Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-16
THE FREE SOUTH"

known to our readers heretofore under the title OF
Kentucky Weekly News. The editor Mr.W William s.
Bailey, whose selfsacrifcug perseverance in main.
tanning an unshacked press on saveholdng
! soil entities him to the thanks and liberal
support of the friends Of freedom in every
part Of the country. his paper is con-
Quoted at once in q spirit of boldness and
and catholcity, which tie polical anti.savery pa
pers Mt the North might proftaby initiate
While the organs of the Republican party in the
Free States, with rare exceptions, either ignore
entirely the operations of the American Anti Slave
ry Society and the utterauces of its faithful and
eloquent cham ponso or refer to them on, by way OF
abuse or disparagement, The Pree South does not
hesitate to lay before its readers the braves utter
ances of Garrison and Phillips, or 10 copy strong
articles from the Lberator and the Standard
Naturally sympa;hyzing with those whose ant
slavery activities are chiefly employed in polisca'
channels, it still appreciates the fidelity and use
fulness of those Abolitionis.s whose con-
sciences keep them from the polls. and who
wage unceasing moral warfare against slavery
and its supporters. Vermont is Republican
State and full of hereditary ant.slayery sentiment
and yet when the great leader of the modern Anti
Slavery Movement went to that State recently to
address the people on the subject Of slavery, the
Republican journals too cowardly, or too
much under the influence of unworthy prejudice,
to show him any countenance. or treat him even
with common civility. They took no pains what
ever to apprise their readers Of his coming nor
did they report one of the eloquent and mastery
speeches which he delivered in the State. The
contrast between the spirit which rules such jour
mails an that which presides over the Free South is
very suggestive, Men may daily with anti slavery
ir the Green Mountain States, and use it as the
ralyng cry of triumphant political party, with
out being baptised, in any way, into the spirit oi
genuine aboliionism but be who encounters
slavery face to face in the slave States can hardly
fail to appreciate the abors of the American Anti
Slavery Society and its friends.
The spirit of the Free South is much broader
than that of the Republican party as may be seen
5y the following extract from an editorial article
upon "What the Free States hsye Done for Slave.
ry."
1.-THE slave States never could have perpetuated
Slavery 10y extending it's domain without the aid Of
the Free States. They have been the aiders, abet
tore and conspirhtors in this crime against God
against the Constitution of our Country and the
rights of man. Without free State votes, the
Slave Power never could have carried single
measure in Congress; it never could have added a
single slave State to the Union, or elected Presi'
dent to serve its purposes On the other hand, tho
free States, might have consecrated every foot OF
our territory to freedom, and might have made
every new State come INFO the Union with free
constitution. But instead of this, they have en-
Id oe1o, Go, do, hot pt
accomplish alone-to add more slave States to the
Union and to open territories to the slavehold'
ers with their herds of human cattle.
.'See what the free States have done for slavery
They could have done for freedom oil that they
might have desired though all the slave States had
in n solid phalanx, opposed in every measure. Blu;
without help from free States, the Slave Oligarchy
was and is utterly Iowerless. 1t could not
now keep Kansas out Of the Union three months
longer, nor could it for longer term keep the
territories open to slavery: or visit with fine and
Imprisonment the citizen of free State who gives
food and shelter to brother man, seeking for that
liberty which is the common birth right of every
human being.
"Yet we hear men in the free States saying. I'VE
have nothing to do with slavery in tie Stare States
We reply, and the charge is susceptible of the
clearest proof in nine of those States, in the
free States have established slavery they have
invited slaveholders with their human chattels to
take possession Of the territories they have enact
ed tyranncal Fugitive Slave Law. and they are
at this moment, iu political speeches. in resolutions
of Conventions, and in the columns of newspa'
pers, both Democratic and Republican, pledging
themselves to the Slare Po,oer that if ii can make
any more SLAVE STATES out Of the free territory ii
shall hare their aid in bringing them into Union.
:'The free States have nothing to do with slave
ry 10 slave States = Never was q more egregious
allacy imposed upon the human understanding
The free States perpetuate slavery in slave States
by extending it where it did not previously exist
thus creating fresh market for slaves and inoreas-
ing their value in the old slave States.
"Here on the soil Of slave State we appeal to
men in the free States to from meddling with
slavery by perpetuating it in the States where 1t
now exists, and to assist in undoing what the free
States have done for slavery. Will men in those
States cut themselves loose from the shackles Of
party and dare to interfere little in favor OF
liberty and human rights There are come noble
souls, we know, in every free State, who are de-
termined that the interference shall not all be for
slavery, and it is these noble men and women, and
to such as they, We look for that substantial aid
that shall help free tho South from that whitening
blight which the North has enabled her to bring
upon herself and also upcn the whole Union"
On some points the Free South differs from u.s.
but its antisavery spirit is so genuine and hearty
that do not hesitate to commend it to the patron
ages of Abolitionists. Address VIM. s. Bailey
Newport, Kentucky y.-Anti-Slarery Standard.
TRUE AS PREAcuING.-The eccentric John Ran.
dOlph of Virginia, said from his seat in Con-
gress
"THE SOUTH Is AS SURE OF THE DEMOCRACY OF THE
NORTH, AS OF THEIR NEGROES !"
A son of A. G. Talbot, member Of Congress from
Kentucky has made his debut in the ring as q
clown. The family is one Of the wealtbisst in KY