Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-01-01
RepubliCanlSm Modified by Slavery,


The citizens of Caroline County,, Va, ac-
tuated by the instructive cowardice aud ieal-
ousy Of shareholders towards the free negroes
among them, have lately held mass meet
ing TO consider the proper course to be pur-
sued with regard to this dangerous element
III their population. Twenty prominent |
citizcns appointed at n former meeting as n |
Committee, reported, and the meeting unani. !
! lnously adopted the following attrocious pre-
amble aud dresouiions,as their selliuslilicatiOn |
for their fagrant wrongs TO the free colored |
| roople.-Pa. Freeman.
GAN governments restrict and diminish the |
| liberties Of individuals, in order TO promote
the happiness aud woll-heing Of society,"
They iciO are governed cannot be free. N0r
Gus forms aud degrees of government have
ever existed in society, each answering
equally well for all nations aud individuals
endowed with various degree Of selEcon-
| troll, morality, and civilization. The leust
degree Of government to which men most
! civilized, moral and enlightened can be sub
iectod, consistently with good order and Sc
curity, is that Of being governed by laws
made by representatives chosen by them
selves. But this degree of liberty can I've
! safely given but to n small fraction of iudi-
vduols, ovcn in the hest aud purest society.
! The children must he governed liy parents
! aud guardians the apprentices 10y masters;
the soldiers aud sailors by superior officers;
wives must be subject to husbands,who love,
! cherish, and protect them; lunntlcs aud idiots
! 10y trustees aud committees, and criminals he
confined in inils and penltentarles In oH
cases IL is mol The id,O that goUerRS, bm The
tcW Of master or superior. They are in
stances of slavery Instituted as well for the
good Of the governed as Of society at largc.
"I'he few adult male whites who are lclt to
! the govcrnI cnt of mere law, il they he good
or wise, or prudent men, take care 10 throw
around themselves thousand restrictions to
| the liberties which the law has leil them
They become members of churches and OF
other societies, husbands and fathers, and
| still further cirtai their liberties by under.
taking and performing the mulliarious du-
| tics which their various relations require
| They love not the lawlcss llcencc and liberty
which delights the ihoughless child, the
lille negro, or the brutal savage. All expert
ence, all history, shows that man is only
| fitted for the government Of mere law when
he. has become so highly civilized, prudent
and moral, as 10 regard liberty in its broad
aud common sense MS thing TO he avoided
e. an evil rather thnn us good TO be sought
after. With the whites, we carefully adapt
the mode aud degree of government to the
wants of tho governed. Let lis adopt the
same wise and just rule with the blacks Let
us not attempt 10 govern these by mere law,
who, when adults, require ms much as white
children between sixteen and twcnty-one, to
be governed by the will Of another. Call
that other guardian, committee, cuptain or
master, tits but different name-lhe mode
of government is the same.
Entertaining these opinions, who adopt the
following resolutions;
"lst. Resolved, That we highly approve
Of the bill reported ny the Special Committee
of the Virginia Legislature on the subject
of Free Negroes, which proposes, among
| other provisions, to hire them out TO raise Il
! fund to send them from tho State, &C.
"2d. Resolved, That the negroes general
! ly, aud us n class, require the government,
control aud protection of Il master, as much
as white children between sixteen and TWEEN
ty-one require the rule Of parents aud gunr-
dinns.
ODD Resolved, That we cannot suffer
any negroes to remain permanently in this
State, unics they he subject TO some form,
degree or modification Of Slavery, as all eX-
pcrlGnce shows, it is the only successful
mode Of governing them, or of recaming
them from the wild, pagan, and savage state.
/ u is HllUlullt 10 tiSIuNC uhu llblttt litll :
uIuman to leave them free to disturb society
aud ruin thems elves by their vices aud i'm
providence.
9th. Resolved, That all free negro chill
dren of suitable age should he bound to
white persons OF good characterize be brought
up in MORAL aud industrious habits, thus
separating them at once from the evil infln-
cmce and example OF their idle aud vicious
parents, and stimulating them 10 improve
mcnt aud inuring them TO industry, hy the
authority aud example of their masters.
18th. Resolved, That the strong aud
stringent measures adopted by many of the
Free States 10 exclude free negroes from their
territories, justify our present course, aud
rchuke our past turdiness, because the rea-
} sons and necessity for their exclusion exist
in ten-fold greater intensity with us than
g with them.
, 9Th. Resolved, That we deem it as I'M
wise, imprudcnt and inlunan TO send free
negroes abroad in the wide world, ignorant
OF the perils, privations and hardsIIips that
await them, as to permit our little children,
when restless under restraints aud seized
: with love of adventure, to quit the parent
al roof in search of fortune abroad. Yet, in
Difference to the preiudices Of mankind, we
will permit tie free negroes to quit the State
: md aid them TO do so.
, "7Ih. Resolved, That the papers in the
. State generally be requested TO publish these
: proceedings.
"a. S. BRoADDUs, Chairman.
r. BRoKESRouGH PEYToN, Secretary"
Y Upon this the N. Y. Tribune pertinenlly
! remarks:
: Thus do the doctrines OF Nicholas, Ilnynau
: MGliernich aud de Nlaistre find hospitality
9 aud compnnionship in ihe land of Hancock
! Washington and Jefferson. The only differ
: ence preceptible is that between consstenc.
and nconsistency-their European apostle
G applying them with rigorous impariality Il