Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-03

! tion hardly, measure, meets with ANY favor, that
hae not this end in view. For that the dominant
interest has broken foith; spurned every consttn
Iional guarantee, presented all but sclfsol'
tlavcs, debauched the judiciary, cnslaved tht
Territories, made provinces OF the States and al
to substitute the robber right for tho Divine grant
Ay, and for that IL has compassed heaven crI
, earth to give lie 10 the Lecompton ylany. 1t
central organ in February last endorsed threa
f Of disunion unless the principle OF Lecomptoo b
ratified; unless the slave interest he allowed 1t
r retire from Kansas with our drums beating ant
cOlOrs flying" eXclaiming, why not give us tn
shell, while they the North hive the kernel !?
as it not enough that they have an overwhelming
majority in Kausas2" The President in press
ing LecOmpion, admitted that its reign would b.
short Why then press it, but that tn prize
of Lecompton IL precious to the one idealsts? anC
why so precious? Only because first, it is tht
\ work Of lean minority and is scorniuily reject
ed by the vast majority hence the idea Of subec
. ton is enthroned over 1.-THE consent OF the govern
ed and second, and mainly, this Constitution
alone proclaims the atrocious dogma, that the
right of property in man is as inyioable as the
night OF any other property, and is above cOnsti-
tu;ional sanction Hence the idea Of old force,
instead Of Gods grant, as the base or property.
And which, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, pre-,
| fer you, the ancient or the modern, the Pagan or
/ the Christian idea? In which age will you place
us? Ga which slope Of the piling centuries
shall we travel? Gentlemen defend the property
idea Of force from the fact that it is ancient, that
all heatheuGOm recognised it, that it was the idea
/ of the Greek and the Roman, the Scythian and the
Arab, the Ethiopian and the Indian. | never
doubted the fact, but have often wondered wheth
/ or gentlemen really desire to turn back the sha.
dow upon the dial to re e.entbrone moral chaos.
and bring back night again
/ The gentleman from South Carolina has just
told us of the letterfastenng, the slavery loving
/ The force enthroning religion of the Cross. 1t
/ frIN nph n ll.S ohpf q Y
! egcs!s OF its holy maxims. lie might naturally
understand that the eZhortation to resist evil,
to meekly turn the cheek to the assalhnt, rather
! than meet force by force, justfes the eyidCer
and smiteF. With the same instincts that guided
a Laud and Stafford, he might readily infer that
the duty Of passive obedience, eroned upon the
hopeless subjects of the old despotisms, justly ap
Plies 10 those who themselves responsible for
the public liberties; and that this exhOrtation to
servants to obey their masters, and to subjects to
respect the powers that be, justihes the slave
shambe and the bloody sceptre Tho Christian
slave might not resist the master, though he fed
hs fish ponds with his flesh; nor the Christian
subject rebel against the Nero, though he lighted
the gardens with his flaming body aud get it
takes gentlemen Gf his school to see that this sub
mission can justify either. Such doctrines may
for time flourish in the dark places of the earth;
yet still the world moves on
l have slown partially what and partially
whence is this idea. well as alluded to the
character and fate of the civilization based upon
/, il; but hays not done.
| The foundation of Slavery is not the idea that
there may be property in those born of slave
mothers that is but its application but it is one
of property in man, and in any man who can be
subjected to dominion. And the question as to
who shall he made property is merely one Of ex
rediency. If you may 5aslaye the infant, though
begotten from your own loin5, because you had be,
fore enslaved the mother, why may you not en-
slave your criminals or paupe7s, TIE hopelessly
indebted or those seized in battle? If you may
take all your slaves earnings. deny him power Of
accumulation for himself, and make all his accum.
ulatiuns yours, why should you be bound to re
spect the private accumulatons OF an enemy or
stranger? You take the one and his earnings,
because you can why rot the other, and his earn
ings i you can? You were long in the habit of
stimulating African chiefs to hunt men and wo'
men for your benefit and someo Of you are now
trying 20 revive the work. Also, see it seriously
proposed in yonder State 10 enslave some thous,
Onds of her people, and already is their property
seized by discriminating tax Your Federal iu
dietary, against all law and against all decency
have paved the way ty denying them the necos.
sary result of birth end residence making them
permanent strangers and aliens and you have
only TO follow the invited result Of barbarous
cdict by making them slaves
II the idca i5 once admitted, that fierce, and not
The law Of nature, makes property, then any man,
or any mans earnings, may be sezed and suljec'
ed to anothers dominion. 1t is not question Of
birth it is not question Of race ; nor is it so
regarded by the proPaganda. The amulgamaton
tendencies Of slavery are constantly bleaching out
tho African. | have since a member here, con-
triIuJed TO purchase for redemption white Virgin
iGns, and to prevent their forced denizenship Of
the brothel. The more honest advocates of Slave
ry have already rcpudiated the idea that it should
be the sole condition of any race, and many Of
them would impose it upon all hand laLorers. Ia
thc Senate and in the House, during this aud 9TH
er sessions leaders of the great slavery party have
boldly proclaimed the condition Of the lahorer
that Of substantial Slavery, and tina! the Northern
free labcrer was far worse off than the bought and
sold ch0tcl OF the slave plantation. 4 Senator
from South Carolina says that "the man who
lives hy daily labor, your whole class Of manual
laborers, are essentially slaves" In harmony
with the tone Of the propugandist press, the
Charleston Standard says that Slavery is the
natural and normal condition of the laboring man,
whether black or white ;" and the Richmond ET
dmiaeT, whose editor now issues semi official
thunder in the Washington Union, truly says,
that "the SOUTH O., The Slavery party--"now
maintains that Slavery is right natural and nee
cssary and does not depend "poa dDtreacfS 81 cOm'
plcri0n, The laws of the slave States justify the
holding of white men in bondage"
The gentleman from Louisiana, Mr.. Taylor,)
who never speaks what he has not well consider
ed in his remarks Of the Goth. Of March, eabor.
atey defends rs | understood him; predicts, the
enslavement Of the Asiatic upon the Pacific coast;
and all who justify Slavery from the Old and New
Testament and carly Christian teachings thus
only can justify white, and not black Slavery
The miserable induction of the gentleman from
South Carolina, Mr.. keitt,) if it prove anything,
can only prove that the dusky races of the Medi.
terranean may rightfully cnslave the light haired
German and Briton, for such was the Apostolic
Slavery" he defends.
Except in America, slaves are not even general.
ly of the negro It is but quite recently that
the IDEAS OF modern civilization have made any
progress, have gained any foothold, upon the
southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean;
and within our own memory, the slave trade was
as brisk along its ports between the slave marts
Of the United States Ihe cuptiyes are, indiiler.
entity, Africans, Europeans, and Asiatics. White
Englishmen and white Americans were there law
fully held and worked, sold and scourGed as
slaves, as lawfully as any slave 10 held in Vir'