning, as brothers
and sisters, -children of the same great father.
And while every heart seemed FACILITATING with
holy fear, suddenly the great organ lifted its
voice, as if God had sounded the key note of the
mighty orison, and the solemn music burst forth
like the song of angels in the orchestra of Heaven.
And amid all this grandeur | could not but ask
myself, when | looked upon the two or three sable
worshippers around me, what would American
christianity say to an exhibition like that? But
this was Roman Catholic worship; ours is the
Protestant faith !
There is no argument with which to meet this
prejudice against color. There are some things
which language is not competent to perform, aud
this is one of them. Did it ever occur to you to
ask, whence came all your superiority over the
African race. Once men journeyed into Africa, as
scholars now travel into Germany from our
own country, for a higher culture than could be
elsewhere obtained. The rolling ages may bring
round the day, when Africa shall again be
the home of civilization, and the hiding
place of the true faith. Macaulsy supposes
IA time when some traveller will sketch the
ruins Of London and Paris; and a day may
come when some antiquarian will come from
Africa, as Layard went to Ninevah to seek
among the ruins Of New York and New
Orleans, for traces Of the civilization Of the
nineteenth century. In that day slavery may
curse some portion Of Gods heritage but
the African will then be the master and
the white race be sunk 20 low that some
sable judge fancy will decide that the
white man has no rights which black men
are bound to respect"
Our ancestors once dwelt in caves in the
wild animals as they could obtain. Their cloth
ing, when they hadkit. was the skins Of beasts.
Go throughout Africa and no greater degradation
can be found than that into which your ances.
tors and mine were once sunk. Mungo Park
and DR.. Livingston tell us Of nothing SO barbar-
Gus amongst the African tribes. The former bears