Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-14
From the State League.
CONVERSATION ON THE CARS.

CONVERSATION ON THE CARS.
On getting into the cars at Oriskany, | sat down
by q gentleman, and soon found he was from
North Carolina. On conversation with him, !
found him Of q kind heart and generous soul, full
of piety and southern religion, and an Elder Of the
Presbyterian Church. lie said he owned O num-
boz of slaves, and believed that slavery was a bible
institution, and wanted to know what business the
North had to NEEDLE with it. lie saSd we TOOK
the New York Tribune for our bible, bat thoy held
on to the old book.
lie said if we had been a, his residence on
sabbath the week before, we might have seen q
Iarge church 6lle5--tae blacks in the gallery in
the forenoon and the whites below; and in the
afternoon, see them all partakc of the communion
together. We could then have seen that they
were confronted and happy. In the evening q SER
mon was preached especially for them.
We told him VIC had no doabt that taere were
many kind hearted christian men and women
among Shareholders and that many Of them treat
ed their slaves kindly, the same as we do our hor-
SEES and cattle. This is for our advantage, we
feed them well and take good care of them that
they may be able to do more work, and if We want
to sell them that they may be sleek and fat.
No doubt many of you treat yoar human cattle
we'll for the same purposes but what We, aboli-
tionists complain of is, that you brutalize your
slaves and rob thom of the sights that Gcd gave
them. You deny them the bible, destroy their
manhood, and sell them on the auction block. He
asked what business that Was to US. We conten.
ded that il was our right to send O bible to whom
we chose, whether hottentot or negro, aud learn
them to read it if they were so disposed, aud nj
one should deprive us of this right. Yet if
should say to one Of these good black Presbyterian
brothers or sisters, here is a bible and | will teacl
you to read it, (or l am q Presbyterian yor
would tar and feather me. If l should say to thu
poor slave mother as you sold her daughter, or thu
babe from her bosom, that is wrong, you woulC
put me in Jail. If l should give her q gun apC
tell her to shoot you, you would hang me. Johr
Brown like. Most certainly we should said he
Well then, replied, l am in q bad fix. Either
must give up my manhood or shoot, and when j
, comes to this, | 60 for guns rather than bibles
One gun Is worth more than ten bibles.
=, would learn them to shoot if l knew how, Blu
, | all a peace man, | must not fight, but will pra,
, God to teach my hands to war and my iugers t
. fight.
>, When the rum-power or the slave-power stand
q over me and says be still while | crush humanity
while l sell your brother or sister on the auctiO
block or set up a rum-shop and murder your fathe
or family or friends, and if you stir l will mo
yea, tar and feather you and burn your bibles
hen death to tyrants is the word. 1t is time
. act, and he who would not resist is unworthy I'll
:, name Of q man. You think US dishonest an
heathens; we believe you Tor some Of you) are {
, honest and sincere as the Mormous, or the mo ih
- that throws her child into the crOcodile's moutl
but this does not make you right. We make a
., lowances for your fulse education which learl
yourselves and GamiliOs to be tyran;s. Your slav
y a-e q curse to you. Give them their natural G.
given liberty and pay them wages for their lab
n, aud your land will soon be worth more, than
now is with all your slaves included, and the ben
m 1T to yourselves and families in q moral and cd
~ cational view, intellectually greater. Look at the
bo cultivated fields we are pascing,-Oue thousa.
,o acres, worth from fifty to one hundred dollars
acre, may sustain fifty families in comfortable CT
cumstsnces, enjoying social intercourse, with t
- blessings Of education for every person, and {.
i bible and religious instruction to all,-no alar
for fear Of instructions and midnight murders,
7, no necessity for such barbarous laws and systel
Of quarantine as you have to maintain. In she
no thinking man, can fail to see, aside Of it's gro
:, wrong to tile enslaved. that slavery is an unmi
gated curse to any continuity where i. exists.
this time we had arrived at Syracuse, where
n parted with our ~quon6am friend after giving hi
an introduction TO some friends and warm sha
Of the hand.
T.. L. CARSON.