Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-18

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class of the people aud last, but not least, your
services include the able aud enlightened discharge
of your public duties as the representative Of Hay
ii % tho English Court "a position in which you
Gpheld tho dignity Of your country, and made her
respected in the eyes Of both friends and foes.
The recapitulati6n of these simple facts of your
history is the highest praise we can bestow-the
most effective testimony we can offer to your pub
lie and private worth. 1t, therefore only remains
Tor us to express our earnest hope that you may
be favored with a safe and prosperous voyage to
your native land that you may in some suitable
form perpetuate your connection with us and
that your life may long be spared to repeat in The
future the good deeds of the past.
We should not be doing justice to our own feel
ings, and to the sacred cause which We r%eprcsent,
if we did not in an address of this nature express
our admiration of TIE government which Presi-l
dent Geffrard has established in Hayti-a govern
ment which combines order with progress, and
which has opened up to the Haytian People the
prospect of a great and happy future. President
GeBrdrd has displayed all TIE characteristics of a
true patriot-courage, magnanimity, and wisdom
the last quality being manifested in a detcrmin-
alton to establish the institutions of his country
NhOh eO ph9iS " bN'Shu a a 6SNNA hAhSh
founded upon such principles, and guided by so
wise and patriotic a chief, Cannot fail to enjoy the
permanent confidence Of the people over whom il
exercises authority, and at !ho same time to OBJ.
lain the moral support of the whole civilized wo rid.
Ii is scarcely necessary for Us to say that cur best
efforts, however humble they may be, will BIO sys-
tematically employed in furtherance of this latter
object,
IL conclusion, while bidding you farewell, and
giving you our God-speed, it behoves us to extend
n cordial welcome to your excellent c~uccussOr, who,
we are sure, will nobly prosecute the work in
which you have been engaged, and add largely to
the services which he has already rendered to the
country Of which he has now become the worthy
representative.
Signed On behalf Of the London Emancipation
Committee,
GEORGE THOMPSON, Chairman.
T. W. C~nEssoN, Hon. Secretary.
London, June 2nd, 1860.
The Chairman then rose and said that it gave
him great pleasure to present the address just read
to his Excellency. lie (Mr. IT, did so with the
most sincere qualification, because Of the depth of
the feeling he cherished towards IIayti. 1t was
about thirty years since that he had had occasion
TO make himself thoroughly master of the history
. of that island, and to lay the facts connected with
it before the public of this country and of the
j United States. When the philanthropists of Eng
land were engaged in the great struggle for the
! abolition of slavery in the British Colonies, they
. were constantly told to look at the Island of St.
Domingo. lie mad done so and having read
all the works respecting that people and their
; struggle fer freedom, he derived from the perusal
an impression which be could never forget-of ut
ter detestation of the injustice, cruelty, and wrong
= perpe trated upon the people of that Island and
the wisdom, talent, prowess, fidelity, and endur
. ance displayed by them in bidding defiance to the
u gathered armies and navies of Europe, and which
= qualities had preserved te them 10 this hour the
liberties, which more than sixty years ago they
) won for themselves. lie hoped at some future
time to have the qualification of seeing the Baron
: de Pradine return to England. 1t was with deeI
regret they parted with him, because they had hat
occasion to admire not more the discretion with
which he had acted as a d~iplomatist than the cor
diality he had displayed as a friend his genialitl
of disposition, and the great amount of information
he possessed upon all matters connected with hi
> country, which made it a pleasure as well as
: privilege to be associated with him. They trusted
- however, that his successor would condos ,end, a
the Baron bad done, to recognize and become as
: sociated, il heart and in effort, with the friends 0
= universal freedom in this country. lie (the Chair
" mani, though regretting the coming departure Q
that nobleman from England, I%ejoiced that the
: should have the continued cooperation Of his Ell
teemed colleague, Monsieur Lespinasse, the Secre
i airy Of The Haytian Embassy, whose continue
q presence IN this country would to some exten
Is compensate for the absence of the Baron, and VIII
u could constantly form a connecting link of fIienC
ship between him and them. They hoped that b
his return to his country his Excelleney might
q able to render even some greater service than eve
u" be had yet performed TO that cause of freedol
which they all SO fervently desired to promot
The address would show TO his fellow-citizens
Hayti the estimation in which his Excellency WI
held here, aud it was hoped taat it would slim
20 late the son to initiate The example Of the f
Their.
The Baron de Pradine could hardly express b
feelings for the kind expressions towards himse
contained in the address and the speech of II
Chairman. 10 a tongue which was not his own /
always felt q difficulty in making a speech ; bu
9e yet he must address them in English, as thel
were probably but few present who could undo
mt stand his own language. lie was afraid that tt
ng kindness Of the Chairman and the Committe ha
'P induced them to estimate the humble services /
had endeavored to render to his country, and
ia. the African race to which he belonged, too highl
an The kind acknowledgment which had been mao
ps oS them was the finest reward he could have I
as ceived and he trusted that it would furnish IL
at strongest incentive to his children to follow in tn
"a respect in the footsteps of their father. For hin
les self, he should ever greatly value the address pr
70, scented to him. Looking at the length of time
us had been established, the London EmancipatiC
Sc Committee might be said to have been of short d
ration, but its members were tried men in Il
in cause of freedom. The Chairman, for exampl
n was at the head of those that were labOriDg f