Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-07-21
InccndiariSm at the South.

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The Mobile (Alabama) Tribune, exPa,ia-
ting upon the !ats French Revolution and It's
probable consequences, makes the following
observations, which, in the mouth off North
ern Abolitionist, would be regarded as the
very essence of 'incendiarism,' but which,
coming from a Southern Editor, were no
doubt rendered entirely harmless by being
read, as the Declaration of Independence is
in that part of theco untry, with a mental res
~ervation excluding the 'niggers.' Strange
as it may seem, we have no doubt that the
people of Mobile read these observations
without any thought of applying them to
their Slaves Such blindness, however, is
| almost incredible.
The true Socialism, after all, is not quite
so great a bugbear as prejudice would make
| of il, 1t bases its claims 10 attention on that
best Of all human purposes, namely, the
equalization Of conditions-the raising OF men
to something like civilizatlon-to let no man
lack for food-to provide means for the grail
~ication of all the wants Of humanity. In
short, so 10 distribute things as TO bring the
extremes of society into something like So
cial proximity. AS it is now in Europe, the
upper class is as far removed from the lower
as the angels are from all Of US. This would
seem monstrous, were it not so much a part
of our education. /. is monstrous, neverthe-
less, and any plausible means of eradicating
il is worth a thorough trial. Socialis m
mainly proposes 10 work on property. II
says to the laborers, we will not take from
the capitalist his stores, but we declare this
that our labor is our own, and we will use /
as we please. These are wonderful word:
for poor men TO utter, for labor has been and
now is as much bound to a hard necessity a:
the vessel is bound by the will of the helms
man. They might think Of doing with thei
own what the capitalist can do with his, bu
who in Ireland, or in the factories of Eng
land, for example, would dream Of being abb,
10 embody his notion of the right on this sub
iect! Socialism is trying TO do this, and
declares that we, The labOrers, will cooper
ate. We can do without the capitalist h,
cannot without US. We will associate, ant
sell our labor without his Intervention. ]
he choose TO Join US, he may throw his CAPT
tai into our hands, and reap the fruit Of it il
Joint stoc.. IN us. The idea is just, II no
practicable, and we hope TO see II fairly test
/, ed. The world will test it. and it might a
!, we'll be done now as at some other time.
3 OF course, a sudden change, such as i
: proposed, is likely TO produce much evil viii
lis good. The emancipated slave OF labo
. may often run riot in his new Liberty, an
, forget the wrongs which his principle cor
3 demns; but experience will correct This. W
, have a fixed belief that no man ought 10 b
allowed to siarve-that no man in justic
ough, 10 have a superabundance while other
have nothing--that property and land ougt
to be distributed as much as possible. In on
: own Government we would have no land bt
longing to the public sold, while there al
destitute men to take it for ~noihing-that e,
> cry such man should have a recognized rigi
10 demand a certain number of acres, and
d force himself into a fall possession Of it,.
o The world has not yet begun. to live, an
will not begin until nearly all The old eTo