Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-11
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sure. But it was not SO. Language cannot
utter the horror that went over me when |
saw a slave all harnassed to the Internal Jug
gernaut. Before that first slave in his chains.
| renewed my oath of eternal, unmiticated
hatred of slavery. And by the grace of God,
that oath shall be kept, until victory
crowns my labors, CT death release me from
them.
All the way from Cumberland to Balti-
more, we had the company of shareholders.
One, a gentleman from Tennessee, sat on the
seat with me, as we passed down the Poto-
mac and its branches, in the cars. Seeing
the awfully miserable huts Of the poor whites
that borrowed and denned along on the road,
spoke of ii to my near neighbor. o said
he, very coolly, these are the huts Of the free
niggers. But, said |, look and you will SEQ
the people are white. He did go, and then
said, well, these are emigrants who work on
the road. But there are no emigrants at work
on the road. was my answer. The road has
been done for years. And besides, | con,in-
ned, look over the river yonder, and YOU see
the same wretched dwellings and people
O those are for the workmen on the canal
over there, was his quick reply. Brit there
is no water in the canal said |, and il has
never been used along here since the railroad
was built. Finally, he had to give it up
said /, friend, we are in a slave state, and
may as well let it go so. ard Gods wither-
ing curse is written all over the soil, and
whatsoever moves or grows upon it. He
was silent.
All day, we passed the houses Of slave
holders. In the back and side Yards, | saw
black pigs and black children, w~allowing in
the same dirt, one as clean and az much car
ed for as the other. In the fields were men
and women at work, ragged and dirty, many Of
them broken-hearted and despairing, and sigh
ing for the liberty Of entering the cars on
which they looked so wishfully, and hasten
ing on the wings of the fire horse, to a better
condition. Their glorious l~aziness, and heed
less habits, about their work, More all that
gave me any pleasure.
An accident on the rail road detained me
in Baltimore over Sunday. This | did not
regret, as was DESTROYS of seeing a city that
was SO famed for its richness and splendor on
the one hand, and its cold-blooded barbarity
on the other. l do not believe we have a
finer city in the Union. Nor do ! believe
there is one with more humanity, or more
genuine Ani!-Siavery. DR.. Snodgrass, of the
Saturday Visiter, was absent, a circumstance
that gave me much regret. however found
some genuine abolitionists, subscribers to all
the radical Anti-Slavery papers, and never
spent a happier day. They showed Inc tho
city as 1t is. The cololed men are more of
them free than slaves. And the best clad,
and most comfortable looking eolored popu-
Iation | have ever seen. told the people Of
Philadelphia the next day, they ought to be
ashamed of the comparison. This day, |
would rather be a colored man in Baltimore
than Philadelphia. / went to the slave pris-
ons Of Donovan and Hope II. Slater; dens
of deep despair and horror, worse than death.
U, could the stones and bricks in those
gloomy walls cry out, what tales of woe
would they unfold! My friends told ma
that on the days when Slater made his ship
ments Of slaves off to the South the whole city
was shrouded in gloom. All regard the traf-
nc with horror, so some shareholders told
me-, and look upon him, with all his wealth
and complaisdnce, as almost a monster. |
saw his daughters, amiable and beautiful in
appearance, and was told that no expense had
been spared in their education, but that all
their accomplishments were not sufficient,
in the public estimation, to hide their fathers
disgrace, and they were not considered wor-
thy Of the best society. ! could hardly be-
lieve this, but as it came from shareholders,
and | have often heard them declare the same
before, it is doubtless nearly true. There is
some humanity, even among Shareholders.
But the most Interesting part Of my pas
sage homo, was the talk | had with the
Southrons on the dissolution of the Union
Sometimes | advocated the measure as an
aboli %Ionist, but generally as a Northern
Wing or Democrat would as / found in
Ohio and Pennsylvania, many Of both par
ties were in favor of the measure. NV re-
gard for The motto-'No Union with Slave
holders was never so great as since that
lime. Shareholders know theirs is a horri-
BILE business, and that no body ought to help
them in it, and in their hearts, they honor US,
and desPise every one who is so mean as TO
aid them by perpe,uating the Union. would
say TO them, our country is now too large,
and growing larger. We have too much va
rie'y of soil. productions, climate and charac-
Der to be included and protected under ono
constitution and policy. I appealed to all
the debates in Congress, the unwilling oon-
promise, the extOlted forgivings and JorOear-