Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-08-04

that is only strengthened by the pressure
from without; and can only be destroyed, il
destroyed il is 10 be, by the elements work.
ing from beneath.
But | have extended these remarks farther
than | intended, my only object being 10 cor
rect what | believed TO be an erroneous man.
nef of treating this subject, and 10 show that
your comments were characterized by a lack
of that courtesy, justice and good will that
should prevail among the m embers of this
great Confederacy; and if | have succeeded
in the slightest degree in convincing YOU of
the error Of which | speak, | am greatly mis-
taken in my estimate of your character if Won
do not acknowledge il; and wherein | NAV
have erred in my own views ! hold myself
Liable TO your just and proper animadvcr-
sions. A Lou1st.NuN
Remarks.
We are quite willing the advocates of Sla-
very should be heard through our columns /;
and, while we should much prefer their dis.
cusslng the points actually in dispute, we
shall not insist on that in cases where their
views are so kindly and courteously present.
ed as by A Louisianian.' Let US proceed,
however, TO point out his errors:
L. tie won't see the point Of our objection
to the Georgia Democrdcy's Resolutions.-
The resolveTs are not content with affirming
the rIghifulness Of Slavery in Georgia, or
wherever II may now exist they vehement
ly advocate the Extension of Slavery in A.
merlca over a Territory as yet Free as large
as France, Germany and Italy, while at The
same moment they claim those who are sttuq-
Cling against far milder and less odious forms
of oppression as I" our Democratic brethren in
Eurpe,"' While buying and selling women
and children for their own profit and living
on the proceeds of unrecompensed Toll, they
proclaim themselves "Me rarfy of coudi
rights 10 aH," and the champions of - bind
ing the Rich and Poor together by The Craier-
nal lie Of Political Equality" Now Slavery
may be saintship if you will, but these pro-
LESSONS and %self-righteous claims are glaring
hypocrisies, and can't be anything els. A
man may honestly desire the Extension and
Perpetualion OF Human Slavery, deeming it
the best possible condition for the class OF
rude manual laborers; but if he is honestly
this, he cannot at the same time be earnestly
In favor oil" binding the rich and poor togeih-
er by the f~raternal lie of Political EqualIty.',
nor has he any intelligent sympathy with III.
struggles of "our Democratic brethren in
Europe" whose master grievance is the con-
sumption of the proceeds Of their toll nv those
o-produce4liiils -or-nothing and deem
themselves entitled to live without labor
We did not arraign the Georgians for being
Shareholders, but for the gross inconsistency
OF laborlng for the Extension of Slavery in
America at The same time that they professed an
ardent sympathy for those struggling 10 abol.
ish som OF its remaining v~estiges in Europe.
"A Louislanian thinks the Slavery ques-
ton has never been properly argued between
the North and the South. This is quite ike
ly. We once undertook to argue it very mild
~ and kindly with three Shareholders who
commenced the discussion, and they very
soon attempted 10 throw Us into a convenient
river, and came very near executing their pur-
pose. ii was certainly not through want Of
will that they failed. This was in a Free
State. How is il farther South One after
another from the Free States has gone into
the Slave States 10 reason the matter calmly
and kindly, and they have been mobbed, tar
red and feathered, whipped, imprisoned, rode
on rails, and sometimes treated still more saw
ageIy. Ii is most notorious that if one thou
sand Tree citizens were 10 set out from the
North Tomorrow, 10 travel and lecture on
Slavery in The South no matter how temper.
ately-;hat no prudent company would in
sure their lives, even, for fifty per cent,
while ten to one would be freely bet that not
ten of the whole number would reach the
Mississippi without having suffered personal
violence. And yet no Southern man has ev-
er been mobbed at the North for advocating
Slavery, nor in any manner prevented or con-
strained 10 desist. We will be personally re-
sponslhle for the safety and good usage Of all
the Southern champions who may traverse
the North defending Slavery, if the South
Will in like manner give hostages for her
good treatment of those who may see fit 10
travel Southwark preaching Anli-Slavery. Is
not that fai:l
The North can of course do nothing, ex-
cePt by counsel, toward the legal abolition of
slavery at the South but she can resist its
Extension to the West, and we think it her
duty to do so. We do not believe the South
generally regards Slavery as an evil.-As TO
preparing the Slave for the responsibilities
OF Freedom the South gives the North no
chance to do that. and seems in a very slow
hurry to do IT herself. How much longer shall
Emancipation wait for that process 10 beginl
Some human Institutions are prepon-
%derantly good some hideously bad we con-
slider American Liberty of the former class
and American Slavery Of the lalier.-We be.
lieve in Human Progress, like our correspon-
dent, but do not consider belief in it enough
we iNCl W CUTh lOI ls IfOIIeSS Is
no fortuitous nor arbitrary creation il is the
growth Of a soil f%ertilized by the blood Of Pa
triots and Martyrs. II you really believe in
Progress, show your faith by your works
democracy is a government by all, or by
Inc majority; consequently, a slave planta-
ilon, though it be ever so social, cannot pos-
slbly be a Democracy. Slavery is the oldest
OF Aristocracies-the most consistent. ola.
ring, inveierate. But "A Louisianian' is
mistaken about his 'arch , of lavery-itd does
not yet rest on the Rocky Mountains as i,s
Western base, and we mean il shall not. If
1t should, we shall consider its power increa-
sed and its duration extended.
How far our correspondent has succeeded
in his attempt, our readers will Judge. We
his courtesy, and trust we have imila.
ted it.-[Ed. Tribune,