Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-19

u hh0 h'oh haNh = ~ 49,
Crispus Attacks, a negro. 1t was a black mans
blood that was the first to fow in behalf Of Amer
lean independence, In the war of 1912, what
class Of your inhabitants showed themselves more
unselfehly loyal and patriotic than the free peo-
pie Of color? None, sir. In Philadelphia the
colored people organized themselves into compn-
mics, and wed with their more favored f~ellow-citi'
zens in the zeal Of their efforts TO guard and pro-
tect the city. In Louisiana their bravery and sol
dierlike behavior was such as to elioi, the war.
NEST encomiums from General jackson, the COM
mander-iu chief of tho Southern army.
Sir, much as this country is indebted to the
colored people for their aid in times Of war, they
are under still greater obligations for their servi-
ces in times Of peace. They have titled your soil;
their labor, South aud North, has been a mine Of
wealth to you. Belle them as you will, o more
honest, Industrious, orderly or useful class, take
them as a whole, is not to be found in the cour.
try. What is The testimony of your Baltimore
Shareholders Convention-a convention called for
the very purpose Of denouncing the free blacks Of
Maryland MS a nuisance that ought to be abated,
either by their expulsion from the State, or their
reduction to slavery What was the testimony Of
that convention of the enemies Of the black man ?
Why, that they we're not a nuisance, but a useful
class of the population, adding much to the wealth
and prosperity of the State, and that their expul-
sion would De both impolitic and inhumanl The
same testimony, in effect, is II borne by Judge Cat
ron, of Tennessee, and by the Governor of Miss.
ouri. y
Sir, What class Of your population Are more pea
ceable and orderly than the free people of color ?
Who makes your mobs on your canal lines, ard in
the construction Of your railroads 2 Who swell
your mobs in your beer gardens, and in your Sun
day excursions Z Who make your native and
Auti-Native American mobs Your Forrest and
Macready mobs. which the military have to be cal
led out to put down l am sure, not the colorcd
j people Not the native born Americans who have
titled your soil in times of war, and whose reward
' has been disfrHnchisement and threatened annihi-
lation, but your foreign born European immigrants
Of yestorday-men who can't speak your language
= and don't respect your laws. These are the PEG.
pie who are invested with all the franchises of the
country, including that of trampling on the black
. man. These are the people who are, at the same
I time, the most turbulent and most iusolent class Of
y the whole American population. l am not whal
u is called q Native Americana don't believe il
measuring o mans rights either by the place Of
his birth or the color of his skin. l believe in thu
, equal natural rights Of all men and hence it il
Vi that l protest against the anti-reputlican and IN
just distinctions 10 favor OF a stranger and for
= eigner against a native-born American, of whom
~ no charge can be made except thato the complex
ion which the Almighty God has given him.
But, sir, narrow and proscriptive as, in my al
probaua;on lie TIM epirif of what IL na1lnd N0Iiv
Alne1icanism, there is another thing l regard a
:. ten-fold more base and contemplate, and that
your American Democracy-your piebald and 70
ten Democracy, that talks loudly abou. equf
:" rights, and ct the same timo ~tramples on
"a sixth Of the population of the country in the dus
and declares that they have mo rights which
=, white man is bound to respect" And, sir, viii
| r~epudiate your Native Americanism and yor
:. bogus Democracy, allow me 20 add, at the san
time, that | am not q r publican. ! could not
=. a member Of the Republican party if were
y. disposed ; | am disfranchised / have no vote
=. l am put out of the pale of political society. III
time was 10 Pennsylvania, under the old COnstit
~, tion, when l could go to the polls as other me
DO, but your modern Democracy have taken ava
from me that right. Your Reform Convention
:, your Pierce Butlers-the man who, a year az
" put up nearly four hundred human being on Il
~ block in Georgia, and sold them to the highe
binder-your Pierce Buffers disfranchised me, an
ON without any political rights whatever.
:: am taxed to support a government which tax
my money and ~tramples on me. But, sir, l won
-; not be q member Of the Republican party if
80 were in my power. How could l, a colored ma
- Join a party that styles itself emphatically I
a. III - .t -. 0sJ H. aall - Al,
=, tionist, belong to q party that is and must necC
~ sarily be a pro-slavery partyH The Republica
=, may be, and doubtless are, opposed to the extc
sion Of slavery, but they are sworn to su pport,a
they WiH support, slavery where it already exis
Sir, elect William II. Seward, that noblest Rom
=, of them all, to the Presidency tomorrow, and
shareholders of the South will have in that fact
Gu, guarantee Of safety in the possession of their
, man property such as the election Of no ol
i'o man can give them. Sir, Mr.. Seward believes
= an irrepressible conflict between enduring and
y tagonistic forces But what intelligent slavehc
~ err Of the South does not believe the anne thin
Sir, don't let US be carried away by fine sou
"a ing distractions; let US have something practic
fore give US d weaker man give US ano'ner 'ai
,ho Buchanan, or Franklin Pierce, and we will h
in Hn "'op''oS'O' e'nu''' 'n"' "' "on VI" .
understand-a conflict like that which took pl
between the anti-slavery missionaries and pro-
very planters of Jamaica-a conflict which pre-,
,io. i.ated the act Of emancipation by the British G
eminent, which set free in day 800 900 human
aco ings!
gent No, sir, / am not a Republican. 1 can nc
that join a party the leaders of which conspire to e1
,om. US from the country. This is what your Bat'
that and Wades, Blaires, Doolittles and Gveeleys
emo now doing. 1t is true they talk Of doing il v
n Of our'Owa CONSENT But what of that2 Let it O
blest be settled in the public mind that we ought
here leave the country, and twill not be long till m
who ures are taken to compel US to leave. 1t is
be- old spirit Of African Colonization revived und,
@ oflnew name ; it is the old snake with a new