Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-02

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They forget that throughout the whole South
. the spectacle OF gentlemen and ladies' in the high
est walks Of society, selling their own children
grandchildren. nephevs, cousins, urccs and aunt
into slavery, is almost as common and uncensuret
as is tho sale Of lambs, calves, and colts among us
They Do not consider how, under the influence
Of such examples in high life, the ponr miserable
millions of whites ut the South, sometimes starv
ing for bread, may be tempted to cell their owl
white children tD the Shareholders. They havt
not perhaps heard Of instances Of the kind
though thousands of such cases iunyI have tnkei
place. 1t would be siranGe if there hpd not
And Of snme we hare heard Who can tell hov
rapidly such cases may multiply, aud how tho KID
mapping of Northern whites may be Increased viii
the increased interninghnr Of races and blending
of cnors, anticipated by Mr. Cay2
l Who dues not know tnt already the treatment
OF the roorer whites, in this country, is coming to
resemble the treatment Of slaves? And yet white
! Americans cannot the danger of their being
enslaved, the people Of EurOre can see it, and can
see that already, the line Of demnrkation between
oar black sar0S and our free whites is becoming
lhdistinct aud confused.
! The slavery Of this country il no longer claim.
&c as beiS the creature Of positive or statute law
! The Shareholders claim their slaves on the ground
I o! natural light. which they explain to mean that
the stronger and more intelligent have n right 10
! su'Jugate and eu,laSc the weaker and more ionur-
ANT, whose wenkheSs and ignorance. il is said,
prove them to he incapable OF freedom. Ii is on
'hls very ci"m ct slavery, ms natural right (not
as matter OF positive law), that slavery is said
TO exi@; IN Kansas, where no positive enactment
/ has established it. Ii is this natural right tu
>inve property that the Constitution il said to rec
"gnlze 10 the slave States and in the Territories
where slaves are cntried for in no slave State
Is there any pretence that slavery exists bv posi-.
! i've statute law. This HafurH riyhf tenure Of
-are property it is, that Pre- e@dent Buchanan say =
| the CoA'TTuTIoN established IN Kansas And il
IL II claim that knows no distinction OF race or
color notwithstanding the false preteuce Of JuCgr
fancy. The Southern uhite slave carried into
Kansas. Is just as securely held there by the
whole force OF the United States rs the Mcck
slave. AMI IT one man may he held under the
Constitution rs slivc, then another may be- aud
here Ia security for none.
lhe State ut Virginia Is already litgatng with
New York the question whether II Nrgiuian
-Iarch"d"r eau hold his slaves in New York hav-
'ig brought them there. This question is expect
ed 10 he carried tu the u. 5. Supreme Court and
!ecid"d for the slavehoder wl,ich will by antici.
patton, establish the new Southern doctrine thar
u" H"fe under the Constitution Of the United
states can exclud" slavery-s very logical infer.
rnce from President Buchanan's doctrine that no
Territory can exclude it, Then. the Constitution
vii 5e held to establish and legplize slavery.
without distinction of color. in all the States
What, then. can secure or prevent the weak and
more ignorant whites from being enslnved?
1t VIII be said. lcrhapt, that when the attempt
>ntli once up made. the mass Ut the lauurng peU-
pie viii rise up, at once, one man. and over
throw any government that should attempt it,
VIII they Where is the proofY Let see.
When. ip 1896. Gov. McDnGie predicted their EN-.
,lavemcnt, within twenty five years did they show
any symptoms of rebellion. Now as for years
past there is no freedom of speech and of the |
press in large part of national territory.
without which no rights le secured; but
when did either the poor whites the rich
whites rise up at once against the Gespotic pro.
hinitiOn Then came the repeal of the Missouri |
Restriction, directly in aid OF the enterprize of
carrying slavery north of the stipulated line, 81
as to facilitate and extend the practice of en-
shaving the laborers Of the country. hleached or
nnbleached. Did the mass 0f the lahoring |
neople rise up against that? Next came She
Inrder Rullan invasion Of Kansas, backed up
lay Federal troops, to butcher and trample
dawn the miserable blear,eved rQbhle' of
whites who (the Washington Union the Ad-
ministrat"n organ, suid) have been trans.
terred. like 80 manv caHle. TO that country
Ard now, President Buchanan declares that the
whole force Of the United States shall be EN-
puyed to enforce the dcFpotic government
thus fastened upon them. as lie pretends, by the
Constitution Of the United States by whch 'sla ,
very exists in KaSas,' citing the pnon of Judge
Fancy in the Drcd Scott case, az his authority
Yet when. where, aid how, have the mass of the
aboring people, whether intelligent or ignorant
'iscn up against it. even at the ballot boy? Even
hose who have made a show of doing it. have been
ed to support candidates who were eager to dis
'la.n any design Of overthrowing in the citadel Of
is power, the grim Desputism that has enacted all
his? Does this look like making a timely resistance
q the attempt ut enslaving the lahorious whites ?
At every step. in the progress of these aggres-
lions their liberties hns not the apathy and
stupidity of the masses of the laboring people
increased? Are they sensible to tho aggres-
ons of the slave rower now. they were twen-
v years ago? The .tory of the abduction or
eizure, by the cnslavers, of nhHe person.
hous n heard with incredu'ity. .hen. set whole
tiles in blaze of excitement. Nav an. I,
ouncement cf this character are grown familiar
nd are read sileally and quietly matters Of
curse Two or tin &c of them in a month. make
ery little sensation One reaches while writing .
his article Like any OTHER item of gossip, it is
hronicled without comment AT this rate. it will
ot be long before the record of the enslavemeht &
{ the whites of whole territory will BE read
Ike that Of the last railroad acci dent, and be fol-
often in fortnight.
When the attempt shall once be maGc. the peo 5
lie will rise up. at and resist it = VII! they
series Of attempts, and most Of them success Il
Il have been going on for at least twenty.one ;
ears. And where the indications Of resist 7
nre? :
+Mr Gusts has died. this prnned, has
rovdne the eunnrpa slaves within five years
ld for their removal from the commonwealth u