Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-15


Kentucky, We can discover whether the
estimated value of our slaves ought 10 be
added, when we compare the wealth of
States; and the way TO discover it, is TO
make the comparison first without put
ting in the value Of the slaves. Compare
I,lIe wealth of the free and the slave
States, so far rs il consists in lands,
buildings, and all other products of labor,
making allowance for natural advantages
and disadvantages in each country. It,
in proportion to population, the slave
State has more wealth thar the free State.
then you have evidence that slave-labor
has produced more wealth in the one
State, than Grce-labor has produced in the
othcr-that is, each slave has added
more wealth 10 the general stock, than
each frce.labor aud therefore the value
of slaves should be added TO the other
wealth, because they are a source Of
wealth 10 the country. not merely as men
but as slaves. Their slavery has made
the general labor of the country more
productive Of wealth, than if their place
had been occupied by free laborers.-
But if, after deducling the slave property,
the old southern States be less wealthy
than the old free States, in proportion to
population, then The slaves ought not to
be considered us wealth, because they
are in fact a hindrance to the prosperity
of the country, and less productive rs la
borors than frec-mcn would be in their
places.
Tried III this indispuiably just princi-
Pile, not one of the old slave States can
stand a comparison with the free States
in regard TO wealth and prosperity.
Disgraceful Law.-By reference to our
Court proceedings it will be seen that Capt.
Vandegrift, of the steamboat Zephyr, has
been mulcted in $500 damages, because a
yellow boy, a slave, escaped on the Zephyr.
1t is one of the disgraceful, barbarous laws
that makes our statute-books a by-word as
everything that is cruel and abominable
among our sister States. We would like 10
know how a man is TO know a slave from a
free person? Some may say that he ought
to examine every colored persons pass. 1t
is a well known fact that not one out of ev-
cry five hundred colored people has a pass
and the proportion Of free 10 slave colored peo-
pie is so large, that it would be an endless
job TO examine all their passes. We do not
see anyhow that slave property should have
more strenuous and severe laws to protect its
owners from loss than other property. 1t is
not so very valuable TO the State. FILMING
ton (DeL) Blue Hen'S Chicken.
TIE FIRsT SAW nL.-The old practice,
in making boards, was 10 split up the logs
with wedges; and inconvenient as the prac-
tice was, it was no easy matter to persuade
the world that the thing could be done in any
better way. Saw mills were first invented
in Europe in the fifteenth century; but so
lately as 1855, an English ambassador, hav-
ing seen a saw mill in France, thought il a
novelty which deserved a particular descrip
ton. 1t is amusing TO see how the aversion
to labor-saving machinery has always agiia.
ted England. The first saw mill was estab.
lisled by a Dutchmnn, in 1868; but the pub
lie cutlery against the new-langled machinC
was so violent, that The proprietor was forced
to dccamp with more expedition than ever did
Dutchman before. The evil was thus KEEP
out of England for several years, or ratheI
generations; but in 1853, an unlucky timbei
merchant, hoping thai after SO long a linn
tho public would be less watchful Of its owl
interests, made a rash attempt TO construc
another mill. The guardians of the public
welfare, however, were on the alert, and
conscientious mob at once collected and pull
ed the mill TO pieces. Such patriotic spiri
could not always last and now, though we
have not seen the fact distinctly stated, there
IS reason 10 believe that saw mills are USED
in England.