Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-06
SOUTHERN POLICY.

CoyERsoRs MEssAGEs.-The Governor of North
Carolina, in his Message ust delivered to the Leg
islature, vents his indignation at the loss Minister
Wheeler sustained in the emancipation of Jane
johnson and her children by the aid Of Passmore
Williamson. What the Legislators ale going 20
do about it we do not exactly know.
The Governor of South Carolina considers the
recent election as no settlement OF the question be-
tween the North and tho South, but only a truce.
lie thinks that every species Of labor should be in
the hands of The Slaves and advocates the reestab-
lishment of the foreign slave trade. lie declines
to lay before the legislature the anti-slavery extern
sion resolutions of New Hampshire, which the
Governor of that State had transmitted to him for
that purpose.
We append an extract from Governor Adams
Message, expressive of his conviction that all labor
should be performed by slaves. lie says:
"If we cannot supply the demand for slave la
Dor, then we must expect to be supplied with a
species of labor we do not want, and which is, from
the very nature of things, antagonlstic to our IN
situations. 1t is much better that our drays should
be driven by slaves-that our factories should be
worked by Flayes-that our hotels should be served
by slaves-that our locomotives should be manned
by slaves, than that we should be exposed to the
introduction. from any 9uarter, OF a population
alien to us by birth, training and education, and
which, in the process of time, must lead to that
conflict between capital and labor, which makes 1t
so difficult to maintain free institutions in all
wealthy and highly civilized nations where such
institutions as oars do not exist In all Slave
holding States true policy dictates that the supe-
rior race should direct, and the interior perform
ali mental service. Competition between the white
and blacl man for this service may not disturb
Northern scnsibiiity, but it does not exactly suit
our latitude"
Thus it seems to be the purpose of Governor
Adams and his class, to render slaves SO cheap by
importation, that many of the present white non
Shareholders may be able to enjoy the luxury of
Hogging their own chattels, and if they are SO
thriftless as not to be able to attain the thus cheap
ened dignity of Shareholders, why cxpell them
from the State. 1t has long been the policy of the
slave States to expel free colored laborers from
their borders, rightly judging them to be the mos
dangerous foes to freedom. Hence the Southern
patronage to the Colonization Society and the bast
persecution of this class of persons socially, an(
by the forms of law. Now they seem disposed t.
extend this principle more rigidly, to the expulsion
of free labor in all its forms. Free labor is danger
Gus to Slavery. Hence they propose to treat free
laborsrs as they treat Abolitionists aud free ne
groes. But two classes of men must live in the
South, Masters and Slaves. All others must share
the same fate-free thinkers, free speakers, and
free laborers, whether white or black. The slave
holders indeed, are more in dread Of the insnrrec-
ton Of free white laborers than of Instructions OF
their black slaves; hence they rob the Post Office
Danish book sellers, and muzzle the press. Theii
only safety is in shrouding all around them will
the darkest Of ignorance and expelling from amoni
them all the elements of intelligence and good SC
ciety. Slavery belongs to the age of barbarian
and it is the true policy of its friends to bring bae
its rule. As fast as possible the shareholders al
ipaugurating this their true policy.
The Charleston papers support the position
tae Governor for the re-opening of the foreie
trade. The Charleston Standard of Nov. 20
says:
The principal feature of the Governors MessaI
which we publish to-day, is the proposition to !