Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-21
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

argument, or to roiute or even specify the the false
hoods and misstatemcnts. We will give an extract
ar two, as a specimen Of the curiosity, and to show
our readers what a Squatter Sovereign really is;
1.-The people Of the North, elsewhere noted for
religious devotees, here are found less pious than
the thoughtless Southerner. The Northern cline,
elsewhere the very hot-bod Of population for the
South, here falls far behind the fatal regions of the
South in the number Of its births, greatly exceeds
the South in the number Of its deaths. The men
of the North, by nature more vigorous and encr-
gotic, here, though noted for frugality and industry
with every advantage which legislation can give
thus lcvying an enormous tax upon the people Of
the South, are yet far behind the people of the
South III the acquisition of wealth.
Commerce and manufactures, elsewhere the
sources of greatest wealth, here are found less pro-
ftable than slaveholding agriculture.
"To all the ills to which man is subject, both
mental and physical, the men of the North, with
all the advantages of climate, are far moro liable
than the Southern stakeholder.
"ln short, under all the disadvantages of climate
the %cramping influence of oppressive legislation
in despite Of the very laws of nature, 10y the so
called curse of slavery" the people of the slave
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happier-multiply faster-liye longer and better,
and are far richer than the people of the North.
But there arc effects produced by negro sla-
very, which are not exhibited in the census, can
not be set down in figures, of far more Importance
than the acquisition of wealth, orthe Nero increase
of population. These are, its tendency to elevate
the character of the. white race, to give to that race
a more exalted tone of moral sentiment; and in a
republic Of vital Importance is its influence in Civ
ing to the white race higher, holier, more stern
and unyielding love of liberty, in making the
whit race emphatically a race Of sovercigns, fit
members of a free government.
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the influence Of negro slavery on the fu-
ture destiny Of our Republic, is even more potent
than its effects upon the character of those who
compose the government. We have said that the
preservation of our Republic in its purity, depends
on the institution Of slavery. For this we shall
be denounced by abolitionists, as denying the truth
Of that principle which lies at the foundation of
our government.
They who daily in practice deny it, give the
lie to every word in the sentiment, are ever most
ready to prate about liberty and equality :" in
their denunciations of Shareholders, are accustom-
ed to insist on a literal Interpretation of the dec
%Iaration that all men are created equal: that they
are endowed by their creator with CERTAIN inalien-
able rights that among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness
1T is common with abolitionists to condenso
this with the declaration that ''all men are horn
free and equal
Neither is true when taken literally. On the
contrary rs has Lnon ,r;+t;1- .o;l II " g,
is a falsehood, fol men are not created Children
are created, not men. Nor is there more truth in
the declaration that men are created equal, as an
plicable to the physical or mental condition of
man. The helpless idiot, the cripple, the blind.
are not equal to the bright, the beautiful, the stronr
Unequal in fortune is the 'beggar's BRAT and the
petted child OF a wise and wealthy father. Not
two Of all WHO are created are equal.
Nor is it literally true that life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness are inalienable.' On the
contrary, life is taken, the pursuit Of happiness is
regulated, liberty is restrained from the hour of
birth to the day of death. If the abolitionists were
right IN their Interpretation of this principle, our
army should be disbanded, our navy dismantled
our prisons thrown up, our very laws blotted out
they are all practical rcfutations Of their c~onstruc.
ton.
Though of this declaration not one word is true
when taken literally yet as II political principle
as applicable alone to those who are members OF
a government, it is the very foundation of lib.
erty.
No only does negro slavery thus elevate the
character Of the white man, it ennobles woman.
K believed by the slave from the alject toll, the ser.
vile condition to which the white woman is so often
subjected by necessity where the negro slavery does
not exist, and which strip her of woman's greatest
, charm, modesty which make of her the rude
drudging, despised servant of a harsh master
the white woman becomes, as she is fitted to be,
5 not the slave, but the queen of her household, fit
mate for a sovereign. o
9 "Nirtuous, modest, sensitive, retiring, her only
} ambition to merit the love of her husband, her onlv
r pride to point to her children and say, these are
} my jewels : worshipped in her sphere, her gentle
sway undisputed, the white woman in the slave.
hoiding states needs no conventions to give her her
} rights. Whether she be the mistress of a mansion,
or the humble tenant Of q cabin, to her the seat NJ
S honor is ever accordcd-at home or abroad. every
son Of the South deems himself her cham.
; pion.
t "Such is the estimate placed upon woman, such
her condition in the slaveholding States. 1t is nc
@ fancy sketch, but a picture for which We are snoor
ed at by utilitarians, who would have us nut wa
G man to USE So too would the savages with
them woman is useful she relieves her lord of his
labor, bows her head in his presence kneels 10
him waits on his pleasure is his slave, Nat
such is the use to which shareholders nut wom, n
The only use to which they would put her is that
S Tor which her Maker intended her, "a help meet fol-
her husband : to be with him one fesh.'
c Negro slavery has a further effect on the char
acter of the white woman, which sh ould commend
e the institution to all who love the white race more
than they do the negro. 1t is a shield to the virtue
e Of the white woman.
80 long as man is lewd, woman will be his vic
tim. Those who are forced to occupv n monioI no