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

who are voluntary slaves. 1t may suit the
c%ringing spirit of northern doo-faces who have
learned to crouch to s%lavery's power, and DO
the bidding of their masters. If we claimed
TO be a freeman, or a lover of freedom, we
would be ashamed to utter such doctrine, ex-
cept to condemn it.
To comfort the free c%olored people under
their manifold wrongs, the Doctor tells them
"Political privileges are denied 10 you
but in what country are they not withheld
from the great mass of mem Many civil
rights are curtailed as to you: but how few
enjoy them in their fulness any where =
Various personal restrictions are laid upon
you but they are fewer and less oppressive
than the white poor of all other countries en-
dure. Your persons are under the protection
Of the laws, labor is every where free TO you
the acquisition of property is open before you
by innumerable channels; and whatever you
possess is as much your own and as sacred
w respected, as the estates of the most emf
hent of our citizens. The ancient people of
God endured for fifteen centuries, in all lands,
what every American heart would revolt from
in~ficting on you for a single hour. Your
condition, therefore, is not only perfectly sup
portable and entirely CONSISTENT with the prac-
lice of all the domestic ard most of the So
rial virtues; but it is really far better than
the condition of the great mass Of mankind
ever was, or now is, or is soon likely to be
in any other country
Rather cold comfort to those who contin-
ually feel the inequalities of Maryland laws
as do the colored people OF that State. One
who had no other information relative to their
condition would think it almost enviable.-
In order to truly estimate the value Of the as
s~ertions put forth in this paragraph, let US
analyze a single sentence. "Your persons
nre under the protection of the laws" What
kind of projections If a white ruiian attacks
a colored man, will the testimony of the lat
fer be received as to the fact in any court Of
Justice in the State! Not so the State re-
fuses to believe him upon oath. If a white
villain murders a colored man, and the deed
ia witnessed by fifty other coiored men, will
their evidence be admitted against the muir
dererl Their united testimony would be re-
jected inasmuch as the accused was white.
How then do the laws protect their persons !
Labor is every where free to you" Will
colored compositors be admitted into the print
ing offices Of Baltimore! Can colored clerks
obtain situations in tie counting houses OF
the merchants there! Would a colored prin-
ter be patronized, or a colored merchant be
regarded with favor! We apprehend that a
colored lawyer in Baltimore would be brief
less, and a colorcd physician without patients.
The labor of a barber or a boot black, of a
porter or a hod carrier is doubtless free to
them, but every attempt which they make tc
engage in a business which is considered ever
one remove from mental, would be frowned
upon, and they significantly admonished tc
keep in their proper place. 1.-THE acquisi
ton of property is open before you by innu
merablc channels" viii the Legislature
give a contract to a "nigger9" would i
charter a banking company of colorcd men
or incorporate a railroad company under thei
management? Will Legislative power fur
nish thc,n the same facilities FOR the acquisi
ton Of wealth it does white citizens! woul,
public opinion sanction it! Unless on
knowledge of the people of Maryland, and q
their Legislature be utterly at fault, the his
tory of both responds most en- alphabetically, No
Whatever you possess is as much your ow
and us sacredly respected, as the estates {
the most eminent Of our citizens" 1t wa
beautifully and truly said, that no one dare
to pluck a rose from the English peasant
cottage garden without the owners consen
and if the laws protect the rose, how niue
more do they protect the hand that planted
Not SO in Maryland. We have shown tn
the laws give no protection to either the liml
or life Of the colorcd man when the viii
man ~assails him and none but colored me
are witnesses to the deed, and it would be
work of superorogation to prove that his pr
perry is given up as a spoil, that he may wi
impuni,y be swindled or robbed, and his to
timeny be Of no avail. These are %notorior
facts, with which DR.. Breckenridge must &C
Hinly be acquainted. We here let this mi
ter rest.
In the latter part Of his letter he bears t
following testimony as to The character of t
free colorcd man of America. If it be trr
and we believe it is, in what estimate Dug
that government and nation to be held w
so shamefully Cypress ga dociIe and religio
people"
"Many years ago I took the responsible
pf pnhliclU maintaining contrary IN the