Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-31
WHOLE NO.. 66S.
Prom the Richm ond (vA) South July
THE VALUE OF SLAVERY AND IT'S INTLv,
ENCE IN Virginia.

We regret to see that some Of our exchanges Of
the Southern States have been unnecessarily ex
cited by the recent course of our contemporary OF
the Engriys1. Yhe cotton States are mistaken -
suppusing that Virginia desires the continuance
of the Union for the purpose of keeping up rhe
value of slave property. Whatever fugitive ed
itorials may sucgest the people OF Virginia De"
sire TO preserve the relations between the States
Of this Curiederacy under the influence o. higher
motives and more worthy suggestions than those
revealed by our contemporary. No sordtd consio-
erations controlled Virginia when she adopted eur
Constitution. No calculations OF pecuniary inter-
est will induce her 10 retain her position as mem-
Der of the Union by which Slavery is guarantees
and sustained. She will never be seduced into
being TIE South Of q Northern Confederacy BY
mere pecuniary considerations. IL Slavery 10
morally wrong or politically and socially an evil
and our people are convinced OF it, she might he
easily induced to get rid Of it, Believing, as her
people do, that it is morally right and politically
and socially advantageous to the present genera
ton as well as to posterity,s she will use all thu
forces she possesses TO retain her institutions, to
maintain her position in the Confederacy, and un.
der no circumst tances will she divide herself from
her sister States of the South,
The cotton states may yet rest assured that vir.
gna has no reason to value slaves a mer.
chantable commodity. They possess with us far
higher value. Our slaves are our com mpanions and
friends, endeared to US by ties and associations
which we cannot sunder to gain pecuniary wealth
from our Southern brethren; and will not co
innate our alliance with the slave States by it's
value in dollars. We have long known the true
value Of political and social alliances and they
are not to be decided by moneyed obigatops.--
We believe that is FAR better for us to retain
slaves, and children in slaveholding
community, than to rid ourselves of great bles.
sing, by petty trade. however gainful We resl'
" believe Slavery q conservative institution and
blpSeinp IN ho1a community Inder anCk
circumstances, il is not wonderful that We object
to any proposition to sell out, at whatever peeanis
a:y advantage, q most valuable, and one Of the
best securities Of real freedom.
Our friends in the South are utterly mistaken in
supposing that cotton is the sole maintenance Of
Negro Slavery in the United States. Let them
look to the continued rise in the price Of tobacco
let them remember the increase in its USE the rap.
IDLY increasing consumption OF it in ooB.ineetal
Europe, the vast progress of free trade-the fact
resulting from these events, that the Virginia
planter has for several years rivaed the Southern
trader in our own markets for slaves. Let them
reflect on the fact that tobacco is the most pleas,
ant and least deleterous of narcotic uxuries. and
that its cultivation s most gainful and least labo.
rious in tho State Of Virginia, and they viii have
no reason TO apprehend that people will betray
their principles sacrifice their interests to be.
come the South of Northern Confederacy. Nei.
ther power nor money could repay our people for
so pernicons separation, or so unnatural union.
The SLAVE TRADE IN LlBERIA-Tbe capture Of
the Regina CGli, French ship. by an English
vessel in Liberian waters with large numbers Of
negroes on board has caused great deal of bad
feeling in 10th England and France. England al.
leges that the negroes slaves and that the
French are engaged in the Slave Trade the
French say that the negroes were not slaves but
free negroes from the United States picked up in
Liberia through the agency of President Benson.
to be ShlDped lahOrers the French islanAa
The following passage is from discussion on this
subject in the British Parliament,
I'm the House of Lords, on the 7th of July, on
the hird reading of the Chinese Passengers Ace
(lS55) Amendment Bill. Lord Broughman doubt,
ed whether the bill went quite far enough. but
there could be no question shat it would effect
great improvement. From information he had
received, partly from public documents. he was
enabled to say that the persons board the Re-
gina Coe were not free negroes. but slaves Who
had been released for the purpose Of being sm,
barked as free emigrants. They come in point
of fact from n well known place called Monnah,
the chief of which was one of the most determin.
ed slave sellers who ravased the neighboripS
country.
"The Earl Of Derby regretted that the noble lord
should not have made the statement he bad just
done while his noble friend the Foreign Secrsts.
ry was not in the house. because his noble friend
entertained quite a different opinion as to the
persons on board the vessel in question. He Lord
Derby was not saying anything in favor Of the
French emigration system but he understood
that his noble friend had last evening shown tho
noble lord paper from which it appeared that
the persons board the Regina COeli had bcen
collected from Monrovia. in Liberia and cot from
the district to which the noble lord had refer
red"
The New York Colonization Society deny that
President Benson had any share in the trsnsac,
ticn, aud promise statement Of the facts on
which the denial is based.
Coon TEsTINoYY-BrT SORRY CoxxENT.-In q
public letter dated at Memphis, May 81, 1858,
Hon F. p. Stanton, Secretary, of Kansas, gives
his views of the action OF the Democrats aud Of
the Republicans, in relation to the Lecompton
bill. He says
'In assuming this unfortunate position, the Dem.
ocratic party. especially the southern portion Of
them, have yielded great advantage to :heir ad,
versaries. the Republicans. These latter when they
supported the Crtenden. Lecompton bill, actually
voted for the admission of Kansas into the Union
as slave state, provided the people should ap-
prove the constitution. The election was 10 have
been held under the direction of two federal
officers, appointed by the President, and
two others elected by the people. Nothing could
have been fairer. The vote of the Republicans
was liberal and patriotic. 1t was a virtual aban-
donmept of all sectional grounds, and an acknowl.
IeuRmoub VI tue IlRuts VI thc ucW
state TO be admitted into the Union, with slavery
or without il, as her people might determine
I WALKER AT WoRK.--A correspondent of the
Louisville Journal, writing from Dalton, Georgia;
under date of June ii, says:
Gentlemen There is general feeling prevail.
ing in all ranks of society in most Of the south
ern portion Of the Union in behalf Of Gen. Wm.
Walker and his confederates. Recently there
have heen several public meetings Of the people
in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
The largest and mos. popular assemblies ever