Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-03
From tNe KENTUCKY NeHB'
MASTER AND SLAVE.

The scare-crow slave instruction in Kentucky
and Tennessee places the STAKEHOLDER in q rdicu-
lous position. The slavery presses are, on all oca
sions, announcing the return of runaway slaves to
their masters, ana prating about the love they
have for them ard how the master loves his slaves
and all that sort of thing. Some Shareholders too
are boastng that their slaves would fight for them,
and that they hate abolitionist and would
rather be in bondage than to be free &c, &c. But
SO far from this being true, the moment they hear
that two or three negroes have been talking to-
geher about the cruelty of their masters and their
desire to be free men, their masters become fran
tic with fear, and proclaim through the press
that the whole States are organized to fall upon
them; and wherever they find poor black fellow
that has been talking about freedom, they jerk
him up and either shoot or hang him to terriy
others; thinking to rest more secure by such inhu
man brutality towards those that have fed and
clothed them for years without fee or rewatd.-
Now it true that jovia friendship really exis-
ted between master and slave, there would OF
course be some social enquiry of the colored race
as t. the cause of the insurrection; and if there
was a cause, as of course there must be. their
masters would ferret out the wrong and let the
slaves see that their rights should not lie invaded
nor their persons trampled upon. But this is far
from the thoughts OF the master. a negro is not
supposed to have any rights, and the master, con-
scioua OF his neariOus system of iniquity, knowing
that the negro has a sense of right and is stung
pale with fear and cries for help from every quar-.
ter at the slightest movement They well know
that if an insurrectiOn should take place, there
would be no mercy shown to their oppressors.--
The master well knows that he has shown no mer-
cy in hanging and shooting without judge or jury
and of course does not expect any; and hence they
squall like flock of geese when the foxes are
about, to see negro shake himself
TEACHING SLAVES TO READ.-A writer in the
Memphis Eagle and Enquirer of the l4th inst. is
out against some clergyman in that nelghborhOod
who had proposed to teach some slaves to read. lie
says:
Tho idea now advanced is, that "slaves have
souls to be saved, !" and that the best way to do
that is to teach them to read the Bible" This
teaching our slaves "to read" is new, and,
think, dangerous doctrine. At least, it is one
which do not wish to have publicly discussed, as
it is hinted at 1t does not suit tho cline or the
times.
The followingis from the Nelo- Orleans Delta Of
the 10th inst-one of the most rabid of the Buchan-
an Disunon papers in the country:
''Mr. Buchauau's election would be little more
than negation bnt for the pledge he has given in
the Ostend letter. and in his endorsement of the
Cincinnati platform. The South under his Ad-
administration would have four yenrs longer for
preparation. She would have time TO strengthen
her outposts placing Kansas. if possible, on one
| flank, and Cuba on the other, With valuable raj
! Lying point in Nioaragus."