Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-10
GEN. HoUsroN's LECTURE ON SLAVERY.

Il lults III bhut CiiJ Ou tho HouiJCOb VI ofuNOEN, HuNOI
succeeded in securing one from a Southerner.-
Senator Houston delivered a lecture there on the
2Sd inst, which we find reported at length in the
Boston Telegra Nh. Several other Southerners
were invited, but declined the service. One of
them, Senator Butler of South Carolina, assigned
as his reason for declining, that his audience would
be one with "~foregone conclusions on the subject"
And certainly they have all done we'll for their
own credit, and for their cause, unless they could
E give something superior to that presented by the
Senator from Texas.
G His lecture is a miserable hodge podgo Of the
r stale and oft-exposed defences of slavery. Its
tone is moderate. 1t comedies, in some sort the
wrong Of slavery, and seems to expect that it will,
@ some time, be removed. The lecturer makes a
= show Of independence, and boasts repeatedly of
r his willingness to face q world of adverse scnti-
r ment. But this is evidently his "whistling to keep
his courage up" Tho course of the whole lecture
9 70 ,eals his fear of the anti-slavery public scnti-
4 ment' which he conjectures exists in Boston and
v in his audience. The burden of the whole, oft
" times repeated, is that of the devils, whom Jesus
4 once met, / as alone. Hast thou come to tor
n ment us before the timer" Equally oft-repeated is
his glorifcation Of the Union.
10 lie afirms that the slaves are we'll treated-they
v have Sabbaths and ~religion-they have white min
listers aud black-are well fed and lightly worked
they have the lights of religion civilization and
morality-they are of all people most cheerful
contentcd and happy. If this were not so, we
of should hear of suicides among them, and General
y Houston never heard of the commission of suicide
by a slave. lie must have had n very low opinion
ID of the intelligence of his audience, or he would not
IS have ventured upon such an assertion. No longer
ago than last week, we copied from one New Or
m leans paper the account of two suicides by
IL. slaves.
He is a colonizationist, and like all american
or colonizationists, has horrible forebodings of the re-
ri suits of emancipation. Amalgamation and idle
NJ ness-debauchery and ruin to the black will be
the inevitable result.
We quote a few passages, that our readers may
mr.. judge for themselves.
RS 1.-The achievement of our liberties was made by
ly shareholders, and if they have since dispossesseC
en- themselves of slaves, now they exist only one por
lu- ton of the community. There they are not objects
I've Of cruelty, they are not objects of harshness, they
lsc are not doomed to the darkness of heathenism
in they have the lights of religion, of civilization, o
morality. 1t is the care of masters who desire tn,
ity countenance and fellowship of the community, t
is. see that on the Sabbath day the slave attends tn
nv worship of the Supreme Being. The Word j
es given to them by their own preachers or by white
ere preachers, and they are instructed in religion
aid Masters rightly constituted there, feel anxious TIN
the their slaves should be acquainted with the myste
ed ries and the joys of revelation. They do no
ro- wish to shut these out from their spirits nor fror
lad their eyes.
labor on the Sabbath have known but two VIII
Md have been charged with employing their laborer
on the Sabbath day-would become Ike an infect
ed place. No one eonsorts with such a master, @
of trusts Office or distinction to them. These | kno'
as, are statements that are not in conformity with tn
l. general and excited state OF feeling which exist
in certain portions of the country, but they ar
nth nevertheless, true, and l feel called upon by Il
at respect shown to me to state the truth in return Fl
elo- that respect.
pht. So far as the south has heretofore expressed
lose self-and | have come to vindicate the Sou
against the responsibility sought to be cast upon
for that for whichit is not responsible the Sou
has said, "Let us alone, let us regulate our dome
tic institutions for ourselves. You gentlemen
,o the North, you legislators, you governors, y
~" statesmen, go on and regulate your domestic ms
lace tutions as you think proper. Give us the sar
ton privilege, and it is all We ask. Let us alone
How long has that spirit of acquiescence existe
How perfect was it at the last session of Congress
held Not a voice of discord was heard, not a jarri
.ho sound was heard throughout the broad land"
~ ave found slavery in our country. We L
STATE slaves but we do not abuse them. One race
rom the other must give way. If slavery were to g
way the spindles OF the North would stop Tim
,tion oe Objected 'nao = an "Ppeaii"g ~ she cuP,ut y
stice commonsense and experience. and thew NAV Q
pire. it what name they please, that object TO it. Lool
ldop- to Jamaica. las the slave advanced with all
E h;s advantages of emancipation, after passing throu
ms all the stages of apprenticeship? No, he has
'itive Perforated. lie is lower than when he was a sa
Judge His labor is unproduetive; he is not profitable
king himself nor to any other. How would it be in
South? Turn them loose, and they could lot
y" up in business, Land could not be appropria
Esq to them; and if it were they would not work
nety- They would be as they are in Bermuda and eve
and where else where they are thrown upon their O
, had resources tney are is'tess' ihe['' ia|y nsIs
never will be Industrious.
How could two races exist together with
'ehalf a~malgamation? 1t is impossible. Well, t
orine would produce nothing in the South; the spine
,ooL of the North would stand still the implement
y, husban6ry would remain here unsold, and
'oper' whole South would present nothing but a specti
w. of wretchedness, if not of bloodshed and carni
Ike in Who could derive happiness from this? 1t VIC
m re- not elevate the slave in the South. You M
call him free, but he would be an object of "
also and wretchedness. Now if he is sick a docto
: was provided, and he is attended to by the master,
Burns cause he is his owner, and it is his interest to
bn,;on care of him.. But if free, no one would take
ILL.,, of him. His toll would stop, and his recompe
a''e''' and he would be cast into the streets. That y
con- be his situation. Whereas, it is the mas ter's
not only TO improve his intelligence, but imp
his moral condition, that he may be more hol
" the trustworthy and faithful" &c.
y has roano,;on hat in the adantation of labor to
Gov mate and production, it would be impossiSl
General furnish supplies to meet demand, if it were ?
BILE to wipe out slavery and transfer every or
the southern slaves to.tbe soil of Africa. 1t "
v York be impossible to supply one fourth or one six
which the demand that has gradually grown up in
:, Sum present condition OF the country
The white mans labor could never supply
'0''''' Of slave, whose constitution is adapted to sout
ne. labor, climate and production. Iii not tina
Court slave has to bear me buioen ana neat Oh 1he
on the u h.naLfast ond two hnnrs ot noon avo
red of The heat at MONDAY, and return at night to
use of supper and repose. They are not overworkei