Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-11

OF slavery IS circumscribed. why are we at tht
South So anxious to cut down our forests and occu
py at once the whole of our territory Our herit
age III this famed land was truly q goodly one
why not take care of it and preserve it from those
who are to come after US, instead of importing
amongst US an excess of slaves beyond the real de-
mands for labor by the wants Of the world Let
gentlemen learn wisdom from the fable of the
goose and the golden egg, and not impoverish our.
selves and pcsterity by exorbiant desire to get
rich. As slavery now exists it is truly domestic
institution such wish to preserve it, and as such
hand it down to those who are to succeed us, with
all its manifold blessing, as it was transmitted by
our fathers to us. Import into the country AT.
ricans by the shpIoad, and the whole character of
the institution will be changed. Slaves, too, that
are now valuable would become paratively val
ueless the products of their labor would diminish
in the same proportion in the market Of the world
and what, then, is to become of the interests Of
the slaveholders2 When slaves cease to be profit.
able they become drones, an expense and curse to
society and from that period we may date the
downfall of the institution here it has ever been
elsewhere. We will have then accom- pshed, by
our mistaken policy, just what the Abolitionists so
ardently desire.
Mr.. BILLUPS thought the question before the
Senate was most important one, but was not pre-.
pared to vote either for or against the bill The
gentleman from Green had argued it as though the
reopenng of the slave trade was the object of the
bill. No such question before the Senate
The State of Georgia had right to open the slave
trade. The question was simply to strike out
clause in opposition to the trade in con
sti,ution, which was opposed to public sentiment,
condemnation of slavery, and one which could be
found in ne other Southern constition. The gen.
tleman Mr.. Dawson deprecated the movement
as unnecessary; agitation was wrong because it
would create division at the South. lie was pp.
posed to this suppression of honest sentiment. let
the consequence be what it might His course had
ever been to first ascertain the right and then pre-
serve it, no matter who was opposed to him. He
had no fears for minorties. For himself he would
say let others do as they might, be intended to
stand by that party that true to the rights Of
the South, and that without regard to the name il
bore. He would not say that he was for re. Open
ing the African slave trade but he was ready to
wipe out that foul blot in the constitution of Geor
gia. -.-
Mr.. GIBSON said that the question before the
Senate to strike out clause from the consti.
tuition prohibiting the African slave trade with
this State policy adopted by our fathers as wis.
est and best in the early history of the Common.
wealth. Did he understand gentlemen to charge
that this was "foul blot" upon the character of |
the StateH Who were the that formed this
government 1t is designed to charge that our
patriot sires had inflicted foul blot upon the |
State which their purer and more enlightened chill.
dren should now wipe out. Do gentlemen mean
70 say, Mr.. President that the noble patriot who
looks down upon us from your right (Troup), that
that gallant spirit to your left (Clarke) that he of
gigantic mind, jealous patriotism, and unsulied
honor, whose noble form is there represented,
(pointing to the portrait of Crawford), ask sir,
do gentlemen mean to say that these men and
their cotemporaries submitted to dishonor and a |
foul blot upon the reputation of their State for
more than sixty years? Sir it is serious charge,
and | repel it in the name of the ilustrious dead
Sir, this is emphatically age Of progress those
have named were considered wise men and great
men in their day, and yet they lived and died with
,ut becoming as wise as the Senators from Cam.
len and Morgan cannot believe, sir, that th ose
noble souls who presided at the birth of our great
State, and stood by her in her long and eventful
career of sixty years, were capable of placing a
stain or blot upon the record they were to leave
behind them. No, sir they believed this feature
If our constitution was required by the honor and
policy OF our State, and they placed and kept it
here. So far as he was concerned there it should
emain, and be was ready to defend it and
he regulations of the honest men by whom it was
Enacted.
Sir, what is the object of this bill? Gentlemen
ell US it is not to open the African slave trade
)h, no And whyf Because your fathers have
,laced their prohibition upon your conduct. But
bolish this clause Of our organic law, and then
he work will commence. Why should we import
more slaves into Georgia Is the breed, that has
oubled itself in quarter Of a century, about to
uu out? Is it because Mr.. Douglas has told you
hat squatter sovereignty is to exclude slavery from
II the Territories of the Union Where will you
AIRY them after you import them? Does Georgia
eed more labor? Do gentlemen mean to say that
be wages of labor are too great? Does the labor
ng man of Georgia demand that the savage barba-
ians of Africa shall be imported and planted side
v side with him in the field and the workshop :
appeal (said MI G. to slave'Owners. What will q
your condition with this food of savages poured q
upon you to depreciate your property and the G
rice of your great staples Is this horde of wild /
len from Africa the inheritance you wish to entail
pom your children Sir, do not believe that /
,s people Of Georgia are willing to give their i
anction to such measure. -f |;
What condition of things we to expect In the il
outh with slave population ten times greater n
,au it is at present? Does not every Senator see
nat it must inevitably result in our ruin9 But I
entlemen say they wish more slaves to colonizs l.
ucatau, Central America, Mexico, and other o
eghboring Republics. Better get them before 0
ou colonze and besides if such be the argument,
AIRY the slaves there, and do not bring them to n
sorgia, where we do not want them. 1t Is time h
nough to legislate for those countries after we I
ave acquired them. ffr' b