Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-31
SALEM CoLUMB1ANA COUNTY ONO SATURDAY MARCH


country together; and one wondering at the dila-
pidntcd State ufagrculture the fields covered with
weeds-the houses ruined and deserted, cnquired
who owned this farm? 1t is mine, was the reply
And this? Mine also. And this? Look here
stranger" was the reply, don't suppose l. m S,
damned poor MS to own all the land about here
That was the way-the slave skins the master, ,anc
he the land, and they are all going to the devil.
What was the cause? Slavery; and this cause
had already expelled | 600 Virginians from the
place of their nativity.
1t was recorded in history that borrenness and
desOlation follow in the footsteps OF slavery. 1t
may be asked why not educate public mind and
curb thisarstocracv -casier said than done. IN
the North schools are provided for all people, and
much as he admired her great cities and manut0c
tories; tic speaker considerered them as nothing
in comparison with her common schools. But II
the South fifteen efforts had been made to intro
duco the same system, and fifteen times had they
failed. n Virginia, at the last census, education
had actually roceded during the previous ten years
more children were uneducated then than II
lS40 The cause must be looked for only in the
determined rule of the slayeholding Cligarchy, for
it is a we'll established principle that intelligence
and slavery cannot co-exst In Paris, Mexico,
ST. Petersburch, the press is curbcd and made
to speak favcrably of tyranny by direct means
and in the South the same result is obtained indi-
rectly.
South Carolinia, which has given tone to the
sentiments of the country through Calhoun, is not
a republic, but an oligarchy governed by an aris-
toeracy--it is to be proved by the records. he
ruling class is minority. 1t elects everything,
Senator, REPRESENTATIVE. Governor-what care they
for tho people there. The ruling class say openly
and above board that intelligence and slavery are
incompatible, hence down with the schools -
This is the text for all--the other states say the
same tic experiment has been tried again and
again.
In Keutucly, three times did tic liberal party
establisha school fund. but in every lnstancG did
the oligarchy appropriate it to other uses. They
obtained the third time, S3,OCO,OOO, and said to
the oligarchy they would give one half for turn
pixies sleckwaters and railroads If the other
could be retained for educational purposes. But
the oligarchy appropriated the whole OF 1t to the
general Improvement fund The speaker and 9th
ers had been stricken down with bowie knives, IN
contendng against it. But evidences of the debt
were procured, the people were got together and
the subject Of education discussed about and oN-
panded upon, when the o,igarchy came again in
sidiously, and they were obliged to abandon the
subject in dsmav. Never can the white or black
be elevated, the speaker Ussented, while the oil
garchy holds the sway.
Representatives officers of all kinds, diplomats,
all are ignored, unless they become the supple
tools of the slave power
a convention of one hundred was called at Cne
time to represent 10000 or 100000 non-slavchold
ers. But of that number not fifty, not twenty
not one, Represented the non-slaveholding people
but all were shareholders. Here al race
iHtellessSai, and not man to represent them
what melancholy spectacle but If but one wa
able to represent them, how overpowerng tha
despotstn which could crush 100000, citizens
Slavery dcgrades them below the grade of slaves
--impoverShes them. They asked that their chill
dren might have the advantages denied them, by
gradual emancipation, but the oigarchy by bowie
knife and pistol struck them down. They said
"have We not q right to voter Yes. Then give us
a secret ballot" No we have you by the hip. sc
Marshall said they had their foot upon the neck.
of the liberals; he wished the arisoc Iacy to pre-
serve the influence OF the landlord over the tenant
Two or three tenants are on the mans property
the owner says vote for whom you please, but il
for CGss, Clay or Loycjoy, You must move BAG
and baggage. By this process have more thar
100000 citizens of Kentucky been expelled from
the place Cf their nativity. There are 1000 vo
ters less in the speakers county than twenty year,
ago, Such is Tie case whenever there is goot
land; the oligarchy monopoliae it.
What were they to do-they were powerlcss
socially and politically. In Old England since
l716, all those rights exist that do not in slave
States. Indictment by Grand Jury, counse
| afforded by the State, every man the lord of his
own castle, whether palace or hOyel the habeas
corpus, and above ali others, liberty of speech and
of the press, exist in England, but in the South
they are utterly gone, except SO far as they arc
held in force by force.
SO long as the oligarchy confined their action tC
states the speaker had felt ashamed to present
himself before a Northern audience, but now ns
they progress aud seek to increase their territory
I've felt bound 20 expose them everywhere. Though
the law prohibits the wilfu killing of slaves, thou
sands of cases occur, out of which number, but
one has met the penalty Of the law, and he in
in South Carolina; but the master can infct the
direst punishment leaving but a spark of life and
is nlall ba
kill him on the spot 1t is not folly to say that
this institution is not despotic-giving as it does
dominion of life and death? lie who enslavos a
black to-day will enslave white tomorrow; he who
Stays negro now, will kill a white again, when
circumstances permit. The murderer of Butler
secuted by the non-saycholding portion of the
community, is received with open arms by the
aristocracy; they uphold and defend him the
! press justified him, and said whenever you catch.
a yankee school-maeter kin him. Rev. Mr.. Mar
shall, in convention at New Orleans, uttered
u similar sentiment, but broader in its arplica,
ton.
| The speaker read an article in the Tribune an
extract from the Kansas Pioneer, which went on
to say that three abolition presses were in one
small town, and yet their editors live. This, Mr.
Clay said, is the spirit Of despotism--a spirit oi
yiolence-a cowardly spirit; a spirit of bandits
when by superior force they crush their oppo
nents. See the assassin idea Of the paragraph
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/ Here the speaker continued in strain Of elo
qu1nce, depicting She outrages and calumnies
heapcd upon himself.
In Mississippi when interferos between
master and slave, he is shot. 1t is against the
the law, but the offender is never arrested When
Birney aspired to discuss the question, they drove
! him out. They ducked the Rev, Mr.. Mathews
eleven times in pond Bayley, of the Newport
News,was attacked. He who dares deiendths wight
must die. A few months ago, in Kentucky, the
speaker and others bailed woman thrown in jail
for distributing tracts not to blacks but to whites
their lives were threatened: the oligarchy en-
deavored to intimidate the Judge from taking bail
and offered to indemnify him for his refusal They
got together and denounced them. and wrote say
ing that if they intcriered their blood would bt
upon their heads The threatened party determin
ed, If they could not live Free at least to die free
got together and denounced their opponents, anC
resolved that whenever they found slavehoide
in their country they would put him to DEATH Tht
olgarehy replied they wouldn't begin the fray, i