Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-27
THE POLICY OF THE NEBRASKA LEAD.
ERS.

paper published at Charleston, South Carolina.
1t is frank, bold statement Of the policy Of the
! Administration upon the Slavery question, which
our readers will do well 10 look at by way Of re-
, freshing themselves. Ii will amply repay pc
rusal
"a general rupture in Europe would force upon
us the undisputed sway Of the Gulf Of Mexico and
the West Indies with all their rich md mighty
productions, Guided by genius and enterprise.
new world would rise there, MS II did before un-
der the genius Of COLUMBUS, With Cuba and 81.
Domingo, we could control the productions Of the
tropics, aud, with them the commerce OF the world,
= and iCiM hat, the power of the world. Our true
policy is to look TO Brazil the next great slave
power, and as the Government that is to direct
license the development OF the country drained by
the Amazon. Instead Of courtiug England, we
2 should look to Brazil and the West Indies. The
time will como when treaty of commerce and
alliance with Brazil will give us the control over
the Gulf of Mexico and its border countries, To-.
! gethcr with the islands, and the consequence of
, this will place African slavery beyond the reach
{ of hnaticism at home or abroad These two great
slave powcrsn Ow hold more undcyclOped territory
than any other two Governments, and they ought
to guard and strengthen their mutual interests by
acting together in strict harmony and concert
Considering vast resources and the mighty
commerce that is about to expand upon the bosom
Of the two countries, if act together by treaty
re can not only preserre domestic Se1riUe, but we
can defy the power Of the world. With frmness
and judgement, open up the African slave
emigration again to people the noble region OF the
tropics. We can boldly defend this upon tho most
enlarged system Of phiGnthrophy. 1t is far better
for the wild races of Africa themselves. Look at
= the 5000 900 in the United States who have had
the blessings not only of civilization but Of Chris
: tianity. Can any man pretend to say that they
would have been better off in the barbarian state
of their native wilderness and has not the attempt
to suppress, by force, this emigration increased the
] horrors Of the middle passage tcn-iold? The
good old Las Casas in 1872 was the first TO advise
Spain to import Africans 10 her colonies, sub
f stitute for the poor Indians, who from their pc
culiar nature were totally unsutcd to bear the Ia
= bors Of slavery. Experiepce has shown that his
= scheme was founded in wise and Christian phan-
y thrOphy. Millions Of the black men, yet unborn,
will rise up TO bless his benevolent memory. The
time is coming when we will boldly defend this
. emigration before the world. The hypocritical cant
y and whining morality of the latter-day saints will
- - die away before the majesty Of commerce. and the
y power of those vast productions which to spring
~ from the cultivation and full development Of the
y mighty tropical regions in our own hemisphere.
," If it be mercy to give the grangrowing sections
of America to the poor and hungry OF Europe,
N why not open up the tropics to the poor African
~ The region is eniinently suited 20 them
y the other is to the white race. There is rs much
, Philanthropy in one as the other. We have been
a to long governed by psalm-singing schoolmaster
p from the North. IL is time to think for ourselves
n The folly commenced in our own Government unit
ing with Great Britain to declare slave importation
- piracy Piracy is q crime on the high seas arising
n under the law Of nations, and it is us well defined
by those laws as murder is at common law. And
for two nations TO attempt to make hat piracy
IS which is not so, under the law Of nations, Is
j. an absurdty. You might as we'll declare it
l. burglary, or arson, or anything else And we
D. have since by joint feet with great Britain
&c on the coast Of Africa, been struggling TO enforce
4 this miserable Llunder The time will come that
&c all the islands and regions suited TO African Sla-
&c very, between and Brazil, will fall under the
d control of these two slave powers, in some shape
or other either By treaty or actual possession Of
J, the Government the other. And the states
u man who closes, his eyes to these results, has but
n very small view Of the great questions and
. interests that are looming up in the future.
y In few years, there will be no investment for the
- two hundred millions, in the annual increase Of
~ gold on large scale so profitable and so neccssa-
" ry as the development and cultivation of the trop-
u ica regions slumbering in rank and wild lux
' urance. II the slavehoding race in these States
but true to themselves, they have great desti-
II ny before them"
t. The propositions being set forth are, in brief;
d l. To take Cuba.
Ie ~ . To conquer St. Domingo and reduce its in
n habitants to Slavery.
9. g. TO unite with Brazil and perform the same
ar conquerng and enslavng process on all the othe
rs West India Islands.
st 4. To then enter into an alliance with Brazil fo
ID the establishment and fertilization Of SLAYER!
C. throughout South and North America.
8. For this object TO deyelopc the Amazon coun
90 try and take possession of the Gulf of Mexico an,
10 oil the adjacent tropical regions.
ne G. To reopen the African slave trade.
IT. 7. To boldly defend this scheme upon tho "mos
I'd enlarged system Of philanthropy"
N Such is the programme of tho future proceed
~ ings under the new Nebraska dispensation. W.
~ trust the reader has carefully perused it, stated
Nv Southern
Y 1t is seldom he will find more of what is called
~ letting the cat out of the bag in the same com
~ pass. Let him not turn away doubling or distrust
ing the correctness Of this representation in regard
to the designs of the Nebraska dynasty lie may
a. depend upon it, that what is here shadowed forth
Il is no dream, and no vagary. II is faithful pic
Il ure of what is the fixed and determinate policy OF
e the Nebraska leaders. The conception of this
,f future, we happen to know is distinct and vivid
q among the champions of the new dspensation,
II and they firmly bent upon its regular and sys-
10 tematic accomplishment. The Nebraska bill Is
10 but the FIRST and it has been heretofore regard
ID ed easy step in this comprehensive plan of Afri-
le canzing the whole Of the American hemisphere,
and establishing Slavery upon what its advocates
IL regard as an impregnable basis.
ID Does any moderate, conservative, northern man
SIS doubt the policy of offering little gentle resist
st ance to this brilliant system Of measures by way
rs Of calling the yeas and nays few extra times on
n Nebraska Perhaps such very peaceabe gen
I'd tleman Mr.. Gerrtt Smith may hang FIRE at the
m proposition, but is there any other northern man
lg whose head and pluck are good and sound, who
can retire before the inconceiyable pusillanmity
. of suggestion that such a course is unwse
y We presume not. We do not know for certainty
that Mr. Smith occupies the position we assign tc
:" him. If he does, all we can say is, that he had
~ better resign his seat at the earliest possible mo
v ment, and lot his constituents elect somebody il
his place who will do his duty among sinners ant
u not go for applying millennium tactics in bod,
10 like the House Of Representatives at Washington
It - T'iburs,