Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-08
From the Charleston Standard.
REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

We took occasion to notice few days since the
resolution reported by Mr.. Slidell, from the COM
mittce On Foreign Relations, proposing to give
England and France notice of the abrogaton Of
the treaty stipulations by which we are bound to
keep naval force upon the African coast for the
suppression cf the slave trade We stated then our
appreciation OF this measure, from the conviction
that it is to country, destructive to our
seamen engaged in this service, and utterly inci-
ci2nt fol the purposes intended We also approve
it for another reason, which will state with per-
feet frankness to the people of this country. We
have no sympathy in the purpose of this conyeu-
ton, and no wish for success, and We think the
time has come to speak out upon the subject. 10
practice slavery and yet suppress the slave trade
to contend that slavery is of advantage to the
races which concur in its existence, and yet resistS
the efforts by which the advantage is cXtondcd-to
urge that the union Of unequal races is necessary
to the progress of human society, and yet resist
the means by which that union is efected, is con-
tradiction which human ingenuity can never re-
cOncilc; and yet to such contradiction the south
ern section of this country is compelled in every
etLrt which looks to the discountenance and dis
couragement Of the traffic with the coast OF Africa
by which the limits of this institution are extend
| That there is no n,orol wrong in Slavery is the
assumption which lies at the very base OF that in
stitution. 1t is the principle upon which we usti
fly its practice. 1t is the principle we establish
when we show that both races are better under the
influence of this institution than they without,
and il fact, the intelligent Inind Of the South is
fast approaching the conclusion that Slayery--the
union Of the unequal system--s the normal condi-
ton Of human society tits fast becoming the belief
that to advance, society must be composed of two
classes-that one to direct, and the other to labor
and that to the permanence of society in posi-
tions of advancement, there must be a division in
numbers; and not that division simply which
springs from the necessities of the case where one
part is held above its natural postior by the ac-
cident Of wealth, where the other lis depressed be-
low its natural level by the accident of its absence
but division which is natural, and which neces-
sary results from the inequality between the races
which are brought together. In this belief We
heartily concur.
The benefits and advantages which so far have
resulted from this institution, we take as lights to
guide to the brighter truths of its future history
nation On earth has been so favored as have been
the people OF these Southern States Mono has so
Increased in wealth and numbers-nono has been
so free from domestic broils and civil comnotioh.
in none has the laborirg class been so happy and
so free from physical suffering, and in none, be-
tween the higher and lower class Of society, has
there been so much Of kind feeling and so much of
mutual solicitude and dependence. To bask in
the Frightening beams of such institution, to
defend it, to praise it and pray for its continuance,
and yet contribute ships and soldiers to prevent its
extension and It's spread to others than ourselves,
is scarcely defensible upon any reasonable princi.
pie of human action.