Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-19
From the Phil. Daily Register.
Slavery n Blessing.

Some time ago, all the shareholders wanted
OF the North wGs To catch all their runuways
aud muzzle the press in regard to the defects
OF slavery. II WINS agreed upon oil hands,
lliat The negroes had rather a liUur opi ion of
tie palriarchal system which prevails down
South aud would run off it tley could and
That ile less said about oppression, except of
lolr-conplcxioned people, the better slave
holders would be pleased. Our merchants.
clergy, Judges and men of property aud
standing generally, approved of this mode of
settling an embarrassing business. The
compact was objected TO, only by the men
commonly called uirds, ecoenirics or crooked
rails that won't lie in any pile. The com
PROMISE act was passed aud the " law aud
order" press has carefully ahstained from
allnsions to slavery, aud, in their declann-
tons on the beauty of freedom, stopped to
explain TINT their remarks were intended
oniy to apply to Europe. Asia, aud the Sand
wlch is'atils ar parts Of the world far distant
from the Southern States.
II would seem ihst the Shareholders hrc
determined 10 push their victory little fur.
Tier, and call on us to admire slavery ns n
means of extending Christianity. The W Y
Courier and Inquirer is the great organ of this
new Crusade in behalf of the foreign slave
trade; aud II has pet Peter the Hermit in
the Georgian. who hourishes in the columns
OF It's Saturdays number. The proposi,ion
on which they insist is, tlIst the best way TO
save the souls of the African savages is TO
catch them and reduce them to slavery in
ihe south. Amer u few Years of hard lnhor,
ihey are iamcd into model Christians The
Gcorgan quotes with appreciation the opn-
IONS oi DE-. stiles, who maintained before
HE Presby yirlian General Assembly nf 1850,
that "tiie men who dwell south OF Mason 81
D'Non's line havc done more TO convert the
heather than the whole world beside" Aud
why not? Are not the three millions of
slaves Ia our Republic set down as Christians
IN every geography? No one classes them
With the Plgane. The Courier and Inquirer
hints broadly tia, our Foreign Missionary
Societies are bound as Christians To ccuse
their present plan nt operations aud 20 heart.
r,i'y inio 'he work OF Tie African Slave Trade.
II snys, tFeb. 26.)
"All the efforts of the Christian world
among the hcaihen, involving as they have
the expenditure of untold millions, have not
done so mncll TO ClriStinnZe anA civilze
them rs American Slavery has done among
the siolid savages, who were brought to this
country from Africa, und among their de.
scendants."
Boldly and well spoken lie, the Foreign
Missionary Societies go TO fitting out slave
ships, laying III large stock of whips and
fer the moro speedy propagation
Of the love Of God Instead of Bibles, let
them take mnnaclrs; aud, instead Of the
longer aud shorter catechisnS, long mud
short thongs for whip-lashes Seize, with
ruiilan violence, upon the irec-iimbud warIi-
or rs he stands beneath his native palms,
his head proudly erect, the generous blood
swiftly through every vein, his ncr-
vous hand crnSpng the weapon with which
he has battled the lion of the desert, and his
eyes bent lovingly upon the distant hut
which shelters his wife aud babes; seize this
man, who is nctivG as a tiger aud bold US the
uniNned eagle, bind his strong llnhs, thrust
n gag into his mouth, hcnve him down into
the crowded, filthy aud suii1cating hold OF
n elaye-ship, wear out his strength hy starva-
lion mud his spirit 10y stripes, subject him 10
the long, living death of the middle passage
aud when you put him up on the block in
Cuban or American slave market,-s broken
hearted, brokcr.spiriied man, with no tie to
bind him to life, save the instructive love of
living,-,hen boast you have made him II
Christian And when his descendants
stink 10 their tasks, starring ut the crack OF
the whip aud cowed before masters eye,-
claim Ihom rs converts 10 Christianity!
We lack words to express our loathing of
these nsOlent defianccs of The moral senti-
ment of the conimunity--of theses attempts
TO turn slave-sIps Into churches and pirates
into missionaries Had we 10 choose, we
would rather he the fierce aud free savage
on the banks of the Niger-not Than The
scorned and humble slave of a cotton plan
Than the African slnye-,rader or
any of his abeilors, be they in the pulpit or
the editorial clinir.