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

food, they made no nearer approach to civili-
cation. They use an Indian turnip, and the
g tara J" poisonous when in a raw state
They roast the " tara" pulverize it mix ii
with water into a paste, in a dish they call a
1" calabash :" into this they thrust their fin
gers, the paste adheres, and they suck it off.
If very hungry, they put in two fingers to the
second knuckle; if not very hungry, one fin
ger will answer. Their houses are made of
poles stuck in the ground, interlaced with
withes, and the interstices filled with grass
hardly high enough to stand erect in, and
barely large enough 10 lodge, promiscuously,
upon the door, the inmates, who are some
times composed Of two, three, or four fami-
lies. The winds and rain often bring sudden
destruction to these frail tenements. But
there are no partitions in those houses and
partitions are an index of civilization. They
have no plates, no spoons, no knives, no va
riety in their food. Their language is so low,
so vile, so corrupt, that missionaries wall up
their houses and yards, to keep the eyes and
ears Of their children from contact with the
stream of pollution thus put forth. The mis-
sionaries soon secured the confidence Of the
Chiefs brought them into the church the
Chiefs made laws with severe penalties
against murder, intemperance, adultery, and
the breaking of the Sabbath, which banished
those sins from sight. The first voluntary
temperance society was formed in l9l2.-
The people are slaves to the Chiefs and it
is slavery which prevents the adoption of the
usages of civilized life. The ownership is
as complete as in South Carolina, though the
Chiefs do not take all the time of the people;
they take what they want; and make it a rule
that the people support themselves. There
were about 300 Chiefs about 100, 900 slaves.
There was no price; no sales; no demand
there are so many of them though in one
case a slave was sold to a foreigner for $IG0.
A Chief will have perhaps forty slaves in his
%retinue; three TO brush off the flies; two or
three to press the muscles of his body, and
make him feel good after eating a hearty din
ner. When he Or. L.) wanted help, he
would go and get a Chief to release a slave,
so that he could hire him. There are some
other points of difference between slavery in
the Sand witch Islands and in the United States,
but the degradation Of tie people Is complete,
in consequence of this ownership the effect
upon the man is about the same in one case
as in the other. 1t is wild and ridiculous to
ascribe their degradation to any other cause.
Can you, he would repeat, ascribc it to idol
airy No. Paul found the Athenians idol
ators, and a brilliant, not a stupid people,
Suh ~ ~ wv ADoNl ~ VI UlIll :
That cannot be, as the intellect of the Chiefs
is good. God has not de raded the people
of the Sandwich Islands-it is slavery that
has degraded them. What is the effect of
oppression, and its attendant temptations 3
Always 10 blunt, if not destroy the moral SEN
sibilities. The people of the Sandwich Is
lands are nominally more christianizcd than
the people of the United States. One out of
four or five there, are members of churches ;
here, not one in six. The soil is fine; eli
mate salubrious; if free, would not the peo-
pie rise in the arts and usages of civilized
life The Missionary has certified that the
man believes on the Lord Jesus Christ; the
next command is, that he "provide for his
own"-to be diligent in business; but how
can he obey this command of heaven, when
he has noright of propertyl The foundation
IF civilization IS not there. 1t is idle to de-
bate the proposition that there can be no rea.
advancement, no Iteration, tUhere there is no
right Of property. Again, said DR.. l.. would
you think 1t proper that half a dozen families
should lodge, promiscuously, in a single
room? If the whole world should tell YOU
that they were in the way of virtue and chas.
tity, under such a system of living, would
you believe them? Henry S. Cheever-
brother of DIR. Cheever-writes from there,
that a people living as the Sandwich Island.
ers live, cannot be ~virtuous and chaste, nc
matter how much they are christianized,-
You cannot change the usages and habits oil
a people until their rights are given to them
He could not 60 as far as Mr.. Cheever wen
he believed there was solne piety there
and he meant piety with virtue in it-somc
chastity and real virtue-but these were Of
the nature of exceptions.
An enquiry was made as to whether these
statements might be taken as a fair represen
tation of protested piety among the slaves o
the South
DR.. LAFoN: | think it is. DR.. l.. ther
went on to give the opinion of the distin
guished DR.. Nelson, who had baptized slave.
for 10 years, and who stated to him, that h,
did not know Of moro than three or four il
whose piety he had confidence. To return
DIBBLE's work on the Sandwich Island
maintains that civilization there has not KEEP
pace with Christianity. The American pub
lie are sadly uniformed on these matters
this is not surprising; the Board has don
nothing, and Missionaries cannot spread thes
facts before the people through the Board
and dare not do it by any other medium.
In answe to enquiries-Dr. l.. stated tina
when the Missionaries first went to the Sand
witch Islands, the Chiefs gave them dona
tons in land, and with it the serfs upon il
The serfs failed to serve the missionarie
well, and they e%nquired of the Chiefs wha
, they must do3 They We're told to burn u
their houses, and break their "calabashes.
The calabash is the vessel in which their foe
f is mixed. He believed this course had bee