Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-01

state can never be established except by
means of the black race, and therefore, and in
that sense, except by means of it, the earth
itself can never reach that point Of advance
ment which God has put so palpably within
its reach. Two solemn lessons arise ont Of
tese facts. The one should teach our race
how absurd it is TO contemn and despise
yours; the other should teach your race how
fatal il is TO resist and obstruct those benef-
cent designs by which alone their ultimate
freedom and nationality can BE- accomplish
ed. ] do not advise any man in particular to
emlgrate-c1ch one must decide Tor himself.
Stlll less do ] recommend a general emigra-
ton, or approve of one accomplished by vio-
lence. But, even at the risk of forfeitinr
your confidence, | have always testified, and
do still, against that general and concerted
hostility TO African colonization. which, in
various parts of the country, whether amongst
yourselves or amongst us, has had no better
effect, than to dolude and cmbittcr the minds
OF the free blacks, eXasperate those of tho
whites, and embarrass the noblest and most
irultIal movements Of the present century,"
If we understand the English Of that, it is
something like this. 1t is very wonderful
that a nation so enlightened and powerful as
yours once was, should now be so helpless
and degraded that millions of her people
should be torn from their homes and ~enslav4
ed in christian lands. All this is very won
dcrful, but not so wonderful as the fact that
you, her descendants do not vet comprehend
you destiny. / comprehend it, and know
that your destiny is to civilize and christian
iac the tropical regions. From this YOU can
not escape, for it is the interchangeable decree
OF God. 1t is fatal to your interests to oppose
African colonization, and l hereby testify
against the course you have pursued toward
that benefcent and noble movement. 1t is
the will of God that you should be coloniz-
cd, and in vain may you attempt to resist it.
by what means the Doctor has been able
to comprehend the destiny of the colored race,
while it has been hidden from that people.
we are unable to conceive. We are conf
dent he has drawn his information from nei-
ihor reason nor revelation, but gathered it
from that prejudice which pcrvades the hear,
OF the American nation, and from his desire
that the scheme Of colonization shall succeed.
In the next paragraph he insultingly tells
them
81 ~reiterate my firm conviction. that. in
general, the condition of respectable free per-
sons OF color. is decidedly better in the slave
States Of this Union, than in the free. Nor
should we forget that almost the entire free
black race in America, owe such Liberty as
they enjoy, either Immediately or remotely,
TO the mere Gcnevolence Of those who opce
owned them or their ancestors and that the
absolute and entire hope Of freedom for all
the blacks now in slavery in this country, re-
poses simply on the same foundation. Great
lessons lie involved in these truths. AMONGST
the cillet are these that the free black race
are bound ny every sentiment of gratitude,
and every dictate of prudence and wisdom, to
be quiet; I0yaL, pcdceajG and docile as reuards
The hg'cS, Tie Institutions, and the BuGEc Segtf-
ment q the Sgre-iohiil; States ; and that, in
the long run, their own hes, hopes are con-
necied with the prosperity Of those States"
To these sentiments every STAKEHOLDER will
shout amen! When the free colored man
reads the infamous laws which have been in
scribed in letters Of blood upon the statute
books OF the South, he must reprcss his rising
Indignation, he must paddock his lips, nor
dare to utter n word in condemnation, he must
1'N'' w. az p'HNCdDiC anu uOClle. -
True, they forbid the slave learning to read,
they prescribe severe punishment for the mos,
triiling offences, they authorize the master to
iniictany conceivable amount of torture, they
permit the slave to be shot down as a wild
beast, they legaIize the selling of his wife 10
a seragIio, and his daughter to a Louisiana
harem all these things the Southern laws
say may be done to the slave, and south of
Mason and DiXon's line the free colored man
is often subjected to imprisonment if he leaves
his W ncighborhocd without carrying with
him his free papers, is sold into slavery for
his Jail fees, and finds his testimony exclud-
cd firm Southern courts of justice but under
all these infections the colored man must he
"quiet, loyal, peaceable and docile." lie
must net utter a word against that 6 peculiar
institution" under whose reign of terror men
and women are forced to uncompensated toll,
and whose very eXistenc depends upon the
stunted intellect and crushed spirits of Its
victims. When he beholds wrongs inflicted
upon his race which would make angels weep
and move them to utter words of holy indig-
nation when he sees oppression which God
in thunder tones rebuNes, and against which
he commands his people to "cry aloud, and
snare not.H he must he % ouiet laval 90,