Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-10
Hear how a Shareholder Talks.

slavery should mol DC pTOVlueu loI ny dC'luh
of said convention. George w. Johnson, a
lawyer Of that State, but who has an extern
sive cotton plantation in Arkansas, and is
withal a Democrat of the ~strictest sect, says
it should not; and TO prove it, addresses a
letter "ro the citizens of Scott County,"
which is so decidedly pro-slavery, so openly
and undisguisedly SO, that it is a treat to read
it. Hear what he says:
AT the adven, of Christ, in the reign Of
Augustus Caesar, the Roman Empire had
spread its arms over the greatest part OF Ed
rope, of Western Asia and Northern Africa.
A military republic had sprung into existence
on the shores of the Mediterranean; had
subdued a world, and had just before the Pc
Rod in question, been converted into an Elm
pire. Tn genius, eloquence, and fortune of
Julius Caesar, had prepared a throne for Au-
gus,us, upon which he firmly seated himself,
called around him steel-clad legions, and
swayed his regal sceptre for forty years, over
that Ancient Republic. During this very
period appeared the great moral baw-giver OF
the world. He saw every part Of the Roman
Empire filed with Slavery-Slavery of the
WHITE RACE to his fellow-man. Nor was
such slavery at all under the protection of
the public law, but every master held the
power Of LIFE and DEATH over his slave.
Let it be also remembered that it was the
white man, with all his superior capacities
and intelligence, who was held in this do
nestle slavery, unmitigated by anything IN
the laws of The Empire, or the Republic OF
Rome. Save from the charities of the heart,
which Deity implants in the human mind
for the protection of dependents, the Roman
slaves had no hope. The law extended not
its shield over him, but in life md limb, he
and his children were the property Of his
Master. Nay, to scourge, bind, imprlson,
torture, and kill, were powers given by the
laws of this Empire, in which this Great Be
ing appeared. Millions Of such slaves exis-
ted around him, and yet he who thought and
- spoke as never man spoke" whose mind
was filled by those great doctrines of charity,
mercy and benevolence, which have diffused
the light of civilization over the human race,
admonished them 10 be Obedient; he saw do
nestle slavery in its worst form, and he gave
it his sanction, because he saw in it the plan
Of divine intelligence, for the slow but certain
improvement of mankind.
The miserable pretenders to historic know
ledre, who now infest the earth, striving Il
convulse it by their sophisms, assert that HI
who boldly bled upon the cross, on the hill
Of Jerusalem, rather than not declare the grea
truths of his mission, was afraid OF man
and had he spoke his mind would have bee
an Abolitionist. He did speak his mind
DR.. Wayland ! He was no hypocrite, Nj
Giddings!. He dealt plainly with Publ
cans and Pharisees, Aboliiionists y! w
have every reason to believe that He woul
have thought George Washington Of Virgin
ia, quite as good d man as Hale Of Ne
Hampshire.
You will pardon me, Gentlemen, for VIII;
may seem a religious discussion, for whic
unhappily, | am not fitted. The truth Of hi
tory, and the great cause of Humanity, r
quire that the religious cant of these vende
! of books, these congressional Pharisees, al
/ Negro S%tealers, should be exposed. II
: fact that the great author of the christian r
ligion lived thirty-three years and died
. the midst Of the worst form of Slavery, viii,
$ the world has ever seen, and was content
n admonish Master and Stare of their Tespe
tive duties, will satisfy the rational min
intent upon the good of his lellow-man,
spite of the rawlings of Ignorance and iana
U cism."
This is rather dangerous doctrine for
pale face to preach, for it touches not
question of negro slavery, but %justifes
y enslavement Of " the white man, with all
" superior capacities and intelligence" A
d when Geo. w Johnson hammered out t
10 piece Of logic, or defamation, or whateve
may be called, he forged letters for his o
limbs, manacles for his own wrists. Sho
the black man ever gain an ascendency
kentucky, the master of this democratic !;
yer could justify the imposition of servit
-, upon him by the doctrine be himself
,ar teaches.
"a Abiding to the admitted existence of
"a negro race for at least 5000 years, he says
"In this vast period of time, you car
trace to the Negro Race, one solitary
provement in Mechanics, Arts, Numb
ase Philosophy, Rhetoric, Political Econo
un- Astronomy, Chemistry and Geology. I
have no part in the great discoveries
improvements which have elevated man
eSo the scale Of being. They have been upoE
earth like the beasts of the field like
contemporary races Of Tigers and Babo
and have left not one trace of their eXiste
except in their posterity. In the wide
of the sciences and arts, there is noihiI
- absolutely nothing, traceable to them, to I
ad. their superiority over the brute creation, n
his less to indicate equality with the intelleC
White Man. Where are The Homers
ecu Virgils of Africal Where are her P
= Historians, Painters, Philosophers and 81
menl Where are her Sculptors, Archi
UGH and Tragediansl They are not to be 70
a;s In 5000 years, there has arisen for he
Heroditus. or Tacitus to embellish her
rse- nals--no Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle to
ich- fold her philosophy-no Lyeurgus or n
have arisen TO plant d Sparta and Rom