Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-09
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An AnttSlavcry Conference has Just been held
w the great cotton capital of England, the object of
which has been to utter an indignant condemnation
Ut the great Republics most glaring evil, and, at
the same time, Indicate tho course Of economical
procedure which ought by Great Britain to be pur-
sued. Tho object aimed at is two-fold-irst, to
tell the American people, and especially the Amer
lean churches, the magnitude of their crime in re-
tanning in cruel, degrading and disgusting bondage
three and a-half millions Of their fellow humans !;
and, secondly, to stir up in this country a demand
from the Government of the United Kingdom, that
the administration of affairs in India be such rs to
develop the all but illimitablc cotton-producing
rcsousces OF that vast territory. The former Of
these methods of demonstration is intended to let
our Transatlantic cousins know that, while we adj
mire their country, their goahead freedom ms
Anglo-Saxons, their commerce, their almoat every
thing, we stand in unuttorable astonishmcnt at
their cool trampling in the dust of their African
kindred-that the more we look at their position
in respect of slavery, and especially as it minglos
in the blood of their churches, and is again shell
tered udder ecclesiastical conniyance, the more do
we deplore and dominate this most vile pollution
in the political and social fabric in the United
Statcs-and that we are resolved to let them hear
of this monster contradiction on their soil-till, by
American energies, it be lifted up and done away
forever. The latter method of aggression Is to be
by transferring gradually our dependence for cotton
supply from the Southern States of the Union to
the great plains of lIindostan and other posses
siuns Of Great Britain in the eastern hemisphere.
Now, whether feasibility lies in the British In
dian scheme, or whatever amount of exertion is de-
manded to work it out, the matter lies within our
selves. 1t is but the action of a Just and fostering
government towards the vast millions placed under
tho Crown of England that is required to urge on
the production OF tho raw material, which would
he willingly exchanged for the products OF our in
dustry and skill. In pursuing this course, we
awaken no icalosy, we inhict not even a fancicd
nfarnattnno i Tho ITn,taA EtnrJ, . q. lA.
Gifted, and the advancement of our Anglo-Indian
possessions secured, But in the course of Amcri-
can rcproof, which it is proposed to revive and car
ry on, we encounter at the outset the pride of u
great nation, and run no little risk of resentful
taurts and rccrimiuations. But let the disclosures
of Mr.. Bishop, who witnessed the slave market
in Richmond, and those of Mr.. Pillsburv, who
comes fresh from the shores of his own slavebold.
ing land, be perused, and how silence should be
maintained by human, not to say Christian, tongues
on this side the Atlantic waters, does to us seem a
marvel.
The former of these gentlemen not only witness.
cd, with all amazement and horror, the rufian auc.
tioncer and the callous dealers in human flesh,
handling with revolving and shameless familiarity
the poor crouching victims of their %cupidity, but
the tearing asunder of the most sacred ties. The
mother and her children weeping and clinging to
each other-separated-torn asunder rs if there
had been nc more humanity in the case than in the
separation of a butchers herd. And the scenes
thus witnessed were not the accidental far-betwcer
instances Of occasional evil, but the daily return
ing traffic of Columbia's human shambles NJ
wonder Mr.. Bishop felt the boiling tide of indigna
ton almost to much to restrain. 1t was the ma
tive movement of unbribed humanity. 1t was thu
homage of British freedom to the eternal laws
which rule the moral universe. And but for thu
dcbAsing influence of familiarity with great crimes
there was not a heart on the soil of Virginia, which
if brought into contact with the vile vissage of sla
very for the first time, and fresh from the genuine
power of Christian principles, but would have
cursed the unutterable evil thus daily enacted in
the s~laye-market of the South. 1t requires the
contract of incessant usage to blunt the sense oil
the diabolical wrong inflicted by slavery and how
terrible must the deadening process be, when
Christian men and Christian ministers can stand
by, in all meekness and gentleness, without a shout
of Indignation as Gods redeemed creatures are
made the sport and butt, and vile commodity OF
n drunken auctioneer! Mr.. Pilisbury's reference
to the tutoring which the aboriginal tribes-Choc
taws, Cherokees, and so forth-havc received al
the hands of their republican protectors, sets forth
the hagrancy of American slayeholding in char
acteristic colors. These Indian imitators of the
white man have passed laws analogous to those
which obtain in the slave-holding States. 10
teaching for the slave; no shelter for the runaway
slave, no morcy to African flesh. Setting up a
government for themselves, these tribes of the far
West join hand in hand with the hoartlcss spolia.
tors, who hold in bondage the woolly-headcd Indi-
ans of another cline. So that the red men of the
forest and the prairie are laugh. to spurn and tread
in the dust the poor children Of Ethiopia. And,
coupling with these signs of the Shareholders
might, the passage of the Nebraska Bill, we can
scarcely wonder that the darkest and most indig.
nant apprehensions arise as to the foul evil which
taints the political action of the federal Union
No wonder that such a conference was held no
wonder that such resolutions were passed and nc
wonder that smch earnest expOstulutions were
emitted by the various speakers who drew atten-
ton to Americas wrong inflicted ON her three mil
lions of slaves.
But prudence, and political s~agacity, and non
interference Of other States, and a thousand other
lazy, temporising shams will arise and attempt tc
choke the utterance of right. Look at home your
own drunkenness, starving needle-women, and
prowling, sewage, untaught myriads-attend tt
these-rem0ve your own letters, set your own so
eiai and political fabric Alright, and then look Owe
the waters. No doubt our dclinquencies are man,
and grave, and the work to be done in all our grea
towns sufficiently appalling. To that work W
urge attention. But with all our poverties, vice
ignorance, crime, and other evils, there is not any
thing on the earth sanctioned by public law, pre-
tectcd by public opinion, and smiled on by tn
teachers of the christian faith, that for a momef
stands parallel with a Virginia slave mart. Her
it is that Jonathan stands without q peer. Th
Moloch of Richmond slave-dealing, as being
Christian Moloch, beats all creation Eng. Tape
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