Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-11
A KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS OPINION OF
SLAVERY.

MIR. A.. s.. Talbot, is the Democratic nominee for
Congress in the Louisville District. lie once made
a speech in tho State Legislature not altogether
loyal to the puculiar institution of Kentucky
This, his opponents, the Americans, are now
throwing in his teeth, with q view to defeat his
election. The Louisville Journal, edited by
Prentice, the witty Yankee advocate of slavery,
proves the charge of abolition by quoting from
this speech, and fortifes the charge by making
another-that Mr.. Talbot designs to remove TO
Missouri to join the emancipation party of tho
State. We give the extract which the Journal
quotes. 1t was honorable to Mr.. Talbotts head
and heart that he made such n speech. 1t will
greatly honor his manhood if he still dares to stand
by its sentiments -
"The propositions and principles contained in
the resolution are not with me a thing Of yester-
day, and Will be gone tomorrow. They have
long engrossed my attention-have long absorbed
my thoughts. The subjects embraced therein are
OF deep concern, OF vital importance to the Amer
lean people. They embrace the present and tho
future destiny, not of one, but of two. entirely
distant land separate races of men. If adopted
and carried out, they will affect not only a few
men of the present, but millions of the generations
to come, not only our own people, but the inhab-
itants of the whole earth. Sir, you mPy think I
am dignifying this resolution, or to its PROPOSE
tons and principles attaching too much Importance,
1T is A PROPOSITION TO LIBERATE AND RID US or
ALL OUR SLAVES, NOW AND FOREVER. Rid rs Of
them, sir, and what would be left to mar the peace
in all our holy mountain? What to disturb tho
harmonious action of our glorious Republic7 Rid
us of them, sir, and there would be no cause CT
discord in the body polite. Adopt and carry out
the proposition indicated by the resolution,
purchase and remove all our slaves without the
limits of the Government, and all cause of offence
would be gone. The strife would be over, and the
war between the North and South ended. Then,
sir, all extremes would meet. The political lion
would lie down with the peaceful lamb, and our
States study war no more. The North and the
South would embrace each other; the East and
the West would dwell together in love and then
we would indeed be a good and a mighty nation,
fixed upon a firm basis, cemented together by Q
our institutions would be perpetuated. Then would
we have proved ourselves faithful sons of faithful
sires, and worthy sons Of our illustrious grand
sires. Then and thus would the African be made
free and TO rejoice and we have secured for our
selves and our ~posterity the merited and undivided
plaudits of an admiring world. At peace amongst
ourselves, and nothing TO disturb our harmonious
action, nothing to check the prosperity and growth
of our people, our Government would assume her
true rank and dignity with the nations of tho
earth, and 20 onward and upward and attain the
height of grandeur and glory never before
equalled. Surely. sir, a measure involving the
present and future destiny of SO many human
beings, and fraught with such important couse-
quences to our own nation and world, should com
mand the attention and merit the esteem not only
of the members of this House. but of the justine
generous, and the good, in every land"