Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-01

I'm, where the most revolving and malicious
ot this deplorable class are tanned into docili-
~, made lovers Of order and neatness, and
made capable Of performing many valuable
services. The future teacher Of this school is
now abroad preparing himself for his work.
A few years ago, Mr.. Everett, the present
of Harvard College, then Cover
nor OF the Commonwealth, spoke the deep
conuictions Of Massachusetts people, when,
in a public addtsssyon education, he exhort-
ed the fathers ana mothers of Massachusetts
n.the following words 49, Save, said he,
: save, spare, stint, %stdrve, do any thing hut
steal, 10 educate your children. And DR..
Howe, the noble-hearted director oil the insti-
tuition for the Blind, lately uttered the deep
est sentiments Of our citizens, when in speak
ing of our duties 10 the blind, the deaf, and
the dumb, and the idiotic, he said - The
sight Of any human being left to british ig-
norance, Is always demoralizing to the be-
holders. There floats not upon the stream
OF life a wreck Of humanity, so utterly shat
tered and crippled, but that its signals of
distress should challenge attention and com
man assistance
Sir, it was all glowing and fervid with SEN
timents like these, that a few weeks ago
entered this House-sentiments transfused
into my soul from without, even if had no
vital spark Of nobleness to kindle them with
In Imagine, then, my strong revuIsions OF
feeling, when the first set, elaborate speech
! heard, was that Of the gentleman from Viz
ginia, proposing TO extend Ignorance TO the
ut,ermost bounds Of this republic (; to legal
iZe il, to enforce, TO neoessitate 1t, and make
it eternal. Since him many others hava adj
5000 IL -,1 Ilz.- la.Viaa Nj
satisfied with doominga whole race Of our
fellow beings 10 mental darkness. impervious
and everlasting-not satisfied with drawing
this black curtain of Ignorance between man
and nature, between the human soul and its
God, from the Atlantic 10 the Rio Grande,
across half the continent-,hey desire to in
crease this race ten, twenty millions more,
and to unfold and spread ont this black cur
tain across the other half Of the continent
When, sir, in halls of Legislation, men advo-
cate measures like this, it is no figure Of
speech to say, that their words are the clank-
ing of multitudinouS letters each gesture OF
their arms tears human flesh with ten thou
sand whips each exhalation Of their breath
spreads clouds Of moral darkness from hori-
ION 10 horizon.
Twenty years ago a sharp sensation ran
through the nerves OF the civilized world at
the story Of young man, named Caspar
Hauser, found in the city Of Nuremburg, in
Bavaria. Though sixteen or seventeen
years Of age, he could not walk nor talk
He heard without understanding; he saw
without perceiving, he moved without def
mite purpose. 1t was the soul Of an infant in
the body of an adult. After he had learned
TO speak, he related that from his earliest
recollection, he had always been kept in a
hole so small that he could not stretch out
his limbs, where he saw no light, heard no
sound, nor even witnessed the face of the
attendant who brought him his scanty food.
For many years, conjecture was rife concern
ing his history, all Germany was searched
10 discover his origin. After a long period
OF ~fruitless inquiry and speculation, public
opinion settled down into the belief that he
was the victim Of some great, unnatural
crime, that he was the heir Of some throne,
and had been seques,ered by ambition; o.
the inheritor of-vast wealth, and had beer
hidden away by cupidity; or the offspring o
criminal indulgence, and had been buried a
live to avoid exposure and shame. A Ger
man, Won Fenerbach, published an account
of Caspar, entitled : The Example Of a
Crime on the life of a Soul But why gc
to Europe TO be thrilled with the pathos of q
human being shrouded from the light Of ma.
turs, and cut of from a knowledge of duty
and of God To-day, in this boosted land
of liberty, there are three million of Caspa,
Hausers and as if this were not enough, /
is proposed to multiply their number ten'folc
and to fill up all the Western world with
these proofs Of human a%varce and guilt
1t is proposed that we ourselves should ere
ate, and should publish to the world, no
one, but untold millions of : Examples Of
Crime on the Life ga S9ui.' 1t is proposed
that the self-styled freemen, the self.style'
Christians of fifteen great States in this A
merican Union, shall engage in tho work q
pro.creating, rearing and Selling Caspar Hau
sers, often from their own loins and it an
further development of soul or Of bldy is a
lowed to the American victims than wa
permitted to the Bavarian child, it is onl
because such a development will increa'
their market value at the barracoons. 1t
not from any difference of motive, but onl
the better TO insure that motives indulgence
The slave child must be allowed 10 use h
limbs, or how could he drudge out his Ii
in the service of his masterl The slave i
FAINT must be taught to walk, or how, und
the shadOw Of This thrice glorious CapitC
could he Join a collie for New Orleans ;
know, sir, that it has been said within
short time past, that Caspar Hauser was
imposter, and his story a fiction. Would
God that this could be said of his fellow vi
tins in America.
For another reason slavery is an unspea
able wrong. The slave is debarred fro
testifying against white man. The coul
will net hear him as a witness. BY the phi
ciples of the common law, if, any man sufe
violence at the hands Of another, he can pr
fer his complaint to magistrates, or 10 I
grand juries of the courts, who are bound
give him redress. Hence the law is said
hold up its shield before man for his p
lection. 1t surrounds him in the crowd
street and the solitary place. 1t guards !
treasures with greater vigilance than loo
or iron safes and against meditated aggrei