Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-25
THE SHAME AND DISGRACE OF AMERICA

The principle of Liberty is rs old as the universe
and as sacred as Divine truth. All that is dear
and great in this world all that faith promises IL
sell Of blessedness in the next world, is identified
with it. Liberty lost, and man is no longer an
evidence of being the noblcst work of his Creator
SO said the inspiration of the poet more than three
thousand years ago; so says every lyrical or in
splred tongue at this moment, and so will il ever
say. But this principle is denied to more than
three million human beings in this country, which
prctends to be the model republic, the asylum Of
the oppressed, the harbinger of n moral and mate
rial triumph yet unknown to history.
As painfully as we are impressed with the deep
and barbarous wrongs attending the ordinary
manifestations of Slavery, every now and then
some single Incident turns up which makes the
system appear yet more inhuman, dcmoralizing
and shameless. This NAV be the account of some
cruelty-somc lashing, burning-some hel-throe
Of the kind which Legree or other olgarch OF
the South intlicts on his mechanics and laborers
whose skins are of African tinge, or, If as white
as their master, Of an outlawed blood We believe,
indeed, all these chivalric-drawn distinctions of
color to be ie--a lie deep rs cruelty and decep-
ton could utter When mulatto child is born,
and then still further the blood is diluted through
successive generations, until the expert alone can
tell the difference between the mixed blood and
the pure-and the FIRE, and ambition, and intellect
OF three or four white ancestors course in the veins
of their descendant--and then that victim of con
one master to another it is false to say that the
same sort Of democrats who buy and sell such
human being, would not buy and sell one another
if they could. The Grecian gentleman did SO
the Roman gentleman did so, and the gentleman
Of medieval Europe did so; all blessed with let
ters and arts with the poetry Of Homer the stat
uary Of Phidais, the mathematics of Euclid, the
architecture Of Emmanuel Steinbach. 1t is moi
mere culture which elevates man. There is some
thing higher than that. 1t is sentiment of just
ice, Of the value of the golden rule, Of the broth
erhood of humanity.
! OF the kind Of incidents which startle the mind
with fresh sense of the enOrmiy of Slavery, take
the following handbill, of kind which we suppose
I to be no rarity, at least in the more southern
Slave States. 1t has been forwarded to us by a
correspondent, and is strictly authentic;
"NEGRo DOGS.
"The undersigned respectfully informs his
friends and the public generally, that he has taken
charge of Ruff Perry's celebrated PACK OF Ne
IGRO DOGS for the present year, and will give
his undivided attention to the business of hunting
and catching runaway negroes. Every call will
be promptly attended to when am not profession
ally engaged. Terms as follows;
Hunting, per day, 50 90
Catching runaways, 20 w
r. "ISvARIABLY CASH, OR ITS EQUIVALENT.
"Persons under the necessity of calling on me
will please give me fair showing at the trail, as
it will be greatly to their interest to do so. And
persons at distance will have their business
promptly attended TO by forwarding a letter
'D''ps' .''' John DEvREUx."
Marshall, (Toxas,) Feb. IL, 1854"
Our correspondent who dates from another towp
in the same State, says
"I send you herewith the professional card Of
one Of onr slave catchcrs would remark, by