Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-11

the Enquirer and Examiner commend as support
ing 'lhe change of sentiment" which they urge
on in Virginia. This book gives emphasis to the
new doctrines in ,hese sentences
make the loborine man the slave of one man,
instead Of the slave Of society, and he would be
far better off," 1.-TWO hundred years of liberty
have made white laborers a pauper banditti. Free
society has failed, and that which is not free must
be substituted"
Say the Abolitionists, Man ought not to have
properly in man. What a dreary, cold, bleak,
inhospitnblc world this would be, with such doc
triNe carried into practi G ~ 4 + = y "Sla-
very has been too universal not to be necessary to
nature, and man struggles in vain against nature"
y x y Free society is a failure. We slave
holders say, you must recur to domestic slavery,
the oldest, the best, and most common form OF So
cialism."
Free society is a moustrous abortion, and sla-
very the healthy, beautiful, and natural being
which they are trying unconsciously to adopt
The slaves are governed far better than the free
laborers at the North are governed. Our negroes
are not only better of MS to physical comfort than
free laborers, but their moral condition is better"
do not adopt the theory that Ham was the
ancestor of the negro race. The Jewish slaves
were not negroes; and to confne the justification
of slavery to that race, would be to weaken its
s%criptural authority, and to lose the whole weight
Of prolane authority-for we read of no negro sla-
very ia ancient times" = x = X "Slavery,
black or white, is right and necessary"
Mature has made the weak in mind or body
slaves" \ y \ 1.-The wise ind virtuous, the
brave, the strong in mind and body, are born to
command"
"Alen are not born entitled to equal rights. 1t
would be far nearer the truth to say, that some
were born with saddles on their backs, and others
booted and spurred to ride hem-and the riding
docs them good They need the reins, the bit,
and the spur Life aud Liberty are not inaliena-
ble.' The Declaration of independence is exuber-
antly false, and aborescently fallacious."
The Richmond Examiner supports the same
views in this paragraph:
AT first view it seems strange that abolition
never arose till after the institution Of negro sa
very. Protection to the weak, and subsistence for
the ignorant, improvident and vicious, are the two
great and most obvious considerations that render
domestic slavery necessary. Neither private nor
public charity is always at hand to relieve the
wants, the sufierings, the sickness, and the many
other misfortupes to which large masses of man.
kind without property or property-holding con-
nexions, arc subject.
"Our object in these preliminary remarks, is to
show how unwiso il is for the South to attempt to
Justify negro slavery us an exceptional institution.
1t is the only form Of slavery which has excited
the prejudices of mankind, and given rise to abo-
lition; the only kind of slavery which has not been
until recently universal. The experience, the
practices and the history Of mankind amply vindl-
cate slavery in the abstract as a natural, universal
and conservative institution. In justifying sla-
very in the general or abstract, we have to contend
with the prejudices growing out of the African
slave trade, out of the cruel treatment Of slaves
wherever that trade exists, and the still greater
preiudices Of race and color. Still, it is shown by
history, both sacred and ~proiane, that domestic
slavery is a natural, normal, and, till lately, uni
yersal institution. A comparison of the evils OF
free end slave society, from the censuses OF differ
ent countries, from the history of the English
Poor Laws, from the famines, revolutions, infdeli-
ties, superstitions, agrarianisms and anarchiesi
that have of late years afflicted Western Europe
and from the communistic and socialistic move
ments of the day, proves there societies only to be
permanent and enduring which have rested upon
the patriarchal institution Of domestic slavery as q
basis. When it is thus shown that some kind OF
slavery is necessary, all must he willing to admit
that, as slaves there must be, negroes are best fit
; ted for that condition"
In these principal journals of the Old Dominion
and of South Carolina, we have the solution Of the
difficulty growing out of the monopoly of the sol
by slave labor, and the sovereignty over the State
governments, which, as an incident, it conferred
on the masters. The utter restitution and entire
dependence Of the white working classes on thC
lslaveholding class, and the absolute independence
: of the latter on the former, produces a state Of SUI
periority on one side, and inferioIity on the other
shat does not exist anywhere among the despotismi
: of Europe. There the noblemau has no power t
: : force any man 1.-THE serfs Of Russia %excepted) t.
I work for him.. Ha must offer a reward Of som,
sort to the laborer TO obtain his service.
: If one EN- ployer will not give adequate wages
I the laborer may apply to another, and there i
: therefore some dependence of the great property
holders on the good will and preference for then
on the part of the working class. But in thu
: South, the great STAKEHOLDER looks tc his slaves a
an all'suficient body of machinery, which enable
him to dispense with the LABOR of the free-labo
class; and he may use them and supply them, o
; refuse them and starye them at pleasure. ! invited
: allusion to this southern testimony as to the stat
: of ,hings where the slave power iourished most
during the late session of Congress. The fact
were not denied by a single member from thu
South, nor was the argument cOntrOverted. 1t wa
not denied that the accumulation OF wealth il
y slaves, which necessarily engroSsed the soil fol-
their owners, must put the white race of laborer
5 wholly at their mercy.
}, The facts and inference being undisputed, thC
J reply with the remedy for the evil they exposed, il
q given in the passages quoted from the presses
e which speak for the Shareholders. What is it!
d We are told that protection to the weak, and sub,
D ~sistence for the ignorant, improyident and vicious,
4 are the two most obvious considerations that
i render domestic slavery necessary )" that 1.-THE
I South maintains that slavery is right, natural and
necessary )" that "the laws of all the southern
States justified the holding white men in slavery y
that tine principle OF slavery Is III ltselI Tght,ahu
does not depend on difference Of complexion :"
that slavery, black or white, is right and neces-
sary d" that "Our negroes are not only better of
as to physical comfort, than free-laborers, but their
moral condition is better" The salvation for the
free white laborer, falling into pauperism in the
South, and struggling in vain under the super
incumbent weight OF the well directed slave power,
is to make him a slave, andigive him the benefit Of
the same masters. This is clearly the whole drift
0 of the policy, now for the first time boldly enforced
by argument. The blessing, which this new
. feature of the peculiar constitution is to bring on
6 our government is thus illustrated in q late Rich.
mond Enquirer.
re This agitation has produced one happy effect a,
e %least-it has compelled US of the South to look into
" the nature and character of this great institution
.e and to correct many false impressions that even W.
!. had entertained in relation to il. Many in tn,
i South once believed that it was a moral and politi
cal evil. That folly and delusion are gone. w,
sec II NOW in It's trna linLt md rnmnrd h ~ IL