Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-25
Ube Anti- 5lauerp Buolc.
'm the Richmond Enquirer, OF Nov. 90,
PR0-SLAVERY.
An oDIoUs AND GRINDING MONOPOLY.


"But, especially, care must be taken that n,onop
oies which are the caDkers of all trading, be not
admitted under specious colors o public good"
This is the language of Lord Bacon, contained
in his letter of advice of Sir George Villiers,
when the latter was appointed Prime Minister to
King James the First. That letter of advice
abounds with sound political maxims which rem
der it indeed chart for statesmen but in moth.
ing more than in this emphatic condemnation of
nonopoles is it's wisdom sgnalized. Monopolies
are the cankers of all trading, freedom from re-
strant is the vital principle of all fair aud profta.
bic business.
l have attentivey considered the profession of
che great Democratic party, and find that freedom
from oil unnecessary restraint enters into that
creed, and WHITES the whole. Withdraw that sin .
gle principle, and the party now instinct with life
would instantly fall into confusion, and mserably
perish. But what is true of that party, wherever
il is found is especially true of that great division
Of it which reigns supreme in Virginia. The Dem.
ocratic party is the glory of this Commonwe ealth !
Long may it remain the pride, and the solace, and
the protection of the people, Freedom of rel gion,
freedom Of thought, freedom of action, and freedom
cftrade, ore all the glorious progeny of that one
grand principle-freedom.
When the avaricious, allgrasping North through
its political organ, the Federal Government had
rnd r "color" of protective laws gained monop.
oily Of the Southern market, and cozened very re-.
spectacle but not very sagacious party, in the
South, to cooperate in its scheme, of plunder, the
Democratic party in the plenttude of its power,
rose up, broke down the ramparts by which fair
nd ~,
der was fenced n and fixed freedom, of trade as a
fundamental principle Of American politics. Yes,
"freedom of trade" which, in the words of its in
vincible advocate has its foundations in the deep
and durable basis of TRUTH and will vindicate ITSELF
IL draws origin from on high. 1t emanates from the
Divine will, and is designed in it's dispensa.ion to
perform an important part in binding together in
eoncord and peace the nations of the earth, and
extending far and wide the blessings of civilization
In ful6lment Of this high design, penalties
are annexed TO a departure from its lars" That
was glorious victory, and has enured and will en-
ure to generations yet unborn. Buy ,chere you can
buy cheapest, is the political economy which, trum
pet,tongued, has been proclaimed to the nations of
the earth by the Democracy OF this ancient Com.
monwealth. 1t will be echoed along the line of
succeeding generations, buy phere you buy
cheapest After your proud Capitol, and your
uments of brass, and monuments of stone, have
crumbed into dust, that principle, in immortal Wig
or will survive, to protect the interests and direct
the councils of nations.
Buy where you can buy cheapest! But why
should this great truth In politics be confined in its
application to the productions of the earth and the
productions of capital and skill? Why MOI, in the
various traffic of man, why not extend it to every
thing that is bought and sold Under the shelter
ing hand of this great principle, the manufacturer
of cotton cloths is permitted to resort to the
kets Of the world in order to provide for bis looms
the necessary material. lie may 60 to Brazil, and
lay in his supplies. if his judgment caprice shall
elect. He may 60 into Algeria or British India
or, doubling the Cape, he is suffered even to resort
to A fiica, and buy for his looms from the native
chiefs, and pay for the article with keg Of whis-
Ky, q red jacket or string of glass beads. Tn e is
all perfectly right-the law of nature, adopted and
enforced by the Democratic party, suffers him to
reap the profits of his own labor and capital, and
buy where he can buy cheapest. 1t does not conn
pc! him, nor does it allow the Government to conn.,
ypel him to deal at disadvantage, and thus confs
cate one mans interests, that the interests of an
other man may be advanced. All men and all
smployments stand level in that presence
from cobbler on his bench to the curious arti6cer
an brass.
Cotton in the United States is the production of
slave labor; and the slave, equally as the cotton
which his labor produces, is impressed with the
seal OF property. and may be bought and sold.--
Why, then, should the planter of cotton be com.
PEELED, by a penal act, to purchase his slaves in
the domestic market, whilst the manufacturer of
cotton is suffered to resort to the universal market
for his supplies-to South America, Asia, or even
to Africa itself? thus bri ging the producer of
American cotton in direct competition with the
cheap and unbought labor of other Countries
There is no equality no reciprocity here If the
Northern manufacturer does not avail himself of
this liberty it is because he does not choose to do
il; the laws offer no impedment whatever,
But the cotton planter of the South does not
stand alone-he has fellow sufferers enough
Would you buy lot of negroes to establish farm
or plantation in Virginia, you are met full front
by this Federal monopoly, deep laid plan estab.
lished and maintained by the Anti Slavery power
at Washington. for destroying Slavery here. You
may purchase delivered at Norfolk or Alexandria,
frst.class hands, imported from Africa for $lOO
apiece-such hands as you pay for in the barra.
ooons Of Richmond, twelve or fifteen hundred dol.
lars.
But an imperial mandate from the palace of the
American Caesars interposes its prohibition, and
you are compelled. unless you relinquish your plan
of life. to purchase from the domestic savebre
or or slave merchant at that great advance. Why
not permit you to purchase from the negro kings
Of Africa as we'll as from the negro kings Of Vir.
giniaf Why not allow you to buy where you can
buy chespesti Is not this the result of the bust.
nsss. that the Federal law transfers from your
pocket to the pocket Of another the difference be-