Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-27
AMERICAN SLAVERY. SOME OF ITS
PRESENT ASPECTS.

As men We cannot, at least, we ought not, to be
Indifferent TO- but feel lively interest in, the
question OF American slavery. The condition OF
100000 of our fellow-men held in bondage,
bought aud sold cattle, and in various waye
treated as II no higher respect due them than
Inc beasts that perish. in the southern States Of
the great American commonwealth, is not merely
the concern of the inhabitants of that country
tits of worldwide interest. The knowledge of
grievous wrongs, inflicted openly and systematic
ally on so many human beings, ought to difuse a
thrill of horror the vibrations Of which shall be
fels nos only by our Amel ican brethren, before
whose eyes this concentration Of crimes is being
daily perpetrated, but by all the worlds inhabit-
ants, savage as we'll as civilized. A beashen Ut
tered the noble sentiment, and thereby excited the
applause Of a pagan assembly, 81 am man, and
nothing that touches man can fail to move me !"
and shall not we Brtons be deeply moved by viii
lanies under the effects of which forty hundred
thousand men, women, and children, of the same
blood as ourselves, wrilhing in nearly hopeless
Anpuisht We are Christian men, and, as such,
are bound by the highest authority to remember
them that are in bonds as bound wRh hem and
them which suffer adversely, as being ourselves
also in the body" We are also BrittSa Christians,
6nd as SUCH are under peculiar obligations TO feel
4 s,rong interest in this question, bccau'e our
transatlantic kinsmen have inherited this
atroSious system of nquty from tile mother coun-
try. 1t should be far from satisfying us that we
have succeeded in washing our hands from
the guilt of continuing to innic such crde wrongs
on the unoffending sons and daughters of Africa !;
love to the shareholders, well as to the slaves
IL Al
and perpetual end put to this huge agglOmerasion
Of crimes, ever accumulating by daily countless
additions added by gigantic confederation, not
Of ignorant savages, but of proessedly enlighten-
cd Christians, Who are thus the habitual perSstra-
tors of iniquiIiea Of the darkest hue. We speak
not of individuals, but of what ia sanctioned by
tho laws OF the Slave States and is inseparably
interwOven with the system, and which seems tOI
have attained height and extent of a,rocty in
the United States without parallel in she history oi
the world.
L, is not, however, our intention at present to
dwell on the horrors Of slavery,-lts dement's are
pretty generally known; but simply to Introduce
our readers 20 some Acquaintance with the actual
state of matters in relation to this subject they
have now developed themselves in the United
~
ly. This great commonwealth the long4boasted
palladium OF liberty the model Republlci is at
this moment in the throes of u widely extended
and exasperatDg conflict to the merits aud de-
merits Of slavery. On the one eide in the contest,
there are formidable array OF parties who are
not content to have this system of iniquity toera
ed but are disp posed to lAud it the skies as an
inv Aluable domestic institution, and essential to
the highest civilization. They insist that the slave
system has high claims to support, protection and
freedom Of extension throughout all the territories
of the nation. The parties on the other side are,
Let the Abolitionists, who ''spare no arrows" III
denouncug slavery. exhibiting its abominations as
clearly as language can, and urging the immediate
extrpasion OF the system, aud, ~, large poltic|
Al party who have united, and are putting forth
strenuous efforts to wrest power from the aheItorS
Of slavery, in whose hands the Teins Of govern
menl are at the present time.
The political designation of the slave party ia
Che Democratic, that of Iheir rivals for pUwer the
Republic The Democratic party includes the
Slave States Of the Union, which consist Of two
classes, the northern, wbioh are cshed the slave