Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-30
Prom the New York Evening Post,
IMPERFECTIoN OF THE JAPANESE
PROGRAMMES.


Two objects, wo urotola, 4he government of-Ja-
pan had in view in seneiug thO present Embassy
70 this country. The hrst was to ratiry the new
treaty tbu second to acquire additional informa,
ZION respecting us--our peculiar arts, sciences,
modes Of life, go. OF course, is was requisite for
these purposes that tho strangers should visit the
city Of Washington, Hna make q reasonable stay
at the seat Of government. But after that what
was done I They we're brought on to Baltimore,
where only one day was epent in observing the
wonders ofthe %onumenta City. Next they pro-
ceeded to Philadelphia, to which a weeks sojourn
was allotted. The city Of New Y ork and its evi
rous will require at least an equal amount of time,
after the expiration of which il is understood that
u visit will be paid TO the eastern states, rs far as
Boston, returning by way of Albany and Buffalo
10 this city. whence they will take their departure
Tor home.
Now, in this route. It will seen that no opportu-
nifty is to be afforded the nations ssests for see
ing the most peculiar Of all oar institutions. The
city of Washington is not a fair type of %commnni-
ties where slavery exists, for the reason that it is
the fec stal ca pital. 1t has 4 comparatively small
slave population, who are ~tolerably we'll treated :;
st has no slave market, and the right of free dis.
cussion is at least recognized. Baltimore is slight
~ different in these respects; but Baltimore was
cavalierly abandoned after q twenty-four hours
stay and the merost glance at the FIRE companies.
Baltimore, moreover, is half northern in its char
ncter, and can hardly be taken as a specimen OF
southern cities. Thus the route to be trGversed is
confined altogether to those states and cities which
have been established by free labor The Japs-
nese wild be shown into our ship'yards, with their
steamers and clippers in process of construction !;
they will be taken into our factories and iorges
and workshops they will see massive iron bars
and plates converted into the almost intelligent
steam engine they will witness the Lightning
sent on its errands they will even be taken to
the fields and shown the operations Of moving
and res ping.machines. But in all these exhibit
tions they will fail to obtain even q peep into that
condition of society south of Mason and Dixon's
line which is said to be the perfection and glory OF
modern times.
What an oversight is here ! AS slavery is the
corr or stoae Of our free institutions, why should it
be hid from the gaze of the strangers Cceld
they not learn something from our mode of Guilt
waiting rice ia South Carolina, or Of cotton in Mis-.
sissippi or Georgia Was there nothing to be
gathered at New Orleans, where Christian men
and women are taken to the auction block and
knocked down to the highest bidder, along with
horses, cows, hogs and household furniture
1t is certainly very strange that southern mem
bers of Congress, who have such an abiding faith
in their social system, and who watch With such
eager eyes over its interests, should not have pro.
tested against this partial treatment of the Jap
snese ; stranger that the Cabinet should have ac-
quiesced 10 IL moreersrange still that the yenera=
be public funetionaty At .he head of the govern
meus should NOS have konored Congress with a
special message, protesting against the sectional
character Of this tour and the injurious effect Il
must have upon our reputation abroad.
Two motives may, il is true, have influenced the
Administration ia tho course they have pursued
The frst, a conviction that, however good a topic
for o four hours' speech slavery may afford to
member of Congress, the actual facts of breeding
Oea aud women for the market, buying and sell
ing them as cattle and making them toll for other
without remuneration, are not, on the whole, cal
culated to give US much credit as a nation il The
eyes Of foreigners or, secondly, the objections
BILE color of the strangers. They are not, perhaps,
80 sable as Africans, although darker in hue than
many thousands who are condemned to slavery for
life. ThGS it might have betn feared that some
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than of selfinterest, might actually propose to
Christianize them by converting the Orientals in
to chattels or some poor white mobs might
mistake them for 'Gugitives from labor and treat
them as such cattle are usually treated or worse
still, the negroes themselves might draw improper
differences from the unusual attention paid by Or
der of the authorities to gentlemen of color. An
ancient African of Washington, it is said, after be-
holding the extraordinary tumult and display
which tie arrival Of the Japanese excited there,
remarked with some establishment, to a friend
why. dey ain't nothin' more'n colored folks. wild
der heads shaved. Plenty oolored folks in dis
town whittier den dey is. De Lord bless us won
der il de milenum is a,comin' 'tlast white folks
30 glad to see poor colored man Hurrah ! Niger
is a lookin' up Such sentiments might prove
dangerously contagious in the more tropical lati
tudes.
Whatever the motives, however, of this extraor
binary hiatus in the plan of travel, it is clear the
Japanese will go away from this country without
hasi7s seen its most striking peculiaIities. The
plantation remains to them "a sealed book They
may survey it at a distance, as Moses did the
Promised Land; they may inspect it on the map
bat they are not allowed to set foot therein. In
this respect the policy pursued by the Tycoon has
been reversed by our OWE President. At the mo,
ment when the Japanese propose to abandon their
exelusiyensss and open their country to the world,
we as carefully shroud the most interesting part
of ours in an impenetrable seclusion. That is
scarcely fair play, to cay the least.