Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-03
BUYING SLAVE CHILDREN.

The last London Anti-Slavery Advocate has q
letter from Samuel May, Jr., which gives the fol-
lowing fact, which we do not remember to have
seen before:
"Our new undertaking of tract publishing for
gratuitous distribution is going forward with mod
crate success. We shall spend all the money we
get for it, and as fast as we get it. This reminds
me to iell you how Mrs. Stowe has decided to APP
p~ropriate the contents of two boxes which some
Swiss ladie. collected, and sent to her for the anti
slavery cause. The donation was accompanied
with the wish that its proceeds might be used in
buying slave children, and setting them free n
philanthropic and kindly request, but showing a
great want of acquaintance with the institu-
ton Of slavery here. To buy up two or three
children, 1.-THE whole that could possibly be done
in this way, would make no moral impression on
slavery, and would only open the way for four or
five more to take their places. Slave children will
be raised just as fast as,thcy can be sold and the
traders do not care who buys them if they get a
good price. Indeed, they would be quite delighted
to get the abolitionists for customers. Mrs. Stowe
understands this as well as any one and las of
course the final decision was left to her iudgment)
seeing that no possible way existed for her 10 dis
pose of those boxes for such n purpose, since no
truly anti-slavery society would take them on such
conditions, has decided to give the whole to the
Boston Bazaar; to be sold at a special table, and
the entire proceeds devoted to the tract fund of the
American Anti-Slavery Society. This is Of course
very gratifying to us. Our tract fund greatly
needs charging, and we will do our best to help
the slave children in a more etfectual way than by
buying one or two Of their vast number"
THE New YORK LEGISLATURE has before it some
important measures of social reform. One, q law
proposing that the law binding apprentices and
servants, shall be so amended as to bind them, If
the parties desire, as adopted children, emitting
1hem to all the benefits and privileges in law of
legitimate children.
Another is the following. 1t is not all that it
should be, but it is a step in the right direc-
ton:
AN ACT relative to the Rights of Married Wo-
men.
Section l. Any married woman whose husband,
either from drunkenness, profligacy, or from any
other cause, shall neglect or refuse to provide for
her support, or for the support and education of
her children and any married woman who may
be deserted by her husband, shall have the right,
in her own name, to transact business and to re-
ceiye and collect her own earnings, and the earn
ings of her own minor children, and apply the
same for her own support and the support and ed
%ucation of such children free from the control and
interference of her husband, or of any person
claiming the same, or claiming to be released from
the same by or through her husl and.
Sec. 2. Any married woman. whose husband
shall neglect or refuse to provide for, or who shall
abandon his wife and children, may bind out such
MINOR children aud execute indentures of appren.
tceship in the same mlnner, an1to the same ex-
tent as her husband could do.
See. B. Hereafter it shall be necessary to the
validity of every indenture of apprenticeship, exc.
cuted by the father, that the mother of such q
child, if she be living with her husband, shall, in
any appointment of a general guardian of the per
son of a child by the father be valid, unless the
mother of such child, if she be living with hei
husband, shall, in writing, consent to such appoint
ment.
This is the bill which was before the Legislature
last year, amended, and with q new section. The
section added is section 2.
PEACE IN EURoPE.-The Pacific which arrived
in New York last week brought news which in
duces some hope that peace may soon be establish
ed between the belligerent powers of Europe
The hope is founded principally on the fact, tina
the Gar has accepted as the basis of negotiation
terms which he had previously rejected. The
terms are |. The revision of the treaties between
Turkey and Russia .. A Joint protectorate of al
the great Powers over the Christians of Turkey
3. The free navigation of the Danube 4. Franc,
and England to have respectly the right to main
tain on the Black Sea the same naval force a
Russia.