Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-02

Adams's plan. at is deeply affecting to hear tho
slaves give thanks in their prayers'-in presence
IF a ,chite supervisor, rdhont rhom they are mol al
orcd 10 hoid aty reiigiois n'ceingS--"they have
not been LEI, like the heather who know no God,
but are raised, MS it were, to heaven in their Chris
tian privileges" Up. 500.
lie does not shrink from making this frank nd-
mission H.. 34l. Life ON the cotton plantation
is, in general, as Scrre with the colorcd people as
agricultural life at the North" And what gives
to plantation life this measure Of severity is ''tho
continuity IF tabor from February to the last part
of December" We have no doubt Of it.
"ProInbly every Northerncr feels, on seeing
the negro Cabins, that he could make them dppdr-
entity more comfortable on almost every planta-
tom Up. 80. And agaiu-'the cabins tuW strike
every one disagreeably at FIRST" This also may
safely be admitted.
ut is well for themselves that the blacks do
not have temptations which the liberty of testi-
fying against the whites would give them ~. 40).
Our readers will recollect that slave church mem
bers are no more allowed to testify against white
men before a church than before a court, and that
Southern Ministers have very strenuously resisted
the admission of such tcstimony-perhaps mind
full of the temptation their female slaves would
have to testify against them.
Reader, have you any prejudices in favor Of
trial by Jury, or OF an accused person having
counsel, and a trial, before he is punished? Mcdi-
tate on the following Up. Al and be instructed.
"Prevention Of crime among the lower class Of
society is one striking feature of slavery. Day
and night, every one Of them is amenable Ito II
master. If ill-disposed, he has his own policeman
in his owner. Thus three millions Of the laboring
class of or population are in q condition most
favorable to preservation from crimes against
society" This explains the fact that thieving is
never practised by slaves. Now, hear the Doctors
practical interference from his statement above.
at would be a benefit to some of our immigrants
at the North, and to society, if government could
Thus prevent or reach disturbances of the peace
hrouqh masters, orerSee,S, or guardians" And
now hear his limitations "B t VIC cannot rival
in our police measures the beneficial system of the
South, its distributiye agencies to prevent bur-
glary and arson"
Our last quotations occur in the book under tho
general heading, Favorable appearances in South
ern socity, and in slavery" Here is another OF
them (p. Az. 'Pauperism is prevented by sla-
very" This reminds lone of the infalliblc means
of preventing hydrophobia in a dog, namely, to
cut his tail of close behind his ears. But the au-
thor proceeds to a minuter specification of the adj
vantages of the slave. Gle cannot be thrust into
= an alns.housG'-a blessing which he shares with
the entire population of Africa, China, lIindostan
Terra del Fuego-"he cannot become q vagra t.
D because the bloodhounds would be after him
."he cannot beg his living'-becausc there is no
n%utriment in kicks or cowhides.
The last section of the same chapter is entitled,
Religious instruction." After telling us that
, " Religion has gained wonderful ascendancy
f among this people" DR.. Adams describes one Of
) their PRAYER meetings. "a uhite brother presided,
L as me luC requires, ana feaQ Il portion OF scripture,
but the slaves conducted the meeting. 1t was
e touching to hear one man say" lin presence of
: the white spy above mentioned, who was there
expressly to see that their religion had no inter-
mixture Of liberty, BLESS our dear masters and
brothers, who come here to read the Bible to us,
and pay so mUcR attention 10 u.s." The reverend
! observer then proceeds to remark, with an air of
( neither knowing nor suspecting the cause of the
reserve lie mentions. II never perceived in their
prayers anything that reminded me of their con-
. A.. 90 - -l,-g, HIa.- III iI.-
4, rows but those which are spiritual"
DIR. Adams is so delighted with the beneficial
spiritual results Of forhiddiag the slaves to learn
to read, that he recommends a similar course to
t foreign missionaries. The acquaintance Of the
= slaves with the Word of God, TO a great extent,
through oral instruction yet, in all that constitutes
Christian excellence, and that knowledge of God,
D which comes directly from him, they have no
: superiors. 1t is an encouragement to all mission
= aries among the heather not to make literature
6 or theoretical instruction, even il religion, take
precedence of simply preaching" p.57).
: Does any tender conscience, still question the
S propriety, of a law forbidding three millions of
! immortal beings to read the Bible? DR.. Adams
+ promptly reiieres him with the information that
the laws forbidding their being publicly taught
I to read are retained in order to be used against
C those who teach them from motices Of interference.
But these laws, so far as they restrict the liberty of
the citizens in giving instruction, are privately dis
j regarded" Up. 56l. Yes, Mrs. Margaret Douglass,
~ " Ni4SllldI ulNlNSdlucu ibh IiNS, LII MAS inca
i and imprisoned for it. But, reader, only think of
n Mr.. Peasc's ragged school in New York, or Mr..
Barnard's in Boston, being prohibited by law,
for fear the Ignorant should be taught from mo-
G tives of Interference; and then imagine an ortho-
$ dox clergyman supporting the prohibition
o 1t would be unjust, both to our readers and to
DR.. Adams, to pass over his repeated suggestions
for the revival Of the foreign slave trade. He saws
I (p. llS), after the strongest eulOgy of the Colo
o nization Society, such have been the mar
4 velous acts Of Divine grace to the Africans, in
. bringing them through the cupidity and sinfulness
|" of men, to this country, and saving a great multi
tude OF them, that it requires neither strong faith
nor fancy to suppose that this work might still 90
on in the form OF Interchange Of tie blacks Getreen
4tT'ca and The Southern States. And again (p. 207)
Gould villages and tribes of Africans be 6y ami
means induced to ~emigrate to this land, and be
placed Under the influence chich tie slares enjoy, Eth
h opia would stretch out her hands to God sooner
than the most sanguine interpreters Of prophecy
+ now dare to hope"
a strong feeling against slavery exists among
e n certain proportion of people throughout the
North these form by no means the majority in
t New England, and they are a very small minority
in Boston, else DR.. Adams's book would never
have been written. Undoubtedly, however, he
d sees and talks with more or fewer of these. Is it
S from a touch of fanaticism, unconsciously caught
from them, or from q supposed sad necessity, as
o the ship-master throws over some of his cargo in
s a storm, Or as the cautious lawyer abandons GER
tain points of advantage which his client would
& tam retain, that our worthy divine makes the fol-
o lowing exceptions to his proposed continuance of
d slavery?
( ALLOWING the blacks to be necessarily a serving
1t class, why not always give them a voice in chang
e ing those relations % Up. 75.)
= at would be we'll if some men, aud women too,
~ could be debarred by law from having authority
e over a human being" (p. 02.)
10 proper defences for free colored citizens must
be secured" Up. 1867.
d "Fraudulent as we declare the Nebraska measure
r to have been" Up. l27), &c, &c.
These, and a few such other insinuatcd ~interfer-
ences with their business and imputations upon
n their characters, must grieve the righteous souls
of DIR. Adams's beloved white Christian brethren