Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-25

differing in no material respect from American,
and incorporated into every department of society
that in the adoption of rules for the government
Of society, and Of the church. they provided for the
rights Of otcReyS and the wants OF SHARES Taprlausel
that slavery having existed ever since the first or.
gan iSation Of society, will exist to the end Of time
The South, in this wide range Of debate, was to be
defended. war WAS TO he made upon the abolition,
ism of ,he North and the difference le:ween The
two sections completely covered. Applause
Man is almost entirely the creature OF circum.
stances his habits and sentiments are in a great
measure tie growth Of adventurous circumstances
and causes-hence the endless variety and cCndi.
tons Of our species. AbuiitiOhists, Free Sellers or
Black Republicans, look upon any deviation from
the constan; round in which tdey have been spin.
ming out the contentious thread VI their existence,
as u departure from Natures great system, and
from a known principle, the first impulse of these
unnitigated fanatics is to condemn. Some gone,
raj remarks were then made relative to the notions
entertained by the North against the South, and
the hope expressed thet his worthy competitor
has never beer stepped to tho nose and chin in
any unwarrantable prejudiccs."
Mr.. BTownlow argued that the candid student Of
history will tud that a majority OF mankind were
stdres, and must acknowledge that the world when
first peopled by CD himself, was not a world Of
freedom, but Of s'aves-the Declaration Of Amer.
can independence, MS usually construed, to the con
trary Notwithstanding. Slavery was established
and sanctioned by Divine authority among the ia.
vored children OF Israel. Abraham was the lawful
owner, at one time. Of more slaves than any cotton
planter in South Carolina Georgia, Alabama or
Mississippi, or any tobacco or sugar planter in
Virginia or Louisiana. This may appear q bold
assertion, buuAey com petitor. who is familiar with
the Scriptures, will regret that there is more truth
than poetry in the declaration.
That magnificent shrine, the gorgeous Temple
of Solomon, commenced and completed under the
pious promptings OF religion and ancient Free'Ma "a
sonny, was reared alone by the hands Of slaves -
Involuntary servitude, reduced to n scicpa00E ist-
ed in arcient Assyria and Babylon. Ven
cradle and enduring pyramids were alt feared by
tho hands of slaves, and black negroes at that.
The tribes Of Israel were carried Of to Assyria, by
ShalmaneBar, and the two strong tribes Of Judah
we're subsequently, carried in triumph by Nebu-
chadDezzar 10 end their days in Babylon as slaves,
and to labor 70 adorn the city. Ancient Phenicia
aud Carthage where literally overrun with slavery;
the slave population outnumberiDg the free, and
the owners Of slaves nearly three to one. The
Greeks aud Trojans at The Siege of Troy, were at
tended with equal numbers of their slaves TO them,
selves. Athens and Sparta and Thebes, indeed the
whole Grecian and Roman worlds. had more slaves
than freemen. L. China, since its earliest history,
the worst forms Of slavery have existed. In Africa
we find the slaves outnumbering the freemen three
30 one. Looking then to the whole world, | may
with confidence assert that slavery in its worst
forms, sutdues by far the largest portion of the
human race
How has slavery thus risen and spread By the
lars Of toar. the state oFproperty-the ftebleness Of
gorernmeHts-the thirst for bargain and Sate-the
increase Of crime, and last, but not least, by and
toiM the consent, knowledge aud appreciation Of al.
mighty God. The Bible, in l Timothy. vi, l, says:
LET as many servants as are under the yoke count
their own masters worthy Of all honor, that the
name of God and his doctrine be not b~lasphemed."
The scriptures for the mort part were written in
Abe Hebrew and Greek languages, and the word
here rendered servants means slaves converted TO
the Christian faith and the word yoke signifies
the state of slavery in which Christ and his apos-
ties found the world involved when the Christian
church was FIRST organized.
Christ was by lineal decent 1.-THE King of the
Jews" but he did not assert his temporal power
go far from il. he actually refused to be crowned in
that right. Under the Roman law. human liberty
was held 10y no more certain tenure than the whim
OF the sovereign power, protected by no definite
constitution whatever. Slavery was the most es
sential element Of the government. and sgave the
master sway over the lives of the slaves. Their con
dition. it was argued, was far better in any slave
State of the Union. The only foundations the
Savior ever uttered were those against the doctors
and lawyers, the ministers and expounders of the
Jewish code Of ecclesiastical law. For this he was
crucised, and the Jewish anti.slavery gamblers
who put him to death, divided out his garments
casting lots Tor them, and from that dav to this
wherever you meet with one OF these abolition Jews
be is engaged in the clothing business, either re
failing or wholesaling ''ready'made clothing."--
Laughter and applause.
The case of the inspired Apostle to the Gentile
vas quoted at length. Before Felix, Paul had
suitable occasion to question the "villainous stat
ute." of Rome but he plead his rights under th'
u0. lie appealed to it. and justified himself un
der it. Martin Luther and John Calvin. both
known as violent %refOrmers, never made war upor
The existing laws of their respective Countries
The same can be said of John Wesley, who, in hi
troubles at Savannah, Georgia, appealed to thu
law. This eminent man had written against tn,
African slave trade. which Mr.. Bruwnlow conceded
IT, be an Infamous traffic. When he returned Il
England, having been two years in Georgia, in hi
report to the London board of missions, who sen
him out, he advised the purchase Of more negroe
for the u3s of tie American missions that Will
they were adapted to the climate, and their labo
proved valuable, the missionaries could be service
ble to them in q spiritual point OF view. Applause
The portion Of the tenth commandment his ma
servant, nor his maid servant" was then reterre
TO, its only true inter probation being that the sp'
cies of property mentioned were and are lawful
They are distinctly consecrated rs property, an
guaranteed to man for his exclusive benefit
proof that slavery was ordained by God himsel
The Hebrew scriptures leach us that God special
authorized his peculiar people to purchase bon
ZEN FOREVER" and if to be in bondage forev,
does not constitute slavery as perpetual as Amer
can slavery, l yield the point to the gentleman wi
proposes to abolish the latter.
The African slave trade, which the speak,
barshiy condemned, dates its origin as far back
l442. Antony Gonzales. a Portuguese marine
nic Ca piv'lbR tuO VI hiIISo "a tbO hiot
..steal some Moors. In 1902 the Spaniards bega
TO steal negroes. and employ them in the mines
uispaniola, Cuba and Jamaica. In 1917, the En-
peror Charles V, granted a patent to certain priv
legged persons TO steal exclusively a supply Of 400
negroes annually for these islands. The atteml
made in our Congress last winter a year ago
to revive this trade was defeated by the voice an
votes Of Southern statesmen. Similar unsuccessful
attempts have been made in the Southern Con
mercisl Convention. The States of THE Unioi
north Of Mason & Dixon's line, alias the Frs
States. were never to any great extent Stare hOt
ing. No air ee ! turning to, Mr.. Pryne) their vi
tuous aud pious minds were mainly exercised
slave stealing and slave selling! Prolonged q
plause To Old England our Pilgrim fathers q
indebted for their knowledge of the art of fla
stealing and to the God'iearing and liberty'loviI
.,Neic England States, are We of the South Who'll
Indebted for our slaves.
In I'LL there was a slave depot established
New York. in wha. is now known as Nall stree
whence the Southern market was supplied. AbO