Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-20
FROM TEXAS.

DEAR BuoLE / would hail you as an old friend
sould | ever see you.-But l am in the "enemy's
country" and none such as you can be allowed.
But, MIR. Editor, | am full, overlooking with indig.
nation, and as a chain stronger than brass or
triple oak" has bound my tongue, | seek you MS a
means Of uDburdenins Ing surcharged SOUL
Would that l could speak with thunder tones to all
the hardy freemeu Of the North, and open to them
the full view of all the damning horrors Of the
~aboninable institution of American Slavery, as /
sec it. There are but few who are so situated that
they can see beneath it's pleasing mask, aud view its
bounllsss corruptions. Sure i am, that if the free
men Of the North could see what l see, and
know what / know of these Infamous work.
ings, they would not content themselves with
merely occasionally voting right, but in true HUI
initiation and anxiety. they would enquire "are
we men and suffer these things to be-" | am well
aware that II is customary for those of the North
who visit the South to return with their mouths
full of praises of the institution, and their hearts
full Of gratitude for patriarchal hospitality. But
though l have resided only four months in the
bloody land Of the South every day new deformi-
ties and new phases Of its corrupting and degrad'
} ing tendencies continually reveal themselves and
often ] am forced to stop, aud enquire, am l indeed
in the great and glorious Republic of America or
" among the Hotentots, or Fegee lslanders2
The Cruelties of the masters to their slaves l
will not attempt to describe. Would to God they
~vere its worst features. Let me illustrate. Two
, young gentlemen, land of such are these chiva!rous
sons of the SOUTH unceremoniously enter the
,quarterso Of q virtuous, comely negro girl, ana with
rpistols drawn, compel submission to their pleasure!
hS1ch cases are Of common occurrence! and our coun'
'sry is filled with such fends from hell, who pass
.as the most respectable Of Southern society. The
innocent girl has no redress,-her master cares
nothing for her complaints, and even if he did she
is without remedy. Scarcely a young man in the
country is free from similar guilt and shame. No!
Such are not rare and unusual instances, but al
most evey young man in all departments Of soci-
ETY., and in every ayocation of life, is in the same
degraded condition. Let the government, then,
send out. its legions to destroy liccntiuusness In
Utah let the churches combine to christianize and
~sivilize the Fegee Islanders, but will you always
psrmii our own fellow couutrymen to sink into
worse than heather darkness The consequence
Of this il easily foreseen. The negroes are for the
most part virtuous, and, while the whites are going
downward, and fast deteriorating. they are fast i'm,
proving and progressing in the scale OF naturai
talent and ability. Ere long, the mind will be or
the. side Of the slaves, and Who can but see that
then the order of things will be reversed-the pres
.snt slaves will be the free men, and the whites the
slaves. Already, / ON told by Shareholders, many
of the Stacks know as much as almost any of the
whites. Among the whites Il very large proper
ton cannot read, and Of those who can, that is
about the extent of their attainments. There is no
doubt, in my mind, that the day is not far distant
when the slaves will efectually vindicate their
own rights, md assert their freedom. Were not
1.-THE Shareholders blind to everything but cotton and
sugar, they would see themselves upDn the awful
brink Of u terrible revolution. There is now no Wig.
or in the white population. But they can talk Of
the Southern man being sufficient to chip four
Northern men, in Kansas.
think it would do our Northern Democrats,
good to hear tho remarks of tIeiI Southern allies,
concerning them. Not long siuce, | heard this re-
mark from u prominent Democrat. There is not
"A man in the North that voted for Buchanan who
cannot as safely he trusted with the interests of
Slavery, as any man in the South who ownsa hun
.dred negroes. ! wonder how some Northern
Democrats that l know of would like to hear that.
But there are more anti.slnvery people in Texas,
than any one is aware of. Nobody says anything
but l doubt not that one third of the voters Of
this county, we're the opportunity given, would vote
: against the institution. No one dares openly
speak his sentiments. hut we whisper around
among ourselves, SO that we know each others
views and feelings upon all the exciting topics. |
do hope that Northern emigration will continue to
pour in. and that q part OF the State may BE wrest
led from the inhuman curse Of chattel slavery
We are obliged to keep dark, though | trust you
may hear from us in tones of thunder ere many
years. Bot uch caution and discretion must be
used. If you see fit, you are at liberty to publish
what / have very hastily written. | should be
very glad TO take your paper. would it be safe. /
am cut off from oil such means Of communication
.aith the antislsvery world.
Respectfully Yours,
's.r. o. D..