Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-03

drawn on as happened TO he convenient. If
funds Of this sort could be accumulated Nv
sprinkling a score or two of Africans with
holy water, and converting them from r
~mumbo-jnmbo whic! they understood, to
one they did not understand it was excellent
pay considering the amount of work. Per
haps, as the importation of Africans incteas.
ed, the ceremonial Of sprinkling was per-
formed Wholesale on large numbers at once,
by means OF come kind OF engine for the pur-
pose, an economical proceeding somewhat
similar TO which we remember to have heard
of in Georgia some Two years ago. There is
no doubt that this pious wish Of getting AZ
ricans baptized entered largely into the plans
of those who encouraged the slave trade
The same argument (~withont the same faith)
is urged npod us now by some persons OF
tender Cor, at least, soft and pliable) con-
sciences. 1t IS truly refreshing to meet with
a piece Of stupidity whose origin we can dis
tinctly trace, and which we thereby find to
be only a little above three hundred years
old. Generally we can follow them back as
far as we have any historical record or even
any legend, every where ready to get in the
way of every new retormer and protector
We are thankful to find a comparatively
young one, and to be able 10 realize that
there were many long ages unvexed by it.
A contemporary Chronicler, who was an
eyewitness ofthe partition Of some cargoes of
slaves brought to Portugal in lil4, has left
upon record a very simple and affecting mar
rative of II. We copy a few passages
The writer, Azurara, begins by praying God
TO forgive his tears, inasmuch as his human
nature would get the better of his conscien-
tious satisfaction at the eternal gain which
was to repay those poor creatures, for such
bitter suffering. - But what heart was that,
how hard soever, which was no, pierced with
sorrow, seeing that company. For some had
such sunken cheeks, and their faces bathed
in tears, looking al each other. Others were
groaning very dolorously, looking at the
heights of the heavens, fixing their eyes upon
them, crying out loudly, as if they were ask
ing succor from the father of nature. Others
struck their faces with their hands, throwing
themselves on the earth. Others made their
lamentdfiOn in songs, according 10 The custom
IF their country, which, although we could
not understand their language, we saw cor
responded well TO the height of their sorrow.
But now, for the increase of their grief, came
those who had The charge of the distribution,
and began to put them apart one from the
other, in order equalize the por,ions.-
Wherefore II was necessary 10 part children
anu III itos uobhtl NV 'tfNo UNIV otS'h
rem from each other. Neither, in the parti
ton of friends and relations, was any law
Kept, only each fell where the lot took him.
y 4 II Who will be able TO make
his partition without grea, difficulty! For,
while they are placing in one part the chill
dren, that saw their parents in another, they
sprang up perseveringly and fled to them
The mothers enclosed their children in their
arms and threw themselves with them on
the ground, receiving wounds with little pity
for their own flesh, so that their children
might not be torn from them" The good
Azurara, who clearly has something more
than a mere apparatus Of syst0fe and diastolt
in his bosom, saw deeper into this matter oil
The songs than most modern observers. MOI
does he fail TO notice that the sufferings oil
these lambs, thrown, as it were, over the
walls into the fold, found sympathy in the
unadulterated human instincts of the Portu'
guese crowd who witnessed them.
That picture was painted four hund red and
twenty years ago! The simple chronicleI
had some art 20 make his colors stand won
d~erfully fresh and vivid. 1t was because he
used a ground of simple human feeling, we
fancy. But think of it, for now nearly hall
a thousand gears have these cruel things been
going on, only growing more and more cruel.
here is Il plCluIG WHICH We olloulu lihb W
see hung in the parlor of the pious and kind
hearted STAKEHOLDER, who makes i! a princi-
pie not TO part families, that he might see
what would take place if it were to be said
of him /" this night thy soul shall be required
of thee" We suspect that Azurara would
hardly have voted for General Taylor.
In the accounts of the early voyages to the
African coast, we have some scattered notices
of the natives, which show that they were
vastly better off then, than after four hun
dred years of intercourse with white mer
and Christians. The first voyager who left
a written diary Of what he did and saw, was
Ca da Mosto, whose expedition was made
in 1854. He says of the people on the Soutl
side of the Senegal River, that "they are
exceeding black, tall, corpulent, and wei
male. = y 4 n Both mer
and women wash themselves four or five
times a day, being very clearly as TO thei
persons, but not so in eating, in which they
observe no rule. Although very ignoran
and awkward in going about anything which
they have not been accustomed to, yet II
their own business, which they are acquain'
ted with, they are as expert as any Euro
peans can be. They are full of words, ano
never have done talking, and are, for the
most part, liars and cheats. Yet, on the 9th
er hand, they are very charitable. for theN
give a dinner, or a nights lodging, and q
supper to all strangers who come TO thei
houses, without expecting any return. =
y = They are extremely bold an'
fierce, choosing rather to be killed than t
save their lives by fight. They are not a
, fraid TO die, nor scared, as other people are
! when they see a companion slain"
4 The discovery that in these people was til
. connecting link between man and the babooT
= was reserved for later times and more scier
. ti6c observers. Ca da Mosto finds thel
well-made, %cleanly, and hospitable, gre
: liars, I've imagine that he was not very el
q pliclt in unfolding his violent baptismal d.
4 signs in regard to them) brave and col
# temptuous Of death. No hint as yet OF an