Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-22

mer state or they would become desperate and
perish in the woods or on the gallows.
Machiayelli says, that 10 make servie peo.
pe free is as difficult to make free people slaves
lhis.is true, even when nation moves III behai
of the emancipation of distinct race long ensayed
How slowly can such people De prepared Tor lib-
erty How few even Of the nations called free are
capable Of freedoml | dare not pronounce slavery,
in some type Of it, the 'ralnns 'mmedtcd0te,D
of fallen humanity but it is chronic disense,
demanding chronic remedies, and great care and
patience.
have thus answered your Query. Slayemaking
is sinful. To hold slaves from motives purely mer-
cenary, and to treat them ehattels, is sinful.
But slaveholding is not sin. lie who afhrms 1t
despses the rlainest Scriptures, and tetrays a
mind utterly blinded by prejudice and fanaticism
for the continuance Of the relation may be tho
best for the slave, and no alternative may remain
to the master.
But for the violence and recklessness of fanati
cism, | might hope to see measures adopted at the
South which would benefit masters, and secure fol
the African a cohdition preferable to freedom.
have elsewhere advocated colonization; it is vision
ary however to suppose that our millions OF slaves
will ever be transported across the ocean. The
black race is fixed amongst us. Amalgamation OF
equality with the Saxon race is out of the ques-
ton What, then is the course which Christian
legislation dictates? think the Legislatures of
the Southern States ought to initiate the noble
magnanimity of the Roman Emperors, and
become the guardians Of the slaves. The
! South is at least as much under Christian inf
uence as the North; and the Gospel suggests q
code which would recognize the relation Of mas
ter and slave, but so regulate the rights and
duties of each party that all the abuses of the
system would be removed, and both parties really
| benefited.
Such code of laws, think, it would not bt
! impossible to frame. But it is unnecessary t
dwell on this point now. Nothing can be dont
for the slaves, the benevolent wishes Of their true
friends must be defeated, their efforts paral yzed
while fanaticism is resolved to irriae and ulceratC
the Southern mind, and create morbid sensitive
ness which forbids any movement about :his me.
mentous and delicate subject. While Northern
politicians persist in their hollow, selfish, intrigu-
ing decamations about the denominations Of slave
ry, and while Northern religious journals--not
only raving Billingsgate Chronicles, but papers
as respectable as the LR9epeEdent-will persist in
abuse and rancour, will manifest not 30 much
regard for the slave as settled hatred for the maser
while this sympathetic ''malice and evil speaking"
these TRADES and calumny and falsehood, are in
cessantly goading and insulting the South-nothing
can be done, nothing even proposed The true
friends of the slave-those who know him, and
have power to interpose in his behalf-are at the
South; but they are stripped Of all influence by
these wicked and incendiary proceedings. They
can only fold their hands, and look to Him who
"causeth the wrath of man to praise him." and
who can employ the madness of men to accomplish
the purpose of his wisdom.
RICHARD FULLER.