Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-02-13


system of war which Is in point of meanness
and cruelty without a parallel. Although the
aggressor may not in every case realise this,
but expect from his slave the attachment of a
dog to his master, yet the latter knOw, it to
be SO, and feels that TIE laws of war upon
which his master acts, Justify the slave in hui
man butchery, in killing and destroying eve
rybody and everything that is identified with
his enemies.
In relation to tho character of the crime,
we freely admit TINT it was a most airocious
murder, yet receiving rs true all the ch1rges
preferred, do they equal in enormity she sum
of all viillnies,-slaveryl Ask Shadrlch
Nichols whether he would rather that the
murderer had committal the deel he dill, OF
carried Of his wife, retained her as his prop
erty, used her for the vilest purposes, and ex-
posed her to all the outrages and insults
to which the slave womln Of the South is
exposed, a victim to the lust of every linear
Helena Journal. Ask him if he would not
rather that the spirits Of his little child
rem should return thus carly to the bo-
som Of their Father God ,unstained with crime,
unmarked by wrong, than to know that the
weight Of sllvery's chains were crushing
them to the very dust, that their ~infantlle
minds were denied the gift of intellectual AMI
moral light, that they were doomed to grope
in darkness to the grave, and b~equeath to their
posterity the SINE terrible fate. Let the an
swer Of that husband and father decide wheth-
or of him who holds his fellow man in slave
ry be more atrut ious.
In relation to the amount Of guilt incurred
by the actor, we must bring to bear those con
siderltions which in other cases We rightrully
allow to aid in determining our Judgment
We feel that it would be grossly unjust to
condemn as severely the New Zealand mln-
eater who has bee. taught to believe canni-
balism right, as a New Zealand man-cater in
whose country the opposite doctrine prevails.
Let US apply this principle TO the case before
h3f AlII y ''lh NV SNliOVl III VI ia
sMr. Bowman's yellow boy learned morality
was we'll calculated TO make him a villain Of
the blacklist dye, if he followed the practical
teachings CT those in authority over him.
trine upon himself, that it was right to steal,
not horses, but men, and murder the soul as
well as torture and destroy the body. What
better could be expected Of him than that for
which they condemned him! The relation
which society had established between him
and his master, denied to him the right of
learning his duty toward man and the Crea-
tor Of man. A degraded, brutalized being
was what slavery strove TO make him, and
she succeeded, SO FIR, at least as to deprive
him of the restraints which a correct educa-
ton would have thrown around him and leave
his animal nature unchecked. They who
mlde him a slave, who established the dcgra-
ding relation between his master and himself,
sowed the seed of that harvest which they
have now reaped. We no. unfre1uently read
of murders committed by slaves, and in every
instance, so far as we remember, there is an
attempt made TO PREJUDICE the public mind a.
gainst the offenders by carefully keeping ont
of sight the circumstances which might nit
igate the criminality of their conduct, and
such circumstances, might always be found,
even if there existed no other, in the fact of
their enslavement, the robbery Of their hu-
manity, the denial of their manhood.
There is a other thought suggested by the
occurrence which demands expression, and
that is the summary manner in which the ac-
cursed was executed, and the day on which
the mob murdered him. If "Mr. Bowman's
yellow boy" were 'the bloody fiend," 1.-THE
incarnate hell hound' he is represe nted, yet
that is no reason why he should be deprived
of his legal rights, and even the laws Of the
slave holding South give him the right of
trill, and he was placed in Jail to await it,
But he was taken from the prison by an in(uri-
ated mob, who were SO eager to do justice that
they violated the laws, and laughed authority
to scurn, and became in their turn, every soul
Of them. murderers. They Instituted a sham
court, hurried through his mock trial, and H.
legally condemned him to be burned before
a slow fire. The day chosen for what may
most emphatically be termed their he'll
lish outrage, was Sunday Perhaps some
of the men engaged in it, protested to be
good christians and greatly to regard The Sab
bath, and were members of some of the nu-
merous Sabbath conventions which have