Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-21

and may be bought and sold and made merchan.
use lou openly voting aud acting with such
q party, turn round and demaLd Of me, MS our
Representative, to overthrow your own influence,
your vote and de power of your party, by main
tanning the rights and the dignity Of labor. |
beg you to believe that 50 lar MS my humble in.
huencc extends, TO the utmost limit Of my talents,
to the latest moment Of my life, | WiH comply
,ciM this request.
Again, you demand in strong language that ]
shall cease my anxiety and hbors for the black
man, and turn my attention ~ the interests of the
white people. This language surprises me. Has
God given you any right which he Las withheld
from the man OF dark complexion? The suggest.
ION is derOgatory to the character Of Deity, is Jlus
phcmY against His attribute OF justice. Do you
deny that the black man holds from God the same
right to live, the same right to The food which he
gathers by lis toll which you possess These are
rights which Republicans hold to be common and
universal. That you should ask me to leave the
black man in our own State or under the exclusive
jurisdiction OF Congress-, to he robbed and murder
ed. surprises me, | will become accessory to no
such crimes. You 60 everywhere you please in
pursuit Of happiness. The black man holds from
the OmnipotCnt mind tho same right. Neither
white nor black shall be deprived of these rights
it can prevent il. But if tyranny, oppression and
injustice IRE to rule our people. IctH not select their
UictimS!
We have recently seen a worthy colorcd man
shot down murdered in the most populous city Of
our State by an officer of the federal government
| would have protected him just ms freely as /
would have protected yon. | would have slain
the murderer in defence Of the victim it necessary
I, his protection. l would hang the murderer as
willingly as | would had he murdered you or the
President of the United States but while you
sanction 10y your vote and influence the murder OF
black men, you insist that | shall cease my efforts
for their protection. l WiU not do 10. While able
I To sneak. tn rive n vote mr. wipl1 n Ucobun will IN
the extent of my influence and power, protect all
men in the enjoyment Of life.
But you say the negro is ignorant and degraded
That is the argument Of the democratic party
Suppose it true ; have they less claims upon our
sympathy? Are Ne at liberty to rob tie poor ? to
Cypress The ,ceak ? to despiSe the humble ? l have
no pity for the rich, the wealthy, the mighty men
f Of our land. who enjoy all their own rights. and
often encroach upon the rights of Others. But |
do not wish to enter in to this controversy between
the democratic party and the negroes, as to which
f possesses superior Intelligence and moral ele sation
but l would not close my eyes to obvious facts.
There are in our State twcnty-six thousand col,
ored persons and l do not hesitate to say that,
2 without reference to Germans, there are Fifty thou
e sand white foreigners, and an equal number of
e white natives, holding with you to the degradation
2 of the blacks, but who are far below them in point
2 Of intelligence and mora character. Nor shall |
t do any injustice to the late democratic candidate
for Governor Of Ohio, when | say that RemoEd
and Douglass and Pennington and Ward and Nor
D ris, and many other black men Of our country and
. State, arc bis peers liz al. that constitutes moral ex.
celleHce,
: But there are many black men md many white
men, many foreigners and many native born, who
are ignorant.
The Republican party would protect all those
under tho exclusive jurisdiction OF Congress or Of
{ the free States, in the pursuit Of happiness, and in
the attainment Of knowledge. Our platform goes
no farther. | wish it did. | unhesitatingly aYow
that my own object is not merely to protect them
but to inform. educate, refine and raise them to a
moral elevation, far higher and broader than the
sphere of thought in which the minds of those
who seek to degrade them, now revolye.
The object of human existence is moral elevation
Man is happy in proportion to tho development OF
Ills moral nature. If every black person in the
} universe possessed the learning, and the virtue Of
Locke or Milton, mankind would be Just so much
better and happier Neither you nor / nor any
f white man would be less intelligent or less happy.
To elevate our race is tho appropriate labor Of
+. statesmen, philanthropists and christians. Parents
' spend their time and property to develOpe the in
t tellectual ability of their children. For this pur.
/, pose, scho Is, academies and colleges are establish
: ed. Tract and missionary societies are formed,
d and teachers and ministers are employed to enligh'
t ten the ignorant, raise up the degraded, reform the
: vicious, comfor. the afflicted, relieve the oppressed,
c administer to the wants of the needy, and light
up the intellects Of those vh) dwell in mental
\ darkness.
r These efforts constitute the highest and holes,
: employment of good men. The Immaculate NaZ
b nrine spent his life in this work. 1t is worthy o.
I His Divine mission. To effect this object the aid
' of heaven is daily invoked at every family altar
and on the Sabbath every pulpit is made voca
D with the prayer that God would e~nlighten the ig
E %norant, relieve the oppressed, reform the vicious,
and send the light OF the Gospel to those who ST
f in moral darkness.
To defeat these objects, and prevent the Almigh.
ty from granting these prayers, the Democrats OF
our Slave States have enacted laws, suhjectine
to fine and imprisonment those who teach slaves
e (black or whIe) to read the Gospel and elevate
j their own moral nature and the Democrats Of
: Ohio, through their speakers aud presses, charge
: the Republican party with cooperating in this work
Of God and good men. ! wish the charge were bet
u ter founded.
. But you appear to think this elevation of thu
black men would be attended by an amalgamatior
of the races; yet you must know that it is oppres
sion and ignorance, a want of moral principle, o
self-respect, that encourages amalgamation.
u In our Slave States, there are at least ten persons
of mixed blood in proportion to the colored popu
= lation, where there is one in the free States. If
therefore, you would prevent amalgamation, en-
tighten and christianize both blacks and whites.
You express doubts as to what shall be don,
+ with the slaves if they be emancipated. ! answer
do by them as you would be done by. Protec
n them let them enjoy the avails of their labor
e cease to rob them give them tho rights to life auc
liberty which you enjoy, and they will soon mani
d fest as much care for your hap2iness.as you viii
for theirs.
n You suggest that they should be colonized.-
| They hold from their creator passports to go wher'
10 they please and remain where it suits them provid
|, cd they .respass upon the rights Of no other persons
| would as soon vote to expeI you from the land O
IS your birth, as l would to cxpel the black man from
his native home.
y Finally, while the President and those who sup
e port him are welding the influence and power o
the Government to degrade labor. to enable ont
portion of our people to rob another of thei
e earnings. to maintain q commerce in human fesl
n upon our southern coast, and in all our territories
to restore the foreign slave trade. to obtain more
e territory over which 10 extend the curse of human
II bondage, to obtain a military d~espotism in kansai
Is in order to ~coLstrain her people to uphold SLAYER,
b to annex Cuba for the purpose of e~nlarging tn,
d slave power to subvert onr Constitution under thu