Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-12

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to the Limitation of the duration of rases, in the
words: determined the time before appointed"
But we must now prove the negroes in the
United States, show by their actions, that God has
stamped, on their natures, q sense of the distnc-
ltion Of races. To the eternal honor of female
slaves and the everlasting condemnation of their
british masters, it is well known, that tho Illicit
connexions between masters and slaves, are very
often procured by force, showing tho most power
fnl natural antipathy, and it is highly probable,
such connexions are in almost every instance, at
first the result Of force or fear In the free states
there is very little disposition to intermarry in
either race, Iu the United States everywhere, the
negroes strongly evince their preference of their
own race. AS every man holds himself first, SO
does every race while God regards all with care.
Selfrespeet is necessary to the well being of in.
dividuas, and equally SO to that of races there.
fore God inspires it, We see this in everything
the negroes do. They prefer their own churches,
and their own ministers. The Quakers their ear
liest friends, make no distinctions on account Of
color. yet how few negroes attend Quaker
meetings Massachusetts the first and perhaps
the only state that awards black men equal polti-
cal equality, has only 9.064 black and mulatto
citizens while Virginia has 81 333 and Maryland
74723. Why do tho negroes adhere with such
tenacity to these states. where they have nearly
no rights except to DO moLbed and detraud.
ed 1t is that they may be with, and among,
their own loved people. In 1850 forty.cne color.
ed people born in the state Of New York, and
nine from Massachusetts were residing in New
Orleans, while only twenty-sevea had settled in
New York from louisiana, although Louisiana
has II 463 free colored people, Why all this /?
The same devotion to genial cline and race
The cOlored population, in free states remote
from slave states, hardly increases In 1910
Maine had 1856 free colored men, and in 1850 it
had 1856 or just one more in zen years Ohio in
1910 had 1882 and in 1850 had 25 .279 or nearly
5000 increase. Cause, Maine is cold, and far
from the body Of the colored race while Ohio
joins two slave states. So in Ohio, the river
counties, joining the slave states have the most
negroes. The mobocratc county of Brown has
S63, while the abolition county of Geauga has only
seventeen.
II races can be changed by climate, all history
and all observation show, it aust take unknown
thousands of years to do it. Prichard, with all
his ZEAL learning and ability, has failed to find
one authentic instance. The Malabar Jews will
not bear investigation. If omalgamation is to
produce equality, then slavery is the only known
means, which can approach toward omplishing
it, and to give it fair chance ull the free negroes
should he reduced again to that condition. Why
should we wait thousands of years? Why should
the free colored people go lack to slavery
Why should not the colored people ask what
thau
should they not ask to be comfortably settled in
Mexico, among congenial races, in climate and
on soil, even more propitious than their father.
land, where there 70 laws, and no distinctions
OF color, to harass them? But you will say the
abolition society are rapidly dispelng the wicked
PREF ejudice Of color and soon we shall be as free
here, we would BE in Mexico. | tell you the
distinction of races is moro rampant now, than at
the formation OF our government Twenty five
years discussion has only produced the Taney de-
cision and the people of the United States would
sustain so much of 1t, as relates to negro rights,
by an unheard Of majority tomorrow. Governor
Chase, by saying at Cincinnati, what could barely
be construed into possibility Of his favoring ne,
gro equality, lost more than ten thousand
votes in Ohio, and came very near being defeated,
although he is the most popular governor Ohio
ever had. The avidity with which the Office seek
ing democracy seized upon this declaration, well
shows their conviction of its unpopuarity, and
they scent popular will as hound does his prey.
But you ask, why are the people of the United
States so hostile to negroes Because they are
a very distinct race: because negroes do not like
them, and they do not like the negroes The
pish ial IN g, tI, IT,; 4
States, but they came Jos far Nor,h; and God or
nature or fate lost them their dominancy. Not
30 in Mexico. II is South and the darker races Of
Spain and Portugal, and the Basque provinces of
France who are Of Nilotic and Barbaric African
origin, found congenial home, whittier they in
vite the African race terms Of equality. Can
you not see in all this the finger of God? By the
same ordinance, the northern states first abolished
slavery, which pressed the slaves soutAward, to-
ward their final home, where one of the best
soils and climates under the sum- awaits to receive
them and the laws and people beckOn them on
ward. The slaves themselves only await till
Moses shall arise, and ask TO let his people go.
OF Gerrit Smiths and Burrits compensation
scheme, will only say, it is still lowsr-all the
doctors of the earth cannot give it vitality OF the
Republican party it is evident, unless they tell
the people what is to be done with the negroes,
their end draweth nigh. The Democrats propose
slavery as the final doom of the cOlored man. The
people do not like this but still they greatly prefer
it to the slightest risk of negro equality.
Let Moses aIise! Let him ask the people, our
Pharaoh to "Let my people 60 !" and they will do
it. The lords of the lash might make some fuss,
but it would be impotent for harm. i am not in
favor of sending the negroes to Africa. God in
his providence never permitted them to come here,
Just to go, or be carried back again. Their desti
ny is to make the desert places Of equatorial
America glad, and her wilderness to blossom as
the rose.
Your friend
ELI NICHOLS.
The winter, fifteen years ago, commenced at
similar date and in a similar style with the pre-