Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-17

must he, we meant to catch you by guile
and such guile that the poor Cherokee could
only think you a polished rogue. All this
has reacted upon the Christian community.
1t men, who, upon conversion, were ready
and willing to give up all, are coolly told by
the Board, through its agents, that it is right
10 mold on to their slaves, what are the thought
less at the north to concluded Can there be
a greater hindrance in the way of emancipa-
ton! But their Shareholders must be such
nice, such angelic Shareholders I! Look at
DR.. Bacon's Letter; the master must neither
hold, nor buy, nor sell, a slave, for filthy lu-
cre's sake: he must keep him for the sole
benefit of the enslaved he must give him
mental and moral instruction; he must give
him liberty of conscience What a delight
ful STAKEHOLDER is DR.. Bacon's STAKEHOLDER!
/, too, would give the slave K5erty of con-
science and my word for it, he would walk
from his master as quick as you would from
a mad dog. Mr.. S. went on to illustrate the
idea Of holding a man in bondage for the BEN
cit of a man enslaved, by the fact of an ex-
emplary mans holding stolen goods, for the
benefit OF another. Sill, you would admit
HIM to the communion He did not do it
for his own benefit! Another man possesses
a good property, is an exemplary man but
when he returns home by his neighbours wood
pie, at night, he always will steal his neigh
boris axe. He cannot let the axe alone it
Is his peculiar institution to steal that neigh
boris axe: yet he should be received at the
communion, nevertheless! The whole cleri-
cal wit of New England theologians had been
expended, to make out the case of an inno-
cent STAKEHOLDER. Suppose, said Mr.. S., there
can a man be found who keeps slaves for their
benefit, and not for his OWL would take
him by the hand and call him brother-would
lodge the master and all his slaves in my
house, aye, | would lodge them all in one
bed AS | have no doubt they could all get
in. (Laughter.) An innocent STAKEHOLDER!
What a moral phenomenon-to the moral
world, what a comet is to the physical crea-
ton. These men, all dressed up in black,
tarlng sumptuously every day, tell us of their
$4,000, 200 worth of cotton BY which the 'com-
merclal exchanges ofthe country are regu,at d.
But this is 100000, 900 worth of cotton pro.
duced by slaves held for their " benefit! I
Is 1t not rather In part raised by the toll Of
woman, who In the morning moves from her
poor bed at the blast Of the horn; who, while
all Is damp with the dews Of tie night, goes
to the field with an infant of three months up
on her arm; who lays that infant under t he
fence, and nurses it after she has hoed across
the field and back again; to be whipped if
she fails to perform the whole of the hard task
allotted to her; the strong men, her brethren
in bondage, who would fdin assist her, pre-
vented by a brutal overseer from doing so:
this is the way that slaves are held for their
own benefit, and to enable these fine, well
dressed gentlemen to talk to us of regulating
the exchanges Of the nation by the production
of cotton! If there was but one such case
instead of ten thousand, it would be a sufi-
cient reason for the abolition of slavery. Yet
such men as DR.. Bacon are denouucing us
for exposing the wickedness of the Board,
while they take these lordlings by the hand.
But, said Mr.. S. in conclusion, the eyes of
the people are upon you; your days are soon
over: you will 60 to the judgment, and may
God forgive you, for | never can unless l see
signs of genuine, deep repentance.