Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-26
The Greatest Lie of This Ace.

If the wealthy people of our Eorthern states
should monopolize the land 10 such an extent
that less than one-fourth of the population
should have any ownership or expectation of
ownership in it, and then this landocracy
should assume all the Offices, and profess to
be the pc ople Of the north to the exclusion of
all .andlesS mechanics, manufacturers, and
mere laborers, what should we say of it'll
Should we not say that these impudent and
holders were speaking and acting a vast lie !
Land monopoly is selfish, hoggish and cru
ell enough, bu: there is something compare
lively of grandeur, sublimity and fair play
in it. 1t is every one for himself and the de-
vii take the hindmost, yet all under the laws
have the same chance to grasp The soil and
add field to field. OF the man monopoly this
cannot be said.
The man-monopoly is the meanest Of all
monoPoIies. 1t begins by the most arrant
foul play. Here is a poor brother, weak, ig-
norant, ob.use, and what is the least of all
his disadvantages, black. Such a poor fell
low, with all possible indulgence in a free
race, has enough against him. But your man
monopolist or STAKEHOLDER begins by claiming
and lashing him. This is just as if the swift
est in a foot race, not contented with their
superior feetness, should al the start double
their fists and knock down their slower CEN.
p%etitors.
But in just half these United States man.
monopoly exists, and what is worse the slave.
holders not only claim IMMUNITY for this out
rage on human rights, but the right to be con.
sidered and taken for the whole Of the peopIs
Of the States they curse. Are The slavebold.
ers Of the South the people of the South =
No! This is the greatest lie of this or any
age-the most impudent and amazing lie the
sun ever looked upon.
The recent southern caucus talks of itself
as representing the South" John c. CAL
houn says:
ut is undeniable that the Entertainments
upon our rights have been rapid and alarming,
They must be met. ! conceive that no south.
eTn man can entertain for one moment the
idea of tame submission. The action Of the
South should be united, temperate, but deci.
ded."
What a geld impudence! Nearly one
half the South are directly and infinitely in
terested to have not only the Wilmot Proyiso
passed, but an act Of universal emancipation.
More than two thirds Of the remainder are
cursed by the system, and are dying 10 he
rid of it. Not one quarter of the South is
there. which, if it could speak, would not cry
out more earnestly than it is possible for the
North to do, for the very measures which
CaihOuH u'II0Cdito'
All this the northern members of CONGRESS-
know full well, and yet they permit this in
fernal and stupendous lie to be reiterated in
their ears day after day and year after wear
as if it were a truth. With the exception Of
Hale, Pdlfrey, Giddings, Tuck, Mann, Root
and a very few others, their tameness and
t~orpidity is unspeakable. They are like
skinned milk and the water which will not
run down hill. With the most perfect sub.
missiveness and quietness they take all that
these registering, clustering, bullying slave
holders say, for law and gospel. Or, at any
rate, they would do so, if it were not for trou-
BILE at home. The " fanaticism" of their con-
s~lituents obliges many of them to vote with
Hale, Giddings, Palfrey, &c., while 10 make
amends to their southern masters, they, like
pickpockets. abuse these faithful northerners,
The simple truth is that The South is no
more represented in Congress than Grim Tar
taTy is. 1t is not so much so. Infinitely bet
ter for the people Of the southern States would
it be if all their so-called Senators and Repre-
sentatives should assemble in caucus some
night and drop through into Symmes's Hole,
leaving the North, poorly as that is represent
ed, to make all the laws at its own pleasure,
-Ch' OnOtyPe.