Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-17
NO. 81.
Increase Of slavery.

a correspondent Of the Cleveland Democrat
who has no faith in any of the present Anti
Slavery movements proposes as the only sue
cessful method Of extinguishng slavery, to tax
the whole country, north and south, for their
purchase. lie gives the following as the in
crease of the slaves for century to come at
their past ratio Of increase We add his COM
ments and his argument. His plan is certainly
not less visionary or improcticablo than the sim
pie justice, which abolitionists seek.
What have we before lis? In 1885 we
had in the colonies n half million of slaves /;
in 1900 VIC had million; in 1925, we had
Two millions of slaves, onc-tliird of them
baptized into the blood of the Ango-Saxon
--honc of our bone.
In 1875 we shall have eight millions of
Slaves; in 1900, sixteen millions in 1925,
ave shall haye ibrty-two millions in 1850
one hundred years hence, we shall hold
Sithin Our fond embrace siriy four millions of
SdueSj thirty millions, perhaps forty millions,
OF them n mixed ruce-thc children of
our own lOins, the yellow sons of wliite
sires.
Within the States which will hold them,
one hundred aud twenty millions of whites,
or more, will be held, educated to idleness
and impudence-to proiligncy and politics,
born TO cOmmund-Uwnng the entire soil OF
the States they occupy-nnd the homes and
suews of the mass that toll. or these,
sixty millions will he as uneducntcd as the
negro, wiih rs liilc motive % labor and
quite us viriUWs.
IN 1850, the soil of mnjority Of the
Slave States will have been cxhuusttd-hcr
beautiful Snyanuuhs viii have become us
barren as the "sand hills" of the Caroiuas-
and tho busting fuidew of Slave iilnge will
bave driven half the South to raising nicn
for tile nlHrkcts-and like proud old Virginia
one half the population will live by the
sale of children reared in their own bosons
The mass of wtherng otl-shooiS of II ycnal
nris;ccracy will have become a innss of ig-
norance-gui!cd 10y despotc will which
knows no law but self, aud ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Think you nj that hour their demands on
the general government for the benefit of
Slavery will Ac less urgent aud unyielding
But we arc told Slavery cannot survive
so years. Men who say this know not what
1hey affirm. Not one line of It's history from
the time Of Constantine to the present time,
gives any such hope. II has lived for ccntu.
reS as II nero convenience. Here it exists
nS Il political necessity. On Il the entire So
rial-pol,ical and financial system Of the
South is built. The Constitution holds
around it the bay onrts of the Nation. The
Blhlc Is its cuusecrated sanctuary, and the
liorket oI the planter is opened to receive the
golden profits that drips iiom it, sweat aud
blood. Does not the planter thus interpret
tIc rights of their ins,i,uliom: Can You
reach IL by the Constitution They tell YOU
aud We acknowledge that they are held in
spite of the Constitution. Can we reach it
ly the Biblc-lhcy tell us it is santioncd by
The tini of Onnipotcnce, aud when the arm
AT the Government is reached over the North
lo take the hunted fugitive irom Our hearth
istollrs aud otr ulturs, the bayoneis glitter
aud the pulpII's thunder at tIiuse who resist.
Can we reach them with money! les, that,
will reach them. No untGn ever abandon
cd wrong Tor conscience sakc-history has
not one example. Thcu,-aud this is my
jcnedy for the disease--lct the government
purchase thruI-uud appropriate n portion
.ni the public lauds-tnX both North and
South, aud the Savcs, ulsp-Sculc those who
wish on unsettled lands-le ih1sc who wish
ireuinin as labOrcrs in the south--diS;rict the
south aud erect Schools for every inhubitant
Jet the planter rent his lnnd To the lahorcr
an just ternis--nnd iii 10y degrees the Slave
into ihc tuIl stature of n matt preach labor
as II duty to every man aud woman IN the
South.