Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-01
WHOLE NO. 200.

will be a Yankee in time. If there is any;
thing better than anarchy in the West Indies:
there is something better than slavery there.
! say, therefore, that il the whole horizon III
the British West India Islands has not heeA
drenched in olood, the experiment Of imme-
date emancipation of masses Of slaves has
sccceeded. We may safely obey the com
mands In the chapter of Isaiah which has
been read This morning, TO break every yoke
God may be trusted. His word is sure, and
the memory Of man runneth not to the CON
trdry. Yet this godly people after q congre-
galional model, could not trust the Almighty,
unless there were as many puncheons Of rum
and hogsheads Of sugar exported after ethsn;
cipation as beforet
Suppose that a man had met Sam Adams az
ter the Revolution, and asked him how it had
succeeded. Sam says TO him, Look round
on these thirteen free and Independent colo
MES. Bot, says our friend ,Ihow are the stores
on Long Wartl Do they let for as much
now as they used to in '651 Are'you as rich
as you werel Is your house in Beacon street,
MIR. Hancock, worth what il vast This de-
preciated currency that ] hear SO much about
how is it as TO that? Where is the industry
Of Massachusetts At a discount. Where
are your people3 Broken Up, in all their
habits of industry would be the answer
Where is your ~capitali Wasted. Where
are your farmsl untitled. Where is Charles.
ION! Burnt. Where are yo1r young men
of twenty? Their bones lie mingled with
the soil of every State from New England Ia
Georgia Where is the garnered capital or
the. thirteen industrious colonies, the repre-
sentative of the Toll of six generations? Seat
tered, most of il, to the winds.
All, has the Revolution, then, been a fall
pre Was Sam Adams mistaken? Was
John Hancock a fool T. Where the men that
went for a seven years. war, misguided, mis-
calculating fanatics? So ought the Ameri-
can newspapers 10 tell you now, when they
ask us TO prove the success of the West In
dla experiment, by their exports; when they
ask us to show not that the slave is there, and
the white man there, but that the farms are
worth as much, that the cane is as fruitful;
and that the docks are as full as they were
before. Shame on such reasoners! 1t is
sad commentary on the spirit of the age;
the dollar and cent spirit of the age,-tha, The
5 experiment of emancipation in the West In
: dollars and cents not by the moral conse
! quences; not by the rights. regarded not b.
! marriage held sacred not by the school fl
led up; not by the books circulated; no, b
e the women Withdrawn from the cotton, an
sugar. and rice field not by the daughter
y kept at home 10 Be edncafedi not by the chi
dren taken out Of the cane keId, and sent I
Sunday school; not BY The colored man, sit
$ ting in his own house, master of his it'll
0 home, whatever it be; not BY the selfre
spect you have called into being. These ar
the germs Of civilization and prosperity, plan
n ted on the glorious First of August, 1881
n and which the American people ignore wheI
they would Judge OF the experiment, ana on
~ ask with the arrogant spirit Of a whit
0 Yankee, whether business is as good; wheth
2, er plantations would sell for as large an a
mount as ever.