Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-22
Slavery: the TwO-Faced Teachings of
The Snnlh-

IN
To sustain Urong, it is necessary to resort
TO ELsehood. The southern advocates of
slavery furnish an illustration of this on a
large scale. They have one set of senti-
ments for the South, another for the North
This is well shown in the following article
FROM the pen of Judge Jay. 1t is part of a
letter addressed by him to Mr.. Ives, Episco-
pal bishop, in North Carolina. The facts
presented are important, independently of
their bearing upon the general scope of the
article. The reading of an article of this
kind, cannot fail to awaken emotions of in
dIgnation and adherence against the DELHI
crate falsehood and unmitigated meanness
with which men in eminent stations, and e.
ven ministers of religion, set themselves TO
defend the worst system of oppression on
which the sun ever shined; mingled with re-
gret at such perversions and talents and des-
~ecration Of the Christian name. And, then,
what are we TO think of the intelligence of
the North which allows itself to be duped
by the most transparent lies, and swallows
with the utmost patience the most opposite
assertionsl We have abridged the article by
striking out some local allusions.- COrenan-
ter.
Warburton, in his Divine Legation, (vol.
ii. p. 92,) informs us that the ancient sages
1lelu IL lawful anu eApeuleIl 10 ledCn Que uOC-
lrine to the people at large, and an opposite
one 10 a select number. Hence, the double
doctrine of these philosophers-the one ex-
ternal, intended for the public, and known as
ihe e~rOteric; the other internal, confined to
friends and disciples, and denominated the
e~soteric, The Shareholders ofthe present day
have their double doctrine also; and, TO dis
tinguish between the er0ieric and the c~SOteric,
it is only necessary TO ascertain whether the
language used is intended for effect on the
north or south side of Mason and Dixon's line.
For the purpose of illustrating this double
doctrine, | will call your attention to the er-
cleric teaching of those distinguished sages,
Governors Hayne and Hammond, both with
in a few years chief magistrates of South
Carolina. The former, inhis message to the
Legislature, in 1888, thus speaks to the South
Carolina law-givers, but only for the purpose
of being overheard by the people Of the North:
''lt is a remarkable fact, that even during
the revolutionary war, when the state was o.
verrun by a barbarous enemy, marching open
ly under the banner of emancipation, our do
nestics could not be seduced from their masters,
but proved a source of STRENGTH, and not OF
weakness, to the county,"
Governor Hayne, no doubt, adopted the
maxim of the Grecian philosophers, that truth
and utility do not always coincide; for he
was, of course, too well informed in the his
tory of his native state not to have been con-
scious that the remarkable fact" thus Off
cially announced was an impudent tnrention
0f his own. Let us listen TO the testimony
borne by history to the fidelity ofSouth Car
olina domestics, and the strength yielded to
the country during the revolutionary war:
"Iarch %, l779.-The committee appoin-
ted to take into consideration the circumStan-
ces of the Southern States, and the ways and
means for their safety and defence, report
That the State of SOUTH CAROLINA Gas rep.
resented by the delegates Of said state, and
by Mr.. Hunger, who has come hilher, at the
request Of the governor of said state, on puT'
pose TO explain the peculiar circumstance
thereof is UNABLE to make any effectual Ell
forts with the militia, by reason OF the grea
proportion of citizens necessary 10 remain a
home, TO prevent instruction among the ne
groes, and prerent their deSertion TO the enc
my."*
"The negroes Seduced and taken from tn
inhabitants of SOUTH CAROLINA in the cours
OF the war, remained subject TO the dispose
of the enemy. They were successfully ship
ped 10 the West Indies; and it is asserted
on the authority of the best-informed citizen
of South Carolina, that more than INVENT
THOUSAND slaves were lost TO the state in con
sequence of the war;
The object of the governors mendaciou
FACT was to lead the people of the North I
believe that their sympathy for the slaves wa
misplaced, that their suffering was "imagir
ary;'' since, if they retained their allegianc
to their masters, in the presence of a BIRTHS
emancipating army, they must certainly b
very well contented with their condition.
He naturally deemed it more prudent TO n
fer to the revolutionary war, than 10 the moi
recent one Of 1912. Let us supply his omi
sion:
A memorial presented to Congress by ce
tain Virginia and Maryland Shareholders, al
TO be found in the documents of the secor
Session of the Twentieth Congress, Sc
forth, that
sin July and August, 1914, the enem
made several landings on the Northern Net
of Virginia. All the militia in this penins
la were called out into the service, and Il
property Human cattle was pretty well pr
tected. On a sudden, an order came, that d
the troops should be marched to the defen
of Washington; and this neck of eighte,
miles wide was emptied ofall its efficient fo
ces for nearly six weeks. During the a
sence of the forces, there was nothing to re
train our slaves, and HEY FLoCKED IN HU
pREDs TO II M
InlS22, there was in Charleston a rum
of an intended s~ervile Instruction; and tn
very gentleman, then Colonel Hayne, patro
ed the streets one whole night, at the he
of five companies of soldiers, to prevent t
faithful domestics from cutting their master
threats! No less than thirty-fve "domt
tics'' were soon after tried, convicted, a
hung, for their intended Instruction; and
*Secret Journal of Congress, vol. ii. pa
4O5.
Col. II. Lees Memories Of the RevoI
t%ionary War in the Southern Department, Y
il. P. 456.