Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-06
the ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.

intended that this guilty nation should get rid Of
its sins ahd their consequences in that way. The
cUlored man is here for veal or woe, aud he must
remain for all time to come. You might as well
talk Of cOlonising the granite Of New England, as
the coloro1 race. We are with you, and our des
tiny is one. And you need not, il you knew it,
desire our removal for could you send US from
you, you would Danish all the heroism Of the
country. 1t is nearly all on the side of the colored
people. Why, you had three heroes in your vii
lage ~to-day,-fngitivcs from the oppression Of your
country. Drawing oil the danger and death which
threaten them in their race for liberty.
Some of you think the colored people DO not
0 want their liberty. l know we are q submissive
race,-iisposed to bear with patience and long.
suffering, the wrongs and injuries heaped upon
us. The negro is as ready to forgive an Injury as
the Saxon is to commit it. You may trample upon
his very manhood, destroy, almost. hi sintellectual
life yet he hopes on hopes ever. l know this
! spirit of long-suhering, on the part Of The negro, is
claimed as an argumen. in favor of inslaving him.
And some say this docile disposition is q proof Of
our inieriority, and argue that if we'll treated, we
are the better off for being denied our humanity.
heard a young man, the other day speaking Of
his unole,in Mississippi, who was the owner OF one
hundred and fifty slaves. lie said the slaves of his
uncle were well cared for,-kindly treated when
their master went on a journey many Of them
would accompany him TO the steamboat landing,
and on his return, would meet him ~joyfuily and
be, in return, would always greet them cordially.
And this was the equivalent he gave them for the
manhood he had wrested from them. Sell my
wife away from me in the market, and then shake
! me cordially by the hand Rob me OF my child
rem aud give me a dollar Crush out my intellec-
tual life, rob me Of my humanity, and then speak
to me a kindly word as a compensation. Yet feo-
. pie refer to these little acts of kindness as a proof
/ that the slaves ere better off than they could be if
free. | know that many slaves are better off than
| am, physically. l travelled through your State
last winter and staid over n 'ght at the town Of
C~restline. l could get no place to sleep, no shelter,
f nothing to eat at any public house in the place.
| slept all night on the steps of the Depot. Many
slaves at the South were far better provided for
that night than | was. But that is not the ques.
ton. There is more Of manhood than food and
clothing and sleep. And kind treatment of this
character, often adds to the slaves real misery I;
for you give him the consciousness Of his human
ity, only to outrage and Iample upon it.
LUZ pltJu0lCe hphlusb luG COlOTeu peOplei uI L
said, only exists Eben we are in a certain condi-
ton. The chasm which opened in the Roman
Forum would not be closed ill tho most precions
thing in all the nation was thrown in. So the
: gull between the white man and the black ceases
t to exist only when all that is m~anly,-the sell-res-
pect of the negro, is thrown in. But the sacrifice
is too great. No more physical comfort can COM
pensate for the loss Of manhood. DR.. Watts, on
being rallied by a lady on his diminutiVe stature,
said -
"If | had rms to reach the pole,
:; And grasp the ocean in nay span,
| must be measured by my soul
l., The minds tho stan lard of the man."
y You do not thus measure the colorod man. IF be
G can sing and dance and act the monkey for your
: amusement he is the "d-dest smartest niger
: you have ever seem" This is the experience Of
all who hear me. just so lOng as we will not
| strive to be men wc are approved. You judge OF
the colored man by tho elasticity Of his heel. not
g that Of his mind. If he is a good barber, or wait.
err, or boot.biack. you commend him. These po-
t silions you have set aside especially for US, as
though We we're capable OF nothing else and
when a cOlored man is thus engaged you say "ho
= knows his place" But why should you decide.
: My place is wherever my capabilities shall quail
e fy me to 20, and l ask no enc to fnd a posi-
ton for me to occupy.
, There never was a wider separation of races
than in England for come time after the Norman
5 Conquest. IL was as deep a disgrace for Il Nor
r man to marry u Saxon as it is, in this country, for
0 a black man to marry u white woman. All the
; nobility of England yet trace their lineage back to
the Norman race, because the Saxons were slaves.
a. All tho rDcPa have mr. oDn tima ur ouothnr baan
e reduced to slavery, and but one has ever lifted IT.
9 self into freedom, that was the black race in
Haiti all the others have waited for a change OF
t circumstances to work out their doliverance. We
c have been slaves about four hundred years. All
a other slavery has been that Of white men. The
Roman slaves were white, so were those Of Greece.
4 l am proud of the negro race. According to his.
e tory we once led the van of civiliz and gave
r manners and customs to the world.
} AZ colored men, then, we have no cause to be
ashamed Of our race. We will yet become as re-
. spectacle as the proud Saxon while that race
IS may sometime sink as low as the negro is to day,
n | do not think that whito is Il better, or a more
e beautiful color than black. While we are degrad
ed our color partakes Of our disgrace, and is used
as the badge of condition. Ia this country you
paint all the anci9nts, no matter what may
q have Been their color, white. The twelve apOs'
& ties you represent as white yet from the country
in which they lived, we know they must have been
darker than l am. So you carry your idea into
% everything. The bible says God created man in
e his own image men do the same thing they
II always create Gods in their own image and after
.. their own likeness. So you paint your Gcd
white, and the devil black. Jesus of Nazareth
n you represent as of pure white color ; yet he
% could not have been SO for the race to which
he belonged were of a dark color. In some coun,
tries Of the world, where your color is not SC
e popular as in tins, they have painted God black
# just like We are and the Devil white, just liks
If you, and l don't think they have made any great
"a mistake;