Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-07
From the London Advertiser of Dec. oath.
American Shareholders and Slave Dealers.

A correspondent writes us, in reference TO
our leading article of yesterday, on American
slavery, tnt the Hon. aud Rev. Baptist Noel,
in speaking of the evils of slavery on Sunday
evening did, not apply the terms, "ruilians
Of their race" to shareholders, but TO slave
dealers.
II is right that we should make this reciih-
cation, oiwhat the Hon. aud Rev. gentleman
said, it we conveyed wrong impression Of
what fell from Him. But when our cores
pondent adds, "ihat Mr. NOel's candor is too
great, aud his judgement too discriminating,
to permit him to mix innocent men and
giEiiY ones in the same sweeping condcmnn-
lionp we do londly and iervently hope that
he speaks his own sentiments only, and not
those OF the Hon. aud Rev. gentleman. To
call slave. holders an innocent cluss of men,
is something for which we were not prepared
from any of Mr.. Nocrs hearers. II, MS the
Hon. and Rev. gentleman is here represent
ed, he regards Shareholders MS innocent men,
we do not well see with what justice lac aud
others made stand NJ the late Evangelical
Alliance meeting, against admission even OF
the advocates of slavery into that body. We
could indeed have wished that that stand
had been still more decided, but still il was
sufficient 10 draw down upon the heads oi
the Alliance, the viiuperalion and wrath ol
the pro slavery DIR. Baird. Besides, MIR. Noel
has, TO our certain knowledge, publicly de-
nouncod slavery us the greatest curse OF the
present day, which he could not with any
uropricty lave done, had hc entertained the
opinion Inscribed to him by Our correspondent
that the saye-o,Unes are innocent men.
We, at any rate, consider them, speaking
of them as n class. as men who are utterly
lost 10 every feeling which ennobes, and to
every principle which eleya,es, human ma
turc--as men who Systematically brulallze
the minds, and slowly but surely destroy the
bodies of the slaves, Nor is this the full
amount of their enormity. They also Jeop-
ardizc the souls of their unfortunate bonds
men. And therefore, il Mr.. Noel will rot,
we can have no hesitation in saying of the
slave. holders as n class, what he says, accor-
10 our correspondent, only of the slave
Healers-thcy that are "the ruffians of their
race" We cannot discern any material diff
ference between tho two classes-thc slave
owners and the slave-dealers. To use n
homely, but expressive phrase, there are SIX
I'm the one and halfa dozen in the other. II
there were 10 slave-Olgners, there would be
no slave-Gea!erS. There is consequently, at
the most no greater difference between the
clusscs, than there is between the thief ana
the receiver of stolen goods. What distinc-
lion the law makes between these two class
es. those who are conversnnt with Old Bailey
matters know full well. In the eye OF NOR
ais and of religion, the difference ought to
he still less But with regard TO American
slavery, no one knows better than our cor
respondent, from his long residence on the
other side of the Atlantic, that both classes
-slave-owners and slave-dealers, are com
bined in one. Who, we should like 10
know, sells the slaves in the New Orleans
and other Southern markets, but the slave
Oleners? And are not they then, we should
like TO ask our correspondent, sIave-dealerS
as well