Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-26

miiod slaves 10 a region which the United States
ia vitality interested in building up in strength for
the common benefit OF the Union, and where free
laborers, suited to the climate, will therefore be
protected aud encouraged-not for their own sakes
alone, but Tor that OF the oountry-can there be
a doubt that II Will soon be replonishcd with this
caster There arc now more than n half u million
freed men ready to embark. Multitudes of con
soienhous shareholders would add to tho numbers
when they saw that the emancipation of their
slaves would not make them an incumbus on q
community where they would sink under an invid'
iOus competition with the free labOrers Of n supe.
riOr raee, but would render them prosperous aud
useful in the etfrctuatiun Of the grand scheme OF
acquisition for the country of their nativity and
for the amclioratiuu OF the condition OF the people
ot their own blood everywhere. Then the whole
class OF FREQ white laborers Of every section, see
ing that emancipation was n deliverance FOR them
selves from a competition with the blacks, whether
rs slaves or freed men, would universally unite
ia promoting il. If these masses shodld manifest
their wishes at tho polls, the politicians, South
and North, men of all gradeG; ambitious of power,
office and distinction. would soon devise modes OF
responding to the public opinion which controls
the state government. do not believe that the
great body of the people in any state would ever
enforce a forfeiture of the property in slaves with
out compensation. however CALLING the yoke whicl
that species OF property imposes upon the labor
ing white man. Yet the example of the northern
legislation would doubtless be adopted that u
fixing a date for the existence Of slavery, ant
prescribing for all born after it a period of service
sufficient to remuncIate for their raising, and con
ierriug freedom then, on condition of removal t.
the home assigned them. Compensation woull
probably be voted in some of the states for imme
date emancipation, and then the plan of yon
society might be brought, through the liberalit,
81 the Tree. state legislatures, to promote this has
iening process. Many Shareholders of forecast
seeing the vast appreciation in their landed estate
which would accrue from tho emigration of tht
blacks aud the immigration of a white population
tmany with capital seeking homesteads,) woul,
enter into competition with their slaves, and sen,
them to the new domains on condition of workinl
out a compensation for their freedom. In short
there are a thousand motives, which would take t
II new and cUugenial abode the unfortunate people
every way coptrasted with and obnoxious to tn
working class to whom this country belongs by
conquest. 1t ia only necessary that your society
shall get "the place to stand on to move the
world" The great moral power inherent in YOU
organization could not be withstood, if by securing
II safe foothOld in a congeniai region for manumit
ted bondsmen their removal was ensured, aud q:
a consequence The delivarancc Of each race from
the other, and The fatal mischiels which time ha;
shown are inevitable from their conjunction.
trust, therefore, that the first efforts of your soci
ETY. will be directed to She sine qua non-anothei
abode for those who can not abide among us II
safety. France has converted the Barbary cOas
in q region of prosperous civilization. Englan'
has made remote Australia, once the receptacle
Of convicts and malcontents, a land of immens
wealth and still greater promise. The souther
isthmus Of our continent should DO to us what A
giers is TO France, and Australia to England.
| would have been happy to have obeyed you
summons, and gone to commune with you on tn
subject which / consider Of the deepest interest
to our Union, and ms connected with it, the grea'
est concern Of liberty throughout the world. a
accident has disabled me temporarily from trave
ling. and | have therefore expressed my good wish
es for your effort by letter. +. Z. BLAIR.