Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-28

1t done late as I7IG, after tho last open Of
fort of the Stuarts had failed to got back the throne
of England. 1t is curious to observe that as sla-
very originated III mitigation Of the horrors Of
war, by selling captives instead Of butchering
them, so was thisseling of Engshmeu into sla-
very an improvement on the civil wars as they ex.
listed only century or two since. As prisoners
taken in civil war. with arms in their hands, they
might have all been hanged at once. 1t oven
said in the Parliament of 1859, that tho very men
who sent in the petition, went to Bari ADDE'S with
| remarkable cheerfulness;" but this has been ex-
planned TO mean that, aware Of the penalty they
had incurred they preferred slavery to immediate
death, and not that they desired to be transported.
The Stuarts were, as usual, worse than their
opponents, even in this business of Transporting g
political prisoners, or conycts; for when Jefreys
sentenced S4l of Monmouth's followers to trans
pOrtation, these men, says Macaulay, more
wretched than their associates who suffered death,
were distributed into gangs, and bestowed on per-
sons who enjoyed favor at court The conditions
Of the gift that the eouvcs should he carried
beyond sea as slaves that they should not be
emancipated for ten years, and that the place Of
their Punishment should be some West Indian ISL
and. This last article was studiousy framed Tor
the purpose OF aggravating the misery Of the exies
In Now England or New JerSey they would have
found population kindly disposed to them, and
climate not unfayorabc to their health and ,igor
1t was therefore determined that they should be
sent to colonies where Puritan could hope to in
spire little sympathy, and where apo9er born in
the temperate zone could hope to enjoy little
health" They were to he sold to sugar planters
1t is not stated whether, like Cromwelrs prisoners
they were paid for in sugar, an article that in
modern days has had hideous connection with
the foulest forms of human cruelty and injustice
Sugar was much scarcer article in the seven
teenh century than it is so that to give fifteen
hundred and fifty pounds Of it for n shows
that slaves were quite valuable articles in those
days. As the trade with Africa was then open,
and negroes were better for slaves than white
men, to say nothing of the chances Of the latter
obtaining their freedom through the occurrence of
political changes, we may suppose that Africans
were as valuable articles then in the British Vest
Indies as they now are in Virginia The things
that were then done, as of course, and which even
had sort of excuse on mercful grounds, would
not now be tolerated in the worst governed coun-
try in Christendom. The French government,
though it has dared to deport political prisoners to
Cayenne, has not dared to sell them into slavery.
This change shows bow much reason we have to
hope that even greater change will eventually be
brought about by the steady progress of oI inion;
and that, slavery cannot now be inflicted on men
as punishment for political ofense, so it will be-
come impossible to keep men in slavery who have
committed no otfense against any law.-Boston
Telegraph.