Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-05
From SIave5y as il is.'
Kind Treatment.

lis no marvel that Shareholders are always
talking Of their hind treatment Of their slaves.
The only marvel is, that men OF sense can
he gullei by such professions. Despo's al
ways insist that they are meiciiui. Tho
greatest tyrants That ever dripped win blood
have assumed the titles Of most gracious,
most clement most merciiul,' &C. and
have ordered theii crouchiDg vassals 10 acc0st
them thus. When did not vice lay claim to
those virtues which are the opposltes Of lis
habitual cTimesl The guilty, according TO
their own showing, are always Innocent ana
towards brave, and druRkards sober, and har-
lots chaste, and picEpockets honest TO a fauit.
Every body understands This. When = mans
tongue grows thick, and he begins 10 hic-
cough ond walk c~ross.legGed, We expect him.
ss q matter of course, 10 protest that he Is not
drunk SO when a man is always singing the
praises Of his own honesty, we iDsuncuyely
watch his movements and looa out for our
pocket-books. Whoever is simple enough
to he hoaxed by such professions, should new
er be- trusted in the streets without somebody
TO take care of him. Human nature works
out in Shareholders just as il does in other
men, and in American Shareholders just as 10
English, French, Turkish, Algerine, Roman
snd Grecian. The Spartans boosted Of their
hAht AANFN ~ NNtf AaNN1 " hAA1 NY hElEPNd
them TO death by thousands al the altars Of
their gods. The Romans lauded their own
mild treatment Of their bordMen. while
they branded their names on their flesh
with hot irons, aud when old, threw them iu-
TO their flesh ponds, or ike Gao 'ihe just"
starved them to death. il Is The boast Of the
Turks that they treat their slaves As though
they were their children. yet their common
name fer them is dogs and for The laersst
trhes, their feet are bss,iuacoed t. a ie,ly.
or their heads clipped off with the eclmeiar.
The Portuguese pride themselves on their
gentle bearing toward their slUves, yet the
streets OF Rio Janeiro are filed with naked
men and women yoked in pairs 10 carts and
wagons, and whipped by drivers like beasts
Of burden.
Shareholders, the world over, have sung
their praises Of their tender mefcies towards
their slaves. Even the wretches that piled
the African slave trade, tried TO rebuff Clark
sons proofs OF their crueltieS, by speeches,
afhdavits, and published pamphlets, setting
form the accommodation Of the "middle pas
sage" and their kind attentions to the com
fort Of those whom they had stolen from their
homes, and Kept slowed away under matches,
during a voyage of four thousand miles. So,
according TO the testimony of the sutocrat OF
Russia, tie exercises great clemency towards
the Poles, though he rxiles them by thou
sands 10 The SHOWS of Siberia, and tramples
them down by millions, at home. Who dis
credits the atrocities perpeITated by Ovando
in HIspaniola, Plzarro in Perm, and Corez
in MexicO,-because they filled the ears Of
the Spanish Court with proicslalious of their
benignant rule! While they were yoking
the enslaved'natives like beasts to the dnughi,
working them to death by thousands in their
mines, hunting them with bloodhounds, tor
turing them on racks, and broiling them on
beds OF GOALS, their representations TO the
mother country teemed with e%ulogles Of their
parental sway! The bloody atrocities of Phi
! lip III. in the expulsion Of his Moorish sub
1ects, are matters Of imPerishnble history
e Who dlSbelieves or doubts them! And yet
, his c%ourtiers %magniiied his virtues and chan
ted his cIemency aud his mercy. while tho
wall of a million of victims, smitlen down
by a tempest Of fire and slaughter, let loose
at his bidding, rose above the re Deums that
} Numbered from all SPANS cathedrals. When
Louis XIV. revoked the edict of Nantz, and
proclaimed two millions OF his sui jects free
plumber for prosecution,-when from the En-
glish channel to the Pyrennees the mangled
bodies Of the ProtestantS were dragged on
reeking hurdles by a shouting populace. he
claimed TO be ''the father OF his people, and
wrote himself His most Christian Males
ty."