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


literature, because there is scarcely an European,
Canadian or New England book which does not
suppose mon to be men, uudor all conditions.
committee Of Southern doctors is, therefore, or
ganizcd to crea.e and foster indigenous litera'
ture which shall not put embarrassing ideas be
fore the minds of young Shareholders. The South
will grow its own books, as England once grew
her own corn, and as New England likes to weave
her own "domestics" The difference is that in
the corn and calico cases the production the
private enterprise. whereas in the literary case,
society is to be taxed to raise the capital required
for the production. North Carolina is extremely
poor 10y her own account. According to others.
she has little taste for literature. Again, she
finds herself visited 10y u considerable number of
European emigrants, who make fair living
out of her waste land and pine forests and such
laborers, though dangerous neighbors to slave
plantation, are less troublous than free negroes.
Putting all these things together, the grand jury
of Cleveland County may naturally suppose that
they would mend their case on every side, il they
could sell off the free negroes Of New Orleans,
and raise thereby the tax due from their State for
the creation of a new literature.
But there are more facts in other newspapers.
The Mobile journal tells US that the Sheriff of
Sumpter County. Alabama, has sold great bar
gazing in lesh the particulars Of which are given.
Few attended the sale, and fewer wanted to buy,
so reduced is tho value Of slaves at present
When free negroes are pressed upon foreign colo
nies by the Dalton order of emmssaries, it is o
sign tha. likely boys" and valuable laundresses,
with healthy iniants," are going at low figure.
SO we may go on to the next symptom. On the
% of August, the free people Of color held con-
ventions throughout the free States, showing their
resolution to make themselves heard and consider,
ed at time of crisis which they well understand
1t is evident that their neighbors and the public
are surprised and deeply impressed by the ability
and spirit manifested on that portentious day. and
especially in the greatest of the nventions-that
Of Massachusetts,, held az New Bedford. At this mo
ment our business with the demonstration relates
to the one particular which we commend to Mr..
Dalton's employers in America and his enthusias
tic hosts in Jamaica. There were two resolutions
which seem to have been agreed to with deyout
enthusiasm over the length and breadth Of the
Orthern Statcs-that the FREQ people of color
despise and defy the Dred Scott decision, taking
their stand the argument of the dissenting
udge Curtis; and that they will resist every at,
tempt to drive or inveigle them to any foreign
country, whether it be Liberia, Central America,
the West India Islands, or any place whatever
out of the Union. 1t is observable that these de-
cisons are aathlzed in, OF less heartily,
by the journals which record them. 1t is far
from surprising, say the writers, that these peo-
pie choose to remain where many of them have
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to position in which the Dreds sScot decision will
become dead letter where schools and colleges,
and the learned professions and higher arts Of
life are rapidly opening before them; and where
patriotism and inclination alike sanction the duty
they choose-of proving freedom is its own just
iication and apology" The work has in fact been
achieved the spirited men of their color who
undertook the public school question at Boston.
They demanded public school rights for their chill
Idren-separate schools and white teachers were
offered and declined. Then separate schools. and
qualified teachers OF taeir owu class. That also
was declined. AS nothing would satisfy them but
equal admission to the existing spublic schools
Ito which they had clear constitutional right
the Boston school committee told them that they
had thrown away their opportunity, and must
now BE ruled by the committee. The leaders of
the moy ement gave notice that they should try
their strength against that of the committee, and
they went .ound to every house in Boston where
there were children of their color and induced
the parents to withdraw them from the seperate
schools.
This vgor carried the day. Within six months
the schools were thrown open No mischief has
dop tba y,
and one consequence is that yet bolder stand is
now proposed The speakers at new Bedford de-
sire that henceforth fugitives who taking their
road will stop there and not think it necessary to
expariate themselves, even in Canada. New Bed
ford and Boston have understanding by which
the soil of Massachusetts can be kept sacred a
retreat for slaves, oil Federal Courts and enact
ments Notwithstanding As citizens of Massachu-
sctts, these men will Stand by their State; and
.key invite their suffering accomplishments to
come and try them. This is enough. Nobody
will believe that people Of this sort will ever be
shippeG to Jamaica at "a head, to be attached to
the soil of plantation for any number of Years,
for the sake of plot of land if theyl can
get tl at the end of the term. II Dir. Dalton
were 10 send over any of their color a, all in that
way, they would not be the free negroes but slaves
under that name There might be good many of
that class for not only are slaves deprecated
property in the market at present. but they are be-
coming q highly precarious property in the most
runious way of ALL All efforts to conceal the in
crease of "stampedes" now fail for the Northern
citizens, who used to be silent about the passage
of slaves through their territory, now see no neces
sity for such caution. We observe in Northern
journal a notice of 900 dollars having been sub.
scribed to meet the increased expenses of the un-
derground railway" from the rapid increase of its
passenger traffic, All that happens tends to aug
men. the exodus. The frontier States, and some
others. are growing sick of slavery and the slaves
run away all the more easily aud abundantly.-
Other States grow more peremptory and anu strict
for the laxity of their neighbors, and under their
aggravated oppression, the sufferers are moro eager
than ever to escape and sooner or later thay effect
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