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

We gave an account q few DAYS since Of an elab-
crate report by n Committee Of the South Carolina
Legislature in favor Of the revival Of tue African
slave. trade. The sane subject Is also before tue
Legislature Of Texas, having been brought up by
a joint resolution introduced into the House of
Representatives, and referred to the Committee on
Slaves and Slavery. Mr.. John Henry Brown, the
author Of this resolution, seems fully impressed
with the dogma maintained by some ultra Adolf.
tiOnists Of the North that the Church is the corner
stone of American Slavery. Not content, like
Brigham Young and the Mormons, TO rest upon
the example of the patriarchs of the Old Testauien.
Mr.. Brown presses the New Testament and the
Apostle Paul alec into the service.
Thus African Slavery is justified not merely on
the alleged ground that from the earliest dawn of
social organization down to the present time.
she black man or negro has shown himself to ne
a distibctively inferior intellectual being. incapa.
BILE Of selt.eleVatiOn or moral improvement" but
text, Cursed be Canran"--Canaan being set down
by Mr.. Brown as tho negro" The text also in
Leviticus, about making bondsmen Of the heather
round about, which heather Mr.. Brown seems to
take it f + granted were negroes. is also cited to
Justify the African slave trade. "In addition to
many other and abundant commands, both in the
"OldT Testament and the New, instituting, ordain.
ing or regulating the enslavement OF this inferior
or negro race of men," the exhortation of ST.
Paul contained in the First Epistle 20 Timothy is
cited Mt length. though for our part we do not
recollect any intimation that the slav es thus ad
dressed by st. Paul were negroes. or that the ex-
hor :ation i.i question would nos equally apply to
Mr.. Brown himself, should he happen TO be ship
wrecked on the coast Of Africa aud be made a slave
Of by the wandering Arabs.
Having thus grounded themselves on the Bible.
these resolutions next proceed 10 set ONT the reno
val Of the negroes "from "a state of degradation,
sla vcry and barbarian wretchedness in their naive
African wilds, to the condition of suhjuga,ion To-
the white race on this continent" ''as their great.
est known good rs a people" and also n great good
to all the rest OF the world all attempts hitherto
ures and the existing institution of Slavery in this
country as the great corner stone Vt repuhlicanism
standing lin bold antagnnism alike to ari+tocracy
and agrarani,m to despoti- IN aid A. archy to 'yran
ny and faction" sustaining by Just laws, and good
government. the stability Of republican institutions
and the rights ct man to self government, as pro
claimed by our forefathcrs of l176."
Considering all these facts, and the check given
to the devel"pement Of the Southern States, and 10
tie ameliUratiun Of the condition Of tie unhappy
Africans. by the act Of 1908, prohibiting tie slave
trade, and especially the need that Texas, with
her vast unsettled territory, has Of ADDITIONAL labor
being capable Of receiving, sustaining and con
trolling a large number Of these helpless beings"
with advantage to them, To herself, and to every
body, especially the laboring classes Of the North,
ern States and Europe-on these grounds it is pro.
posed To urge upon Congress the repeal of all
laws and the abr"gation OF all treaties prohibiting
the importation of African sinvcs into the slave.
holding States and Territories of the Union,