Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-28
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Is Stephen s. Foster a C"annibal?

Is Stephen >. IOSJef 4 Calnl0ai!
S. S. Foster makes out every voter and ev-
cry member of a church or religious society,
On this vicinity at least) a robber, adultcrcr
and a cradle plunderer; he who votes for a
Shareholder he says will surely 90 to hell,
and the liberty party man is still porSc than
he. L am not about to attempt a refntltion
of the position he takes on these subjects, but
rather to carry out another view of the blood
outlines OF those, who in other respects, are
participants in and supporters of the murder
GUS system. If prove the affirmative of the
above question, it need not surprise those
who have already learned by Foster, that so
many Of the reputed pious are bat thieves and
robbers, and that religion is in this country
but another name for murder. They have
already perceived that ''all is not gold that
glitters," and that Stephen is about as con.
s%istent as any other pro-slavery man who
avows his innocence Of the blood of the slave,
Slaves are said to be worn out in seven years
in the production Of sugar, rice, cotton, sc.
in Louisiana, by what is termed the "sevon
year process"
Now if by some chemical process, the flesh
of the slaves was in 0even years, or even in
Il more summary manner, converted into food
as edible and delicious as sugar and rice, and
their skins into wearing apparel, would not
S. S. Foster be as justliable in eating the
one and wearing the other, as he is in using
the rice, sugar and cotton as now produced?
And is a man any less a canribal for permit
ting his victim to linger out a few years of
torture and suffering before he devours him?
and is not that which we DO by another an
act OF our own! Foster boldly declares he
kind. lie says it would be criminal for
another who does not denouncc and expose
slavery TO do what he is ~doing-using the
! produce Of the slaves toll. At the Anniver-
sary at New Garden he denounced as a thief
and a roJber the man who thus supported
] slavery, and did not advocate the rights of
the bondman, but for himself he would be
doing wrong-woulL be doing just what the
STAKEHOLDER wanted us TO advocate and prac-
tico-the freclabor system! lie also con.
tended that he had the slaves consent thus &c
! sustain the system by using and traficing in
the fruit of his labor. This is the position
Foster took at the aforesaid Anniversary; now
see him Turn to the Shareholder and say, "sir
| am a disunionist, | can have no fellowship
or connection with you in any way whatever
ercept TO buy sugar, cotton &c. ! conside.
you the basest villain that can be found OF
Gods footslool; You have no right to a par
ticle of that hogshedd Of sugar which you
have Just wrested from these poor slaves, bu'
what will you take for it, Here is the cash,
| cannot pay you more than five cents per ID.
for | can purchase as good al six cts. of hon
est men who have d right to sell it. You
have no right to it whatever; but what will
YOU take! There is also a keg of rice you
have stolen, | will also take it as you can I'M
dersell those who pay their hands for labor.'
There is no excuse for you in thus robbing
your equal fellows of their rights and
| property, and language fails to furni.h me