Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-26

THE HOME SLAVE TRADE AND THE
AFAICAN SLAVE TRADE.

| proposed opening o. the African Slave Trade are
very noticeable and important events ltis no
very long since Senator from South Caroline
bodsted in his place in the Senate Chamber tha
the south had rulcd the country for sixty years.
The boast was as true as it was nsOlent and morti
/ fyiug to every Northern man who loved and re
spected the Free States. The institution Of sla
very has formed a union in the South so firm anC
50 sensitive that the slightest touch of that nerve
has always yibiated through the entire system
and at once drove the whole delegation from tho
Slave States into one solid phalanx and enabled it,
with the aid Of some Northern doughiaces, to carry
every measure they unitedly supported. The boos
If Senator Hammond was therefore, as true as ii
was explicit it well enough to use those
miserable creatures, but It very silly to make
their tools feel that they were dosp.sed, even
while they were rendering base services to theil
overseers.
The two articles in the two Virginia papers
above referred 20, indicate pretty clearly that a
time is rapidly apprc aching when tho South will
cease to be unit and, Of course, to rule the
try.
The Old Dominion, the State that has furnished
so many Presidents, such crowds of Office holders
and SO many thousand oiiice-beggars, is decidedly
in favor Of free trade, thoroughly ant,tarii
and violently hostile to any restrictions upon any
branch os business except her peculiar one--the
raising of "niggcrs" for cotton and sugar planta.
tons. In respect to this business Virginia smOth.
ers her free trade notions and would not be content
even with high tariff upon the importation Of
Africans, but insists upon its total prohibition.
1t is gratifying to find these two leading Nir,
ginia papers, even from selfish motives taking this
stand against that munstrous crime-the African
slave Trade. The South united, has so long ruled
the country, has often found base Northern cal.
titfs in the market ready tc do their dirty work
for price, that it was greatly 10 be feared that
Englishes and Biglers and such cattle might be
found in numbers sufficient even to pass a bill al
lowing bounty for the Importation Of Africans
for slaves.
But all christian principle, all sense Of honor,
all feeling of humanity, are not yet dead in Nir.
ginia some Of her citizens abhor and deiest this
whole system Of buying and selling human beings,
this practice of separating husband and wife and
tearing the child from the mother. But the num-
Der of such humane and christian people is not
sufficient to present any serious obstacle to the
taiy repetition of these outrages. Indeed the
number of such right thinking people is so small
and the violence and tyranny of the slaveocracy
is SO great that the right thinking and better mind
ed minority dare not boldly express their senti
ments. The utmost they dare DO is to whisper to
one another their dsapproya
But the Almighty can make even the wrath of
the wicked serve him SO that at the very moment
when the project Of opening the African Slave
Trade seemed to have assumed formidable shape
at the very moment when every true christian
heart in the land began to shudder at the horrible
prospect before us, just when all hope of escape
from the damning intamy was about expiring, the
slaveocracy of Virginia are aroused to the convic-
tion that the opening OF the sugar and cotton plan
tations markets for African slaves would at
once close them against the native born slaves
This convi;tion in the minds of the Nrginians
settles the question at once. No doughiaGe, how
ever cheap he may be, not even Bigler, or Eng
lsh, or Florence, or Buchanan, will betray his
own constituents and disgrace himself to serve
Ia LII Al n. IL II
Old Dominion. The question may be regarded as
unanswered the prohibition Of the importation
of Africans is now the settled policy of the coun-
try. Tho alarm bell has been rung in Virginia.
and the Old Dominion is wide awake. Mr. fancy
by his Infamous bold advocacy of tho revival Of
the trade, has unwitingly done valuable service in
the cause of humanity.
Hereafter it 10 most probable another result of
this division of the South will be to make nor
thern dough faces less marketable If we could
have their prices quoted in price current, they
would be at discount OF thirty or forty per cent.
and only choice articles would 60 at that; Biglers
and Englishs, and such lean cattle would DO mo
sale"
The position of the cotton and sugar growing
States will hereafter be one Of modification; Vir-
gina untes with the free States in perpetuating
the act against the African Slave Trade, thus com.
pelling the more southern States to pay higher pri.
ces for their slaves and yet they must buy of her.
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States which have hitherto Rad but one mind and
one interest will soon become divided and bitterly
hostile. The slave buying States cannot feel
much respect for arguments used by Virginia slave.
holders against the African Slave Trade, while she
so eagerly pursues the domestic Slave Trade. The
old, false and sophistical argument SO often USED,
that the i'm portation Of Africans places them with
in the reach of the Gospel will be treated with all
the scorn it merits by the Virginia slave seller
To steal men from their homes, confine them in
loathsome slave ships and to murder them by hun
dreds in the passage to christian land is not the
plan pointed out by Oui Savior for making converts
to the religion Of love.
Unfortunately for the Virginia trader, the same
argument will apply with almost qual force to his
own practlces tearing the wife from her husband
or the child from its mother, was not our SaviOrs
mode of winning converts.
No doubt we will derive both pleasure and profit
hereafter from the arguments of the Alabama cot
ton planters and the Virginia slave traders upon
the relative merits and dement's of the Home and
African Slave Trade.
The slave traders will give us much additional
light upon the African slave trade: while the cot
ton planters will become eloquent in describing
the beauties and virtues of that trade upon
which they have hitherto relied for their supply Of
labOrers.
When Joseph's brethren sold him into Egypt,
they thought they had served their own purposes,
and little dreamed of the great results which their
wickedness was to bring about so Mr., Yancey,
in the bold advocacy of his infamous project is
unwittingly contributing his mite towards the
accomplishment of the great and glorious design
of the Almighty. Q.
The Missouri Democrat says that the slave sys-
tenn is virtually dead in Missouri. The industrial
element which has forced itsslf into the State is
breaking down all opposition, and will eventually
make Missouri free State. The moment she dis
cards involuntary seryitude as a system of labor,
she will take irStclass position among the States.
is not in the power of the Pro Slavery politicians
of Missouri to prevent this happy consummaton,
National Era.
Three runaway negroes from Henderson, n.y.
were captured near Vineennes, Ind, few days
since by Mr.. Hicks, of the former place aad All
officer from Evansville, and taken back home.