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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
SOUTHERN TRADE.

If our Southern neighbors do not learn to be
very i~ndulgent in their inter State Comfy. 1t
will not be for the want of a good example. Gin.
cinnati at all events is disposed not to be behind
hand in the practice of this virtue as we learn
from the following paragraph which we clip from
the City Items of the Cincinnati Gazette. We al
ways knew Cincinnati had a wonderful jealousy
of her southern trade. We knew Of her putting
down free discussion in Lane Seminary to secure
it-of her destruction of the presses Of James G..
Birney and DIR. Baily-of her mobbing her own
citizens, white and colored to obtain tive have
heard the ding dong of her servile press for the last
eighteen months about Henry B. Blackwells mig
ger stealing" at Salem, but this we supposed was
the extent of her extra efforts at securing southern
trade. But evidently we have done the CONNER
cial Interest injustice:
CONE AND GET YOUR MONEY, AND SAY NO MORE
ABOUT IT.-Our readers may recollect that some
time since. we published the names of Il number
of men who were arrested by the Police, in a de-
scent on houses of i'll fame. They gave bail for
their appearance in the aggregate sum of about
500, but did not return to learn the result of their
trials.
The cases however, were not prosecuted, be-
cause, lit was said some of the gentlemen being
from a neighboring State, a tenderness was felt in
the Police Court in regard tc our Southern trade.
These Southern gentlemen are earnestly entreated
to call on Mr.. Jones, the Clerk of the Police Court,
before the first of January, get their money, and re-
ceive no doubt, suitable apology from the Court
for having been unlawfully disturbed. If not call
ed for by that time, the money will be paid into
the City Treasury,
1t would look from this paragraph as though
the Cyprians of the City are to be employed as
special decoys to Southern merchants, and the
Municipal Courts are especially to shield the south.
crn gentlemen and their paramours from all an
noyance. What a blundcr for the City Police tc
arrest Southern gentlemen for such an offence. Is
not free love" one Of the most cherished blessings
Of their peculiar institution? So free indeed that
it has no regard to features, complexion or race.
With unlimited indulgence at home, why should
not Cincinnati Commere extend to them most
courteously such hospitality as their poor northern
institutions will permit, when they visit their city.
How else can they hope to keep the trade of these
fitful southern gentlemen? Why did the Police
not leave the houses unmolested, when they found
these Southern merchants there, or at least, con-
tent themselves with a~rresting the home patrons of
these useful appendages of Southern commerce.
But il they ever repeat their blunder, their honors
of the Police Court will make it all right. So the
trade IS safe. And South Carolina may if she
will learn a valuable lesson in Inter State Comfy.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22

as we'll as his morals in the same school with the
Albanian. Brothers thus by nature, taste and
education. Shame on the chivalrous Albanian
to call his brother such an ugly name. Our Pat
riot and such rs he an abolitionist !! 1t must make
them feel "all-overish' with indignation to be thus
characterized. just hear tho Patriot speak its
chasie sentiments in its own dialect. Tie quotes
aprrovingly IL Jlackguard paragraph from the
Licking Times and says;
And zee copy the above, from the Newark Times,
q rabbi KnoW-NUtling paper. The whole is re-
~spectiully dedicated to the Black Republican WADE
organs of Columbiana county. Ii clearly indicates
that the defeat Of the disunion WADE SIS highiy
JroGdbie"-that the "uhitc' folks are awake aud
moving. The signs are luminous that the same
glorious harmony which now prevails among the
mongrel tribe in Congress will be responded to
by the ncxt pic. bald Legislature Of Ohio. The
Rcf6,mrs are aroused. We expect there will be
a host of woody headed, fingered scented Fusisn-
lists from Columbiana in attendance ON that forlorir
aud Gud.lorsakcn funeral, when, in the language
the Times, WADE's "own ~mnggotty political carcass
is buried in the perfume of niggerism, and the
"stiak' Of The Wing party, like the column of
smoke to the Israelites, alone marks the place;
where dcservcdly repose his rotten remnins." As,
John Randolph once said of Henry Clay, Black
Republication now stink and shines and shines
and siinks like II rotten mackerel by moonlight"
So mote il be.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
From the Antl-slavery Standard.
A WORD FROM WISCONSIN.

We have a letter from Delaware, Wisconsin
which the crowded state Of our columns at thi,
moment will not permit us to publish at length
but from which we give an extract, as follows:
Let me say to you, and through you, to other
Eastern friends of impartial liberty, that those
interchangeable laborers, c.. 9. Burleigh and s. S
Foster, have, by their short-too short visit tc
Wisconsin, cheered the hearts Of those who are
struggling for the developments of a true life and
the triumph of the Right. The word spoken shall
not return void, but accomplish that where unto il
was sent.
"The prophets have been with US. Their word,
of rebuke and warning have gone forth from their
fre-touched lips. They wear the vesture which
adornes only such as have found their wav into
the holy of holies. In the footprints are the un.
traces of those who walk with God
And not only is the character of the true prophet
sustained by then, but that also of well chosen
Apostles. the motive power of whose labor is
LoyF-tho end to be attained mans redemption.
Would the East send forth to the West the ly.
ing missionary, let her send such as these. let her
recall the moral dwarfs with which she is Hoodino
us, Or send forth her giants that shall make them
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
IAN DER TURE L

The Lake Supirior Miner recently had an article
on n negro man, known as Johnson, who, many
years ago, pre- empted a valuable piece of mineral
land near Ontonagon. L.. S. Johnson's history
reads like a romance, and is replete with interest
ing and exciting adventures. We give some of the
prominent incidents Of his life, as we learn them
from the Miner.
Some fifteen or twenty years ago, a gentleman
by the name of Pemberton moved from Frankfort
Kentucky, to Monticello, Lewis Co, Missouri, and
there died. Among other chattles personal, he
owned a slave named Noel, who was a remarkably
intelligent negro.
After the death of Pemberton, as the embarrass.
cd condition of the estate hung over his future
destiny a veil Of uncertainty, not altogether pleas.
ant to contemplate, the man Noel formed the de-
termination to migrate. This resolution it seems,
was also taken by two other chattles of the same
sort, and was jointly carried into effect on one
Saturday night in April, 1913. Having travelled
by night they stopped in the morning on Fabius
Creek. a small stream e~mptying into the Missis-
sippi, where they law in ambush during the Sun
day following. Their place was near the road
and during the day they distinctly saw four OF
Eve men on horseback pass in great haste, whom
they knew to be their pursuers. The party pass
ed, however. without suspschng how near was
their prey.
Moving on their journey by night, the negroes
As lsHg:h reached the MississiPpi--erossed 1t 10 a
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
THE VALUE OF THE UNION,

Northern proslayery piety and politics combined
are utterly inadequate to secure Northern men
from Southern outrages Of the most extreme char
actsr. 1t is very unreasonable certainly, on the
part of the slave holders, thus to treat their friends
but so it is, and our Ohio, New England and New
York conservatives may calculate on receivirg
their labor for their pains when they do the infa
nous work of fighting southern battles for the love
of southern gain, southern church fellowship, DO.
litical union, or any other imaginary good. Every
page of our history. political and ecclesiastical
teaches this truth, while recent events proclaim il
with especial emphasis.
Most Of our readers have seen the account oil
the expulsion of Mr.. L. F.. Hayden from Florida
Mr.. Hayden was an intelligent and respectable
citizen of Syracuse n. Y. lie was a member OF
one of the proslavery parties of the country and a
member of one of the proslavery churches of Sy-
racuse, in christian" fellowship with the pious
slave owners-slave hunters, and slave o~yerseers
of Florida and other States of the Union. Trust.
ing to this double bond of union for protection to
his property and pers6M liberty, Mr.. Hayden Wis.
tied Florida in the prosecution of his business
lie quietly pursued his calling, without any at
ttuIpt ny NOIu VI uccu W loles w pOllllCul anu
christian brethren in their cherished privilege OF
slavedriving. lie witnessed al its outrageous. enor-
mites, and for the sake of his gain, most unnatu,
rally smothered all risings of indignation against
il, shutting up within himself whatever of justice
or humanity there was in his being. But this ST.
lent acquiescence in slaveholding by Mr.. Hayden,
was nos enough to satisfy his e~xacting brethren
they demanded that he should be an open advo-
cate of their institution. Northerners who 60
South must become slave drivers. No other proof
will be accepted that they are irritable moral mon
sters, srch as may be safely tolerated to live in the
midst of their monstrous system. But this re-
quirement of a public profession of faith in sla.
very was too much for Mr.. Hayden. lie could be
be quiet while his fellow beings were dying by
torture around him. He could give to their tor
mentors the right hand of church fellowship. lie
could give them positive and strong support, thro'
a pro slayery party and the proslavery government
Of the country, but to declare at the will of inso-
lent }~ictatijn, that slaveholding was right, and
he stood its friend, was too much. His manhood
reyolted aud he refused obedience to the impudent
d~ictation. For this, and THE alone, the whole com.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.

Committees in both branches of this body, have
presented Reports. censuring the course of Cover
nor Adams, in returning the Resolutions of the
Massachusetts Legislature, without presenting
them to the Legislature Of his State. They deem
it an unjustiiable act Of discourtesy and one like
ly to lead to a suspension of inter State civilities.
Ills it seems the Carolina Legislators are not will
ling to risk even in the case of fanatical Massa-
chusetts with her personal Liberty Bill. A bill
which this same committee characterize as a "de-
lberatc unblushing and impious violation of her
constitutional Obligations" These facts indicate
the true state of affairs. 1t is the vocation of South
carolina Governors and Il few of her windy poll
ticians to vapour and with great swelling words,
to threaten a dissolution of the Union. 1t is n part
of the game by which to effect a disgraceful Nor
thern submission. But when these wordy DULLES
60 too far, and cast such indignities on the north
as seem likely to produce resentment, and to bring
about that separation which they threaten and pro-
fess to desire, the real representatives of the pub
lie sentiment of the South have, rs in this case no.
hesitancy in s~nubbing them for their course and
in taking measures 10 prevent the deprecated and
feared dissolution of the Union. Yes, far rather,
than such a result, would they prefer as in this.
case, to keep up the Interchange of courtesies,
and ciyilities' even with "unblushing and impi-
Gus violations of their constitutional obligations
of slave catching. This course of the South Caro-
lima Committee goes somewhat to prove that had
the Massachusetts men done their duty fully, as
they did only in pant, and declared that they would
have no interchange of State civilitieS with pratt
cal man thieves, Governors of course would blus
ter the mass of shareholders, would be ready
to purchase union even at the expense of slavery.
Let Massachusetts try it. The South Carolina
Legislature is giving her a lesson of genuine en-
couragement.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

Some of the Shareholders certainly treat their
northern servile allies, with great ingratitude.-
No fidelity can excel that of these services to
slavery. They make to it a freewill offering OF
justice, honor, self-respect; while National reputa-
ton and personal character are willingly sacrificed
to aid in the suppression, the crushing out of lib.
er.y, and yet these same Shareholders have the
ingratitude and brazen f acedness to tigmatize
these Democratic ~votaries Of slavery as "abolition.
ists:' No charge could Se more annoying to nor
thern Democrats, for to avoid it they have yielded
everything honorable and just. Like most other
ungrateful slanderers the Shareholders are not MS
choice as they might be in their diction. In short
they talk like blackguards as we'll as knaves. For
example. An Alabama paper speaking of the
recommendation of some politicians in that State
to appoint delegates to the coming Cincinnati Ma.
tional Democratic Convention, clothes its charge
of abolitionism against the Democratic party in
the following chaste and classic diction:
"About their consistency there may be two opin-
ions, but there cannot be about the ~propriety of
holding the Convention in Cincinnati. Cincinnati
is the great hog hole as well as the great aboli-
tion-hole of the United States, and as most of
those from the North, the East, and the West, who
will compose that Convention, will undoubtedly be
abolitionists, it is very proper that they should
meet in such a place. If Southern Democrats
choose to wallow in the same bed with them, wby
let them do it. Tastes will differ. But they can
scarcely expect to get up without being well cover.
ed with both mud and feas."
But this Alabama Know Nothing ought not to
be SO ,severe upon four northern Democrats
They are kith and kin of his though he
slanderously calls them abolitionists. Hear for
instance our New Lisbon Patriot talk. lie is evil
IDENTIFY of the same family md leaned his ihctori
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22

CRATE, operates upon the negroes with teniold
force.
What has greatly tended of late years to give
new energy to the current Of Irish immigration,
has been the accounts sent back to Ireland by
those who had previously en,igrated and the means
of coming to this country, which they have fur
nishcd To- their suffering friends at home. The
same impulse, and it is q very mower ful one, is
now beginning TO operate upon the negro rnpula-
ton of the South. Means are found Of Keeping
up q communication between those who have al
ready cmigrated and those who still remain il
bondage. No sooner does " Virginia c%uiigrant lie.
gin to taste the sweets of liberty than lie begins
also to desire to extend ihe same Ile' sing to li'
wife and children, to bis brothers and sisters, t'
his friends and acquaintance. If emigration from
Virginia is attended with many dangers and dit
fculiics to which emigration from Ireland is not
liable, it also has it's peculiar facilities. To emf
CRATE from Virginia money is not Indispensable
W hat is chiefly needed is a nowlcdgc OF the road
This knowledge those who have already Travelled
it are more or less able TO communicate, ahG ihttno'
merely to their particu lar friends, lut 10y means
Of the rapid diffusion which interesting intelll
gcncc ever obtains for itself, to tie enlile ncSr,
community.
Add to Ills that the emigration from Virgin,
has II spice Of hcruism and romance about It ex
ccedingly fascinating to the human mind. This
ingredient serves not merely to incite and sustain
those who personally undertake this peritrus I'D
venture, ii secures tor them sympathy and aid, not
merely in Ike Northern but even in the Southern
States. Stolen waters are sweet, and 50 too II
clandestine humanity. To iNhict punishment ON
acts Of commo charity, to make it Il criminal OF
Tense to give shelter to the weary, food to the hun
cry and clothes to the naked, does but add in many
minds 70 the poignant relish Of these guud acts
Under these circumstances, the hoTc Of putting "a
stop to the Southern negro emf grafton trtm Viz
ginia seems to US to he forlorn indeed. What
with sales to the South and escapes to the North,
Virginia seems destined to go on, as she has done,
losing the flower of her laboring people; and as
she has already sunk from the first to the fourth
State in population, so she must lie prepared at
the next census 10 have two or three more States
step in above her. Tribune.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
Prom the New York Evening Post.
SLAVERY AS IT WAS IN NEW JERSEY
AND is IN VIRGINIA.
llARnlNcroN, n. J., Nov. 90, 1855.

IlARRINGroN, n. j., Nov. %, 1855.
MEssRs. EDIroRs: Much has Leen said by oul
friends who are on the o~pposide side of the slavery
question, aboutits Icing at the adoption of oui
government a national institution and covered by
the broad iegis of the Constitution ; aud instead
of Freedom being national, it was Slavery that
was emphatically so, and that we Of tie North
should be cnntented that we now could number
fifteen States; and also of its being a bonificent-.
at least to the laves-instituti0n &c. Now, beng
deeply interested in this question, and n citizen Of
Il State that formerly legalized slavery. let us con-
trast the slave laws Of New Jersey with those Of
the Mother Of Presidents
By an act of her Legislature of 1893, nine years
after the Constitution Of the United States went in
tc operation, it was made the duty of every "own
er Of any negro slave. or slaves,or mustce servants,
for life, or for years, who shall have been born
since the twenty-sixth day Of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty elght, and before TIE uassing of this act, or
who snail be born at any time after the passing Of
this act, to cause every such slave or slaves, servant
or servants, while under the age Of twent-one
years. to be taught and instructed to read" Aud
every person who refused or neglected to do this
was liable to u forfeit of $50, to be recovered by
action of debt, with costs of suit, in any court
having cognizance thereof, by the oyersecrs of the
poor Of the township, whose duty it was expressly
made to prosecute for the same.
Now, although we have nothing to do 1&h
slavery in the States, would not much of the evil
thereof lie abated were they compelled to cause
their slaves to be Instructed in reading, instead OF
making it a penal offence, punishable by imprison-
ment? 1t is this one feature of the institution of
slavery that causes us to view it as an an atrocious
lebasemcnt of human nature. Not but that there
are persons among us in the non-slavehOlding
States, who are in the same prcGicancnt, who can
neither read nor write; but then the fault is tn eir
own, and there is no legdt compulsion. Let it,
then, be proclaimed to the world that New Jersey
Laws compelled the master to educate his Stare,
while those of the Southern States, at this present
time, make it a crime for any one to attempt
it.
There are 4 few other points to which l shlll
advert at Il future opportunity, which are Of tran
cedent Importance at this time, when it seems the
dial Of freedom has gone ten degrees back ward and
there seems but little hope for the dawn Of a better
day. A. . II.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22

LETTING DowN.-The New York Evening Post,
is for making the issue between slavery and free
dom still more narrow than the Republican party
has fixed it. 1t would not noW raise the question
of the admission or rejection of a State because
of slavery in its constitution. The only question
should be its exclusion from the Territories. By
so doing they will secure numbers and success, and
most probably the question of the admission of a
new slave State, will never come up, or if ever, at
a distant day.
Thus do politicians in the vain hope of success
deceive themselves, and if they are ever driven
to assume an important moral position, they soon
abandon it in their pursuit of numbers and expe-
diency. But who does not see that the Post reck-
Ons without its host when it says that Shareholders
will never com with a new State for admission.
The great purpose Of all their policy is to bring in
new slavel o!ding St,tes, and with this full before it
and our past history the Anti-Slavery Post thinks
they will not come again. How prepoSterous.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
THE NEGRO IN CONGRESS.

The repeated and unsuccessful attempts at or
ganization in the House of Representatives, arc
somewhat ominous of what may be expected dur
ing the session. Slavery with its iron hand. has
fast hold upon the wheels of Legislation. Though
its mlnions are, numerically, in the minority, they
are firm, III tied and determined, holding the ma.
jority i'll the hollow Of their hand. Their indus.
try and perseverance,, would, in a righteous cause,
be quite c%oEdemnahle. Conscious of the Inherent
weakness of their cause, they cannot afford to be
distracted and divided on minor issues. Banks,
the Tariff, the Internal Improvements, &c. dwindle
into comparative insignifcance, and the Negro
looms up most majestically in the horizon. We
find him peeping into Congress, on the first day of
the session, and his language is, "GeHtit men, yoU
must attend to MY interests; it is plain to be seen
that you can do nothing citbout ME-" lie watch.
es, with an eagle eye, The shrewd and unscrupulous
his netarious operations. lie is denounced and
persuaded, he is abused and ridiculed, to no yur-
pose; for he knows he is a power in the land. If
laid PROSTATE at the midnight hour, be rises with
the morning sun. lie cannot find time, at this
~eyentlul crisis, to lie w~rithing in the dust; he is
compelled to look after his friends, as well as his
enemies, mo SPEAKER yet elected" lie is told.
He looks in upon the scene of strife, and beholds
the enomy united to a man, determined once more
to conquer. lie behol6s some of his professed
friends, (those who were sent to Congress upon his
especial recommendation encamped with the
enemy. These he resolves TO consign, upon the
eve of their reelection, to the region of blissful
forgetfulness. And to those who stand up SO no!
bly, for the right, who will not
bow the pregnant hinges of the knee,
Where thrift doth follow fawning,'
he whispers q word of gratitude, nor forgetting to
remind them Of the truthfulness of the motto, Sin
union there is strength" He gives them to under
stand, that, AS he was introduced in the House Of
Re representatives., on the first day of the session, he
intends to remain with them until the end and shall
favor them with a word Of advice, or remonstrance
WREN ever he is conscious of the need Of his ser.
vices, He may be laid on the table, or under the
table, but he will be there or thereabouts." lie
does not fear anybody in the House, but there are
some who indulge in what the Rev. DR.. Breckin.
ridge would call an humanity apprehension" con-
corning him. The fact is, he is no longer ~despised
as formerly; courted and fattered and entreated
by the gentleman from Tennessee" or the gen,
tlcmen from Alabama" or ''the honorable mem
Der from Virginia." he virtually occupies the
Speakers chair, during the attempt at organiza-
ton. Yes. there he sits, preserving his native dig.
nifty; deaf to all importantly, he resolves to show
the world, that there is mettle in him.
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feel their own proper dimensions. Moral dwarfs !
Nay, overgro an deformitics. whose sectarian
touch benumhs the soul aud letters down it's every
struggle to be free. Aye, let the young aspirants
for goodness and for usefulness be delivered from
sheep clothed wolves, and nurturcd and fed by
good shepherds then shall our fair West become
a moral light house in the midst Of surrounding
darkucss.0