Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-05
From tho pttsbnrgh Dispatch
AFRICAN IMPROVEMENT AND SLAVERY

In the United States only does the affican race
ehow advancement in moral intel ectonl and phvsi.
cal requirements; having already furnished schol-
Ass' oraposs ana stateslnen and acapacty to found
snu upheiu new empne, All this has resulted
-trein Amc9icaa Slavery but we 6nd no naralel to
'Hunywnere else, not even under the ndg OF Eng.
lhhu, where men and women boast OF being nm,
sxeelinnee the friend Of The african racel'
We copy the above from the Cincinnati Tine.
~ rdAy, only to express wonder that al aver gen
srally 20 Intelligent should speak so carelessy and
crringy. The history Of St. Domingo furnishes
ample refutation Of the above. lIcr TurssAIxr and
numerous others, in their triumphant aohic,ment
ot independence, over the whole power Of France
proved their talent and progress. Even Cuba ha,
Srbet fecenuy,i furnished an example Of the highest
lorder,pl intcllect,H patriot poet of the African
{rece, whose last poem, composed but short time
previous to has execution, was pronounced bcuut
srkeycn by the btcrest proslayery presses of this
.sountry. The British West Indies have also fur.
rnished examples Of moral aud intellectual acquire
,ncnts among the African race--at least Of many
o. chosen rs fitted lcgslae in and for the colonies
ltmay besuggcsted by the Times tIat the Hay
tidns have sho wn retrUgrcssiOn ratlcf than pro
,gress, in the recent submission to o sLouorE',
assumption Of Imperial power and title lut then
iNhere does the white French stand with all it
array of mighty minds while the NAroLEoN idol il
beng established! Nay, where stand We all since
othis yet perhaps experimental Republic Of ours
sis the only which even promise to mark the pro
gression Of our race in six thousand, or perchanc'
sixty thousand years--as geology indicates, th'
period of the old earth's duration.
:, Dut Why should the Tinss attribute the African
progress u American sldrgy while t and all othe
Republican journals an people, 50 cstatingly
assign all the credit and glory our own "moral
intellectual and physical requirements to our free
don,. alone-those glorious republican institution
which our forefo ohcrs' blood cemented in the strug
gle to extinguish slavery? Is it reasonable that tn
fAfric0 American should remain unnGuenced by yth
progress bcgottcn of those free institutions arou NJ
him while all other American people growing
enlightened? lie isalso a man, and thinker--anC
IL Hope bold out TO him not so bright prospect a
10 us il is still his to fancy that he will realize th
Traction Of the pledge of our Declaration for hi
children If not for himself and he advances, no
because American sldeeyy is less soul crushing an,
horrible, the Times would assume, than any othc
eystem, but because be cannot il hc woul,
stand still amid the progress nor be in dark
ness amid the increasing light around him.
Those who often attempt to palliute the inia
nous crime Of our nation in sustaining and seeking
40 pcrpetrate slavery, because the African brOugh
here may become enlightened, christianized, ant
oven Gods instrumentality converting the who'll
African conent--till Ethiopia shall streach lortl
her hands unto God, should turn to history an,
10 their Bibles little more diligently and ponde
the fate of all those kings and nations, who, althoug
made the instrument of his purposes, wero held II
less inimical and no less lcaTiully punished b
him because like ourselys, they aimed only
promote their own scf h Al d deylish erds r.
gardlcss Of the means.
We may also remind the Times that IL was II,
alone in the West Indies that it and is held c
pedient to work slaves to death under certain ci
.cumstances. The sugar planters Of the Unite
States have initiated the example of the West Ind
planters in this respect, as the census has prove
and wherever the cane cultivation is carried on,
is said to be absolutely necessary to overwork, az
thus finally .use up" the human chattcls, at Il
boiling seasons. louisiana, Texas and other 81
gar growing States, do this now, and the calcul
zion whether it is cheaper TO work people so har
rs 10 work them to death in n short period or
work them more modentely,s SO rs to prolong the
existence, is made just as cody by many an Anne
can planter as by those ofthA West Indies-an
we doubt whether REEsIDE set himself dowu MOI
frigidy to figure out the net gain and loss o
bard driven or moderately driven coach horse fesl
than does many southern owner Of human cattle