Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-03

cad against God. Il is extri-judicial insolence
sad impiety but il is perfectly consonant with
The equally impious AMI intrusive dictum now be-
thrust upon the country as tho highest law, that
black men have no rights that white men are
bound to respec.l DIR. CHEEvER.
Charles Mackey, in his recently published work
On America, tells
HOW SLAVERY STRIKES A STRANGER.
No traveller in the United States, who desires to
record his free unbiased opinions, can give the GO
BY to the question of Slavery. That question
has long been a sore in the bosom of the Great
Republic, but has not pressed at any time for i'm
mediate solution. 1t has been a difficult and COM
blicated, as we'll as an exasperating subject. 1t
has been the battle ground of parties-the touch
stone Of political life-the theme of the senate,
she platform, the pulpit, and the press but it has
involved too many personal and national interests,
add been Of too vital Importance to the integrity
sf the Union, to be driven, even by the most zeal
ous friends Of negro freedom, to such a point as
TO force q deliverance. If, on the one hand. there
were Slavery to be abolished, there was, upon the
other, the union Of the thir,y-two republics which
lend q star each to the banner of the States to be
Rsiataiaed inviolate. Many abolitionjsts have
been prepared for the fat J%ustitia, but not for the
~mate celum and the few able and earnest men
Who have avowed themselves ready to confront oil
consequences, however ominous or fatal, have
been in such q minority as to render their ac-
tion hopeless for the present, end to adjourn it
into the indefinite future. where all hopes grow,
and where all theories gradually transform them
selves into facts.
In the District of Columbia, Slavery is not Of
fensivo in its outward manifestations ; and Wash.
ington contains a large number of free negroes.
But tho fact that slavery in permitted to exist with
in the District is made q particular grievance by
the abolitionists Of the free North. You have
Slavery in your own States" they say to the peo-
pie of the slaveholding South, "and. unfortunately,
We have not the power to interfere with you; but
we know of no right that you have to introduce
the Objectionable and criminal system into Colum-
bia and the City of Washington, which belong to
she whole Union, and not to the South, and to US
quite ss much as to you" The South has replied
by insisting en- as much right to maintain Slavery
Is the North has te abolish that possession is
nine points Of the law, and that, being in posses
sion, they are determined to remain so. Several
attempts have been made by the abolition party to
carry a law through Congress to free tho national
capitol and its small surrounding district from the
domestic institation' of the South. but hitherto
IN vain. The fact, however, suggests the opportu-
nifty to say q few words on the social and %political
aspects Of this great question, not simply as af
fecting the national metropolis, but as affecting
both the white and the black races in every par
Of the Union.
II was intended by the original framers of the
Declaration of Independence that all the United
States should be free. Wiser at this time than
the monarchy, whose yoke they so gallantly threw
of, they thought to r~epudiate slavery and all tina,
sppertained to it. 1t was their wish to set an ex.
ample to the world. They desired to proclaim
that "a man was a man for o. that" and that the
sooident Of his color made no difference in his
rights or responsibilities. But a timid and unwist
conservatism, even at this early stage of American
history, was permitted to prevail and because sla
very was, it was allowed To be-. At a later period
the parent monarchy, ~impelled BY the irresistiblI
impetus communicated to all its actions by tn
people, abolished Slavery in all it's forms an,
phases. The republic ~profting, or f~ancying tina
it %profted, by the evil thing. and not only tOlerat
ing, but loving it, because it was established, re
fused to follow the noble example. Thus it SOW
cd dragons teeth over more than halle Of the fair
est domain that ever in all recorded history fell t
the lot of an energetic and intelligent race. Tn
result is what we now see, and what all the friend
Of human liberty deplore. The dragons teet
have grown up into giants. Frankenstein ha
made his monster, and the monster puts poison in
to the cup of prosperity, and keeps his master il
constant terror of a day of retribution. Slavery
that might have been easily eradicatsd half q cen
fury ago, has assumed such formidable dimen
siOns that it is hard to say which is the most diff
fcult thing to do-to put up with il, or to abolish
it; and which course is fraughs with the mos
danger-to give the slaves their freedom, or to al
low them to increase and multiply in bondage
But the history of such model States as Massu
chusetts-one Of the most respectable and wis
communities ia the woodland. indeed, of all tn
New England States. together with New York an
Pennsylvania, sad the commonwealths of th
West. which are gradually spreading tbemselve
to the Basis of the Rocky Mountains, is q pro,
not only of the far-sighted philanthropy, but
the worldly wisdom Of the men who, at the earl
est period Of American history, washed the
hands Of the slam and guilt of Slavery. I'll
Free States are not only the most populous, ii
most wealthy, and the most energetic in the Uniol
but by the activity of their intellect. the exube
ance Of their literature, and the general v:gor-
public and social. as well as private and CONNIE
cial-of their citizens. they give the law aud Il
tone to the whole of the Union. Massschuss.t
Vermont, Ssw-Hampshire, Rhode Island, Co
~nectieut, and Maine-smaI in extent. and, wi
the exception of Maine. as finely cultivated ar
almost as densely populated as that Old Englar
from whore shores their early founders e~migrate
in disgust with the political and religious tyranr
OF their time-are the great hives that supply Il
fruitful and all but illimitable West.
10 the Southern States, partly, perhaps. fro
the influence Of the climate, but more probab