Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-25
SlaVchOlding Honesty; or "Sauce for the
Goose is Sauce for the Gander.n

The State of Mississippi, some years since,
lent its credit to two banks established in that
State,-to ono, the "Planters' Bank" for two
millions and a half of dollars to the other for
five millions. This money was borrowed in
England on the bonds oc the State, and lent
out by the banks to the planters, who invested
it in slaves bought in Maryland, Virginia, and
the other slave breeding States of our "modcl
republic" This money, borrowed from the
banks to buy slaves with, the slave-h holders
were both unwilling and unable to repay. The
banks failed. The interest on the bonds which
they had undertaken to provide for remained
unpaid, and tho holders of the bonds called
upon the State.
As to the five million loan, there was some
plausible pretense that all the formalties re-
quired by the State constitution had not been
complied with; and on that ground the whole
debt was formally repudiated. No such pre-
tense existed as to the "Planters Bank" bonds.
It could not be denied that the State was every
way bound in law as well as honor to provide
for them, but the interest on those bonds has
nevertheless, remained unpaid from that day to
this.
As the State of Mississippi or its inhabitants
are just now interested in certain railroad pro-
jects, an attempt was made at the late election,
in hopes to resuscitato the entirely defunct
credit of the State,-to obtain a vote of the
people in favor of resuming payment on tho
Planters Bank" bonds and the New York
Times s,-which turns out by-thc.way, to be a
wholly time serving affair, every way unworthy
of the reputation which its editor obtained as
acting editor during Col. Webbs absence on
his Austrian mission) of the New York Courier
and EnqHrer-the New York Times, exceed
ingly anxious to improve every opportunity to
toady the slave holders, and deceived by some
early returns, took occasion, the other day, to
exult over the honor and honorable spirit Of
the people of Mississippi. But the full retdrns
show that this honorable people voted two to
one not to pay!
And, indeed, what right had the bond-holder
to expect anything else' After encouraging
and aiding these Mississippi planters to tea
from their homes and birth-places, in Virgins
and Maryland, men, women and children, an,
to transport them to the pestilential bottoms o
the Mississippi, there to be robbed of their labo
during their whole lives, what right had tn
accomplices in this piece of atrocious robber,
to expect anything better than to be robbed il
their turn, by their slave holding debtors, o
their share in the fruits of the enormity il
which they had aidedi
Any money lent to the slave-holding States
is sure to be presently invested in slaves, be,
cause slaves arc necessary part of every in,
yestment, and often the chief part of it, that
can be made in the Southern States. Any
Englishman, therefore, who encourages and
participates in the slayeholding system, by
lending out his money in Slave State, wheth.
er to individuals or to the State itself, if he i,
cheated out of it, as most likely he will be, has
nobody to blame but himself certainly no
the shareholders, who. in appropriating hi
money to their own use, do but carry ou
their system without discrimination Of persons
-Coms,oHpeaHh.