Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-21
THE seUATTER SOVEREIGN.

a friend has sent us three copies IF n paper
bearing the above name, published at Atchison,
Kansas Territory, edited by j. II. Stringfellow and
Il. 5. Kelly. The principal object of the paper,
as announced by the editors in their Introductory
address, is, "to ehdeavor to have engrafted into
our Constitution, when We shall have grown old
enough, the institution of negro Slavery, as being
an institution calculated to enhance the value of
our lands, conduce to the aggregate and separate
wealth OF the citizens, promote the interests of the
negro, elevate the standard of freedom O. reliri-
Gus enjoyment, and all our social and political
rights and p~riyileges-as being an institution emf.
nently suited to perpetuate our peculiar form of
government, necessary to the happiness of the
negro, and designed by the Great Author of our
existence for wise and benefcent purposes"
There We are fairly out of breath with reading
such an enumeration Of blessings, and all con-
ferred by Slavery. Religious enioyment,-social
and political rights-and the standard of liberty
elevated, all by negro slavery! But this is not all.
Besides the editors, there is another Stringfellow. ,
a correspondent,-who occupies we cannot tell
how many columns, with a stupid article, full Of
falsehoods, entitled "Negro Slavery no Evil
The article, it seems, was originally a report to the
Platte County SelfDefensiye Association" so
that arguments, as well as voters for Slavery seem
to be transported from Missouri to Kansas. Mr..
Stringlellow's estimate Of the character of the New
England emigrants is rather lelow par. lie says,
''we find these miscalled emigrants really negro
thieves, their purpose not to procure u home in
Kansas, but to drive Shareholders therefrom that
they are not freemen, but paupers, who have sold
themselves to Eli Thayer & Co., to do their mas
ter's bidding; who hesitate not to proclaim that
they are expert in stealing slaves; that they intend
to follow their calling"
"Negro Slavery" is a blessing to the slave, for
he is Observation-Disclosures for in sickness
and in no danger of dying a pauper. And then
again, it is a special protection against being born
or becoming deaf, dumb, blind, idiotic or in
sane, all of which he proves from the census. Oul
man of statistics, however, seems not to notice thu
fact, that his argument is much more deci led il
favor OF the enslavement Of the whites than of thu
blacks. For example, he quotes figures, and show,
thA of the whites there is one idiot and insane
person to every 1914 of the inhabitants, Will,
among the slaves there is only one to every 3,OSC
persons. A wonderful difference, truly, in favo,
Of slavery. Let every white person, therefore, whc
has any apprehension either of insanity, idiocy
blindness or deafness, forthwith cut the doctors
and, abjuring all medicines, betake themselves t.
Il slave plantation, and test the wonderful virtue,
of cotton picking under the lash of a vicorou,
overscer.
The fact is, DR.. Stringfellow's census revelation,
are rather startling. They show n sad prospec
for the sanity of the white race, and surely some
thing ought to be done. Indeed the facts ar,
worse than his figures tell. For what but politica
idiocy or insanity would ever have induced tn,
people of this country to suppose that they coulc
secure the blessings of liberty to themselves anC
their posterity" by a union with Shareholders. an,
by fostering and extending the system of slavery
What but moral insanity or idiocy could ever in
duce grave Doctors of Dlvinity and whole churchet
assemblies, conferences, associations and consocia
tons ever to dream, much more to teach, that tn,
gospel of Jesus of Nazareth was a gospel of chat
telized slavery. Evidently these ministers wer,
all insane themselves, or else they took all the PEG
pie to be afflicted with idiocy or insanity. If til,
latter, the result has proved that they were no
very far mistaken, for the people have very exten
siyely said amen to these most absurd and wicke,
oil all ecclesiastical propositions.
Now, we can't agree to Mr.. StriDgfellow's prop
]osition, that all this wreck of mind and morals i
to be set Gown as the legitimate fruit of liberty
but we are not at all certain that he may not b
entirely right in his prescription. Indeed, we fee
quite sure that a brief taste Of plantation servic
under some Simon Legree, or even under a mild
lmiable and good intentioned st. Clair, would Of
~fectually change their politics, and most advanta
geously correct their theology. So that after all
there are some siftings of truth among the false
hoods and errors Of this document of the " Platt
County SelEDefensiye Association"
But negro slavery, our document contends, i
equally a blessing to the master as to the slave
A blessing it is to him in every way, increasing hi
wealth and improving his manners and morals
But We shall not attempt to follow the pretended