Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-22
Cuba.
Publishing agent.

The American people had abundant warm
Ing OF the iniquitous p~lottings of Texan aG-
venturers. Their schemes were unfolded.
their duPlicity unmasked, and the connivance
OF those high in authority in this land fully
exposed. The people would not hear, and
were determined not to believe. They turn
ed a deaf ear to every appeal made TO their
sense OF justice, they were unwilling to make
the effort which was necessary to meet the
threatened danger, and treated as ~fanatical
babblers those who urged upon them their
responsibilities and duties.
The plans of the Texan conspirators iwere
boldly laid and successfully carried. The
horde OF adventures who had robbed a sister
republic of one of her finest provinces, by
the aid OF spectators in Texas land scrip,
assisted by political demagogues whose in
iiuence was as much a matter of barOain and
sale as is the labor of a southern negro, be-
came erected into a state and admitted into
the American Union. The war they had
been waglng with Mexico was transferred to
this nalion-the treasury of The government
has been drained-the lives ofour people sac-
Hhced' and the little moral character which
slavery had left US entirely destroyed. The
events growing out of the annexation of Tex
as which in '4G and ~ are presented to the
world as matters of history, are but confrma-
tlons OF the prophetic warnings of abolition
lists uttered but a little while before, and all
can now see that what were then regarded as
eN~trdvagancies have become sober realities,
and that The result-as far as seen-has been
to the full as deplorable and disgraceiul as it
was represented itwould be.
Although the abolilionists failed in their
efforts to prevent the annexation of Texas.
although they found it impossible to dispel
The apathy which paralized the moral powers
OF The nation, yet their labors have not been
lost TO humanity. There are thousands, ave,
tens of thousands of awakened slumberers
who now comprehend 10 some extent the in
which blinded their sight and dea-
dened their perception of the truth, and if
such are induced by the bitter experience of
the present, and the humiliating remembrance
oil the neglected warning of the past, to be
more jealousy watchful against the willy
Vaccinations OF the slave power in the future,
a great work will have been accomplished,
Every advance in anti-slavery action made
by other nations causes the slave-power of
this land to gnash its teeth with rage, and
Immediately seek to devise some means to
counleract the growth of freedom. 1t is es-
Pec'ally jealous of every movement made bv
Great Britain which tends, whether directly
or Indirectly 10 the emancipation of The hui
man race. Within the last year or two, and
perhaps before, there has been some specu.
lation as to the probability of that government
possession of the island of Cuba.
Spain Is heavily indebted TO England, and it
been suggested that the ~cession of that
colony in lieu OF the money she owes and
cannot pay, would be a desirable arrange
ment to both nations. The very mention of
such a thing was enough to throw the South
commissions, for it feels that any increase
Of free negroes in the West Indies would
the patriarchal institution Of this
country; and az the slaves Of Cuba wou!d be.