Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-29
From the Free Presbyterian.
DISSATISFIED WITH FREEDOM"
The Louisville Democrat, of Friday, has tho fol-

The Louisville Democrat of Friday, has tho fol
lowing:
| A few months since, Mrs Catherine Smoot Of
this county, widow of the late Alex. Smoot, liber
aed her slaves, some ten eleven in number, took
them 80 Cincinnati, rented lodgings for them for
twelve months, gave them sum of money for
present and promised further aid if they should
need it. The Freesoil papers published the cir
cumstance, with high eulogies upon the generous
hearted lady. But the sequel. We learn that on
the evening Of the 9th ult all Of the negroes re-
turned to this city, and Mrs. Smoot being absent,
reported themselves to the gentleman who accom-
panied MIS-. S. to Cincinnati. They expressed
themselves rs heartily tired Of freedom and its
privileges as enjoyed by the negroes in the Buck
eye State, and said they would rather be slaves
here than be free in Ohio. One old woman said
she worked hard for wages and received pay,
and couldn't stand freedom at that rate, that she
wonld rather be put up at auction and sold to the
highest bidder, even to the Devil himself, sooner
than go back to freedom as she found it. Another
received friendly call from of her sable neigh
bors, just before starting back to Kentucky, who
stole her stock of money, six dollars together with
her free papers, the latter OF which she considered
no loss. These negroes are now here, and protest
against being remanded to free soil and freedom y
We find the above in Republican newspaper
without note comment. it will doubtless be ex
tensivcy copied into pro-slayery papers, NORTH
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Of the 6eatiildeS of the institution of slavery.
Though We have nowr many such notices to be
put forth which were pure fiction, yet vii
ling, far the arguRleHt is concerned to consid
er them all veritable realities, and let slavery
have the benefit of them. And what does it amount
to? Ten or eIeven negroes reared in slavery till
they have become inbued with the habits of ind0-
lence and unthritness dependence and deceit
which the system never fails beget, are sudden.
y emanc pa'ed, transferred from their homes, their
friends their acquHintances and all the early
citation of life, to land Of perfect strangers, in n
large and p0puiuus city, iul OF nye crate preiu.
dice and hatred toward their prescribed race, and
there left t. shift for themselves, under the most
adverse and trying circumstances that can occur
in life Is it any wonder that in the few first days
or weeks Of their experience in State of freedom,
under such circumstances, they should turn back
with longing look to the home of their childhood
and the scenes of early life. Where the state ut
slavery has Teen comparatively mild, as doubtless
it often IS, such result is perfectly natural.
And vet let no one start when we say that here
is the development Of one of the darkest features
Of the slave system. 1t is but reasonable to sup
pose that instances like the above only where
the previous state of slavery has been mild and
comparatively easy, an exception as every one
who knows any thing of slavery, to the general
rule. What horrible system, then, must that be,
which, even under its most favorable workings, is
capable Of SO imbruiting the manhood--the i'm
mortal nature. of its victims that they ioH-
ger capable Of eHj0yHg or aPpTeciGtiRg tho higher
state Of other intelligences, Aud if the palsying
touch of slavery can th1s wither up the souls APP
probation for state Of earthiy freedom what hope
is there that, wearing such clogs it will ever rise
to the infinitely more sublime conception of the
freedom of the redeemed in glory.
Turn what side of the dreary Ian Escape of slave
life you will, to the interpolation and oh how
dark and dreadful it is