Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-29
From The Pittsburgh Saturday ViSiter.
Sale of an American Citizen.

We call attention 10 the article from the
Gazette, about the sale Of the preacher in
Louisville, who was adjudged not to be a
citizen Of the United States, and so not enti-
tied 10 protection under the Constitution
How will Massachusetts, and the other States
which recognize the colored mans right of
suffrage, like this comment upon their laws 7
A Kentucky Judge can tell them whom they
may reckon citizens, and whom notl To US
the idea is novel, that a man born in a coun-
try, free by the avs thereof, is not a citizen
Of that country. This resort Of this petty ty-
rant is about a match for Calhoun's position,
that men are not born, and only one ever was
created. The Judge allows free negroes may
be born, but they cannot be born Americans /!
What nextl Will the insolent, bragadocia,
woman-whippirg chivalry Of kentucky, who
put ladies' in the peni,entiary for being &C.
quainted with folks who aid the spoiled 10
escape from the hands Of the spoiler. be per-
mitted to sell free citizens Of the North for
the crime Of going into one Of their polluted
cities, TO shave their impudent faces for six
pence a piecel The State that put Miss
Webster in the peniteniIary for riding in the
carriage with a Methodist preacher, who was
aiding her slaves TO regain their liberty. was
well employed in selling another Methodist
preacher for acting barber for them. In Ken
lucky Slavery exists in its mildest fOrm-ii
was there in Louisville we gained our ideas
Of Shareholders, and found the utter impo-
tence of language 10 convey any impression
of their meanness. Much has been said a.
bout their cruelty and tyranny; but their
mean, lousy littleness was the feature which
struck us--the cowardice which induced
them TO threaten us with a coat Of tar and
feathers, for telling them they were not men,
but woman-whippers.-for fear, as they said,
such talk should overthrow their Institutions.
Just think of a set Of fellows, calling them
selves men, and living under the institutions
they are afraid some little old woman will
blow over-just think of them breaking up a
barber shop and selling the barber, for fear
he should subvert their glorious institutions,
and teach their happy slaves TO run from
their Eden. We were once badly off for a
girl when there. and Mr.. S. mentioned il to a
big loafer who used to go staggering through
the streets all day, in satin, broadclolh, fine
linen and gold chains. with a cigar in his
teeth. His leadership informed him with a
pompous swell that he had a woman to hire,
a first rate servant, that we could have for
two hundred per annum, but added, "She
would be of no use to that wife of yours, un-
Z . YOU " Ohlu OloE ny hOl " lCG Il W ECh
yourself!" How we felt TO think such an
animal had dared to measure our abilities for
wringing unpaid toll out Of the sinews of any
one Of Gods creatures, or had the insolence
TO propose that our husbands should horse
whip an old woman one hundred and four
times, to make her earn two hundred dollars
for any idler to spend in cigars and debauch-
cry. This is a specimen of their chivalry.-
Thousands of fellows swagger round. acting
the dandy, while some poor crippled old man
is saving wood, or some old woman washing
to support them. If there is anything on
Gods green earth as mean as a Kentucky
Shareholder, it must be a similar animal 10
some other state. They have a cant phrase
there about the meanness of " stealing cents
off a dead nigger's eyes" but it is almost as
clever 10 steal them out Of a living nigger's
pockets. This bounds our ideas Of General
Taylor. He hires a man, or a thing that
looks like one, to whip old men and women,
young ones and children, TO make them work
for him. Whenh he was away hunting s4uaws
and papooses in Florida. and killing women
and children in Mexico. his overseer was on
the banks Of the Mississippi, whipping
twelve hundred bales of cotton per annum,
out Of the unpaid laborers, whom the 'old he
ro' claims 10 own, body and soul, and who
never were taught to read or write, or cypher
either. Well, well, he is a beauty, and these
preacher selling rhivalry, are all beauties af-
ter their kind. Every animal after its kind.
The name or thought of them fills us with
loathing, they are so mean, so little, so con-
temptible.