Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-01
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
NOn-SlavehOlders in Slave States.

1t tub CNCI DCCh ~ t1OttN VI 6tuNNty WV
ny education, social position, political rights,
and even the means of living, to the poor
white men, the non-slaveholders in the South.
The planter takes his northern newspaper or
his southern magazine, but no cheap litera-
ture is provided for the families of the poor
er observation-disclosures, who comprise three
fourths of the white population of the Slave
States. On this point, Mr.. Wise spoke for
the planter, when he said on the floor of
Congress, "There is no newspaper publish
ed in my district, and l hope there never will
be-" The planter sends to the colleges Of
the North, or aids in building at the South
expensive institutions, for the education of
the sons of the wealthy; but the children Of
the poor must grow up in all the Ignorance
and degradation of semi-barbarism. La their
social condition, Fl" poor white folks are con-
sidered by the master, and even by the slave,
as one step lower down in the scale of social
life than either. There is no escape for these,
while they continue in a slave State. Their
minds are in two benighted a state to learn
any of the mechanic arts, or avail themselves
of any modern invention. To labor by the
side of the slave when they may, and starve
or steal when they must, is their only re-
source. For political rights, even the right
of suffrage-tbe only one they nominally
possess-is legislated away from them, for
the system of voting viva voce prevents it be-
ing an expression of their own will. In Ken
lucky, at this moment, they are Just begin
ming to discuss the propriety of introducing
the ballot; and in the Palmetto State, they
have now a man in Jail, and hope to accom-
plish his death, because he has dared to come
between the white slaves of the South and
their masters-his only crime being the cir
c~ulation of an address TO poor white folks,
| .la,r... tla-. sha,. ~,rlto o.I la,., a. -.
them.
Of the means of living allowed by the land
and labor m~onopolists of the South to those
that have "waxen poor beside theIn," we
have hardly need to speak the wretched
remnant that do contrive to escape across the
Ohio, and that are seen in one-horse wagons,
in dog-carts, in go-carts, and on foot, making
their way to the interior, tell the sad story
not only of their own sufferings, but of the
greater number left behind to minister to the
wants of some to whom even the very slaves
make contributions among themselves, and
solicit charity among the planters.
Although these things have been and are
yet true of the poor whites in the South,
there is still hope for them. A little of the
light thrown out by the printing press has
reached them. They, too, have heard the
echo of the shouts sent up by the millions of
Europe as they burst, although but for a mo
ment, the chains they had for ages work.
The imprisonment OF Barrett is but one Of a
chain OF events destined to wake the denIoc-
racy of the slave States. Read an article
signed "Union," recently published in the
DanvIlle (Va.) Register, for the authos II
which the editor vo1ehes is "from thoArU
of one of the first statesmen in the State.'-
The intention of the article is to show that
the objects of Mr.. Calhoun and Mr.. Garrison
are one. / will transcribc for you a few ex-
tracts-frst as to Mr.. Calhoun and his
schemes:
Extremes meet. The ultraist of South
Carolina, and the ultraist of Massachusetts,
are holding out their hand to each other
That the leaders of South Carolina are ripe
for dangerous action, there is no doubt and
the only hope of escape, a faint one it is true,
is, that the people win repudiate their rash
advisers. The State, weak as she is in num-
bers, in territory, and in wealth, is neverthe-
less potent for mischief"
On this point we think "Union" mistaken.
Not even the politicians of South Carolina
are so b~enighted as to hope to sustain, in this
age of the world, a slave State as an indie
pendent existence, with no resources of free
I dom on which to draw, as need be, for char
| acter, or men, or money. Some of these diff
, ficultles are referred to in the paper, but the
portion of the address most worthy of special
notice is that which records the present po-
r sition and past efforts of the poor folks OF
; the South to attain some of their rights.
= 1t is asked why the free laborer at pres
9 ent is not voting against the slaveholder?-
= The answer is at hand-the free laborer is in
a hopeless minority. Give to him a hope OF
7 success, and you will find him with the new
. allies which disrntnp will syiuo ~ hin. H.
: not a very faint hope of success in 1882 draw
out an alarming abolition vote in Virginia !;
8 Did not the great s~laveholding county of Al
bemarle sustain at the polls one of its Repre-.
=. sentatives who led the abolition movement
> When asked how he came to be returned
his characteristic reply was, Il appealed to
the poor folks This appeal has always been
/. responded to by the poor folks, and always
: will. Can any one point TO a single individ.
ual in Virginia who has been weakened ii
: popular favor by aiding with abolition ia
1882? Is not Mcdowell, who won his frs
and greatest laurels as an orator by an abo'
lition speech, cherished by the democracy
Has Preston lost caste with the wings? o.
has the Richmond Enquirer had its subscrip.
! ton list curtailed by the lapse of a single
name ?"
. The drift of the address is to show the mo.
I nopolists of the South, who hold twelve hun.
! dred millions in human flesh, and nearly al
|, the lands, that the Wings, the conservative
4 party of the country, who go for things as
' they are, and not as they ought to be, car
alone save them from yielding the govern.
I ment of the country to the masses, "each
B free laborer having the political power of the
master of a hundred slaves" 1t is quite as
3 useful in showing the free democracy of botl
North and Sonth Yherain lias THAR straa,.h
and who are the enemies of freedom.
, w. Z. w.
AMIAELE SENTIMENTs.-The Louisville
$ Courier says =
"Gov. Crittenden is censured severely foI