Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-22
WHOLE NO. 115.

cause she was suddenly deprived of pecunia-
ry support.
Nor can slaveholding parents, owing TO
the causes we have mentioned, transmit gen-
orally to their children either their wealth or
their industry.
by what means has this wealth been recei-
we'd lndusiry-steady, sharp-sighted, un-
firing industry, has amasssd it. And no other
means VIII secure or retain it. But the eff
feet of slavery is TO sap this industry-to
make our young men and women indolent.
dependent, wanting in the energy TO be and
do. Are they left with large farms, and a
number Of slaves 7 The eye Of the master
must be every where, and his hand ready al
all times, else fsnces and stock, and houses,
and land go to rack and ruin. Have they
stores, with lots Of merchandise 7 Overseers
will not answer here, nor clerks, be they ev-
er SO faithful. The owner alone can make
them profitable, and that only by closest skill
aud severest attention. ANY other course
VIII be fatal. And another course, we kno,U,
is generally pursued. 70 expect an increase
OF property, or the retention of property left
them, when those who have it are indolent,
dependent, or lack energy, is to expect an
impossibility. The result is that slavehold-
ers estates go TO ruin. ''Ruin,' said Senator
Underwood years ago, VIXEN arguing this
point, "ruin overtakes the family of the slave
holder that relies upon the produce of slave
labor for support, and il is seldom delayed
beyond the third generation"
Thus far have we argued upon the hvpoth-
esis that slaveholding parents are indusiri-
Gus, and lift themselves above the evils of
slavery.
But this is not so. Here and there parents,
havinu nm ip1omitahla will onI Iii .z..
age, are so well balanced as to start well and
end well, as regards habits of industry, econ
omy and sobriety. These, however, are ex-
ceptlons. Slavery generates, in a large pro-
portion of slaveholding parents, idIeness-a
positive inability to do. How can it be 9TH
erwise! They do not work; if they own a
large number Of slaves, they do not even at
tend TO them; they employ overseers for that;
t and the consequence is, that they do not re-
taln-much less add to-the property they in
merit. We remember going 10 court, al
, Sumpter, in South Carolina, in company with
three or four distinguished lawyers, and CO
ming TO a house betwee nine and ten O'CLOCK
in the morning, where a father, and his five
sons, GALL able to work) were lying flat OF
their backs in the shade, while four negroe
were toillng away in the cotton field in sigh
This induced us TO observe other plantation
. q . VIC phoSCu dlOu2f anu III nOt one OIL lUeu
l. though owned by men OF moderate mean
Is did we see a single white engaged in toll :
,e 81 believe" said Judge CASTOR, of Mort
Carolina, elf we had accurate statistics, W
should find that full a third of the slaveholc
ers OF the South brought up their childre
S idly, and died leaving them without adequat
support. If such support descend 10 anothe
third, | am confident that they s1uander
t before they pass away, and that their of
spring are pennyless and unframed in ever,
way, as regards the labors of life. ] know
c that in Eastern Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina, the effects of slavery ar
d more disastrous than | state them TO be-
o The recoil comes with deadening infuenc
upon children. They fall a terrible sacrifc
10 the evil.
Triie not, parents, on this subject. Ca
d you expect your children, with servitud
y around them, to be frugal, wise, industrious
IS Is it in the nature of things, while thus stu
IS ated, that they will grow in usefulness a
l. they grow in age! Is it probable, with tn
If training they receive, despite of all your t
lie forts, that they can remember what man wa
re born 10 do, and do it?
u Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wal
70 tonly twist in the soil
IN The scared and crooked oak will tell of the
y for centuries TO come.
Is And, fathers and mothers! the false M
it. tons, wrong impressions, bad habits, selfisI
of ness, and dissipation which slavery caus,
es among your offspring will live forever! ri
scar or twist in the oak will perish with tn
~ oak itself; but the scar upon them, create
by your support of the evil, will mar the
IS. moral nature through all the future o
no Parents think rightly and in season of yol
ed responsibility, and IA as becomes
ng lofty and pure love, a holy and christian d
-, ty.