Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-09
{" Allah Bismiiiah, &c., God is great, and
.Huhomei is his Prophet.

Have these Erika considered the conse-
-Quences of granting their petition? u we
.cense our cruises against the Christian, how
shnll we he furnished with the commodities
their countries produce, and which nre so
necessary for us? Ii we forbear to make
slaves OF their people, who, in this hot cli-
mate, nre TO cultivate our lands? Who nre
to perform the common !nbors of our city
and in our families? Must VIC not, then, he
our own slaves? And is there not more
.compassion aud more favor due TO us, as
.Mussulmen, than to these Christian dogs?
We have now above fifty thousand slaves in
mud near Algiers. This number, it. not kept
np by fresh supplies. will soon diminish, and
be gradually annihilated. lf we then cease
taking and plundering the lnfidel ships, and
making slnves of the seamen and passen-
gers, our lands will become of no valGe, for
want of cultivation; the rents Of houses in
the city will sink one half; and the revenue
of Government, arising from its share Of
prizes, be totally destroyed! And for what? /?
To crafty the whims of whimsical sect,
who would have MS not ouly iorbear mnk-
ing more slaves, but even nIanunit those
we hnve.
But who is TO indemnify their masters
for the loss? viii the State do il? Is our
Treasury sufficient? viii the Etika do IL |?
Can they do il? Or would they, TO do what
they think justice TO the slaves, do greater
injustice To the owners? And il we set
our slaves free, whnt is TO be done with
them? Few of them will return TO their
countries they know too well the greater
hnrdships they must there he subject TO (;
they will not embrace our holy religion I;
they will not adopt olIr manners; our people
will not pollute themselves by intermarry-
ing with them. Must we maintain them Ms
beggars in our streets, or suffer our proper
dies TO be the prey of their pillnge? For
men accustomed TO slavery will not work for
n livelihood, when not compelled. And
what is there SO pitiable in their present
condition. Were they not slaves in their
own countries?
Are not Spain, Portugal, France, and
hhe Italian States, governed by despots, who
hold all their subjects in slavery, without
exception Even England treats its sailors
ms slaves, for they are, whenever the Gov
.ernment pleases, seized, and confined in
ships of war, condemned not only to work,
but to fight, for small wages, or mere sub
sistence, not better than our slaves are al
lowed by us. IL their condition, then,
made worse by their falling into our hands !?
No; they have only exchanged one slavery
for another, and, may say, belter-for
here they nre brought into n land where the
sun of Islarnism gives forth its light, aud
shines in full spendor, and they have nn op-
,portunity OF making themselves acquainted
with the true doctrine, end thereby saving
their immortal souls. Those who remain nj
home have not that happiness. Sending the
slaves home, then, would be sending them
out OF light into darkness.
~ repeat the question, What is to be
done with them? have heard il suggested
that they may be planted in the wilderness,
where there is plenty of land for them to
subsist on, aud where they may flourish as
This paper is dated only twenty y-four days
before the authors death. which happened on
the l7th of April following.