Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-21
MONEY MAKING BY THE KANSAS BILL.

By the following from the St. Louis Intelligent
Ger, it seems Douglas had no reason for fear that he
was serving slavery for naught, wien he pushed
the kansas-Ne braSka bill through. Quite d clttcr
speculation he made, if our St. Louis Editors fig
are right:
But there will he much tina and money lost in
making this experiment Jf trying the adaptation
of Kansas to human Slavery and while this expcr-
imemt is going on the owners Of slaves in the
South will umquestiunably be much protited by
the Douglas Nebraska bill. For instance, take
Mr.. Stephen A.. Douglas himself. He married q
southern plantation well stocked with negroes.
Report has it that he owns two hundred hands, or
two hundred persons, counting men, women and
children. We'll, by opening Kansas to slavery, a
demand is created for slaves TO fill the vacuem of
such property in Kansas. BY increasing the de-
mand for an article the price is raised. So that q
women ON Mr.. Douglass plantation that he could
not have sold for over $500 before the bill was
passed, he may he able to get 500 for from some
planter who wishes to %cmigr;tte to Kansas, especi.
ally if she be il good breeder. For it is better to
raise slaves from n hearty woman il Kansas than
to import them. Those raised there will be accli-
mated and live longer. In the same way and for
the same reason, Mr.. Douglas can sell the children
un his plantation ut Letter prices since his bill was
passed than formerly. Tie younger the slave
to become hardened to the climate, and con-
tented, having no troublesome associations of
y warmor southern home to haunt them and make
them otherwise. Itmay be too high an estimate
to suppose that the increase of price for this wo-
men and children will average Mr.. Douglas as
much as | have intimatGd but if hale his slaves
ARE women and children, and their value is affect
ed to the amount Of 500 each, the Senator of L.
linois is made $4,000 richer by his Nebraska bill.
And other southern men in proportion.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says Douglas il an
extremely pious and devout man, never using u
word Of proiane language, anu having prayers in
Lis house night and morning. This is an entirely
new tack for the small giant to take. Hitherto the
communion tables at which he has sat have been iii
taverns and groceries, and the wine has had II mar.
velous smack of brandy and wliSkey. We wonder
if this holy man now has all the political meetings
at which he speaks upon the Nebraska bill opened
and closed with PRAYER. Who knows but he will
manage to enlist in his support for the next Presi-
dency the five thousand clergymen whom he de-
nouncod so ferociously in the Senate for their re-
monstrance against the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise? Isn't it very likely he may soon
eccme such a saint that he will assume, like those
five thousand preachers, to epeak in the name %
Almighty God ?"
SETTING AN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the present action
of the Nebraska bill, whether slavery gets footing
in Kansas or not, depends somewhat upon the ju-
dietary. OF course President Pierce has seen to it
that all is right in that direction. Mr.. Lecompt, a
Maryland stakeholder, has been appointed to the
Office of Chief Justice of Kansas. lie has gone
out and taken with him several of his old family
servants" Of course this is guarantee enough for
the South that their rights of slaveholding will re.
ceiye ample protection from the Kansas courts.
We have been told by the advocates of the Ne
hraska bill that the courts would decide the slave
ny question in Kansas and Nebraska according to
the established principles of law. Chief Justice
Lecompt's example of slaveholding, sufficiently
informs the nation what those principals are.
e THIS newspaper paragraph is a specimen of the
r lying nature ofslavery. He has taken his cold fam
. lily servants, as though it was only from humanity
and personal attachment that this family nroperty
was transported to Kansas. 1t may be litera,lv
true, that he has taken only this class and j. NAV
not, no matter. In either case, the statement is
made in the spirit of false,Iood. and is a sample of
the manner in which the public sentiment of the
country Is corrupted by newspaper paragraphs"
THE MINISTERS OF MIssouR.-A Kentucky cor
respondent of the National Era, says, "a pro-sla-
very teacher of christianity who has lately been in
upper Missouri, told me a few days ago that all the
preaching brethren with whom he oonversed while
there were for carrying slavery into Kansas
Such is the fruit Of what Missourians call christi
anity.
r MEssRs. CHASE AND GiDDINGs, are now both en-
r gagged in addressing audiences in Illinois. Mr..
Chase spoke in Chicago last week. He and his
speech were both honored with immense applause
t by the audience.
y The Chicago Tribune, says Large audiences
and kindly greetings will meet him wherever he
i may go"
y. The turning out of Gen, Cass, and putting up
the bars against him, by the shareholders, excites
D the ire Of his friends and the notice Of politicians
a generally.