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

Gle, for a change of opinion, similar to that which
has taken place in England, may take away all its
value from the biiLo. But u much more serious
hindrancc to any hearty action against slavery on
the part of tho North is the ineradicable preiu-
dice against color. Mr.. Chamber gives a great
many instances which betray a state of public
feeling scarcely conceivable to us in England
ne iudest and the most enlightened districts,
with the exception of Massachusetts share il alike.
IL seems TO be iclt with equal koenncss by clorgy-
men and laymen, by the pious and the profane-
nay, even intense Abolitionist opinions do not
seem TO secure o man from this moral oontagion.
NO accomplishments, no moral or intellectual
Qualities, can save from virtual excommunication
,he unhappy possessors of any proportion of negro
blood. They arc secluded in special rallerics in
church, banished to special schools, hunted out of
puDiic conveyanees and in hotels, the common
taDie q note Is taboo to them. A Pariah in India,
or even a leper among the children of Israel, was
scarcely more an object of commiseration than n
Tree negro is in the free Northern States Of Amer
lea. A curious illustration of this state of feeling
occurred in New York. A certain College in that
state had the courage to appoint q quadroon to
one OF the professors chairs. This professor, not
satisfied with this unparalleled favor, had the
auoaclty to fall IN love with a white young lady,
VINO was weak enough to accept him. But she
had a brother, a very pious CLERGYMAN. and dis
tlngulshed for the fcrvor with which be testified
against the atrocities of slavery. lie never seems
to have contemplated q personal application of the
doctrines OF equality and fraternity. lie was will
ing enough to look on the negro as a man and a
ofother, Dnt he strongly objected to looking on
HIM as a man and a brother-in-law. Accordingly,
with q ready Yankee instinct he appealed to the
mob OF the neighborhood, who, nothing 10th, as.
sembled one Sunday afternoon after church, with
an empty barrel spiked with single nails" and
all the other apparatus of patriotic vengeance
complete, in order tc tar and feather the aspir-
ing professor. lie escaped out of their clutches,
and feo, first to New York, where he married
his hard.won bride, and then to England.S But
a luckless school master who had given him shell
was summarily dismissed from his situation. This
story reads like q tale of some of the worst periods
OF the most exclusive German aristocracies-except
that some more gentle form of death would proba-
bly, have been substituted for the "empty barrel
spiked with single nails" 1t seems to be the
hard fate OF the American constitution to revive
within its own pale all the evils against which it is
destined to protest, without any Of the mitigating
adj nncts which made them tolerable 10 the older
societies. 1t has persecution without the self de-
voted faith which almost hallowed it-despotism
untempered by the patriarchal feeling-and an
aristocracy of caste, impassably fenced off, and
unsoftened by the halo Of chivarous traditions.
As long as it is under the dominion of feelings
such as these, it is quite clear that the North, not
outstanding such indications as have recently
been given by the legislatures of New York, and
one or two other States, can never be really in
earnest in the cause of Abolition. But, were it
ever so much in earnest, it is bound hand and
foot by the provisions of the Federal Constitution.
The Fugitive Slave Law is as is we'll known a por-
ton OF that Constitution. 1t now appears, by the
decision of the Supreme Court, that it does not
lie within the power of Congress to limit the ex-
tension Of slavery in any direction. Mexico, Cen
trail America, Cuba, even Brazil, may be ultimate.
ly swallowed up in the vortex. The curse Of sla-
very may be perpetuated over half n continent
H. 1901 -, l. l. n MI -.
OF fifty new Slave States-and yet the North will
be powerless to interfere. The Constitution can
not be altered except with the consent of three
fourths of the States, involving, therefore, a con-
siderable number of Slave States and in conse-
quence of the strange provision that five slave
votes shall be equal to three free votes, the slave
owners arc and must remain masters of the Slave
States. The ENHANCEMENT is nextricable-th
South is thoroughly master of the situation. As
long as the Union is maintained. slavery must en-
dure and the North has hitherto rcsolutely de
clined even to complete the dissolution of the I'm
ion. The remedy would be q certain one, though
attended with terrible risk =
"Ths withdrawal of the Northern States froa
! the confederacy, whether peacefully or by arme(
force, would so shake and weaken the whole fab
! rc of Southern institutions, that an insurrectioi
by the slaves would be ineyitable-slavery woult
dissolve in q sea of blood.
1.-The South knows this. 1t has often, in it
Wanting and reckless mode of speaking, threaten
ed to quit the Union. Let it try.
s "Eeeling its power, the North, if true to itsel
S and animated by higher motives, could, in a shor
e space of time. extinguish slavery. 1t could say t
e the South, Unless you proceed to follow our ez
n ample, and make provision for the gradual eman
: cipation of your slaves, the partnership betwee
! us must be dissolved we must quit the contedei
g acy, and be to you in future a foreign country
n A resolute and friendly address in those term
C from an aggregate convention OF Free States
r what civilization would point to-, instead of q re
IS sort to arms. But what a glow of patriotism
what an arousing of sensibilities-wha a casting
forth of selfshness-what a disruption of vener
ated traditions-what an enlightening of the mass
r es-must cnsue before the North assumes thi
grand attitude 1t will not do so. The execu
n ton of the threat would be Revolution"
And yet the prospect of sitting still is terribl
y enough. The slaves are now four millions, and il
d ten years they will be five millions. A war wit
some powerful European State is always a posi-
q BILE contingency. Suppose the Federal forces t
be engaged in defending the Union on some othe
point-a black regiment or two, raised in Hayti
might march through the Southern States, and tn
great slavery difficulty would be solved by a un
versal massacre.
10 professor ". G. Allen, the gentleman here referred to, no
. resides in Dublin, where he supports his family by tuition Of
/ by the delivery in different parts of Ireland of his interestii
, lectures on the Condition and Prospects of the African Race
PROGRESS OF TIE FREE LABOR QUESTION IN MI
8 so,IRI.--From all parts of the State we have Il
most gratifying information of the hold which Il
i free labor question is obtaining upon the minds
II the working men of the interior. Day by day v
If receive letters from those who have beretofo
taken no part in the brawl of politics, but w
profess their deep sympathy with this polite
movement in behalf of the social and physical a
vancement of our State. Thousands whom '
II have personally seen also confirm this intelligen
IS and lead us to anticipate even q more speedy t
ty umph for the cause of the white nan in Missou
a than we might at first have dared to hope. If
n. question were made tomorrow, and disembarrass
IS Of all other issues, in the counies of Franklin, Je
TO erson, st. Charles. Fasconade and Usage, it won
a be sustained by a triumphant majority, We ca
L. LOO rnInlu n the nan Of thn nnLnIina- alnnn 1