Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-15


which my colleague refers, but welcome any in
terrhpt;oh trbn him,
The Secretary rtdu rs fO'lo%s
Among other subjects Of disbu6 With the Brit
! ish Government and its officers, was mon,
creditnbln to Massachusetts, than even her magnaI
imous cocnern for the liberty OF lisr citizens ait
their iclow-c Jl0nists Negro. slavery still subsis
I'd in every one of tho American provinces, am
/ the unhappy victims of this yoke were rapid!
multiplied by the progressive extension of th'
slave trade Georgia; the youngest bf ill thu
States, contained already fourteen thohsand he
groes and in the c5hrse Of the pftstht year aione
more than six thotsand werB ltpdtted into Souti
Carolina. I'm New England the nhlnber of slave
was very insiehihcdht dnd their treambht SO mile
! and humane as in some measure to veil froii tht
public eve the niquity of their bondage. hut, tn.
recent discussions with rtgtr1 TO liberty and tho
rights of human nature, were calculator to awaken
in generous minds iustcr impression 2t negro
slavery: and during the latter part OF Cover or
Bernard's administration, bill prohibitory of nll
traffic in negroes was passed Ly the Massachusetts
Assembly Bernard. however, in conformity v i'm
his instructions from tire Grown. refused to affirm
tas law ; and thus opposed himself to the virtue
as well as to the liberty of the people whom he
governed.
ION three subsequent occasions laws atiolishir 9
the slave trade passed by the same Assembly
during Hutchinson S administration but all were
in like manner ncgatived by the Governor. Ard
! yet it was at this very period when Britain pCr-
mtted her merchants annually TO make slaves OF
more than fifty thousand men, and refused to per
nit her colonies to decline participation in this
injustice, that her oratorsj poetsi and stutcsmer
loudly celebrate the generosity of English virtuC
in suffering no slaves to exist on English ground
and the transccndcnt equity Of her judicial tribr
nails in lberating one negro who had been carried
! there. Though Massachusetts thus prevented
from abolshing the slave trade the relative discus
s;n ,o l,y
tive of good. 4 great auitlioration became visible
in the condition of all the negroes III the province
and most of the prOprlerors gave liberty TO then
slaves. This inst actiOn-for such and SUCH only
it DESERVES to b6 tcrmed--has obtained hitherto
scarcely any notice from mankind while The sui
sequcnt and sintilhr conduct of the Qddk6rs in
pcnnsy ylvanid has been celebrated with warmth
and general encomium. So capriciOus is the dis
trbuton Of fame, and so much advantage does the
reputation Of virtue derive from alliance with sec:
tartan spirit and Interest," ..f ... ..
| Mr. SUMNER. | am obliged to my colleague
The extract is in substantial conformity with ccai
historic truth, which the Senator fran South Car
ona, in one Of his oratorical cffiuSes, has i'm
peached. But the venerable Senator errs yet more
| ii possible, when he attributes to savelioding
communities Il leading part in those contributions
of arms and treasure by which Independence was
secured. Here are his eYpct words, US fud then
in the Globe, revised by hinistlf:
"Sir, when blood was shed upon the plains O
, Lexington and Concord in an issue rlade by Bos
ton, to whom appeal made and from whoI
was it answered? The answer is found in til
acts of slavehUlding Statcs-animiS OpiIusque pt
rat. Yes, sir, the independence of America,
maintain republican liberty, was won by the arm
aud treasure; by the patriotism und go0d .taM {
sllyehoiding communities"
Mark the language, sir, as emphasized ,y hin
self. Surely, the Senator with his silycr-whit
locks, all fresh from the outrage of tho Nebrosl,
bill, cannot stand here and proclaim tho gao
Jah of slavchOlding communities" except in irony
les, sir in irony. And let add, that whe
this Senator prcsumes to say that American IndC
peudcnce twas won by the arms and treasure O
SiareholdMg communities" attribuling to this ele
ment any influence deserving praise and not con
; lemnation, he speaks either in irony or in ignc
rance. ...
1t should be understood that at this timc, ther
WAS but little difference in numbers between Ia
population of the southern States and that of th
northern States. BY the census OF lI90 the sov;h
ern had population of l95G,3j4 the northern
had population of l,96S ,455. But no;withstand
ing this comparative equality Of population in tn
two stctiohs the North furnished vastly more me-
than the South.
OF continental troops the southern States FL,
nishod S,A2l; the northern furnished IL, ,49G
. making about three men furnished to the Cont
, mental Army by the northern States to one frOi
the southern
OF militia. whose services are authenticated
, the War Office, the southern States iurnishc
I27l9; ttc northern furnished 4G,04S maxim
nearly four men furnished to the militia by lli
northern States to one from the southern.
. OF militia, whose services were not authent
5 Gated by the War Office but arc set down in tn
return lis tUnicctural only we have 76,SlO ful
J nishcd by the southern states, and 30oj0 ful
Inished by the northern making, under this head
$ more than t;fD iiien furnished by the southern
one FROM the norhcrn: The chief services Of til
e southern States it will be observed with smilC
o we're conjetturdl only!
$ Looking, howGter, at the sum total Of con,iner
y tai troops, authenticated militia, and coniectur;
t militia, WE have III $40 furnished ythc su,ither
States while 249, ,j03 were furnished by the nort
: ern; making 100000 men furnished 10 the war b
# the northern iiibyu THAN the southern,
+ But the disparity swelIs when we directly con
d parc South Carolina and Massachusetts, OF col
: tinenta troops, and authenticated militia and col
c iectural militia, South Carolina furnished 80, so
t while Massachusetts furnished 81, 500; making
: the latter sum total nearly three men for one fu
$ nished by South Carolina. Look, hcwever; at ii
/ continental troops ana the authenticated milit
It furnished by the two States and here YOU wi
$ find only 5,50S furnished by South Carolina, viii
+ 80 092 were furnished by Massachusetts, being 81
a teen times aa0re Han By Soiah Carolina, and mut
i more than by all Tie ?out"cyR States fogether He
h are facts and figures of which the Senator oug
not to be ignorant.
Did the occasion require, might 60 further an
: miputcly portray the imbecility of the southel
States and particularly of South Carolina, in Il
i war of the Revolution, as compared with the no
e thern States This is snd chapter Of histor
upon which l unwilingly dwell. Faithful anna
u record that rs early as l77S, the six South Car
lima regiments. composing, with the Georgia reg
u ment the regular fotcs Of the southern department
e did not in tho whole muster above eight hundrC
y mon nor was it possible to iup their ranks. d
u ring the succeeding year the Governor Of Sou
n Carolina, pressed by the British forces, offered
L s;ipulatc the neutrality Of his State during the wa
5; leaving it to be decided at the peace to whom
ID should belong-a preinonitory symptom of the S
'e cesson proposed in our own day! At last aft
the fatal field of Camden, no organized Amerc,
N force was left in this region. The three southe
y, States--dnmis opitusqe pdrdt', according to-
le vaunt of the Senator--had not single battaili
in the field During all this period the men
H. Massachusetts, were serving their country not