Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-19
NORTH N SOUTH.

NORTH AND SOUTH.
When the people of Lawrence were defending
their houses from the attacks of a band of drum.
ken bullies, they were disarmed by the American
troops. and the worthless %rufians allie wed full Ii.
cense to commit every excess to which their brutal
minds prompted them. For daring to assume that
they loved liberty, and were determined to bless.
with it's genial rays, u country coveted by a slave.
holding oligarchy, the Executive denounced them
as traitors. Every opportunity was eagerly sought.
to add vinegar to the cup of gall which the ruff.
fians had already presented to their lips. No
conduct OF the government was too tyrannical to
intict upon them. No anathemas were too bitter
to burl at them. No epithets too mean to apply
to them. Yet they broke no national laws, but
loved their country as only patriots could. Their
only crime was being Northern men, and loving
liberty and their country too well.
The laws of the United States declare the Slave
trade piracy, punishable by death. An opportu,
nifty is offered Of enforcing this just law, by the
capture Of the SLAYER Echo, with a cargo of forlorn
Africans on board. The vessel is taken into
Charleston, where the crew is dismissed without
trial a southern jury refusing to find a bill
against ;hem. While their captain visits Waah.
ington and New York with IMMUNITY, and even
dimes with government employees, the crew, now
made the pets of the people of Charleston, are
quietly awaiting another opportunity of engaging
in their unlawful trade. Yet tho Government ia
quiet. No official denounces the dark deed, and
the pirates escape unpunishcd. At the same time
they are offering a reward for the arrest of Old
Brown and Montgomery; the former of whom
would naturally have his heart, be it ever so cold,
warmed with a desire to avenge the brutal murder
of his son.-while that of the latter would be
steeled with the wish to plunge the revengeful
dagger to the hearts of the lustful brutes who so
shamefully abused his young and beautiful wife.
The only revenge they have taken is to give free.
dom TO q few slaves in Missouri, but being Nor.
thern men, q price is put upon their heads. while
the pirates of the Echo are unmolested. 1t is
crime to make freemen of slaves, but not to make
slaves of free men.
The Yacht Wanderer left the African coast with
four hundred miserable captives crowded into its
low, unventllated hold. In a voyage of forty
days, seventy-fve dead bodies were dragged from,
among their living companions, and thrown like
dogs into the sea. The pirate crew look with an
Implying eye upon the suferings of their unhap.
py victims. With hearts cold to every feeling of
humanity, they scofingly turn from the sad appeals
of the sick and dying, and hurry on to reap a har.
vest of gold for q harvest Of sickness, sorrow and
death, The whole moral world lrowns uron the
detestable deed. The laws of God and man are
alike opposed to it. Yet in this enlightened land
of boosted liberty, the pirates land their wretched
cargo and receive the coveted lucre which promp.
ted them to commit the atrocious crime. The i'm.
porter of those slaves, G.. l.. Lamar, had previ
ously sent an impudent letter to Secretary Cobb
declaring his intention of importing slaves, defy
ing the Government and its laws, and trusting to
Southern sentiment to sustain him. Forty vessels
are now on the ocean engaged in this nefarious
traffic. Does the President CONNIE preventa,
tive measures? No the South commands silence
and he obeys. He recommends millions for the
purchase of Cuba, but not a cen. to stop this
crime.
Where now are the loud sounding proclamations
which came from the Executive against tho North.
ern men in Kansas The President wasted all
his bitterness of heart on the freemen of that i'll,
fated Territory, and has none TO spare for either
tho pirates of the ocean, or the law'defying impor'
ters. There are no denunciasions from any quar-
ter, neither are the troops sent, to check their
growing impertinence, or prevent any further dis
grace to this 6llibustering, slavery extending ma
ton. Even our Northern Democratic Congr,s s.
men, who had made so many windy speeches in
denunciation Of the people of Kansas, even they
are silent.
The truth is told in a few words. The Demo
cratic party is sold to the Slave oligar,hy. South.
srD Democrats WHY not, and Northern Democrats
dare not denounce any measure which is, or may
be, favored by the three hundred and forty thousand
slaveholding masters of the party. They can sing
hosannas loud and long when Boston is filled with
soldiers, and money lavishly expended, to return
one poor fugitive 80 the tolls and lash of his task
master, but have not a word to utter or a dollar to
give, for the purpose of restoring three hundred
and twenty-five captives to their native land and
the liberties of which they have been deprived
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