Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-12
Tbe Antt- 5Iauerp Buelc.
TO CHARLES LENOX REMOND.
WoLrPEN SPRING, near Newcastle, !


Coshocson Co., ., Nov llth, 1857,
Mr. DEAR SIR: / had the fortune many years
since. to have partial acquaintance with you
When Douglas yourself and others, made west.
ern tour under the auspices of the Massachusetts,
Anti-savery Society, you lodged with me and lee.
tured at Loydsville.
Protesting anti-slavery, in gre ater or less de-
gree, we have at present three prominent parties
the disunionists, the compensatonists and the
Republicans. lIumbly, believe neither are at
all adequate to the emancipation of the slaves.
This government is based on the will of the peo.
pie. Any scheme which cannot receive tho popu-
lar sanction cannot succeed. The Disunionists
propose dissolution of the Union. AS well
might they talk of making the Mississippi run up
stream. Not one man in twenty gives it a serious
thought. or ever will. Besides. if the Union were
dissolved, it would neither free the slaves, nor
give equality to the free people of color here in
the free states. The first duty of a physician is
to know the disease. The disease is natural di.
versity between the races. The cause of the diff
Guilty s precisely the same, there WAS between the
Jews and the Egyptians. God according to the
Bible, deemed q separa ion Of the races the cure.
That tho distinction of races is the difficulty ap.
peal to your own conscience and experience.
You occupy a midway position between the races
Do you not feel difficulty in associating with
either, In your association with the best aboli,
tionsts in the country have you not seen ard
felt this difficulty? Can any whiro abolitionist,
lay his hand on his heart, and before God and bis
country, say, he would as leave have negroes for
his neighbors. and for plnymates, and matrimonial
companions for his children, any others. Can
any black abolitionis observe the same sacred re-
gard for truth, and bef9rc heaven and earth de-
clare, he would as leave mingle in all the socal
ties Of life with whites as with blacks? Neither
can! To support theory, each may evade the
question, or give a fanatical, yes But truth like
murder will out By their fruits ye shall know
them. Anti,slavery men and women. everywhere
give the lie TO their prctensions, and the Negroes
with less opportunity. everywhere show their in
herent love Of distinctness. The aversion of the
whites to mingling with the blacks, will not
now argue 1t is seen in their laws, it is found on
their rail cars and in their hotels and it is demon
onstratcd in their churches, if sworn to. before
God and mankind
Before showing, that negroes by their actions
acknowledge the existence of races, and their de-
cided preference OF their own, l will make few
remarks on tne Iact VI tue ulVerslty ot
Some interpret the Bible as giving the true origin
of mankind from single pair created about six
thousand years since. The truth or untruth of
this, very little affects the question. By unques
tionable monuments, left by the Egyptian mon
archs ut least four of the present existed,
they now are, more than $500 years ago; and at
the earliest dawn of accurate history, We find
them unchanged Nothing but nature, which is
the reaection Of tho will of God, could have made
the evident and we'll known distinctions among
men. Nor are they unworthy of God, their au-
thor. In all creation. there is nothing which SO
fully displays his wisdom and goodness: for every
race is peculiarly adapted to the climates and re-
gions which it iphabits If God had not made
races, he would have shown want of wisdom,
and An astonishing disregard of mercy for four
ffths of the world would have been altogether un-
suited to its Inhabitants. 1t matters not how 1T
was done; God has made the races. and man can
not unmake them. At various ages of the world;
avarice and lust have produced unnatural COM
mipglings. as they have done other crimes, but
time, the great eorrector, has soon wiped them out
and mistaken zeal is impoten. to the perpetua
tions Of such monstrosities. Says Paul, the most
learned of the apostles: "God that mado the
world-hath made of one blood (more properly,
of equal rights all nations Of men, to dwell on
all the face Of the EARTH and hath determined the
times before appointed, ard the bounds Of their
Aabilations'-that is the climates they shall oc-
oupy. As is evident, races Of men, like races of
other animals, fulfil their determined times, and
disappear from the earth, as the Mastodon &C.,
have done, and as the American Indians are about