Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-05

But is the South to blame for endowing
slavery with such a principle of ever expand
ing immortality Who is 10 answer for the
inhunan cunning and ingenious wickedness
of this system! We would draw no invidi-
Gus comparisons, but we believe the South
incapable of such an intervention, for lack of
fertility of genius and intellectual acumen.
1t was the first born offspring of the two
edged selishness of the North. A system
that ages of barbarous despotism could not in
vent, came into being as easily as a bargain
between two horse-iockeys. The North want
ed to have the Southern slaves taxed, to pay
the expense of fighting for their liberty in
the revolution, or any other war that might
be waged for their inalienable rights. THE
other great Interests were making an earnest
demonstration of their hidden nature. A
pretty dilemma, this !! The North would not
insist that the slaves were really men, nor
exactly beasts. They were determined that
these human beings should pay; that they
should range on the tax-roll somewhere be-
tween the upper brute and the lower human.
10 call them cattle, would raise the taxes at
the North to call them H~ree5ffhs human
would raise the taxes at the South, provided
the expenses of the government were to be
raised by direct taxation. Had the other
great interests " permitted the North to allow
the Southern slaves 10 be taxed as cattle, they
would have escaped that terrible right Of Sut-
frage we have described, and the world would
never have witnessed that strange anamoly
In a republic, the three ffh basis of repre-
sentation. Far better-keep easy, friends,
far better had it been for the slaves, if they
had been put down by the North as cattle
outright, in this matter of taxation for then
they would have escaped that iron and ironi-
cal suffrage which yearly FORCES for their
limbs new irons of bondage. Then would
they have been delivered from the lnvincible
Ttceniy-One, Slavery's Life Guard, in Con-
gress; and by this time, perhaps, the bar Of
our National Legislature might have been as
accessible to the prayer of the slave as that OF
Heaven. But the other great interests ~
pleaded like horse-leeches, as they have al
ways done, and always will do, SO long as
they are permitted to usurp the throne Of
right and fill the holy Of holes of human free
dom with the seats of money-changers, and
the small wares Of selfshness. The North
was determined the slaves should be taxed,
not as cattle, but partially as men. Well,
taxation without representation was an out
rageous proposition so soon after the revolu-
ton. 1t was a violation of one of the "inhe.
rent rights of man," which could not be
tolerated. If the slaves were to be taxed as
men, they ought 10 be represented as men
The North scratched its head thoughtfully al
this proposition-it was clear as day. They
had fixed this principle on Bunker Hill. II
from equals you take equals, the remainder
will be equals-that fact had been establish.
ed on some other hill. Well, then, if, in
case Of direct taxation only, the slaves were
to be rated as Mree;ffhs human, then they
ought to be represented as Mreefffhs human,
1t was indisputably so, and the compromise
was concluded. 1.-THE other great interests 81
were satisfied, and slavery acquired a capa-
city of seIf-eXtension and perpetuation thai
no system of sin had ever won before. In
the House of Representatives the Southern
States have SO members. SiXty-seven oil
these are properly the Representatives oil
Shareholders the remaining tlCenty-One are
the representatives of the slaves, whose bu.
slness it is to represent slavery as the corn,..
stone of a republic; as the happiest condition
that the African race can enjoy, at least in
this land Of Bibles.
1t should be passed to the credit of "the
other great interests" that the North may
yet realize some pecuniary Offset to this bocr
to slavery. We cannotsay, with confidence,
that the Federal Government has ever deriv.
ed a farthing Of revenue from a tax on slaves.
We have no record on hand, nor time 10 look
up one, Of any direct national tax imposed
since the adoption of the Constitution. "
importe there may be a direct tax sometime
or other, and then-giye ear, o humanity
and then there will something accrue to : the
other great interests for giving life and i'm
mortality and power and domirion to the
Beast. For slavery thus expanded will pouI
into the Golfers of "other great interests >
more than a corn basket full of coined cop.
per. Men voted at the last Presidential cleo.
ton who will see perhaps twenty millions o.
slaves in the Union-we are sure of it, il
" the other great interests " shall continue t.
be to the political morality of the North VIVA
the love Of God is to religion. Well, thinl
of that! what a revenue will accrue from
twenty millions of beings rated as three
ffths human in case of a direct tax!
We cannot speak with that enthusiasm n
such a prospect which the other great in
terests" demand of their devotees. W.
leave it 10 them to balance accounts with hu
mainly between " the other great interests ;
and slavery.
JOSHUA r. GIDDINGS.