Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-09

God is Just. lie makes evil its own punishment.
It suited the Greeks and Romans to leave to ser
vile hands the cultivation OF the earth, aid the
fulfilment of the inferior and necessary functions
of society, while they themselves formed class
of idlers who passed their lives in the pubhc
streets, at the theatre or in the circus. Tins sta'e
of things, which had, in fact, its charms, ended
by having its inconveniences. tended in Athens
a1d Sparta particularly in so small minority oI
freemen that there was no longer people only
few privileged, persons and herd oil slaves
Now, where there is no people. there is no army.
AT Rome the great increase OF slaves crehteu
competition with free labor which it could not sus'
tain, brought about the ruin of small properties,
and at length that Unreasonable excess of great
ones which ruined Italy. SO the sugar and cotton
cultivation OF the South finds it convenient to exc
cute by the hand of unpaid labour that excessive
toll which whites with difficulty support. Dnt
slavery is the chastisement of that society which
has permitted it. 1t is the one pressing danger
which threatens without ceasing to dissolve 1t ;
and for the evil, which every one feels. no one
secs remedy. Slavery is in the Constitution
and yet the central government has no move riSh'
than the English Parliament or the French Senate
to abolish it in the different States.
The Citizens of the slave States are not dispos
ed to sacrifice their property nor their share in po
litical elections; which is in proportion not oay
to the number of citizens but to tho number o
slaves. Suddenly to free five or six millions OF
blacks and throw them out into society would be
perilous to it and embarrassing to them. 1t il
true. ore secs the difficulties of such situations
but, on the other hand. the time has come to take
sides, for this ia situation which does not amplio
rate ny being prolonged. On the contrary, it grow
worse with the rapidly increasing multitude o.
the slave population. and the more and more
threatens opposition to slavery in the free States
In fine, and this is tho decisive consideration
slavery irrespective Of lis greater or less degree
Of ntrocity, it has necessary very great onesis ii
itself something Rbun,inable.
Admit ak that can he said Of the humanity o
the masters and their interests in the Of thei
property yet this moral degradation to which i
condemns hum an beings, by ranking them below
the human condition. by derrivng persons whom
God has made fres Of all personal rights thi
dishonor to mankind, this mutila'iOn Of tho wort
Of God this violation of human Liberty, whics
is the essnce Of our nature, cannot be consented
to, far il ouqt not.
! The Americans say that they did not institute
slavery in their land that England has imposed
it upon her colonies in spite Of their remUnstran
ces that gives them no dispeusation in the matte
of its abolition. Still the foregoing principle re
mains: Slavery is contrary to right; to enslave
man is to rob him of what lis his--his persona
liberty Now. when one has inherited stoei
goods, one NAV choose what one thinks the bes
mode of restitu ton Shut restitution must be made
! RoAE, October Goth, 1857.
A. S. Standard.