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

them to cooperate with the Germans, and secure
them the numerical preponderance. The interest
! OF all those American farmers, mechanics and
tradesmen who keep no slaves would influence
them to go with the Germans, and the votes of their
colored free servants would swell the number.
! Things there are at present at crisis, and the
solution determines the future prosperity or decay
of the country. In consideration of the uncertain
ty OF slave property, there are no more slavehod-
ers settling in the western part of the State, and
on the other side, very few Germans, and still less
Americans from the free States, induced to
settle in State which acknowledges Slavery
Without further immigration Western Texas cam
not thrive; and such step is like retrogression
This period of transition cannot last long, and its
solution is not less dependent on the voters than
on the interest which will gain their votes. Could
| be shown to the unprejudiced minds there that
there is q greater prospect of making money if
Western Texas were free State, she would no
doubt become free. If, on the contrary the view
is gaming ground that wealthy Shareholders will
cause the contry to flourish the excellent position
OF the Anti-Slavery men will be lost, and all hope
for success with it. The Shareholders being such
active agtators for their cause it is the more i'm
portant to mark out such measures as will secure
to Western Texas the constitution as q free State
This can be done by an increase of German immi-
grafton to that country, which, in her present con-
dltlon, offers everything attractive for settlers in
the choice OF permanent home Up to this time
immigrants without plenty of money cannot 20
there because the means of conveyance are too ex-
pensive. Three years ago met a large number Of
immigrants, at New Orleans willing to go to Tex
as, but uDable to pay the high fare to Indianola.-
They changed their plan, and went up the Missis-
slppl River. There were many others in lndianol0
who were willing to walk the whole distance to
New Braunfes, but could not pay 50 per qunta
freight for their luggage; and even for those Ger
m rrnon tha io Il
aging on account of the scarcity and the high prices
| OF teams and provisions, and because they not
accustomed to camping out. The slave-owners,
however, frequently pass the route. The
iatgues OF the road from the shore to the interior,
are nothing to them. When not in the inns, they
pass the night in comfortable wagons, and care but
little for the accommodation of their ''catte." p
Could the railroad from the Gulf at Indianola to
San Antonio, be once completed, all these dlaw-
backs would lose their weight 1t is most mpor
tant to make a western port say lndanola the
terminus OF this rairoad-and not Galveston-in
order to increase the yearly immigration of Ger
mans into Western Texas from twelve to fifteen
hundred 10 so many thousand, and to make her a
free State. This desirable advantage being still in
prospect another one is already secured by pret-
ty liberal homestead law, enacted by the last Leg
isature securing 100 acres of land to every actual
settler, without any consideration. This alone is
sufficient evidence that already elements hostile to
Slavery have public and effective influence--oth-
erwise a slave State would never admit measure
so calculated to strengthen opposition to Slavery.
BE that as it may, in three months after the said
law had entered into effect more than two hun
dred locations of l60 lots for actual settlers
were recorded in the Office at San Antonio. The
Germans are striving to have all the lands not yet
located within certain distance around the towns
of San Antonio, New Braunfels and Fredericks-
burgh, surveyed in l60 acre lots in order acili-
tlte the location of settlers and in this way,
there will be secured in few years sound stock
OF country voters for the cause of freedom. You
will by all this, be aware that our fellow citizens
OF German birth, in these remote regions of the
West, are not idle in advancing the ends of hu-
manity, and are seeking to promote the true inter
est OF the United States. Do not, however, lose
sight of the fact, that increase of ten to twenty
thousand immigrants per year, would rapidly ap-
proach the point desired, and that, therefore, the
promotion of German immigration into Western
Texas, is duty for every one conscientously de-
voted to the defeat of the Shareholders to discharge
and that it would throw heavy weight into the
scale against them. The more Germans are set
tling in Texas the sooner will she become free
State.
Let us therefore indefatigably exert ourselves
every in his sphere, and acco riding to his pow
er, to support this holy cause, and to promote its
speedy sweep! Reproachcs are often heard against
these and similar tendencies of the younger Ger
man immi grafton, accusing them of aiming at
the formation of native German party, loosing
sight of all regard due to their adopted country
Nothing is in fact less founded than this reproof
Emigrated Germans and natireS are evidently con-
tradicting one the other. We, the Germans, can
not give stronger evidence that we are not affec
ted by too strong attachment to our mother
country, and that her political calamity has its
origin in the eminently cosmopolitic character of
her history, and in the national one. Whoever
chooses, therefore, to find out natreSm in Germans
of modern attainments, cannot have the remotest
idea of the historically developed position of Ger
many. Those German Petrefaets, who are now in
the interior of Pennsylvania, passing through the
process of decomposition, are not considered by
the American natives as 'foroi igners" s"-neither are
they to be accused Of any "native German" SEN
timents; because they always behaved WE'LL as an
obsequious fonk, when called for by their polit-
cal bell-wethers. Why then do we read now every
day so abusive language against the younger Ger
man immi igration? Only because they endeavUr to
examine for themselves what policy TO pursue be-
cause, neither anxious nor concerned about person
al sympathies antipathies, and clearly conscious
of their duties, they fighting in the front ranks
in common with those who, in this country, are
defending the most liberal principles and the
highest interests. We do not intend to make a
merit of that--it is but our duty. 1t is but the
evidence that it is impossible for Germans to disa-
VOW, in any part of tho world, those principles
which have so eminently distinguished the German
nation. 1t is, however, honorable for the younger
German immigration to have unanimously, in
all parts of the Union discerned which way thoir
duty directs them and that the principles which
they support, in the policy of the United States,
are already causing much apprehension to many
natives and foreigners. However much exagger-
ated this apprehension may be, am rejoiced in
the consoling certainty that it is well justified,
insomuch as the position of the Germans Of West
ern Texas comes under consideration, and that
they-as it is answered for by their precedents
and their present position-will not rest, until
they have made their beautiful mountains tho
tire of the "Free State Of Western 1eras " There
are now interests of the highest importance for
civilization and freedom at stake However it
may be attained, it will be the undeniabe merit
of the Germans to have even in the farthest west
of the Union served as the vanguard of liberty
of liberty which acknowledges no national differ
onccs, no narrow circumscription, but is one and
the same for every nation