Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-28
THE EMBLAzONMENT OF OUR SHAME.


A more glaring and public emblasonment Of ou
guilt spa shame as nation Of sehltsrers could
hardly be conceived than is thrown up 70 view ID
the procedures of the Siokles trial at Washington.
In that trial it has been announced that slaves
have no marital rights, and there being no mar.
ital rights recognized between slaves, there
could be no adultery. Tie case of white mau,
whose marital khts recognised by law aad BY
society, and those Of a black man who has no mar,
ital rights, very different. 1t must be so. the
Judge averred, because slaves cannot contract
marriage The consequence follows, among oth-
ers that no white be punished for the
crime Of adultery with tho wife of a black man,
but, on ih5 contrary if the black mar shoG8
catch the white man in the very crime, and smitc
him down, although if the injured husband bad
been himself white man, and had murdered the
adulterer. it would have been merely man-slsugh-
ter in TIE eye Of the faw, yet being black man, il
becomes murder. The crime of adultery was no
crime commi ted by the white man On the black,
because slaves have 40 marital rights and there
fore such crime that Of adultery is impossi-
BILE. And the injured husband black man, and
having no right 10 his 5wa wife, exclusive, and TO
right to be thrown into passion, or state Of in
dignation or excitement by such an injury that
of the violation Of his wife by his white owner;
And this shame in the open eye of day This
page of diaboc law pleaded in Washington
This jurisprudence, reeking with such abomina-
tion, foul with such mpiety and licentiousness.
appealed to, and commented upon, in solemn
trial for the protection of common morality
| Slaves no Martial rights! No rights Us husband
and wife, possible contract of matrimony, no
right to each others persons ana affections. conse
quen;y 40 such crime as that Of adultery possible
to be committed No rights Of parents or chill
dren, no family ties rights, possibility Of the
family institution. as appointed of God for man;
kind, and consequently sin in the violation and
: breaking up of that institution, in the snhderinE
and selling ofits members, or in turning IT into q
factory for tbebreeding Of stock
1t must be so. it, as the Judge ase!s. adultery is
not possible, because the slaves oanho contract in
marriage. And the Judge merely laid down thS
law. Let US see how the stands in StrouFS
Slave Laws, page 99 - slave cannot even con-
tract matrmony; the association which takes place
among slaves, and is called marriage being prop
erly designated by the word contubernium, rela-
ton which has no sanctity, and to which no civil
rights attached. A slave has never maintain
ed an action against the violator of bis bed. A
sieve is no. sdmonished for incontEnenee, or pun
ished for fornication adultery, never prosecuted
for bgamy, or petty treason, for killing hus-
band being slave" Aud page 80. "a slave can
not be party before judicial tribunal il s3y
species of action against his MASTER Ne n,e.s how
atrocious may have beea the injury which he has
received from him."
We will net now PROSECUTE the Quotations or dem
onstrriohS Of these Infamous laws and principles.
Our national jursprudents, adopting the atrocious
slave e'codes is source of perpetual moral debau-
cherry and corruption And suppose strahKer,,'
who never had heard of such enoImities present
at the trial in Washington for mans killing an
other for the crime Of adultery with his wife, to
have paused in astonishment at that legal and ju-
dicial announ cement Il at slaves cannot cortrsct
marriage. and have no mat!ta!'righss, ana, there
fore, adultery or inconnence is no more sin
among them, nor white ever to b., punished
FOR its commission upon them. Suppose sueh q
stranger to have asked how many such anomalous
creatures we have among us for whom the distiac-
tions OF Gods law are done away, and who have no'
rights that whit5 men are Found to respect. The
answer is, Only four'o FIVE millions. rous OF Rvs
millions! And has ,he Bible been given themf'
Are they not taught to read? Is there no attempt
To bring them out of this Sodomic state of morals
and Of Ignorance? 4? Are there no mansions for
them ?? Bibles tthe bible Society wac not ins,i.f
tuted for that. Taught to readi The Law soss
protection of the masters forbids that. Missions
and the Gospel The American Board can have
nothing to do with slavery and, not being an An
Slavery Society, cannot exclude from .s6eA
Churches under its care those who, Uphold and
practise this sin. The American Board mus. be-
all md d,p;t olo abc
MON Of the Churches, and the Churches innss boz
silent. Hhdso" We grope for the wall liks the
blind. We look for judgment but there is n6ns,'
for salvation, but it is far from Speaking op-
pression, conceising and a,totipg from the heart
words of falsehood. judgment is turned away back
ward and justice standcth afar of, for truth is fa-
Len in the street. and equity cannot enter. How
long. Lord, holy and ue!-Dr. Chseosr, IN Mss
Independent.
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