Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-16
HENRY G. WRIGHT.
Provincial Freeman,

| Isl new pOper published at Windsor, Can
ada West, s. r. Ward, Editor, Alexander
MArhur Corresponding Editor. We have
received the first number of this paper 1t
makes n fine appearance, and if Mr.. Ward
devotes to j; his time and energies he will
mike un interesting and useful paper. We
extract the following from it in regard to
Pro-Suvery in Canada.
But there is another view of our relations
TO this suhject,-it is painful 10 admit it,
il is deep disgrace to us ; il is true, hut
dsgrnceiiil us il is il is useless TO conceal il,
-friendness to slavery is to be found in
this Province in more forms than one.
L. There nre some parties here who prac-
tice slave driving in the South. They love
slavery rs they love the gain they derived
from welding the whip over its victims. A
sprnkling of such customers is TO be found
here mud there, the Province over.
2. There ure others, too, who have mar
ricd heiresses TO slave estates. Having re-
ceived their wives and slaves by the same
act of mairinony, they are strongly tempted
To regard slavery TO be as sacred us marriage
ITSELF
3. Then there are persons resident in
Canada who were once shareholders IN the
West Indies. The glorious people OF Great
Britain, determined to have the great prin-
ciple of British Freedom applied practically
TO the enslaved, as we'll MS to all others, like
Job, they, through the Government, "broke
the jaws Of the wicked, aud delivered the
spoiled out Of their teeth" But these ex.
shareholders were never convinced of the sin
of slave -holding-or it convinced of il, they
never were converted from il. Hence they
are in spirit now, what they were ~ practice
before the Act of 30. The influence of
these parties is as deeply aud wickedly pro
slavery ns that of the viltst sav eocrats of
New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Balli-
more.
a. As n born Yankee, we are ashamed Of
IT, but il is trne that too many of the natives
Of tIle United States have brought their pro.
slaveryisIn with them, from tie other side
Like the refugee slaves, they come here TO
enjoy AN improvement of their condition,
and like them, too, they enjoy the protecting
care of this good British realm; but they
turn scornfully uIoI the black man, and ,lo
what in them lies 10 rob him of the rights TO
which the lut,er is as fully entitled rs Them
selves. From sy ympathy with their native
country, and from their own negro-hate,tle
Innintain n constant aud growing pro slavery
influence wherever they nre settled. There
are hut very few exceptions to this rule, for
il is a rule and most safely may il be said,
| that while the Yankees are far from being
the only negrO-llnters, or pre-. slavery parties,
whose principles disgrace our country, IL is
nevertheless irne that the mass of them are
the most decided slaveocrnts in tho land /;
and what is more, they most indusiriously
spread aud promulgate their sentiments, and
seek to make them prevalent and controlling,
even to the violation of Her Majesty's laws.
We could give abundant illustrations of this.
5. IL remains to he said, that the preju-
dice against negroes, so prevalent in various
parts of the Province, as maintained by
many persons of all nations, including, of
course, native Canadians, is one of the
strongest pro.slavery influences that disgrnces
and degrades our fair country; il does more
TO place us side by side with American OPP
pressOrs than any other one thing. Every
body knows that il is the North aud not the
South that supplies the power of public
opinion, of the pulpit, the press, commerce,
manufactures, literature, religion, politics,
everything thai keeps slavery aliye. Now
the sentiment-the controlling sentiment Of
the people of the North, that renders them
the volunteer body-guards of slavery, is their
negro-hate. The mantainnnce ofa like negro
hnte here, of course, encourages the same
feeling there, aud aids il in doing its very
worst work. Every Canadian negro hater
is British slaveocrat. Every such one is
strengthener Of the slave system, and we
repeat, that there should be such, is one of
the worst facts-lhe foulest disgrace-the
deepest degradation-in all our history.
So long as these facts exist, we shall want
ant-savery labors, organizations, agitation,
and newspapers in Canada. Our humble
life shall be devoted TO the counteracling of
the pro-slaverysm OF our adopted country.
Ii is for tins reason that we leave our own
hearilIsione, and expose ourselves TO so many
disagreeables, as n lecturing agent OF the
Canadian Anti-Slavery Society. Hence it
is we consent, without puy, to scrbble for
the Provincial Freeman. And we do believe
that the education and improvement of our
own people will lay this enmiiy to liberty
and humanity,-ths friendship for despotism
low, in death and burial that shall know
no resurrection, and that at no very distant
day. Atuny rate we shall ahor on in hope.
Let the pro-slayeryism Of Canada be
overcome, and let the anti-slavery influence
Of our laws, constitution, and position DO