Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-05
From the Free Church Portfolio.
THE NEGRO.

1t is very curious to observe how, in the religion
The politics and the literature Of the nation, the
despised and outcast negro occupies the most
prominent position and has become "the observed
of all Observers" Had there been no negroes in
Africa, the history Of the last twenty-five years in
regard to the three departments named, would
have been far different from what it is
/ The negro was the primum mobile of the Florida
War, which cost US forty millions Of dollars. Sam.
bo ran off from his Georgia master, and sought
liberty among the everglades and protection among
t,he,4avuges, which he could not enjoy in the place
of his birth. The q. S. Government, which has
long been the serve tool of the negro.drivers, at
the instance Of the latter, declaring war against
the Seminoles, with view Of getting back the
runaways and breaking 40 their haunts. A negro
was at the bottom of the Mexican War. The
South seeing that the free States Of the Uaon
were likely to ounum5er the slave States, because
the territorial possessions were chiefly north OF
the Missouri line, resolved to procure territory out
Of which they could make slave States, SO as to
keep up the balance Of power ir the Senate of the
United States. The & ,vernmont therefore declar.
ed war legned issue with the Republic Of
millions Of money, procured California and New
Mexico. it was then that the tide in the affairs of
the Shareholders turned. For the first time,
though not the last, they missed figure in their
calculations, and California and New Mexico are
both devoted to freedom.
The present Utah war of Mr.. Buchanan, so in.
glorious in its inception and progress, was waged
fDr q hnr than IA riy 70 ,,hs nd
tracts to the friends of those gentlemen in Con.
gress who were thus induced to pass the Lecomp-
ton Bill till now, IA history, on the part of this
Government, of crime and Llood,) was all limo.
Gently occasioned and shaped by the negro. The
South resolved that the prospective State of Kan
sas should De the house of bondage TO the negro.
The North, with mighty little benevolence in the
motive, resolved that it should be the home of
treemen. Greek met Greek upon the issue, and
then came the tug of war Long time in even
scale the battle hung" but it was finally decided
IN taTor OF free institutions and free men, This
was the second bluuder committed by the slave.
holders. Il amounted to a check mate by the
North, on the political chess board of the nation
1t sealed the destiny of the Slave Power, and made
the abolition of slavery only question of time.
All the fllibuste- movements of late years, SO
disastrous to human life end the national honor,
were prompted by desire to Danish the free in,
stitutions which exist in Central America and set
up the business Of driving negroes. All the Jaw.
ing that has taken place in Congress and out Of
it, about the Clayton -Bulwer treaty, its meaning
and import in regard to Central American affairs,
grows out of the negro
Lord Napier's recall from Washington BY the
British Government, and his banishment to the
Hague, originated in the negro. The short sight
I'd Engshman, imagining, like none of his pred
'cessors. that the slave breeders aud their abetors
1t Washington were to be forever the controlling
power in the country, courted their smiles by put.
ing contempt upon his English principles: suppos.
ng that he was thereby promoting English inter
'sts But he has found out before now that, if the
legro is despised and down trodden 10 America,
le has got the ear of Queen Victoria. and is
powerful enough to effect the recall OF an Ambas.
ador Extraordinary and Minister plenipotenta,
y, and to send him away ilto exile
1t Is the inevitable negro that has blown out
md chilled the furnaces of Pennsylvania, and
topped the rolling mills, and spread desolaton
mong her iron interests. We have coal, iron
re, and Limestone, in such inexhaustbe abund'
uce that we could supply the iron wants of half
he world But we have no adequate tariff to pro-
ect these interests from foreign competition. So
Intensely loud and bitter lie the cry Of distress