Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-15
The Whole Issue,

the lrue Democrat. We extract the closing
part oft. After exposing tic bascness of tho
Fillmore Wings, who are appealing to brutal
prejudice against our colorcd population, for the
support Of themselves and their favoritc mca-
sure, the fugitive law, the Editor, says;
"But let these mon beware Let the Admin
i'traiion, and its Advocates, who thus truck
and huckster in the cause of Freedom, know,
however much the colorcd race aio concerned
in this mighty controversy, that they arc not
alone, nor CHIEFLY, interested in the result of
it, The idea goes beyond them. It covers
the ocean of humanity, and no arm can buffet,
no heart heavc, upon its surging waves, and
survive, without justice being done TO the
crushed African. Enslayo HIM, and degrade
labor thereby, and VIC arc preparing to cnslaye
and degrade all labor, 1t is useless to attempt
to conceal this effect, or to escape it. When
the men in Power, and their Advocates, ap-
peal, then, TO the prcjudiccs Of ;hc white labor
ing classes, and seek TO kindlo aircsh their hate
towards the black, they arc forging chains for
those Of Saxon blood, which they will have to
wear, in deepest degradation, if they do not
repcl this advance, and resent the insolcnt in
suit involved in 1t, with instant defiance.
The very argument used, indeed, by Con-
gresham Brooks, and the Herald, and the class
to which they belong, will provo this, if the
white luboring classcs will read them as the
men Of Syracuse have rightly read them. In
all they say, and DO, the superiority Of the Sax
on is asserted, not only as regards physical, but
as regards moral and intellectual power. Be it
so Shall the strong strike down the weak
Shall the mighty smitc into the dust the feeble ;
Shall they Of full manhood oPPREss the help
less : Let the white laborng classes do that,
or permit any viilainous combination of Power
70 10 It, and if that Power shall prove strong
or, mightor, fuller Of manhood than they, the
hot Iron Of tyranny will hiss in their cars, and
tho chains OF slavery clank upon their limbs
with all the inlamy Of blackest seryitudc. No
We repeat it. If the white laboring classes o
tho North would have justice done them, they
must do justice thomselvos and that Party, ol
that Power, is a cheat, and liar, that would
teach them the opposite and infamous doctrine
and should be scorncd by them, in self defence
as CHEATS and liars.
But all this may be made terribly clear If We
will lool, at the South, and consider the position
of the ld5oring tehites there. They constitute
the masses. Shareholders do not reach TO the
number Of three hundred thousand in all Slave
dom. OF the probable twelve hundred thou
sand adults, in the South, nine hundred thou
sand, at least, arc noa-Slarehold3s. All they
own is their muscles and mind; the land they
till the tools th0y use, and the shops they
work in. They arc, in part, poori poverty
grips them with its hardest, coldest CLUTCH
II very slaves mock and insult this portion
Nor have those that are better off, as a whole
a very much higher position for they have no
the benefit of free schools, or educational cf
icIts, such as the child of the bcggar or tht
pauper may enjoy in Ohio, New York or New
them, one and all, and crush them with bru
tish fcrocity. They cannot rise up under them
Arc we, then, to forget these, our kith am
kin to overlook rs well as forget tho masse
! tho oppressive few in thcmi Shall the labor
ing men Of the y orth cling to and uphold th
! lordly SHAREHOLDERS, and thereby imbrutc, O
help keep imbrutcd, their own class in I'll
South; Will they be content to foster pre-
| judicc, or feed hate which shall debasc it be
yond the hope of recovery, and in and by th'
act, breed a cause, which shall subject them I
n venal despotism; Let Northern white Labor
crs know their position. If they shall max
shareholders supreme, or permit them to b'
como so, ard they shall bind to them the nor
led power of the North, as under these circun
stances they will, their class, North AND Sout
will feel, to their hearts core, n social oppre
sion, and political tyranny, in this free Ian
as grinding and as gearing rs ever men 81
fercd. Cause and effect will follow each othc
There is no power on earth which can separa
them. If, then, in any way, or for any On
the white laborng classes of the North, tole
ate injustice, or do it, in these regards they al
theirs will sweat and sweltcr in rctributiC
which shall smite them as surely as God Ii
I. eth. a..
That man who, or that party which, repr
sents this question, then, as barely neg
question" Is a base decoivor,ora wicked oppro
, sor, who would blind, to nETRAY. the laboriI
classes of the North. Lot them look to it,
they value their own safety and progress.
Let them remember that they can only O
justice by DOING justice, and that as they st
J, the villainous arm of the oppressor, so sh
they escape oppression! Let them know tn
the issue of Freedom, now made in this Rcpu
lie, covers every question, the right practi'
solving of which shall alone, make and keep
Dor respectable, or the white la6orers, NoE
= and South, FRIEMEN.