Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-08

sary. The Transaction ! refer TO shows how
far you are from possessing those manly and
noble qualities which your friends declare
characterize you. A really brave man is ne
yer cruel. You would not even give those
poor wretches in the Florida everglades the
chance of a fair NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fight,
but, skulking safe in camp yourself, must
send against them an enemy they could nei-
lher flee from, nor cope with.
On the day you were nominated for the
Presidency, we hear Of you down at New Or
leans, in the shambles for human flesh, pur-
chasing stock for your plantation. You walk
ed into that wretched crowd of men and wo-
men, and felt their muscles and tapped their
breasts TO ascertain their soundness Of limb
and wind, 10 Judge whether these human be-
ings, for whom you were to pay your money,
were likely TO live out the allotted seven years
which your Mississippi Agricultural Society
calculated, a lew years ago, was the time il
took TO work "niggers" TO death on a sugar
plantation. There hangs in our office a fine
picture of a slave-trading s~cene-taken from
life-on the coast of Africa, and amidst the
branding, and bartering, and manacling, the
Captain of the trader stands over a PROSTATE
captive, tapping his chest with his knuckles,
to test the soundness of his lungs. The only
difference between his position on the coast
of Congo, and yours in New Orleans is, that
it is not necessary TO secure your victim upon
his back, while you try his quality. But
would as soon vote for him, as for you, for
President. To my thinking there is no diff
ference between you, though the law pro-
nounces him a pirate, and you are the peoples
choice for the Chief Magistracy. lie may
be a very free, frank-hearted sailor when
ashore in a civilized port among his compan-
ions. So you may be a very hospitable gen.
%tlemanly man in your drawing room among
your friends. But he has his slave ship, and
you your negro-quarters, and the every day
life which a man adopts from choice, is the
true test of his character. When | hear that
you have emancipated your slaves, and have
knocked the bloodhounds on The head, which,
it is said, you keep on your plantation, | shall
have some faith in your repentance.
Are you not a man and a brother? To be
sure you are. SO is the South Sea Islander
who steps in among the gang of c%aptives ia
ken in war and picks out the latest for tina
days dinner, also a man and a brother. Blu
| am not therefore bound to slap him on the
back and commend his taste in good eating
much less am | bound 10 believe because h,
can tell by feeling how thick the fat lies OF
the ribs of a human subject, that therefore h,
possesses all the qualities necessary for tn,
President of a Republic.
did not mean when | began, to reply a
half this length TO your brief note. AM
though | stop here ! have not nearly finished
for | have not yet touched upon your Lille a
a soldier, which has disqualified you for an,
thing else, and your share in the atrocions in
vasiOn OF our peaceful neighbors of Mexico
made finally at your instance-with the still
7 mOrp ntrOrInus ohiacf of aytandinr Glayaru
The purpose of that war is not vet accom-
plished, and you have left us entirely in tn
dark as 10 what your course will be 10 regar
to it. We may know pretty well, however
what we expect from one in your position
and with your sympathies, and perhaps W
have less right to find fault with you, tina
with the party that put you in power. S
far as they are concerned ] sincerely hop
you may prove a rank Loco foco. The VIII
party will have done a good thing in electin
you If thereby they have accomplished the
, W overthrow; and " hatever other mischit
may be perpetraled during your administr
: ton, so excellent a work would go far TO pa
: lia'e it.
. Your letter leads me to doubt whether, c
one point, yon may not have been treated u
: justly. If you wrote it, il is evident that yc
a know enough of the English tongue TO wri
: correctly and even elegantly. This is son
y evidence that you were fortunate enough
receive The rudiments of a common educatio
. or have had strength of mind enough not
. suffer from the want Of them. 1t will
n some qualification to your opponents to b
lieve that you have sufficient intelligence
write two consecutive sentences of your m
- ther-tongue correctly.
AS a proof of how entirely wanting in
y merely personal feeling | am towards you
~ do forgive most heartily the wish you EXPIRE
in relation to me, which is no less cruel tn
absurd. The Lord | fear would no long
a, Do with me had | any aspirations for the b
rs eIalnence 10 which you have attained.
- From The Portland Pleasure Boat.
al Quaker Cabin.