Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-11
.ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
QUESTIONS ON SLAVE AND FREE PRO.
. .1lIlIlI DUCE.
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Enron OF THE BuGLE: In the Bugle Of Deccm-
her 18th, 1858, is communication headed, Ger
rit Smith-A Correction" And signed by Joseph
Treat. In which the author says; 81 wish TO cor
rect an error ia recent iettey of Gerrit Smiths,
which says, Il and my family have rcfrained for
twenty years, from slave produce It is one Of the
ways by which, under God, am able to maintain
my ant-slavery principles. ,"
Again the author says at the conclusion, "the
friends of free produce will like to ask me some
questions which would like to answer, but my
health and duties will not permit.
being friend TO free produce, have taken
this method to ask some questions, hoping Joseph
or some one, whose "health and duties will per-
nit, i" will answer them in the truth; As Joseph
says that is good enough for him. Now tho
Questions. Slavery has one feature which no 9th
er system of oppression has be it ever so oppress
i've: 1t makes nun a piece of merchandise; he Is
slave, and all things produced by his labor is
Slave Produce.
Question, lst: Is there any other Slave Pro-
ducc.
Joseph also says: al think our brother Gerrit
is mistaken. Sugar, Molasses, Rice and Cotton
are little to the point. But it looks to me, that
they arc much to the point, because, they form
considerable part Of the products Of the labor
Of Slaves, held at the present day, and arc the on
ly products rcfraining from which, will affect the
Interests of Saveholdiug, and abstinence from
which is necessary for the overthrow Of Slavery
while they are appealing to US in the language OF
their fellow sufferers Of generations gone by, to
the non-slayeholdcrs of their day, and saying go
no, t,av
cease to traffic in the souls Of men.
2nd. If those of that generation to whom this
appeal was first made, had refused to purchase Of
the masters, any thing produced by their slaves,
would il not have caused their Liberation; and
would not such refraining from slave productions
have the same effect whenever practically adhered
to by any People?
3rd. viii rcfraining from the products Of
the labor of Slaves Of former generations have any
tendency to the overthrow of Slavery while we
continue to purchase of the masters and freely
the product. of the labor of the slaves of the
ent day?
4th. If all those who own no slaves, would ut
terly refuse, whatever is being produced by slaves
Of the present day. without any regard to the pro-
ductons of former generations J would not the
STAKEHOLDER let 60 his victims?
Joseph further says: "no man lives an hour
eats, drinks, sleeps, prays, dresses builds,
buys nor sells no man becomes q Christian, serves
temperance, hates slavery, does any other good
thing no man drinks in the air of heaven, even to
drawing his first breath when he comes into the
world, or expiring his last when he goes out of it
no man does any one of all these except as he is
nurturcd and nourished by slave produce; in it We
live and move and have our being"
5th. viii the products Of thcla labor ofslaves sup
port them and their masters, without an addition
al supply taken from free labor productions: Ant
has it done it in the United States?
9th. Can not the free non-slaveholding popula
ton of the world support themselves by their pro
ductions and can they not do it, in these UniteC
States?
7th Is not free labor more productive according
to the number of aborers than slave labor; an'
are there not more free than slave laborcrs
Sth. Is it correct to say that mo man lives Al
hour, &c, exceptas he is nurtured and nourishe'
by slave produce?
9th. Would it not be nearer the truth to say
that mankind live, nourished and nurture
much more by free than by slave produce?
10th. Is it true that amy man prays as II
ought or "becomes Christian, loves temperance
hates slavery or does any other good thing" b
subsisting on the slaves productions!
llth. Would it not be more true, to say tha
,mankind by coveting, purchasing, or using 10
their own support qualification; the product
of slave labor are thereby obstructing free labo
which is much moro productive, and preparin
themselves to become prayerless aud Anti-Chri
tian, to hate temperance love slavery, and do ever
evil and wicked workS
18th As the Author signs himself in his cl'
sing sentence "yours for the heaven or earthwhe
we shall all live on free labor" wish to kno'
when and where that can be if "no man draw
one breath, nor lives an hour, except as he is nu
tured and nourshed by slave producer"
.4T CORNELIUS WHlTACRE.