Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-23
DiabOlism.

The Cotton Plant, n journal published sim
ultaneousy ut Washington and Baltimore,
aud aiming to maintain aud perpetuate Amer
icun Slavery, ndvocates u proposition an
nounced at Holly Springs, Miss, by &. G..
BAYLOR, its principal editor, to prohibit by
law the sn!e OF slaves for debt, IN order to knit
the South firmly together By making te in
stituiion of Sidrery a part Of eUeyy mans home
As the coolest specimens Of deyilishness we
have seen in print lately, we give few ex-
tracts from the leader IN the Cotton Plant OF
July 7;-Dispaich.
The great fault ut the South has been, that
the chief productive labor of tho country
has been made capital" of, thus causing il
to concentrate, like all capital, into n few
hands. Economy has consequently been
sacrificed, aud division of interest made TO
exist in regard to rights based upon this very
property. The consequences are known
Our action has always been feeble. "a
house divided against itself must fall" A
community of social sentiment is necessary
to community of political sentiment Unity
of interest is essential to unity of action.
The South has been divided. We would
knit her firmly together, by making the in
siiiution OF slavery a part Of every mans
home.
by prohibiting the sale Of slaves for debt,
you mike it the interest of every voter to
own one. This possession" is the strength
aimed nj. The innu who feels that certain
institution preserves him mud his family from
want or care, will necessarily become attach
ed to That institution. This community of
sentiment and interest would greatly increase
numerical strength at the polls.
This idea" being attached to slavery, mny
not lhnt interest" which we are told abol-
ished slavery in certain States, revive il p
The proposed law enhances the interest"
(in strict Yankee ncccptation OF the term,)
involved in holding slave property. and the
question left TO he decided is, whether the
universal Jonathan loves his oon interest
better than any other peoples. Even in re-
gard TO those who are so extremely benevo-
lent, nIny not their country prove stronger
tlinn their philanthropy? The question is
put to the toiler on tough lands in the West:
" DO you regard the peace, comfort aud Sc
curily of yourself and family more than the
absurd abolition ond free soil doctrines of
your politicians !" lie will answer it. And
before he does so, he may look into the sta
tistics III every case where slavery has been
abolished aud fnd the recorded fact, that
African servitude is the law of God lie
'hSl hiSN iiicNlg uuu iIllu tllht stu
very must aud will exist-in some iorn-
blnck or white. May not the natural in
s;incts of the husband aud father prompt
him to preserve those lie loves from the pos
sibdiiy even of mental degradation Men
are intensely selfish, and this exemption law
appeals to feelings, stronger even with Hor-
ace Greedy thnn his so-caIled benevolence.
so much for the political aspect of the
question. We nre serious, when we inform
nholitiOnisis west of the Ohio that we are
preparing to demonstrate, that the possession
of one or two negroes, in conjunction with
the Homestead Bill, presents inducements
for owning them which should not be thrown
away, by the white labor of the free States.
We want ut the South thrift, energy, and
industry. We want commercially firm de-
tcrmincd course. We wunt our institution
interviewer with eveyy interest. We want il
domesticated on every farm. We want il
hound to rs, beyond the reach of law, aud
then we become linked To it beyond the
preachings of aboitionism, either in the vo-
lent blasphemy of Fred. Douglass, or the ne.
! cesSdry euiis doctrine of some Southern (!)
men. We want it thus established, thus per-
petuated, aud when an issue comes, "when
n blow is struck nt MS through that institution,
The So,dh i0iH be as one man."