Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-19

UP We ICd'l. IN u very fargo assembly, my "NGutCSS|
To tie SLAVES Of the United Stalcs.' This adj
dress Acknowledges slaves t. be Of the pcoul', and
OF equal rights with any other portion of the pco-
pie and ! add that it therefore made me more
enemies than any other paper ! had ever written.
stop hJtnow to justify anything in that paper.
All my reason for referring 10 it is, to say that
whether it's doctrines are true CT false, they
should. at least, serve to shield nc from the impu-
totion OF ignoring slaves, when | speak Of the
people OF Cuba, | mean, when / speak Of them, the
black. es well as the white-the bond rs well as
the free. II the poor, outraged slaves Of that is
land prefer TO Ire identified with the Institutions,
fortunes, and prospects of our country, such pre-
ference Of any other equal portion Of her people.
To say, tina! tacir ''pcpr, poor, dumb mouths arc
to be unhcclcd, and that they are to be denied an
ncxation to the people Of the United States, un-
less their Slavery is previously abolished, is as
unreasonable as TO say that the Canadians shall
not be annexed to us until the loud-monopoly,
which Expresses SO many Of them, is abolished.
: The ~calamitics Of neither the one, nor the other,
are to be allowed to work a forfeiture Of their
b. rights.
how, are the people Of Cuba, in my sense of the
word People, in favor Of uniting Cuba with our
nation II they arc, then, rdonly then, so far
as Cuba Is concerned, nm | in favor Of it. Are
TIC people q the United States in favor of it2 |
can answer Tor but enc OF them; and my answer
is, that | om. Why an |? | need not explain
= why, aside from the existence of slavery in Cuba,
s. | am in favor of thc uniun-iOr, aside from that,
who are not in favor oft? It is from my co nclu-
sion that the people of the United States should be
willing to unite with the people Of Cuba, even
though Cul'o slavery be not previously abolished,
that SO many dissent.
it IS not because geographical, and commercial,
and various kindred considerations do so loudly
call for the blending Of Cuba with our country,
! that, in spite Of my being an Aboliliouist, | go for
1t. 1t is because / am an Abolilionist, more than
because Ian anything else, that | desire this blend
. ing
e With the slaves Of no part OF the world have !
= eympathised more deeply than with the slaves Of
: Cuba-ior there is the rruel,ost and most b%rutify-
ing OF all the types OF bondage. Practically,
. American Slavery IS MT - bad as Spanish :
= though in theory. it Is moro absolute and abomina-
hIc than any other. Happily for its victims.
American Slavery encounters, and is most modif-
ed by a higher civilization than that which prevades
V the dOminions Of Spain, ana rGjoices in bull fights.
y As an abolitiOnist then. and as ono who feels pity
= for every slave. / should he clad to see the condi-
, ton of the slaves of Cuba bct,cred bv the suhsti-
! ton Of American usarcq and American influences
for Spanish usarcs and SPANISH Influences. And
who knows but Ana,i6aa laws in regurd to
. Slavery will. ere long. he "~rirlily iu,erGreted p
y The hope Though not etronr) that they may be-.
and the fact that hereby American slavery would
be short lived" did somewhat encourage me, as
u the reader of bc.spcecli in question has seen. "to
: risk the ,ubiortion' of Cuban slavery to q common
Q fate with our owu.r
Again. as an ALalitianist. | desire the annexa-
I ton of Cuba TO our ceurtry. because th,t would
D end the connection Of Cuba' with the African slave
= trade, and would, also 90 far to end that trade
I everywhere. / do not FORGET tie charge that the
American shareholders are in favor O? rc.oncnipo
Q .hat trade with this country. But know. that
e The charnc is nonsensical. Not only does their in
Itrrcsts forbid il but do them ilsticc when I saw
: that their civilization forbids it. They have out
$ crown the boIlarism Of thc African .loyo trade.
( Nav thew srccdily ontrrov other harbarisms which
. fall bat iiuie short of Il.
Isaid, that. for having made the spcoch referred
y to-I mean my speech on the Mexican Treaty.
Il the rewSpapcrs have called me n "flibustcr."
1 They have called me 'pro-slayery" also. But if
r. to be in favor of annoyinr Cuhn TO ournotion makes
me "rro-slaycrv." thcn | have been .pro.slayerv"
+ for wears. rs those Of Won know. who. for wears.
+ have heard nc sneak in favor Of it. readily
iadmit. thatiG ! stood on the platform. occunied by
f many nnti-slaycry mcn. and had 4 creed made mn
Of nothing else Tran no mClc slave territory" ]
Il should deserve to be stigmatized as ''pro-slavcrv."
: conscntinc to have Cuba come with her slavery
t into our Iation-for then, according to my own
= reed. ! should he "prosiayery." But thank God.
- tha! lie has not left ne to take NY stand on that
h narrow Platform, nor on any other like it. NV
d antislaf"ry creed recognizes 10 law, anywhere,
t for the hi.hcst POSSIBLE crime against the interests.
lud riLh.s. and nature Of man. In other words, !
"a know 10 law for he Slavery. which exists, in any
& Of tie present, or which shall exist. in nny Of the
e future, territory Of this nation-no law for the en-
l. slavcncnt of any one. either in Cuba or Amcrico.
= | care not what Statusc-boo%s. or even Constitu-
I tons, may say to the contrary. To every man.
who has 4 soul in hin-,o every man. That is a
+ man-truth and honesty are infinitely more au-
Il tloritaive than Statute-booEs and Constitutions :
5 and, by nil that is precious in truth and honesty, |
. will never enforce as law. nor even know as law.
+ against another, thpt which. if applied to myself,
+ all that is wi,Ain lie would sc6rn and scout rs
; law.
] The apprehension that American Slavery would
be made strong and enduring by the accession of
| Cuban Slavery, is not we'll founded. Such a new
: element in our slavery might, for various reasons,
l contribute very effectively to work the ruin of the
whoie. But, however this may be, who that de-
Il 9ires the overthrow of American Slavery does not
Il rejoice that France and England and other nations
s have, in cur day, rid themselves of Slavery, and
i tlieless none the less efec,uallv. araiust American