Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-19

to make him amends, possibly, for refraining
through six previour days.
How many creations must there have been to
furnish all The varieties from the EsquimauS to the
Angolian2 Would it not require one for every
minute Of latitude? lie there not a continuous
shading from the Torid and Frigid to the Temper
ate Zones2 And is there not like gradual change
in form and features2
If to PREJUDICE is the action Of an essential ele-
ment in our nature, then is prejudice invincible;
if not, we should wal with it, in all its phases, as
with any other wrong. Tho Yves. India Islanders,
llexicans apd South Americans, have proven that
it can 30 conquered in the case of color. The prac-
tice of scores Of Englishmen, shows the sam and
Robert Purvis' father, who had n colored compan-
ion; he was about to take mother and children to
his native land, where wealth, title, not color,
draw discrimination lines, when he suddenly died.
Color is a shameless pretext for chattelism.-
There it has its root, and thence it's branches
ramify through society. Unmixed anglo saxon
blood cannot flow in chattel veins;-a thirty second
part African, vitiates it utterly.
1t cannot be to the Everlasting honor" Of any
being to act out the Cod given nature which he
had no agency in making, but it is all that aud
more for a female to loathe n connection purely
sensual without any thing social, or affectionate in
it; which besides being Illicit, is uajust and often
greatly affecting to a respected third person, and
distracting to a beloved fourth.
Questions of high import and of easy compre.
hension, have been 50 traves!iod, perverted and per-
picked, and SO shrouded in webs of sophistry. that
the unwary have not perceived the deception and
the unskilful are incompetent to free themselves
from the on;anglemont: but the clear headed, con.
sc%ientious man keeps moral principle constantly in
the limo of his mental vision, never permitting his
Intellectual sight 20 I've bleared by the Intervention
of expediency or political economy.
But all this, and its fore runner, are very little
to the purpose, for it is not as a question of races,
but MS n question of rigits, it should be discussed,
apart from considerations of expediency or
rights, alike in quality and quantity, all
questions growing DOT of the main one, can
DO easily decided with men who honestly
and understandingly are in favor of adhering to
the true and the good. Such, do not vacilate be-
tween honesty and policy; they never enquire
whether popular sanction" be necessary to sus-
tain truth; or whether zone in twenty" will CO.
operate with them. They act up to their highest
convictions, denying that it is "the han of God"
but the heads and hands of men that work out all
the evil which affiicts The sons of Earth.
An intelligent friend says the positions in this
article are rightly argued, but that tho only dispu-
table question is blinked; namely whether the
~antipathy Chat prejudice exists, all admit, is
inborn or educated.
We have the corroborating testimony of slave
holders children. One case will su flee to repre-
sent them all.
James A. Thomc, says their negro quarter was
adjacent to the mansion house. That from his
earliest recollection, the slave children were his
companions and playmates; that they embraced,
quarreled. became reconciled and played on like
other children until he attained the age when he
was instructed that he must NJ longer associate
with them as companions, but take mis- proper
poEition as young master.
AT ten or twelve years of age. he frequently
applied to Fanny the head woman in household
affairs, to nurse him. If she demurred on account
of pressing engagements, he took up the axe, or
any other deadly weapon, resolved on compliance
at whatever cost to hor. She had no alternative
but to be seated and say well come massa Jim
on my lap" With his arm around her neck, and
his head on her bosom, ae knew no difference in
his feelings toward Fanny and his mother.
T.. Kingsley of St. Augustine, who amassed a
fortune in the African Slave Trade, and was the
largest stakeholder in Florida, once said to the
writer Of this, Fight the institution Of slavery,
and Shareholders with all your ability and zeal,
but SO long as you talk of prejudice Of color, we
are sure of your aid, though you stoutly deny our
claim. We have our prejudice, but it is of caste,
not color. We know nothing of that but what we
learn from you.
"a Southern Lady takes an airing in her carriage;
the coachman, footman, nurse and body servant
all black; the females sitting beside her;-she re-
turns, dimes and has her plate served by the
same attendants; all this is agreeable-has moth
ing offensive in it; but should a waiter help him.
self to a m~outhful, she would smell him strong rs
Il pole cat.
'Planters in the farSou!h have generally one, or
more, colorcd families mot acknowledged, but
known to be such) l am all the white person in
my large family. l imported my woman. the
mother of all my children, when l was engaged in
he African trade"
AMOS GILBERT.