Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-24

uuNo BoWn lutO DelleI. 90 OeDauCneu are TIT
white people by slavery that there is not virtue
enough left in them to put it down. IF l do no
misinterprot the words and the looks Of the mos
intelligent and noble Of the black men who fall il
my way, they have come to despair of the accom-
plishment of this work by the white people. The
feeling among the blacks that they must delive
themselves gains strength with fearful rapidly
They are sensible how cruelty they have been de
ceiyed by the Liberty party, the Free Soil party
the Republican party, and the great mass of ever
the most loud-mouhed Abolionis,s. They set
that all these, instead of voting slavery down
have voted it up. True, the Republican party die
not promise them much But they did not expec
it would insult and exasperate them by taking tn,
name of "the white mans party" They did hop,
for some help from this party. But they got none
1t lifts not finger to repeal the Fugitive Slav
act nor to abolish the interstate traffic in human
flesh. Nay, it goes SO far as to admit that th
slavery Of black men (it would not dare admit i
in the case of but one white man) lie legalizeC
in every State of the Union. The Dred Scott de
csion and the re-opening Of the African slav,
trade are proofs that slavery has never strengthen
ed itself SO rapidly as during the existence o.
this new and misnamcd Republican party.
| The Republican writer's and orators declain
much against the obvious purpose Of the Slave
Power to overspread the free States with slavery
by the help Of its natural ally" the Northern
Democracy. But do not these writers and orators
admit the right to do this when they admit the To-
gality of slavery in the slave States 7 What is
property in Virginia is, by law above human en-
actments, property in Vermont also. He who is
slave or property in Mississippi, is slave oil
property in Massachusetts also. What is proper
ty anywhere is property everywhere. Moreover
it will in the end be found to be as vain as it is
inconsistent to oppose the extension of slavery in
to the free States while uphoding it in the slave
States. Governor Seward was right in saying
that the States must ultimately all be secured tC
freedom or given up to slavery. But be did moi
that his standing by sla very inthe slave States
renders unavailing his opposition to its extension
into the free States Governor Seward can dc
nothing to prevent slavery's going where it is not
unless he holds it to be piracy and an outlaw
where it is .
No worder, then, is it that in this state of facts
which have sketched, Intelligent black men in
the States and Canada should see no hope for
their race in the practice and policy of white
men. No wonder they brought to the con-
clusion that recourse is left to them but in
God and Instructions. For insu,rection, then, ace
may look any year. any month, any day. a terri
dle remedy for terrible ,orong! But come IL must
unless anticipated Oy repentance and the paHing
array Of the terrible aorong.
1t will be said that these instructions will be
failures that they will be put down. Yes, but
will not slavery nevertheless be put down by them?
For what portions are there Of the South that will
cling to slavery after two three considerable
insurrections shall havo filed the whole South
with horror? And is it entirely certain that
these instructions will be put down promptly,
and before they can have spread far? Will tele-
swiftest instructions? Remember that telegraphs
and railroads can be rendered useless in an hour.
Remember, too, that many, who would be glad to
face the insurgents would he busy in transporting
their wives and daughters to places where they
would be safe from that worst fate which hus-
bands and fathers can imagine for their wives
and daughters. l admit THAI but for this embar
assment Southern men would laugh at the idea
of an insurrection, and would quickly dispose of
one. But trembling as they would for their below
ed ones, know of no part of the world where, SO
much as in the South, men would be like, in
formidable nsurrecton, to lose the most import
ant time and be distracted and panic-stricken.
When the day Of her calamity shall have come
to the south, and fire and rape and slaughter shall
be filling up the measures o! her af1iction, then
will the North have two reasons for remorse--
First, That she was not willing (whatever the
attitude Of the South at this point) to share with
her in the expense and loss of an immediate and
universal emancipation.
Second, That she was not willing to vote slave
ry out of existence.
Then too, when alas it will be too late, will be
seen in the vivid light of the sufferngs of our
Southern brethren, both black and white, how
shameful and of what evil influence was the apos-
tacy of those Jerry Rescuers." who were guilty
of falling from the Jerry evep and casting pro-
slavery votes.
But why should have spoken of the sorrows
that await the South T? Whoever he may be that
foretells she horrible eod of American slavery is
held, both at the North and South, to be lying
prophet-another Cassandra. The South would
not respect her own Jefferson's prediction of SER
vile insurrection. How then can it be hoped ba
she will respect anoher's. If the South will not,
with her own Jefferson, "tremble" when rejecting
that God is just"-if she will not see with her
own Jefferson that "the Almighty has no attribute
which can take side with" her in "a contest with
her slaves, then who is there, either North or
South, that is capable of moving her fears and
helping her to safetyP
Respectfully your friend GERRiT SMITH.
BEAUTIFUL SIGNIFIcATIoN.-"Alabam sig
miles, in the Indian language, "IIere we rest" A
story is told Of a tribe of Indians who fed from
relentless foe in the traekess forest in the South
west. Weary and travel-worn they reached no.
BILE river which flowed through beautiful coun-
try. The chief of the band struck his tent-pole
in the ground exclaiming. "Alabama!-Alabama"
("IIere we shall rest here we shall rest ~