Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-31
A SPUNKY PIRATE.

Mr.. Charles L. Lamar of Savannah, Georgia,
has replied with chivaIrous spirit, to Mr.. Score
tary Cobb, for hin refusal to grant a clearance to
his vessels, engaged in the slave trade. lie claims
that he has as undoubted a constitutional right to
bring African as Dutch or Irish emigrants and
that his privileges in this and other commercial
particulars are not dependant upon Executive dis
erection. He proposes to cure northern fanata-
cism by n new process, as follows:
1.-The North steals our slaves, and this Union
was nearly rupturod, a few years since, in the Of.
fort to rotake them. But, while she does SO, she
has no use for such a population. A single car
go of native Africans, much cheaper than our
slaves, would go far to cure her of this form OF
her philanthropy. Instead of organizing bands
to entice our slaves away, she would be even more
instant in organizing bands to keep them out
and perhaps it would be difficult to conceive of an
act more wisely patriotic than would be that of
sending naive negroes to the Northern States"
lie warns the Presiden and secretaries against
executive assumptions by threat of the halter. in
this style:
Upon this issue Charles the First lost his head,
James the Second his throne, England her colo
MES, Arnold tho little he had to lose, and, in les
ser matters, many individuals, from a mistaken
sense of their competency to interfere with the
persons and property of other people, have been
elevated to some six feet or SO Of a most unenvia,
able distinction"
This South Carolina Pirate concludes his let
ter by avowing his purpose to "re-open the slave
trade with foreign countries, and bids the presi'
don't catch him if he can. lie is we'll informed Of
the way in which our government has been in
the habit of executing the laws against this
class of offenders.
"In this communication | would not be misun,
3 stood. | do not complain of any very great in
Jury that has resulted to me from not being able to
, send my vessel to the coast of Africa, nor appeal to
the sympathies of the community on that account.
. | might have accomplished objects, profitable or
= not, which | shall not be able to accomplish with
t out. But the thing which | do complain of is.
a that | have been abridged of my proper rights
1t was my right to have sent the ship to Africa
or the depths of the ocean, as either may have
e pleased me and for an officer of this Government
without law, to prevent me, was as much a wrong.
n and, | will add, as much an outrage to my nature
as o man, as though he had set his hostile foot
upon my hearthstone.
$50, also, would | not be mistaken in another
matter. In d%isclaiming the purpose, upon this
occasion, Of engaging in the slave trade, ii may
be inferred that at any time | would avoid the
y imputation of such an enterprise but this is not
= the fact. Under ordinary eircu instances l would
not violate the laws. | am pleased, when ! can, to
do honor and sustain them bu. this law prohib-
re iting the slave trade was not adopted by the gent
e, us Of the South. 1t is enforced by the sentiment
of another and hostile section OF the country
" 1t is sustained by persons who have more regard
for the people of that other section than the truth
If 1t is n badge Of servitude, a brand Of reproba
ton, and not only would | not sustain j., but. a,
NJ | have told you frankly from the first, ! intend
~ to violate it. | will reopen the trade in slaves to for
oign countries, and your cruisers may catch me j
they can. ~ . -- ..-5--- $40