Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-01
From the Pittsburgh Gazette.
THE SLAVE TRADE REOPENED !

Such a statement would have startled many from
their p~ropriety not two years ago, yet to-day it is
a fixed fact. We do not lay claim to any particu.
lar powers Of provision, but yet we stated it ne our
belief and gave our reasons, two years ago. for su
believing, that the very next step Of the pro sla'
very democracy would be toward the reopen.
ing of this damnable traffic. And why notH We
hold that the slave-stealers, slave.whippeTs and
slave'traders Of the extreme South are entirely con.
sistent in their whUle course. The bred Scott de-
cison and the Kansas, Neb,aska Bill being right,
the African Slave trade is right also. II u slave
is u chattel under the law OF nature, rs fsh, coal,
horses or rum are goods or %chattels, what right
have we in constitutional or legal enactment to
prohibit n mme therein? If the constitution
with one hand opens the territories to slavery,
what madness to shut up with the other the only
land from which these territories can be supplied
The young" South L. c. the fllibustering. slave
trading South Of to-day, grins contemptuously at
the maudlin philanthropy that blubLers over the
griefs, the discomforts. the tears, the whiT S, the
%shackles, the deaths Of the middle passage, while
1t calmly ~contemplates, the husband on a Virginia
plantation sold from the wife into slavery among
the s"amps OF Carolina, or the cane brakes of Lou.
isiana, to which death would be preferable. The
interstate or domestic slave trade PRESENTS as ma,
ny horrible features to disgust, to alarm and TO
terriiy as even the African Slave Trade ITSELF
The foreign and domestic trade are 10 their shirt
and inception each internal, and those who accus.
tom themselves to the latter will not be shocked at
the former those who contend that men have as
good a right to carry slaves to our free territories
as to carry l:mber or any other commodity there,
will, alter thinking on the matter a little, see no
great sin in supplying the demand for the "ebony
property" from wherever it can be bought cheap.
est. In the course Of a few months We shall see
the dough faces of the north and the organs of de-
mocracy everywhere, proclaiming the reopening
Of the slave trade as the only possible salvation to
the Union.
The Washington Union, the organ of Buchanan,
acknowledges that there is no doubt a cargo Of wild
Africans have been landed in Georgia, an ! do,
plores" the impossibility of bringing the people
down there, to obey tho laws Were the cry to
go abroad that a single Slave had escaped from
bondage. you would hear no talk about the Difficult.
ty Of securing him, once the iron hand of the slave.
catcher were upon him. What was the case with
Burns, in Boston? Has any che forgotten that ?
An army turned out to parade the streets of that
city with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets a
ship OF war brought up to town to take the man
away the Court House, in the heart of n popu,
lous city, surrounded by chains to keep back the
crowd United States Judges and officials of every
stripe on the qui ciue the city under martial law.
All, but that was to return a man into Slavery, and
should the government now interfere it would be
to bring the wild Africans ont of Slavery We
would hear lamentations from various,qnarters.-
The New York Observer would not fail to note the
inhumanity of a President who would thus use the
powers of the constitution to withdraw men from
the blessed influence of Christianity The Geor-
gia Dispatch hos already opened that delightful
vein as f~llows:
The question has often been asked what prac.
teal goad can result from the agitation of the re
vival of the slave trade We point to this cargo
of sturdy laborers, delivered from the darkness
and barthrism of Africa, to be elevated and chris.
tianized on our soil. We point 10 the price paid
for tho fancy and less valuable negroes here. And
we claim that these results are the beginning Of
the blessings to flow in upon the South from the
fearless advocacy of the revival Of the slave trade,
by one or two independent presses in this State
and South Carolina. This trade may be called pi.
racy by n false construction of q foolish law, but
the day will come when tho South will make it the
right arm Of her Legitimate commerce. And then
there may be a chance for us poor editors to own
a sooty skin or two. Who knows ?"
To this view Of the case, the Mobile Mercury
adds another
Thus, " hile the Georgians are obtaining slaves
from the coast Of Africa, at a mere nominal price,
Alabamians and Mississippians are purchasing
from Virginia, at the high price ofS15O0 per head.
1t is useless to attemp. to conceal the fact that la,
Dor is scarce in the cotton,growing regions. While
labor can not be obtained, even if desirable ne.
groes are constantly going up in value, and the
prices Rsked for them even now, place their pur-
chase beyond the means of those possessed of mod
crate competency"
We have, then, the new light from the Douglas
view of the Constitution, the argument of the Geor.
gia Dispatch on the religious view of the question,
the argument from a pecuniary standpoint, and
the unwillingness of the government to use the
power It possesses for the suppression Of the Afri.
can Slave Trade, all conspiring in one direction.-
What can be expected but a speedy outfit of nu.
merous missionary ships to bring the benighted
Africans from Boorioboolagha under the influence
of our civilization and of the whip of the task,mas,
ter?
BARKsDALE LAMENTETu.-Barksdale the Mis-.
sissippian. he on whose empty wig fell the heavy
blows Of Cadwallader. the dauntless, on that
night when the statesman of Whippy Swamp fell
beadlons over the fist OF Grow, the illustrious-
BarkSdale is grieved at his heart. Over the de
generace and disgrace which have cast a dark
shadow upon the sunny South, from the worsbip
of DOUGLAS, he thus lifted up his voice, Ike a pc.