Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-01
OPINION IN NEW-ORLEANs.

Although Ncw-orleans is the emporium Of an
immense traffic in Slaves well as Slave Products,
and the headquarters of the Fillibuster machina-
tions against Cuba yet its People and Press have
maintained decided and creditable attitude of
resistance to the violation of the Missouri Compro
mise. We are assured that tlls is partly due to
the influence Of the great Sug,. Planters, veal
thy and intelligent class, who do not see how their
interests are to lie promoted by the conquest Of
Cuba, when that will inevitably subject them to
competition in our own markets with the Sugar Of
Cuba, which now pays thirty per cent duty, and
then would pay nothing. Even the Africaniza-
tion Of Cuba" has no tcrrors for them since they
argue that the negroes, once cmancipated would
find employment Tor idlcness) more agreeable than
working i'll cane-felds or boiling-houses so that
Cuba would cease to export Sugar largely, as Hay
ii and Jamaica have already done, giving the Lou
lslanianS great chance Hence the Sugar-grOw
ers of Louisiana refuse to contribute to the Fill
buster fund, being quite willing to see "the Afr-
canizaton Of Cuba" take place, if it shall serve to
quicken their demand for and enhance the price of
their staple.
But the New Orleans Press opposes the schemes
of the Slavery Propaganda respecting Kansas and
Nebraska on broader grounds than this. 1t recog-
uizes the binding obligation OF compacts ana asks
how the South is to enforce such stipuatons as
favor her institutions if she repudates at the first
opportunity, those which favor Freedom. They
! regard the Nebraska triumph as essentially futile
and barren, looking in the wrong direction, and
endeayorng to force Slavery into region which
Nature has designed for Free Labor. Says Tile
Daily Crescent: m:-Ii1baae.
"What, we ask, are the fruits? Dissatisfaction
grief distrust, Indignation, and loss of confidence
in Southern honor throughout half the States of
! he contedcracy. =
But amid our profound modification that a
measure should have been forced down the throats
| of large portion of the confederacy, which, at
| the same time, its friends admit to be matter of
no practical utiity-thus insulting and bullying
the North to no purpose-stlll, we say, that we
derive consolation from the reflection that the
Nebraska bill has killed off, politically, beyond the
hope of resurrection, n dangerous agitator and Il
reckless, mprincipled and intriguing demagogue." F"
Tie True Delta speaks in even freer strain of
the present relations between the Free and the
| Slave States, and Of the influence thereon Of the
recent repudiatiOn of the Missouri Compact Hear
! its comments on the
"RIoTs IN BosToN-If order has not yet been
proclaimed in Boston, there is fair prospect Of
its soon being the display of military force and
resolution on the part OF those charged with main
tanning the supremacy of the laws having exercised
a salutary influence on tho noisy, turbulent and
seditious of the population. Blood however, has
been shed--the blood of citizen slain in the exc
cution of his duty-a duty very likely to have been
reluctantly performed, few persons can be found
ready and willing to undertake anything which is
so distasteful to the vasi majority Of their fellow
citizens the apprehension of fugitive slaves
manifestly is throughout the Free States. We
have never supposed it an impossible undertaking
to carry out the Fugitive Slave Law in Massachus-
etts or elsewhere we cannot permit ourselves to
believe that the day is near when open opposition
to the law and defiance of its officers can be sue
| cessfuly preached or practced in any section of
the Union upon any subject; still, the scenes that
have been witnessed in Massachusetts, New \ ork
and Pennsylvania, since the passage Of the Fugi-
tiva / and cubsnnunntlv whom M 10
to enforce it have been made III those States make
one regret that some other mode Of indemnifying
those whose property is lost to them on escaping
to those States was not adopted. When the Com
promise measures were before Congress, and when
this Fugitive Slave Law was under debate, we eX-
pressed our fears for its efficient enforcement un-
less accompanied by such violence, disturbance and
outrage as has characterized tho apprehension oil
the slave Burns, III Boston. Neither could we re-
gard the law as beneficial to the owners of slave
property, inasmuch as it has appeared to us certain
and experience has fully confirmed the correct
ness of our views-that the expense attending the
reclamation of fugitive, putting personal risk out
, Of sight, would, in almost every case, greatly ex
ceed the value of the slave recovered and, save il
the matter of feeling, there could not be single
advantage secured to the South,
"Instead of the Fugitive Slave Law, We, at the
period to which we refer, advocated plan of home
valuation, to be &xed in the Federal Courts of thu
State whence slare property had been abducted
t by an amicable suit, in which the rights of th'
claimants for indemnifcation would be traverseC
by the law officers of the Government, and, in til,
event of their substantiation, the liquidation o
t them by drafts on the National Treasury.
t "This idea, greatly simplifed and improved
] was embodied in resolution, and was, we think
offered as a substitute for the Fugitive Slave Law
4 in the Compromise by Senator from MARYLAND
Uut on division found only eighteen supporters
: every SenatC from the free States opposing it
y adoption. Thati it was not entirely unobiecton
9 we are willing to admit; but neither can be an,
measure, in point of fact, that may be framed L
meet the requirements of justice and the Constitu
ton of the United States in relation to this mos
t delicate and most embarrassing subject. 1t had