Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-10-04
I II E B U GLE .
NegrO.Mania.

under this title, Mr.. Campbe !, has afforded
us occasional scraps Of his own personal his.
tory, during the last few months, lie was
conspiciously under the influence of this
Mania at the Industrial Congress, at A'aa
ny, and subsequently in attempting to sup
press free speech in PAiladelpha-an last
week we observed, he met with u sudden
conversion, aud was the public advocate OF
the sacredness and involability of law, aud
perfectly Mortified at the lawless violence of
the colored people of Lancaster County,
But whatever may be thought of John Camp
bell, Isaiah Rhynders, aud other like worihies,
they are the representatives of American
feeling in regard to the colored population.
The murderous hatred Of the colored peo-
pie which they exhibit is the ioot of slavery,
which we have to eradicate. A difficult
work we must coness-and one in which
there seems to have been little progress
made, Nevertheless it is the work of jus
tice, and therefore, one of which we may not
despair.
The object Of the book is TO justify slavery
from the physical inftriority of the blacks.
The following is an extract from the article
in the Investigator:
MIR. Campbell is an Irishmnn by birth, we
believe, aud we can tell him in all lranlness
that we look upon his work as breathing II
spirit as far removed from maniness aud lib
Crality as Ireland is from national indepeli-
dcuce. There is no greater anomaly in ex-
istence thap refugee from oppression IN his
Fulherland, pundering 10 The basest tyranny
aud ioulest prejudice in his adopted country.
There needs no laborcd attempt to prove
that the negro is not physically equal to the
Caucasian. Ii would he rs wise TO prove
by profound treatise that hco and three are
fire. No one assumes or presumes that the
race is equal TO the white. What is claimed
for it, is, that 1t is part and parcel of the
great human family; that il has the germ of
the same faculties in common with all other
members Of that family; and has an equal
claim on society with all other members TO
al life, liberty, aud pursuit OF happiness" !" and
that these objects can only be Obluiued or
approached by cultivation aud the exercise
OF their legitimate faculties aud that wheth-
er high or low, black OF white, weak or
strong, no disqualification, except for crime
ar natural incompetency, can apply to an
American citizen.
We believe that this system is unapproach-
able, and that it leaves no room for any dis
cussion relative to the nleriority ofany race;
and hence, any such discussion is necessari-
ly on the part of prejudice aud tyranny, a de-
fence Of the most absolute rottenness of con-
seryatism. TO MAN, the question is not,
Who is mightiest, or luckiestip but who is
llN - sanf Nal.u
structed, hut how shall we give to all their
highest culliyaton? If these problems be
not entitled TO the first aud highest consider
ntions, then indeed are Ireland aud Ilunga-
Ty receiving justice with vengeance And
the uge which can pass by such problems,
when they are yelling up from the great
heart of humanity with the ieryent heat of
running lava, is ii, and fl only to generate
such lualhsome apologists for negro oppres-
sion as MIR. Campbell seems TO be in this spo-
cinlen of his lnbors.
lie does well, indeed, to tell us that he Of
iers no apology nor discussion of slavery,
while he copies page after page of Coy.
Hammond's defence of slavery, endeavoiing
10 prove by religion and the Bible (which he
does and by humanity and common sense
(Which he dOnf,) that slavery is Divine aud
a humane institution!
No man can deny that for the next twen-
ty four hours, chatiel slavery is better for the
slaves now alive in this Republic than uupre-
medltated freedom. That is not the Ques-
ton. The race that can produce men aud
women susceptible of mechanical labor aud
an English education, should have tie com
mon privilege of n trade and education. The
race which produces men ard women sus-
cepuble OF matrlmony and offspring should
be guaranteed matriuony and the owner
ship OF their offspring and that law, or ma
ton, which compels that race to general
lcwdness, and forces upon it general dis
ruption of all social and lnmy ties, is guilty
of the crime Of all crimes,-one which, by
the everlasting law of compensation must
work out n curse in return, proportoned in
magnitude for the crime which begets it,
All the sophistry and special pleading in the
corrupt and deprayed mind of q heartless
aristocracy cannot turn aside nor wink out
of sight the force of this fact, that if slavery
can be justified aud its consequences decar-
ed moral, all laws against ihstt, adultery, and
plunder, are but the ioulesl specimens Of des-
potism.
Mr.. Campbell may call this rrelavont, as
his book is not an apologst for slavery. Bat
60 what else does il tend? Has lac written
and copied 500 pages of manuscript TO prove
what any body AMI every body know,-tlat
fhe races are not all equal in physical and
mental power? No such thing. lie is, in
all possible ways,-eXcept in the manly toyii-
kude OF Governor HAMMOND, an apulogist for
slavery. There needed no hook TO prove
ihat Black Hawk was superior TO Sockaba-
sin; or that Sambo is often superior to
Boshmnn or thai the President of France
is superior to the King Of Dahomey. Were
we TO see case Of similar special pleading
in open court, we should uuhesiiatingIy pro-
nounce the plcader knave or a fool. A
knaVe, if he expected to make tie pabiic be-
lieEe he was in earnest; fool, it he made
Jiiasef believe so.
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