Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-26
slavery in Ihc District Of Columbia.

City. A brief account of which will be found
on our first page. The National Era says;
"The boy was n good looking lad, and he
was knocked or at $3.50 to purchaser from
| Georgia We presume he has parents living,
bat the law Of slavery recognizes no naural re-
laiions. lie cried bitterly during the operation,
and there seemed 20 he a consciousness among
the spectators that tho scene was not fit to be
enacted in the capital of the model republic"
And pray, what place would be it for such
transactions Think of it, fellow citizens Of
.hc North The City Of Washington has been
built, is sustained aud has all its wealth by
your governmental union with Shareholders ~
NoL have 80 little sclf-rcspect, 10 say nothing
of humanity, that you permit such deeds US
this to be done on national territory, and in the
face Of the representatives Of all tho nations Of
the earth. II is yoW e,.i-cns If Me nominaRy
fee statcs, who have this matter entirely in
your own hands. You have majority in Con-
grcss, and il you willcd it, that majority would
annihilate the traffic, and the ownership in hu-
nIan beings in tic District. to-day. That ma.
! jority may be SO stony hearted and inhuman,
as to care nothing for tho horrors Of slavery or
the slave traffic. They may DO 80 shameless
as to care nothing for national reputation before
the world, but they arc oriEging, crawling syc-
ophants and services, who, before reSolute and
independent minds, woull do anything to Sc
cure money nrl power. They sec the South
hrm, rcsolUte aud unitcd--ihc North vasclat-
ing, undecided, yielding and divided, and like
oil weak, wicked men, they bow to the stronger
| will.
This weeping, f,thsrlcss, mothcrloss boy, was
sold to Georgia slave trader by consent of the
churches aud politicians of the North. That
sale was fraction of the price they pay for
union and fraternity with SHAREHOLDERS, and
slave breeders, aud slave traders.
DR.. Bailey deprccalcs the action of some
Congrcssmcn, whose laccratcd humanity indu-
ccs thcm to threaten to vote against. supplies
to the District while this traffic continues
Pray Dr., don't dash out the newborn resolu.
ton of these men. Let them cultivate it
little. There is no danger to,ycur present sup
plies on this score. We wish there was. Ar
IDENTIFY do we wish there was manhood enough
in Congress for such resolution and.for en-.
forcing it. That from this hour, Giddings, and
Sumner, and Chase, and Hale, and whoever
has humanity enough to avow themselves anti.
slavery, would resolve never to vote one red |
cent for capitol extension, or any other i'm
rrovement, till this infamous system of slave
,.ading and slaycholding was blottcd from the
District Compelling those Congressional spec
ulators in human bodies and human minds, |
who, in tho intervals Of their bombastic apos-
trophies to liberty in the Halls of Congress, arc |
seeking out cheap and valuable human stock |
for their Southern plantations, TO go elsewhere |
for their purchases. Let every slave maid and |
man brought there for personal convenience or
uggrGndi2cmcni, be pronounced free, tho mo-
mcnt they arc brought within tho District
Yes let Congress impart to at least five square
miles Of our immense territory, that magic,
transforming power which, pertains to British
soil. Power by its touch to transmute proper
IS to humaity--slavery to freedom. This they
they may do without higher law interference.
We are not vcrscd in Constitutional law, but
to the best Of our knowledge. even the Const-
tuition, the great authority for slave catching
and slave delivery in tic states, has no word to
enforce such infamous deeds in the District.
Congress has supreme power there, and if
northren picty, politics and wealth would say
it, there might be ono little spot of " free soil"
in our vast territory. Free Soilers and all others
a luyp farrntfan this t,oi.t of lat
call upon them TO consider and press it again.
True, it would be but as the small dust of the
balance compared with what should be DONE
Perhaps no slave would be omancipa,ed there
by, buta Mne patch Of soil would be, and that
would be something. What would be more, it
would be dawning act of sclf.respcct and
resolution, full of hope and promise. True, it
would be tho first in our history on this sub
jcct, and one, therefore, that would make the
South to quake aud the rest Of the world to
stare.
We end rs we began, by saying to the peo-
| of the North, You are 10 do this. If it is not
done, you are tho responsible and tho guilty.
You are responsible for every slave bought or
held in slavery. Tho social power is with you,
TO abolish it, the CONSTITUTIONAL, legislative right
is vested in your numerical majority to do it.
Your cowordly, compromising consent to the
wrong for the sake of appropriations Of one
sort or another, is all that prevents.
|
President FmLMonE, has been constituted
life member Of the American Colonization
Society. by donation of $1,000, contributed
by Office holders and others at Washington.
Tho President very gratefully acknowledges
the honor done him. lie could have become a