Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-20

SUN NV u tutlE HuuulWOrk. IL is exceedingly
pleasant rcadiRg, and by no means lengthy yet
it furnishes X perfect handbook Of the Northern
SIDE oil the slavery controversy hIi is anime of ar
gument Tor those who hate slavery simply because
their ncighbors hate it. and would be very glad of
a uecent show OF reasons to back their opinions
ana 1t is well stored with tho piquant anecdotes
and sharp numerical antithescs which form SO
largea part of modern augmentation. t the
anecdotes we need give no specimens. Use has
made us only too familiar with them . perhaps
cal!ous to them. They are of the kind with
which anti'slavery books have teemed, from Mlss
Martineau to Mrs. Stowe-for the stream OF them
Is ever flowing. a system which habitually tears
vale from husband, and child IRON mother. which
rules by cruelty and spreads by prostitution, can
never be barren in anecdotes to illustrate its hor'
ror. Martineau tells a story of two daughters
OF a planter, by n mulatto woman, who (being all
but white) were brought up by him in the greatest
refinement, and with the most religious education
ihey were discovered on his death to be, in conse,-
quence Of legal flaw, still unemancipated and
they were sold by his executors, by public action
INTO another planters seraglio. This has always
seemed to us 50 completely to sum up, in one nor
rlble instance, the worst %iniquities of slavery, that
after it all other stories have seemed supeihuous
and weak.
But the figures are sufficiently novel to be worth
! noticing more soecially. The upshot Of what they
: prove is that slavery is not only a crime but a
blunder. 1t is eminehtly wasteful and inefficient
, and that for the simple reason that though you
can fog men into moving their muscles according
to your bidding, you cannot fog them into inge-
nuity, or care, or diligence. Fear.service is nee
/ csssari'y cyo.sorvice and, therefore, until over
t scorers acquire the attribute of ubiquity, slavery
e will remain the most worthless of all kinds OF
labor, But this is not the only cause of economi-
t cal stagnation in the Slave States. The slaves
t have taken a revenge upon their masters not very
unlike that which ancient Greece was said to have
taken on her Roman conquerors. They have
| mazda 1nhnr Gh n,atu1 and 1tcI aaSu .. md thp nNu-
r rious apathy CT absolute power, and the free scope
S given to unbridled sensuality, have eaten out the
native energy of the Anglo'Saxon slave-owners'
Q and have left them as stagnant as Spanish gran
dees. MIR. m proves this by comparing
r the opportunities and the achievements OF the
$ Northern and the Southern sections of the Union,
n The value of real and personal property in the
North is just three times as much per acre as 1t Is
in the South. Massachusetts could more than
- buy up Virginia, the two Carolinas, Georgia, Flor
J ida, and Texas and yet those States are collect
~ lively upwards Of sixty times as large as Massa-
chusetts, and their population is four times as
great. The tonnage of vessels is FIVE times as
8 great in the North-small as is its scaboard. Its
manufacturing products are nearly ten times as
abundant as those of the South. AS a climax,
~ the North ontstrips the South on the SouthG own
Q chosen ground =
n The North, with half as much land under cul'
tization, and two-thirds as many persons engaged
u in farming, produces 227 900, 600 dollars worth OF
agricultural produce in a year more than the South;
% twice as much on an acre, and more than double
70 the value per head of every person engaged In
+ farming. This occurs while the South paying
nothing in the form of wages for labor, has better
land, q monopoly of cotton, rice, cane-sugar and
nearly so of tobacco and hemp, with above all, a
climate yielding two, and sometimes three crops
in a year."
In every thing the contrast is tho samc-in
W schools, books, newspapers, churches, railways,
canals. In everything the North advances, the
a. South lags behind. The South does not even con-
trive to pay its own postage and the deficiency
has to be made ny by the superior epistolary en-
rs ergies of the North. "a aN,gF
Some ten or twelve years ago. Sir G. L4ell who
painted the state Of affairs in America wi&l q very
Friendly hand, WAS SO impressed with the failure
of slavery in an economical point of view, thNt he
INDUCED in a belief that it would die out OF itself
y Mr.. Chambers entertains no such hopes. The
Generalization wrought by slavery on the slave
W owners disables them for the energetic efor
O. which a transition from slave to free labor would
lie require. Moreover, the possession of slaves how
W ever injurious to the community at large, is, o
bit course, an abundant source OF wealth to lndivid
es uals and these men exercise a control over pub
st lie opinion as despotic as that of the inquisition
tn The writer before US gives Instances of men driy
IT. en- out of the Slave States under peril of thei
~ lives-one for voting for Fremont, and the othe
IL for saying, in a private letter, that he and other
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he this tyranny is maintained there is no more chanc
oh of a healthy public opinion being formed on tn
- subject of slavery, than there was of an opinio
We being formed in favor of Lutheranism three hur
of dred years ago in Spain. And those whose specia
tn office it Is to correct the errors of human feelin
nix and opinion, instead of r~ebuking the evil, sanctiu
lat it. The clergy of almost every denomination al
", as much tainted with slavery doctrine as the
lr. focks. The medieval Church, much as she
he accused of undue compliance with the spirit
ty, her age, never ceased to urge the enfranchisemer
nd of serfs and that villenage has almost disappea
CHI ed from Western Europe is, in great part, he
w work. But the American denominations with a
nd the enlightenment of Professionalism to guide the
es only rack their ingenuity to invent pleas for ST.
to very. One imaginative apostle sees in it a might
for instrument for evangelization of the blacks, an
IN solemnly points out the danger of preferring the
he temporal to their spiritual welfare. We shouI
on have thought that the facts tina. Virginia yisi
nd with Imprisonment any man or woman who teacI
es even a free black child to read, and that re
on nessee, only last December, forbid any black to
ow to church for the space of one year, might modi
so. these sanguine views. Another reverend gent
full man, with humble-minded blasphemy, does n
try venture to inquire into the religious objects of II
Of institution" but eomplacently lays it on tt
raj broad shoulders of Providence. at is not a mor
Id. evil. 1t is the Lords doing, and marvellous in GU
md eyes" According to this doctrine we must pr
h a sumo that the existence of such persons as thi
apoiogist, to bring infamy on the Christian namt
is, mo moral evil, but the Lords doing" 1t
no. unquestionably very marvellous in our eyes.
be The fact is, that these preachers hold their pos
he tons durante 6ene placito, and depend for the
Mt very subsistence on the good pleasure Of the
sal congregation. Now men rather like to be lectu
ed severely on vices which only affect their spi
itual wefare-the passing sting lisa pleasing e.
~ . excitement, and is moreover accepted by the co
I'd ID science as full discharge and satisfaction for G
Nv penitential liabilities but woe to the lnckle
III, wight who shall venture to reprove a communi
t . for any vice, the remuneration of which involves
~, ne temporal loss. In England, the wrath of an
~ dignant flock is commonly confined to measurele
10 abuse but in America it is unfortunately able
ne point that abuse by a summary dismissal. 1t Is
'rs melancholy spectacle for us, before whose eyes I
M links that unite State and Church are snappi
ear year by year, to see the most thoroughly "yoly
nc no tary" community Of Christians the world !
ice :" So .;th a huoe national inionitv. and inste
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