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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-03
Life Of Henry Bib.

Life and .adocntures Of Henry Bib, an Amer
lean Slare, tcritten by HimsoG:
This fugitive slave literature is destined TO
be a powerful lever. We have the most pro-
found conviction of its potency. We see in
izing the free States. Argument provokes
argument, reason is met by sophistry. But
narratives of slaves go right 10 the hearts of
men. We defy any man to think with any
patience or tolerance of slavery after reading
Bibb's narrative, unless he is one of those in
fidels to nature, who float on the race as
monsters, from it, but not of il.
Henry Bibb is a bright, mild looking, gen.
tlemanly sort of man, about "a years of age,
not more African than European in his line
age, and in fact, doubtless, having some of
the finest Kentucky blood in bis veins. He
early began, while being used as the tool of
Kentucky luxury, to educate himself in the
science drumming away. But falling in love
with damsel of his own condition, he mar
ried her and almost forgot his plans for free
dom, till he found himselfthe father Of a Stdve,
and felt the full degradation of seeing wife
and child brutally abused before his eyes
without the power to protect them. lie es-
capped to Canada. Returned with the design
of bringing off his wife and child was be-
lTuNcu; lDIllsOItu csCuIItu WIS DcTdNcu
again, and finally he and his wife and child
were taken to New Orleans by the slave-tra-
ders md sold TO one deacon Whitfield" a
Red River planter.
Life OH that plantation is very particularly
described. That Deacon fogged him most
numerically for attending a prayer meeting.
His various attempts TO get away from the
incarnate fiend are full Of the most painfully
romantic interest, full, too, of human ma.
ture." His experience as the slave Off gang
of blacklegs, TO whom his pious master solo
him, and their benevolent endcavor to pur.
chase his wife and child that the family
might not be separated, do credit to human.
ity. He at last became the property of al
Indian, from whose heirs he escaped, Jour
neying to Jefferson City on the Missouri Ri
yer, whence steam and his own good wi
transferred him TO Cincinnati and final Lib
erty.
We believe this to be an unyarnished tale
giving a true picture of slavery, in all its fea
lures, good, bad and indifferent, if it has 81
many. The book is written with perfect art
l~essness, and the man who can read it unmo
we'd must be fit for treasons, stratagems AM
spoils.
: One conclusion forced upon the philosoph
zeal reader of such narratives of runawa,
l slaves is this, that however tolerable chatte
5 slavery may be as an institution for savag
f and barbarous life, when you bring it int
J the purlieus of civilization and Christianity
5 it becomes unspeakably Ubiquitous and intol
cradle, If Mr.. Calhoun really means to up
hold slavery, he must-thcre is no help ia
l it-abolish Christianity, printing, arr, science
and take his patriarchs back to the atandar
of Central Africa, Or the days of Shcm, Han
l and Japhet,-ChronotWe.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-03

SOUTHERN TREPIpATION.-We wonder if
the keeper of powder-magazine ever gets
to look upon all his fellow-citizens who wear
iron nails in their shoes as incendiaries ? if
he considers flint and steel as inventions Of
the enemy ofman aud the lightning, that ever
busy scavenger of the oerial highways, as q
personal injury? Such, at any rate, seems to be
the mental condition at which our Southern
friends have arrived, Though they profess
to live in a house of such asbestic quality as
might defy the final confiagration, they are
in such constant dread offre that Mr., Calhoun
has even attempted to put out the sun with
with a four-ounce squirt, R.Ls-NM a
s. Standard,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-03

TRo-SLAvERY CoSTRtDICTIoNs.-The
contradictions i'm which the advocates and
apologists Of Slavery involve themselves are
certainly diverting. According TO these
more voIuble than logical persons, the Abo-
litionists are retarding the progress of eman-
c~ipation. Yet it is these very co-workers
whom the Perpetualists would crush at all
hazards. Nothing, not even invasion, could
induce a servile revolt, and yet the mails
must be robbed lest n stray copy OF an ANTI
Slavery journal should fall into the hands o,
n wretched helot who could as easily read
the inscriptions of Nimroud.-J. n. Md.
a. S. Sand.
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The UNDIVIDED lIALF.'-A paragraph
has been the rounds of the papers, stating
that the undivided half Of a negro was to he
sold in New Orleans. The sale has taken
place; but how the poor negro was divided
whether horizontally or longitudlnally-
we are not informed,
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The Charleston Mercury says that "the on
" way to a Northern mans sensibIltIes Is
through the pocket" We Vel remember
that, after the great Pittsburgh fire, three me
as much money was contributed ior me SUI
fsrers nv the city of Boston alone, as 10y the
whole State of South Carolina. Such facts
go 10 show that, ii there is II way TO the sem
ssibilities of Northern men through their pock-
etstLere is also a way to their pockets through
their sensibilities.-Louispile Journal.
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CALHeUN's DomrToNs.-It is stated in q
Southern paper that the census of South
Carolina shows hat sixty thousand white
adults, in that State cannot read or write
Add TO them the three-tiiths of her popula-
tion-the slaves who are forbidden by law to
read or write, and you have the very best rea-
son given why one man rules the State with
more than a despot's power,
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Judge Gamble, the Democratic candidate
for Canal Commissioner in Pa, is a decided
and avowed friend of the Proviso, and of the
abolition ofslavery in the District OF Columbia,
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II
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MRS. BEMAN.

UNHE CELEBRATED SHIRT MAKER OF NEW
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