Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-08

and smplc-mindod people, the Christian white,
quarreled among themselves. and came to violence
and bloudSbed, and shouted Liberty liberty e.
to arms' so loud that it penetrated the thick tvm-
panums of these degraded nggers and cut OF
their slough some of them crawed, and they dis.
covered my dear Mrs c., that liberty did not mean
slavery Stupid as they were, they supposed that
this was discovery, for there were no eminent
Doctors of Divinity among them no learned law
yers, no liberal commercial princes to tell them
that 1t did, that they were exa tly Synonymous
and that slavery was really the cornerstone Of
liberty, and that any man who knew what was
good for himself, would put himself (mind, body
and SOUL into slavery; Iut especially niggers for
the kind Providence had arranged it for them
som years ago. They had no one to tell them
these things, 50 they suid-"We love not the sears
of the whip,we love not degradatioE and ignorance;
nor do we love labor for your sake-oh. mighty
masters SO we will take yoIT arms and our liberty
and henceforth YOU may work your own sugar
fields" In other words they rose, and, fer twenty
years, cruelty and revenge met cruelty and re.
venge, and these nggers almost equaled the white
men. But now comes the singular part of the
story, amely-that after they had done this, and
had risen, and applied the whips to the backs of
their masters--thc Rev. Curefuls and others were
not bit more satisfied than before, and they have
not ceased to scream in their solemn slumbcrs since
that day.
So it has been as l said; il they were content
with degradation, they were called "Cufs :" and
IL luey rose ana SIaugutelCu l5Ht ana IGlt anu
trlckci themselves in gold lace and and swallow
tailed coats, as Louis Napoleon does, aud in all
things behaved after the manner of the white
folks, they were called 'dam'd niggcrs."
{ No wonder they are discouraged.
The claim is that niggers belong to less clpa-
bic race than the whites. Intellectually it may be
so. Then the inference is, that as they cannot
be masters, they must be slaves in other words
they are weak, and it is the bus ness of the strong
to rule them and there is no difficulty in deciding
who is weak and who strong, because the color OF
the skin settles it.
Let us agree to that for the present
Now go a step further--and this is my posi-
tion to which | think Mr. Knox will not olect,
VH:--that bilious temperaments, with black hair
and strong digestive apparatus, are stronger than
pale-haired ympatic peraments--therefore, the
back-haired people are destined by God to rule
the palehaired people equally destined by God TO
be made slaves Of. Now carry out this logic to
the Rev. gentleman mentioned,--ho is stronger
than a large part of his congregation (perhaps) -
they therefore should submit quietly to him. and
hoe his cane. But--unf0rtunate word--but--
there is somebody stronger than the Rev. Careful
and Careful is, therefore bound to pass quickly un-
der his yoke and hoe his cane and have no more
words aboutit; and, if right, WHY does he not
do it?
/ don't say it is right, and I would advise no
niger TO do it. Take advice; but go your own
way, If you want to be Right or wrong,
that is my private opinion.
There is difficulty which meek and ingenious
people get over as well as they can, and it grows
out Of the fact that those Jews did capture, and
buy, and hold slaves and that Moses advised or
consented to it, Christians, earnestly engaged in
the dissemination of cotton, say that if it was was
right TO steal men and work them up, it may be
right now and with :. clear conscience they urge
the increase Of slave territory, in order that those
niggers in Africa, denied the blessings of the
gospel, may be brought over betWeen-decks and be
saved. 1t certainly is queer!
There are a few who say,--that to deny or in
any way cripple man in the full use and develop
ment, for bis own benefit first, Of AZ! his faculties
and especially to make laws and bayonets to pre-
vent him from ding it's highly improper and
impotic; and that if any think God consented
to or advised any such thing, they are very great
Iy mistaken, Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Stowe
have charged upon this windmill, and, perhaps, |
Taylor Lewis will BE induced to try lance.
Onc side or the other might be used up; and for
myself, am like the man who looked on when
his wife and the bear fought-he said she didn't
which whipped; but, if anything. he'd
ieetie rather it would be the bear!'
Whatever be his capacities l am sure the negro
has had no fair chance yet; and | am so unfUrtu-
nate as often to be on the side OF the minority.
When one Of our big boys at school kicked small
girl there was an outcry and an uproar, for it
II brutal and cowardy thing; yet, when all went at
him, and scofted him, and hissed him, and were
disposed to annihate and confound the fellow, |
went and kicked the same girl. | laugh
at 1t now as very absurd and quiOxOtic /
thing but don't know that l regret it, for il
served to save Tom Harrison from the total loss Of
sell-respect. s., the way that some Christian men
and all blackguards treat niggers, would be enough
to make ncgrophilist of me- If there were not
other reasons. They allow them to do any amount
of dirty work at very cheap rate; but to 60 to /
school, Ia ride in cars omn5uSes, to sit at
meat or to vote that its presumption and in |
,loS t,,n, bad and
tain their souls, while, SO far as know, no black
angel is permitted to fly about loose.
This is eminently the case in the free states more
than in the slave states while any dirty drunkard .
is allowed free range in all places, except perhaps,
Heaven,
Some of my friends live in Connecticut and ]
am sorry for them; for they were remembering
something Of the Shcrmans, and the Wolcotts and
the Winthrops, and the IIilhJuses and thinking
to find schools and an enlightened community and
sense of justice and Gecency--but they discover
ed that on some railroads niggers were forbidden
and last year they discovered also, that there were
not two-thirds of the people Of that old state sit
ting in heLegisature willing to extend to these few
blacks in the State the right to vote although many
of them are cultivated and rich, ana nearly all
good citizens. My friends decided to move out Of
the state State, and think they did right. One
Of the singular things about it is, that nearly all
the oppos;.io.' a. this simple act of justice came
from men called democrats--which used to mean
believers in the Rights of Man., not seekers for
small custoni.house Offices, as it does now.
sometimes think the gods are very wasteiul
for see millions of seeds that never germnate, or
that start to be nipt-milliops of children born but
to die--millions Of men born but to be shot-mil-
lions of nations that have not reached the begin
ming Of civilization, and yet have disappeared; and
consider it possible that the blacks may exist only
to disappear as our Indians did, and leave sign.
If that be tho law, have no word against it--let
them go But when look at Toussant Louver- /
ture, and Dessalines, ,au Denmlrk, and Box Brown,
and Douglas, and Wilson, and Smith, and my old
friends Tus, Candace, and Dilly,l have hops that
neutrality-suspicious. in those luxuriant West
Indies, where the white man does not flourish
perhaps in the tropical heights of the river Nile
or the Aiger-there is yet to be developed a rich, I
sensuous civilization which will bring II new force
into thin-blooded intellectualism, and save
bic animal nature from extreme emasculAtion and