Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-27
o MUCH TRUTH.

| iedsahtS' rom ihe Richmond Whig," and
=. when he retired from the edi-
'P W u'n paper, See on what slight
Pao'."!U" d man 5 lie may be made a sac
'ilce 20 t1e despotIsin OF the United States.
u, o. S'"naard.
we nave rarely, II ever, published an ar
'lc'e III twenty years, the sentiments of which
80 ,Aacuy coincide with our own, as the re-
uvVitons oil "A CItlzen," in this days
"nns'
inney were anterior to the rise Of the South
N"!o'i"a H,chool' pernlcious In all its econ
o.nicA' philosophy, the sentiments of all Vir-
2I.Ia' from Nashlngton, Jefferson, Madison,
Wythe' IehuIeton, Henry, George Mason,
I-on'or' uc"h 10 the humbiest citizen. We
ie"."uu rom -'nein In our hoyhood, and we
H'.o nov iealneI now 70 unlearn them. Then
~ was universally taught, and universally be-
,"L: sn'' IIl'e'y o"s a curse 10 the hhd
'onteN "aS c"Htcdfed ~ II.
No community can greatly flourish and
P,wOoP'i WHERE us youth are brought up In
idIeness' and to regard manual labor and the
m'clanic trades as dishonorable, because
saves are employed to do the manual labor
0, me community. This is the great and
clIhgihg curse OF Slavery! 1t enervates and
en'"ilnates une youth OF the Republic; it
causes lhen TO rely at every turn, even te
"rI"e d pitcher OF water from the well,
vi orush 'helr shoes, upon a negro, instead of
upon themselves; they grow up worthless in
e"cr"y. ana helpless, and when their patri-
,"o"y Il Siuahuered, as 1t is almost sure to
oe' from the habits of idleness and extrava-
ry, they become drones here, emiorate to the
West TO seek the fortunes thew rarely or nov
er find, and never deserve to find.
What, again, can be a greater let and hind
rance to the vlgor of community, than the inn
pairing the value of the mechanic and handi-
craft arts to the citizen by the employmept of
slave labor in them It's effect is infaIIiblv
to eXpel from its bosom to a greater or less
degree, artisans and mechanics, a sound. mai
riotlc aud enlightened class of men. whose
multiplication and prosperity oupht 10 he EN-
couragcd by every wise law-pivCr.
For these sentiments we expect the denun-
citation of those who vindicate Slavery upon
South Carolina principles. Let it come
We despise it now as We did in 1881, when
we proclaimed Them, and when they were
backed by the people and Legislature. They
were the sentiments of Washington, Jefrer-
son, Madison, and all the great and good of
that age. They are the only sentiments which,
put INTO execution, can render Virginia the
first and greatest Commonwealth on this con-
tlnent. Without this she may make violent
efforts to restore herself, but she will contin-
ne to sink, sink, sink in the scale of nations ;
not for the SLAVE, but for our own race, the
WHITES, do we wish to see them PRACTICAL
y carried into execution.
ULATtoN.-A memorial is in circulation which
will doubtless be signed by d large majority
of our citizens, against the passage of the act
which we alluded to a few DAYS since, for tax
ing the free colored population of the State to
raise a fund for thee Colonization Society. Even
the members of the Colonization Society will.
we are satisfied, refuse to receive money raised
by such forced and unconditional means. from
the very persons for whose benefit its philan-
thropic efforts are intended. Another bill al
luded to in the memorial, is one that compels
the free colored population of Charles co nm
ty either to leave within a limited time. he
come slaves, or be imprisoned until the Colo
~nizltion Society is ready to carry them to Lii
IBERIA. We doubt not that the owners of
slaves in Charles county have suffered some-
what by the interference of a few colored
persons with their slaves, but we cannot
think it likely that the Legislature will either
pass a law to send these persons into other
counties to interfere With the rio hts of other
Shareholders, or adopt the Indian mode OF
vengeance by thus furnishing all of the same
color and condition for the sins of the few.
Legislation should always be founded on ius-
tice, right and law, and we hope never to see
a partial or unconstitutional act on the stat
ute books of Maryland.-BaH. Sun.