Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-12

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the worth and dignity Of Labor, leading our youth
to seek by my and every means 20 avoid life ct
productive industry, we Of tho Free States are and
long have been bur1ened and damaged by the
! Slave system. Aud, if Slavery were abolished
! tomorrow, the york Of National dcjverancs from
the evils 1t has wrought would he barely begun,
The false notions Of Labor it has generated and
burnt INTO cur National genins would require ages
tor their complete eradication. Then the negroes
80 long deba-ed and hru,al2cd b7 the lash Of the
0SerSeer, reared in dense ignorance general un
chastity and the notion that Labor ia badge OF
degradation and unmitigated curse, would be-
for generations heavy trial to us all As we
write our eye rests on this passage from recent,
letter OF Col. j. Prince, member OF the Canadian
Parliament who, in reply to the resolves of II
netting OF the Blacks OF Toronto, in which he
was accused Of having unjustly denounced their
people says:
81. has been my misfortune and the misfortune
OF my family to live among those Blacks land
they beve lived upon us) for twen;y-four years. |
have employed hundreds of thom and, with the
exception OF one, named Richard Hunter, not one
has done for usa weeks honest labor. / have
taken them into my service, bave fed and clothed
them year after year on their arrival from the
States; and in return have generally found them
rogues, and thieves, and graceless, worthless,
lying set Of vagahonds. This is my very plain
and very simple description OF tho dirkies as u
body and IL would be indorsod by all the West
ern white men, with very few excephous.'
OF course this is strongly put-we think more
strongly than the facts will worrant-and 1t will
not apply to those who seek 10 live by agriculture
50 fully as will 10 those who seek to crowd into
cities like Ioronto-but its basis OF truth must
be recognised 10y the candid. We know honest
worthy INDUSTRIOUS negroes; but tbs negroes OF
New J ork have many points OF rescmbarce to
Col. Prince description of their Canada brethren
Culored people are iAvortcs here as servants. and
Al in and I1tii hoEta
wages than whites yet we are confident that
there are more Bincks to day in New York who
seek to live hy harlOry, selling liquor, and other
modes ol rauderlng to others vices than by down
right, useful labor. And this deplorable state Of
things proves not that the blacks are e4seotnlly
worse than other people, but that they have, as
race, been educated in the very worst school 10 be
found cn this contincut. The road lron slavery
OF soui ami body to tru0 freedom I5 not merely 4
{ dilGcult Int long one. Ages Of he.er treatment
+, than the Blacks have ever vet received either liz
Nog York or New England, will he reQuiIed to
raise them to the platform CT Il ttue mauho1d
they have many good elemeuts--they are dooile
and init2tive-Hnd, if they could only be treated
humGnely and Considerably, they might improve
much Tester than they do; still, in view Of the
intigni.ies constantly and wantony heaped upon
tbem,tne are doing we'll as could bo expected.
Those among them who are honest, thrifty, selt-
respecting deserve far credit than whites,
even IN the humblest condition, who evince like
lqURlitlrs, since they have overcome far stronger
iptne sSss tending toward debasen,est and knasery
But olnancipatdd slaves, or the Children of such,
: are not desirable class Of ncghbors or fellow.
citizens; aud tho overthrow Of Slavery in the
South must largely increase the northward move
ment of Blacks. Let justice be done, though
the heavens fall; let every man be free, though
We knOw that many will las many DO and always
did abuse their freedom; but we protest against
the assumption involved in the c0lNpcnsniug plan
that the burdens Of Emancipation arc to 10 b1rue
hv the Sonth, while its benefits enure TO the North,
We hrmy believe that, while Emancipation, Ike
e any radical and pcryadiug change in socs! and
political relations, mast involve many individual
hard,hps, and n temporary general disruption tc-
tween Capital and labor in savcholding coInmu-
mites. yet its good eil2ots would be instantly and
benobcialiy 'eit throughout the South in influx of
An intelligent aud Efficient Laborng Class, and the
general appreciation Of real property, while its
p burdens would DO fairly shared by tho North.
Why thon should tho North pay the South for
freeing its slaves?
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2 No COMPENSATION 10 SLAf EIOLDhRS.
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Extract from the Declaration of Principles,
{, drawn up by WILLIAM GoopELL, and adopted by
rho Rhnds Island An,i.SIoysrv Convention i,
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d, We cannot consent to ofTer the slave master a
compcneetion. We kn1w Of nothing that he has
done, Or Is deaircd 70 do, which should Gntlte HIM
to any, IL cannot be for having used his neighhG,,
seyioes without Shges-it cannot be for a,y of the
things embodied in the slave code, or revealed in
its PRACTICAL opcration--it csnnot be for the pro
|, lection afforded the slave by the slave laws--it
cannot be for having forbidden the slave To learn
to read the Bible-it cannot be for having sepa,
rated wives from their husbands nnd infants from
their mothers--it cannot be for an7 or for all these
things that the sl,ye master il entitled to com.
: ren.ation Nor can i, bo for ceasing to do these
: thinss, in the case of cmancipaton. Men should
never be hired TO abandon suc. disgrncefu! prac
tees nor will men of true Christian honor receive
, such a comnensation.
Bssides, sIayohold;n, !, either nroGtable nrnc
4 lice or otberwise If it is proGtablo. then tho
nro,ts of the slaves own labor mast haye pad thf
master long sro. for the ORIGINAL pnrchass money
ayep if he wero entitled To he refunded for il. The
t I,irccks and Romans. like the modern Spaniarls
ainorS oi",raS hn sion" N 90 frSa ~ sdr n, h,