Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-11

No wonder the extreme southerners propose to
rcinstate the African slave trade by law. If the
domestic slave trade is acquiesced in and sustained
az now, they have argument and consistency on
their side. This is one Of the issues that will be
met and settled if the party, calling itself 'tho
party OF freedom" is mt all worthy Of its name.
1t will abolish the domestic slave trado--putit and
the foreign on the same level in guilt and punish
ment.
The Tribune states the case well. 1t says:
The United States Circuit Court, before Judge
Nelson, is occupied with a case of slave-trade pi-
racy, the proceedings in which are this morning
re pUrted in our columns. James Smith, late
captain Of the brig Julia Moulton, of New York
is indicted for having, on the first of May, pratt
cally and forcibly confined and detained five hun.
dred negroes on board that vessel, for the pur-
pose Of making slaves of them. said negroes not
having been held to service by the laws of either
the States or Territories of the United States,
and the said vessel being n~avigated for, and on
behalf of, n citizen, or citizens of the United
States. The punishment, on conviction for this
crime, is death.
The enlightened and benign minds of tb;,
country must marvel at the law which draws the
distinction between the foreign and domestic
In vc-trade. making the one punishable with
death, and the other the highest pursuit. of nc
" impersonation of the high-born aristocrat.J-
This Captain of the Julia Moulton will, let us
suppose, be hanged, if convicted, for simplv do;no
what is openly advocated by some southern nolS,
ticians It's n right of the South-the ripbt of Got
ting negroes direct FROM africa at slO6 a niece in
stcau ol nAy.-s me dealers in the internal trade
II GOO. Well may tley demonstrate against the
mona POLY OF tie slave-breeding States, and tho
opposition, if Slavery be allowed to exist. of re-
aIrlctlng the blessing to the propagation of the
negro race in this countrywide slow for Cauca-
sian nYaricc and cruelty. and affording an article
too dear for the possession of the vast majority of
the southern people, not one in twenty of whom
can now be slave owners, through sheer poverty.
The tendencies of the American reople must
either be one way or the other--to restrict
Slavery so that it die out, or to throw wide open
our ports to it direct with Africa-tbe more.
especially as the F." horrors of the middle PASS
. age arc, according to the author of Thirty
" Years Of the Slave Trade" a fiction. and tbe
transfer of the teeming myriads not connected
with any increased cruelty over their normal
condition. 1t may occur to some that the citi.
zens OF the South should not feel complimented
by the pa ade of such facts, that they treat .beir
slaves IN fact better than the cannibals of the in
terlor OF Africa; but us they pride themselves
upon this through their chief political organs. we
feel at liberty tcmcltiCn the circumstances as n
sad evidence OF how blunted the perceptions of
a whole people may become on the SIMPLEST do.
tails OF the moral law. 1t used to be considered
a matter of course that the greater freedom of
tins country rendered comparisons on the rela-
tive effects of our political system even with those
of European Governments quite unnecessary, and
not eompl;mental, the gain being so vastly in
our favor but the desperate mode of dofensc rc-
sorted to by the Pro.Slavery party, induces tbcm
to vaunt human bondage in this country because
he masters do not literally sacrifice the slaves to
Internal gods and eat their carcascs at grand fes-
tloals. We willingly award to the South the en-.
tire benefit OF such superiOrits, without altering
our opinion Of slavery as the sum of all iuiunitiee'
and without seeing the abstract Justice of hanging
Capt. Smith for dealing in African nirgers.
while the Judges and Governors, who only sell their
own mulatto children cr brothers, are looked I'M To
us models Of every social virtue.