Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-10
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| The following is from the Tuskagee Ala) Re-
publican, 1t is almost equal to the rawlings Of
some Of eur northern Democrats.
Your genuine freesoiler or nbolitionst, is o.
queer anmal-queer in bis habits, queer in his
propensisies, queer in his affections.
He little nothing for the poor white
man who is starving or freezing before his face
Nor for the wifo and children of the poor white
man. They whose wretched rags scarcely cover
their nakedness, aud whose still more scant and
wretched food hardly prevents starvation. Every
day he witnesses scenes Of destituton, wretched-'
ness and penury, that might stir in him some feel
ipg Of charity. But your genuine freosoiler
nothing fer these. Here, his open hand and we'll
storded larder might do substantial good.-Buts
then, these unGortunates have the still greater mis-
fortune Of being whito
Nor does the genuine freesoiler care any thing:
for the African in his native deserts. There he is
slave to master Of his own color There he is
addicted to oil the vices down in the dark cata-
logue of crime Murder is n favorite amusement.
Poygamy and licentousness CT every sort are
every day practices. There he is debased almost
below the 5rutes. llo is a brute But these
cite in your genuine freesoiler emotion of pity.
If they did he wouldn't be the genuine article.
Nor does the free niger in the freesoiler's own
country claim much more of his attention. There
he is debased, licentious, wicked. A very largo
portion of the crime daily committed in the freeS
states, is committed by the free blacks. They are
the worst population in every community. In
Canada they devising means of getting rid Of
them. They are nuisance in every free state.
And in Illinois it is seriously proposed to reduce
them to slavery. In some locations, such outra-
gcous crimes have they frequently committed, that
tho citizens have taEsn their punishment into their
own hands with less ceremony and more rlgor than
hos ever been done in slave state.
But it is for tho African at the South that the
bowels of your genuine lree3oiler is peculiarly
moved. At the South and in slavery, where he is
in better condition than at any other quarter of
B fho, al, A. hn hatt olptl
ed, better fed, better cared for in every respect,
freer from care moro contented, happier, than any
where else. If he is in health, he has to work.;
chat is the condition Of mankind. If he is SICK.
he don't have to work, but his wants still care
fully regarded Ills disease is administered to, he
is fed, he is clothed, he is housed snd his wifo'
and children, if he have them, are in the same
condition.
Now, it is the negro in this condition that par
tcularly excites the sympathies of your genuine
free soiler and abotionist. In this condition in
which he needs nothing but to be let alone.
But your freesoiler has theory upon the SUBJ.
ject Of slavery which he must stick to right orr
wrong. He imogines that slavery retards the pro-
gress of state in the industrial arts. That it de-
grades the white man well as the black one.
That it produces licentiousness. Aud that free
dom is the pormal, natural condition of every
human being. But in each of these there can be-
no greater error than thGt same theory. The his
tory of the world wherever slavery has existed
soiler to acknowledge that his theory was wrong.
as he must be convinced that it is he would be-
forced by decent respect for the opinion Of the
world to give up his practice; he is, therefore;
obliged to hold on to his theory whether right or
wrong
Where all the blacks in the state of New York,
or any other state, owned by master were'
they caused to work with regularity, were they
trained up with the habits of industry and cean--
Illness 'Nnd were they separated from the degraded
white persons with whom they associate in such To-
calites as the Five Points, does any one imagine
that TREY would not be in better condition than
they now !? AS general thing could human
beings be in q worse condition than they are in i'm
the place we have mentioned Would it, them
not be real charity to them to make them do
what they will not do voluntarily?
Tho negro, # left to himself, is incapable Of
progress, except Of progress downward. Liberia
ia turning out to be failure There the free
black have had fair chance Of making the great
experiment, and the result is be is about to starye
to death.
But your genuine fleesoer has very little sym.
pathy for the free negro, any other negro, in
Africa. 1t is not until he is brought to the South.
and reduced to his normal condition, the condition
Of slavery, not until he is somewhat humanized,
and civilized, and christianzed not until those
results are brought about his affections are awak-
ened in his behalf. Then his bowels are moved,
claims, he forms aid societies. he becomes active.
impossible he can benefit, and whom he is almost
certain to iuure.
Truly, your freesoilcr is queer institutions