Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-14
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Of every oppressor.'

VPPiNoo"i
Not many years ngo, Boston sent money to help
the Greeks in their struggle for polticdt freedom
they never quite lost their personal l6erty), bu,
with tho money she sent, what was moro valuable
and far more precious, one of her most valiant
and heroic sons. who staid in Greece to fight the
great battle of humanity. Did your friend, DR..
Samuel G.. Howe. lose the esteem of New England
men by that act' lie won the admiration of Eu-
rope, and holds it still.
Nay, still later, the same dear old Boston Hunk
ers had never been more than rats and mice in her
house, which she suffers for a time, and then drives
out twelve hundred of them a. once on a certain
day of March, 1776; that same dear old Boston
sent the same DR.. Howe to carry aid and comfort
to the Poles, then in deadly struggle for their poll
teal existence. Was he disgraced because he lay
seven-and-forty days in a Prussian jail in BerliL?
Not even in the eyes Of the Pru,sian King, who
atterward sent him u gold medal, whose metal was
worth as many dollars as that philanthropist lay
days in the despot's Jail. 1t is said, Charity
should begin at home.' The American began a
good way off, but has been working homewart
ever since. The DR.. Howe of to-day would and
NSb'' W VI iVhuy u uelp an american 10
personal liberty, than a Pole or q Greek TO political
freedom, and would find more men to furnish aid
and comfort 10 our own countrymen, even if they
were black. 1t would not surprise me if there
were other and well planned attempts in other
States to do what Capt. Brown heroically, if not
successfully, tried in Virginia. Nine out of ten
may fail-the tenth will succeed. The victory
ovor Gen. Burgoync more than made up for all the
losses in many a previous defeat; it was the begin.
ming of the end. Slavery will not die a dry death;
it may have as many lives as a cat; at last, it will
die like a mad dog in a village, with only the
enemies of tie human kind to lament its fate. and
they too %c0wardly TO appear as mouIners.
1t is not merely white men who will fight for the
liberty OF Americans, the negroes will take their
defence into their own hands. especially if they
can ind white men to lead them. Nc doubt. the
African race is greatly inferior to the Caucasian
In general intellectual power, and also in that in
stinct for Liberty which is so strong in the leu
tonic family. aud just now obvious in the Anglo.
Saxons of Britain and Americas; besides. the Afri-
can race have but l;ttle desire for vengeance-the
lowest form of tho love Of justice. Here is one
example out Of many: In Santa Cruz, the old slave
laws were tho most horrible, / think, | ever read
Ot in modern times, unless those of the Carolinas
DC an exception. If o slave excited others 10 run
away, for the first offence his right leg was 20 be
cut of for the second offence, his other lee-
This mutilation was moi to be done by a surgeons
hand; the poor wretch was laid down on a log,
and his legs chopped off with q plantation Ak, AVID
the stumps plunged into boiling pitch to s,ancb
the blood, aud SO save the property from entire des-
%truction; for the live Torso of a slave might serve
as a warning. No action of q Court was requisite
to infict this punishment; any master could thus
mutllate his bondman. Even from 1880 to 1916.
1t was common Cor owners to beat their offending
victims with 'tdmarind rods six feet long and an
inch in thickness at the bigger end-rods thick
set with ugly thorns. When that process was
over, the laceTated back was washed With q dacoc.
ton OF the nanchineel, a poison tree, which made
sIe wounds tester and long remain open.
In 1916, the negroes were in rebellion and
took possession of the island; they we're q. 600,
the whites 5000. But the blacks did not hurt the
hair Of a white mans head; they got their free
dom, but they took no revenge Suppose 25. 600
Americans, held in bondage by 5000 Algerines
on a little island. should get their masters into
their hands, how many Of the 5000 would SEQ the
next sun go down.?
No doubt, it is through the absence of this de-
sire OF natural vengeance that the Africans have
been reduced to bondage, and kept in it.
But there is a limit eroa to the negroes .f0rbea,-
ance. San Domingo is not a great way of. The
revolution which changed its black inhabitants
from tame slaves into wild men, took place within
the memory of many Of US.
n y y
10 Shows Uhat may be in america, with no white
man to help. Ia The Slavs States, there is many
a possible San Domingo, which may become actu-
al at any day and if not in 1850, then in some
other year of cur Lord Besides, America offers
more than any other country to excite the slave to
love liberty. and the effort for it. We are always
talking about Liberty boasting that we are the
ireest people in the world declaring that "a man
would die, rather than be a slave. We continual
praise 'our Fathers who fought the Revolution,
We build monuments to commemorate even the
humtlest beginnings of that great national work.
Once a year, we Stop all ordinary work, and give
up a whule day to the noisiest kind of rejoicing
for the War of Independence. How We praise
the champions Of Liberty !! How we point ont
the lnfamy of the British oppressors'I They
would make our Fathers slaves say we, and we
slew tho oppressor-SIo sEMpER TYRANyIsp
Do you suppose this will fail to produce its &c.
feet on the black man one day The South must
either give up keeping Independence DayI, or
else keep it in a little more thorough fashion.
Nor is this oil the Suutberners are contional,v
tauntins the negroes with their miserable nature.
You are only half human say they, not ca pable
of freedom Hay is good for horses, not for
hogs said the philosophic American who now
represents the great Democracy at the Court of
Turin So, liberty is good for Uhite men, no. for
negroes. Have they soulsf ] don't know that.
Non mi recordo. Contempt says the proyerb,
viii cut through the she'll of a tortoise > and ono
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