Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-09
Gbe Auti- 5Ioperp Buole.
-. From the Detroit Daily Tribune.
AN ALARMING CASE OF NEGROPHOBIA.

We present report from member of the State
Senate by the name Of Muzzey, a mousing and
malignant locufoco from Berricn county, in rela'
tion TO the disabilities Of negroes. Az a newspa.
per article it would have been beneath contempt
and is only worthy Of notice now, in tho light Of
the disgrace which it has aft scd upon the State i'll
having been presented to its Legislature as q for
NAL report from a committee. Ground down be-
meath the disabilities of centuries, marked and
subjugated people, denied political rights, ostracis
I'd in social life hep pess and deenceless it is the
bussst of cowardice to heap such gratutous oppro'
brium upon the negro race. In all the rawlings of
negro. .photia, we have seen nothing equal to this
seurrilous magnity, shameless fasehood and un'
feeling contumely. 1t is atfocious and disgrace
ful to the last degree We should like to see Mr..
Muzzey in the hands of some of the race he deems
a. Srutes, denies any rights whatever. and invites
society to hunt down as pests and vermin. How
would he take care of himself under the enactment
of Fred Douglass. Dr. j. McCune Smith, DR.. PEN
niupton, or even Day the decision of the Supreme
Court in whose case he grossly alsifcs. lie would
soon find that these brutes, as he calls them, were
quite match for all the brains he could bring
into service Is this the spirit Of locoiocoism in
Michigan? Does it ask popular approval on such
doctrines as these? Does it hope to elect judi.
cial officer to construs the law, the humanity and
the civilization of the age after this atrocous fash
;opi IL it does, let its accredited organs say so,
and not shuttle the responsibility off upon the Old
Whigs," like Muzzey, who have just crept into
the party. Mr.. Muzzey's opinions, however, would
seem to lie popular with his party, from the fact
{, f,r( Of
Justice at the late Democratic State convention.
Muzzey Chief Justice! God save the mark!
A NEW PHASE OF MICHIGAN DEMoCRACY-NEGRoEs
DENOUNCED AS DRUTEs-A DISGUSTING DOCUMENT.
Mr.. Muzzey. of Berrien county offered in the
Senate of the Legislature Of Michigan the follow
ipp atrocious document as n report from the Com
mittee on Expiring Laws. 1t is signed by Senator
Broadhead, but was written by Senator Muzzey,
a newly .fedged locufoco, Of the most malignant
sort:
The Committee on Expiring Laws, to whom was
referred bill TO repeal section 1888 OF the com
piled Laws relating to qualified voters in school
meetings, having considered The same, ask leave
to report
The question involved is simply, whether it is
advisable TO admit negroes to participate equally
with white citizens in school district meetings.
Your committee are astorishcd that PROPOSE
ton of that nature should ever have elected dit-
ference of opLion in civilized community. Yet
as diversity of cpinion does exist they Will briefly
.tate some Of the reasons which occur to them,
xby a descendant of tho African race should have
no fellowship, social or political, with white per-
sons.
History, sacred or profane, has failed to furnish
sny evidence that the negro sprung from the same
origin with the white man. Plausible naturalists
have maintained that be is not strictly man OF
beast but sort Of hybrid, or connecting link be-
tween man and the lower animals Without paus'
ing to settle THE vexed question, your committee
are of the opinion that as he Is an inferior being,
he ia not entitled to the privileges and immunities
of the superior. As race the African has made
no progress except through the remote or imme'
diate agency of slavery Upon his own continent,
at no time or place, has he advanced it's civliza'
tion.
Commencing at the point Of she most abject bar.
barism, the race sinks lower and lower till they
approach the brutes that roam their forests
Nothing but slavery, as yet, has been able to shed
ray of intelligence or humanity into their benight-
ed mind. Your committee confess and deplore
these truths.
An eminent English writer, who concurs in
many Of the views entertained by modern aboli.
tonists in speaking of the intellectual and physi
cal organization of the African, says:
'In all the particulars just enumerated, the me-
gro structure approaches unequivocally to that Of
the monkey"
1T not only differs from the Caucasian model,
but 10 distinguished FROM it in two respects. The