Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-13

their party candidates brightens, dodge every up
proach to such an issue. The towards! 1t was
the watch cry Of Republicans before the last Pitts.
burgh Convention, mo moro slave States" but
we have mover heard Of it since. except as the
expression of the personal wish of Giddings or
Wade, or some other Of that stripe. in the oratorial
paroxisms of their ~fanatical moods. So goes the
party for freedom. While the party for eternal
slavery strikes for more sldpe States, that at all
events she shall have dominion-"iu the Union or
out of IT," Thus has she always won, and thus
will she continue to win, until the North, at least,
approximstes SO far towards the true position of
"No Union with slave holders" as to adopt the
policy of no more slave States.
WnAT DOES THIS NEAN'-The Telegraph last
week in reporting the proceedings of the Louisiana
Legislature, has the following: "a notice has been
given in the Senate of On Introduction Of a bill to
import five thousand negroes from the coast OF
Africa"
What does it meani Is Louisiana, disheartened
by the opposition of the slave-breeding states to the
foreign slave'trade, going into partnership with
Louis Napoleon for the importation Of "African
emigrants?" Or is she going openly to defy the law
Of Congress which makes the slave trade with
Africa piracy' We should think the experiment
a doubtful one, while Maryland, Kentucky and the
Old Dominion have so strong an interest in main.
tanning in full force thi, tariff on their staple, mar.
ketsblo production.
Since the above was in type, we have some adj.
tional information. 1t sesns that the Legislature,
of Mississippi and Louisisns, thinking present
efforts to secure congressional action in favor OF the
re'opening Of the foreign slsve.trade, will perhaps
be Intellectual from the combined opposition Of th,
northern and slave-breeding states, propose tt
embark in the enterprise on their swn hook. o
course il must be done under such disguise as II
avoid the law, making it piracy. For this pur
pose there is now before the Mississippi Legisla
ture, a proposition to charter a corporation undo
the title of the "African Labor Importation
Company" Authorized and empowered to i'm
port into the State of Mississippi for the purpose
of industry, native African Negroes, bound b.
negotiable labor obligations to work and serve 70
the benefit Of the holders and owners Of said obi
cations for the full term Of twenty-pine years
running from the date or within eighteen month
previous to the date Of the importation of sal
negroes" The company is further authorizes
to buy sell and deal in such labor obligations" an,
every right conceded to masters in Mississippi i
granted to the holders of these bonds over tn
negroes, who are held subject to them.
Under this transparent disguise this new enter
prise is to De commenced. 1t will doubtless b
attended with serious difficulties, from the obsti
macy of Great Britain, even if a f~avoring exccu
tive at Washington, should, like the Cuban Gov
. ernor General, tor . consideration, wink at til
! traffic and the pirates who embark in il. Never
theless it finds enthusiastic supporters. in Missi,
: sippi and Louisiana, and not alone for the indussris
benefits it ~eonfsrs. bss also for additional politics
considerations. Ais'is'ippishopes BY this mean
to increase the number Of her congressional dele
CATION and her presidential votes. An extrac
from a Mississippi paper before us, pronouncss
u wise, sagacious, practicable" As these are nc
J I~slaves but ''persons bound to service for q term
years" they will be counted in the national rey
!, resentation not as three-ffths of a political mar
!, but a. one whole man, each. Thus by this olsv.
trick they will have from the same persons tn
benefit of slaVes indusrially. and of men p~olitica
Q ly. One Of the enthusiastic advocates of II
measure pronounces it 'the only means to restol
tho balance of power between the North ar
the South"