Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-12
WHOLE NO. 1885, 7, ,

South Carolina, for instance the mixed clemeht
ilhmeasuraGiy predominates over that of the black
and isi we believe. equal tof not greater thdnthe
white population. Look it many other Of the
South Carolina communities. Look at Eichmoni,
Lyncbburg Petersburg Norfolk ani other places
in our State. We ough, to look these ;hiuss all ip
the face now. They haze an itn tortant practical
bearing on our s)cal con ition. Whsu we hsar
men and papers either openly advocating or oserb-
ly winking at a revival of the odous slave trads'
is time that public attention called to these
things 1t is useless to rail- wicked and rockies.
aboltionists like Brown, who in their Nliud ia
naticism think-if they think or care at all-thas
they doing God service when they teach and
aid slaves to rise against their masters. There
will always be such men. They are to be expscti
ed when We think Of the amount Of opinion.
religious and religious which exists through
out great country like ours ou the moral and po-
litical aspects of national question like that Of
slavery. Likewise is 1t all useless and idle to ex.
pect that men having minds to think minds
which must think-and tongues which are free to
speah, will ever stop having opinions or expres-
sing them upon either the justice or the expedien-
cy Of slavery in the abstract. Our security lies in
advancing not in retreating. We must look to
the future Of the two rhcee We must 10 back
and read up the opinions of tie fathers Of the re-
public as to the probable issue of slavery in this
country. We must know tha. the best men of
that era busted themselves not only with conjec,-
ures to whal to be its results, but also
with ways and by which they might be able 10
provide against these very insurrectiOns. Mr..
Jefferson, wU shCuld remember, up to his dying
hour ceased to express his Apprehensiuns
and to suggest his plans for exemption Tbs
possible contingency of great San Domingo re-
bellion, he declared wss 10 him continually like
a fire bell in the night" He "trembed," be said,
Ito think of it," And it was becarsu tha, he so
well knew the peculiar conditions which invested
the negro race, both naturally aud artfcial.y 10
this country thathe dwelt SO earnestly on his
plan for o Central American colonization of the
race Something of this sort has got to be done.
For look at it: We have now nearly four milf
lions of these serfs among US. They are increas-
ing in ratio wholly unknown to the white race.
Not only this, but, as we said. they are imbib-
ing the energies and taking on the color of the
superior race. They now range all the way up
the scale from the jet black to the offspring Of
quadroons.- Does anybody hatter himself that
the usually sulen and sulkey muatto has no
more ambition, no more energy Of mind, than
the African proper =, Do not the facts show that
they have The fact that the cross of two antsG-
onistic bloods makes them short lived, has
to physiologistts, that they
are the worst class as q class OF in'
habitants country can have. Nearly all the
cases that have created SO much
alarm in the South have occurred at the hands OF
nu!attoes. Mrs. Stowe did well to make the dea-
perate Casey, in "Uncle Tom," muatto. aShe
was nJt exaggerated type. And it is notori-
Jus that not only Leg-ee, but that thousands OF
9ther men IN the South readily pay premium
Tor such high strung creatures rs Classy. sH
But we cannot pursue this subject further to.
iay 1t is one that needs more statistics and mors
lime for proper elaboration than we can bring toi
now. We eare greatly in hopes as indeed We have
been for some time back, that it will ere lnDg eliot
attention from more experienced and saeacious
public men. And although it has more than ito
lsa force and interest just at this time. yet his
none the less an everyday and permanent subject
Ealing for Jur constant attention. 't77T