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

against her domestic institution, and the Lar of
the stakeholder justly aroused for The safety of his
property in man-this State, so recently the cham.
pion OF the South, will be the fret to succomb to
the spirit Of the North, and realize the truth tina,
they who take the sword shall perish by il.
South Of Kansas lies a fertile region already
by the curse of slavery. 1t is the Indian
Territory. 1t will soon be thrown open for the
settlement; Of the white race. Another struggle
will ensue-and another victory for freedom for
the men who, at Yellow Stone, fred at Federal
troops, and, at Observation-Disclosures against
four hundred-mad the embattled marauders bite
the dust, will be there to avenge the martyrs Of
Lawrence and the Marais des Cygne,. Will they
have no other aid Yes for there are negroes
enslaved in the Indian Territory the descendants
of the bravest warriors America has produced
the hunted maroons, who for forty years, in the
swamps of Florida, defed the skill and armies Of
the United States. They hate slavery and the race
that upholds it, and are longing for an opportunity
to display that hatred. Not far from this territory,
in q neighboring province of Mexico, live q nation
of trained negro soldiers-the far.famed Florida
Indians, who, after battling and defying the United
States, and after having been treacherously en-.
shaved by the Creeks, melted thereto by Federal
officials, bravely resisted their oppressors and
made an Exodus, the g~randest since the days of
Moses, to a land Of freedom. Already have their
oppressors felt their prowoss and their historian
tells us-'they wiU be heard from %a9ain".* Mark
the significant warning
Arizona is a mining country. There is gold,
silver and copper there. 1t requires skilled labor
to extract them from the ore. Free laborers will
flock to these regions as soon as it is profitable to
SO, and overwhelm, by mere numerical force, the
champions of the Southern system. The wild
Indians, too, are the friends Of the negro. The
diplomacy Of the Florida Indians has made them
the eternal enemies Of the South. The nation pll
see his fact ,hen the Teran struggle begins.
Slavery can never be extended into Northern
Mexico. The people hate it. Through all the
mu,titudinous mutations of their history, this hatred
has been the only established principle which per-
vaded the entire nation. If color is to be the badge
of bondage, they know that they must succum NIB
TO it, if the Southern Norman obtains dominion
in thoir land. For the Mexicans of the frontier
provinces are of mixed Indian, Negro and Spanish
origin. There are numbers of fugitives from
American slavery among them, who superadd to
a deadly national luminosity, n still stronger hatred
Of a race of %tyrants.
Texas is a tempting bait for tho North the
greatest territorial prize of the age. By the
terms of its admission, it may be divided into five
States. What shall the churactar of those States
be? Thore are numbers of ~resolute pioneers in
Kansas who have sworn that Texas shall again be
free-as it was under Mexican domination before
the alag of the free" waved over it. They have
declared that o line of free States shall extend,
southwark, to the Mexican Gulf; that slavery
shall westward, find the bound which il cannot pass.
Within the borders of Texas there is already q
numerous free'labor population, whose numbers,
by the organized emigration movement, will speed.
lily be increased and presently preponderate. The
wealth of the North, which would shudder
at the idea of q servile insurrectiont is already
pledged to the programme Of tnti.slavery emigrn.
,ior-which, as surely as to-morrow's sun shall
rise, will ultimately and rapidly drive slavery to
the eastern shore Of the Mississippi.
Thus far, the programme will be essentially pa
cifc-at most 6 conflict Of sections and rival civil
izations. Thus far, but no further. political action
may benefit the slave. The Republican party,
the champion of white laborers, will plead
their cause and insure them success. To this
extent, therefore, the friend of the slave can
consistently aid the Republican party but. this
end gained, it will be his duty to war against it,
For it is publicly pledged never to interfere, BY
political action, with slavery whore it exists but,
ON the contrary, to preserve and defend whatever
may be protected by the egis of State sovereign
ty."+
West of the Mississippi and in the State of Mis-
souri,, therefore, tho friend of the slave, from the
operation Of potent political and com
mercial forces, may leave to q great extent, the fate
of slavery to peaceful causes or other than distinct
lively abolition movemement.
Westward, slavery cannot 60. Northward, its
influence daily dimiuishes. The sentiments of the
Eastern world is hostile to it always. 1t will look
in vain to Central America. The same mixed
races who hate the modern Norman" in Mexico
inhabit those regions, and are animated by the
same true spirit and the attempt, if ever made,
to subdue this people, in order to extend the area
of bondage, will justly precipitate a war with the
power Of Europe. The South does not dare to
hazard a war with such great power on such an
issue.
The islands Of the American Archipelago are to-
day almost exclusively in the hands of the liberat.
ed African race. The first serious attempt at an.
n%eration wiN put them entirely in possession of the
blacks. Cuba has already, within her borders,
seven thousand self emancipated citizens; and it is
a fact, we'll known in our State Department, that the
Spanish rulers of that island would unhesitatingly
arm tho black population, both slave and free, in
the event of any serious attempt at conquest.
But / would not fear the extension of American
slavery, even if The neighboring nations were
more friendly to it. The South piU soon find
enough to do at home, Canada has hitherto been
the safety valve of Southern slavery. The bold
and resolute negroes who were fitted by their
character to incite the slaves to rebellion, and lead
them On to victory, have hitherto, by the agency Of
the underground railroad, been triumphantly car.
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