Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-15
CONFESSIONS OF SLAVERY.

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re opening of the foreign trade. In prosecuting
this argument: The Union is obliged to tuko the
common nnti'slnvery ground. It admits, list. That
in all the more Northern slave sta,., slavery il
improbable. That it coeld not continue 10 e,;st
but for the Southern market foy is srrplus human
stock.
"a, That 'if we compare the negro aod Sbite
population Of the extreme south, we sBaif 6nS
that the preponderance Of tho former is already
sufficiently great for pe'maneacy and stnbility.n So
according to this national advocate of slavery,
there is inherent in the system both baslrrpfc,
and danger. The Union snys:
Those portions Of the South /, which ,ho
jority of the white population is found. are grain
and tobacco growing regions ; and their peoplo
could never be induced to Incorporate new svarr,a
Of Africans into their communities. Not euTv
would they resist their importation for such %
purpose but they would regard any eovntenanoe
gwen to the measure, by The cotton and sugar.
growing states, as a breach Of faith towards them.
selves as a part of a great section of the Union
having with them a common interest, suffering
common wrongs and indignities from the outside
world, and bound by Il common destiny in regard
to sheir common domestic institution. The theory
OF this portion of the slaveholding section of the,
Union is, that it is the owner of the slave who Ia
the real servant. and uot the bondsman himself.
They believe that the institution of Slavery. 40
lar as they are concerned, lie not profitable in an
industrial point Of view. They believe that, oy,
ing to the original Importation into their corsmu-
n ~, by tho North and Great Britain, of Africans
in numbers vastly disproportioned to the necessi.
ties of their country for labor, and in opposition
to their constant and earnest protest against IL. a
much larger slave population exists among them
than they could safely liberate, even if the highest
precepts of Christianity and philanthropy did not
imperatively forbid such a step, and also that q
much larger number of slaves has resulted than
they can employ in their local industry. Thew
believe that but for tho yearly emigration ofa
large per centnge of this population from their
borders, southwark, into new cotton and sugar.
growing regions that are opening up, the accumu-
lation OF the negro population among them would
most lnjuriously affect their interest, and if this
emigration were prevented by the introduction Of
native Africans in the cotton regions, in the stead
OF emlgrant negroes from the higher latitude Of
the South, most disastrous consequences would
ultimately result, not only to the localities imme.
diately affected by the stoppage Of this emigration,
but to the whole slavebolding section of the Union,
taking no account OF the great revolution in tho
prices of slaves and of oil commodities affected BY
their labor, which would result from the introduce
ton OF large numbers of native Africans at nom.
ina! prices from their native coasts.
Nor would the people of the cotton States, in
all probability, be found much less averse to the
project Of importing Africans, if it we're attempt.
ed in earnest on any considerable scale, and for
any other purpose than mere political notoriety.
If we compare the. negro and white population Of
these States, we shall find that the preronderance
of the former is already su efficiently great for per.
manent safety and stability. The effec. of new
9 preponderance of the blacks. without proportion,
ally augmenting the product of the labor of tho
! negro population.
"As the circumstances attending the landing Of
=, tho 'Wanderer' and the spiriting away of her sa-
, te cargo may Se conceived to have thrown a sus.
picion upon the South ofinfdelity to the Constitu.
ton and laws, that section probably owes it to IL.
self to vindicate its real sentiments, by express
ing them in unequivoeal and emphatic terms
through the State Legislatures. Her best and
wisest men may. however, be of opinion that her
real sentiments on a project so monstrous and
preposterous ought to be presumed by all right
thinking men. ard that the declaration of them is
no more incumbent upon her than is the formal
ex 2ression Of her belief in q benefcient Provi-
= dence or the righteousness of good works. n \
"We have said enough to answer the object We
had in Yiew-that of showing not only that the
people Of the South, as a community, do not look
with the least favor upon this monstrous project of
reviving the African slave trade, but that it is
morally impossible that they could do so consist.
emily with a wise regard for their industrial and
social interests. They would be found on actual
', test as bitterly opposed to this trade as their faith.
= es were before them, who protested against it for
y centuries. and who brought about its abolition by
y long and persevering effort, in despite of the most
energetic exertions Of National men to defeat their
purposes"
LYNCH LAW IN THE Recommendations, in his
o. Dairy of the Revolution" quotes the following
from a New York paper Of 1778. 1t seem that wo.
men then administered justice under the code Of
Judge Lynch. -
- "The following droll affair lately happened al
Undertook, New York. A young fellow, an enc.
my to the liberties of America, going to q quilting