Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-27


it be done on their W responsibility, but let
not the free States be connected with the sin
and shame by furnishing the license. Let
such a United States law be repealed -
T. u. Morning Herald.
True, Mr.. Herald, each voter is response
BILE for these laws. Wings, Democrats, Lii
berry party and Native, you all join together
in making them and, although some of you
are opposed TO slavery yet when you set about
making laws, and look around upon your as
%sociates to see what kind of company you are
in, and, discovering a part to be Shareholders,
you shrug your shoulders and say well, well,
| must abide by such laws as we may mutu-
ally agree upon; such as the majority shall
adopt, | must supports; why then, do you
make a wty face because you incur the guilt
of selling the young and the old through the
means of statute law, when at the same time,
you do not raise your voice against being in
volved in the same guilt, by means Of a GER
tain agreement, called the Constitution of the
United States! We say toe, elf the South
must be permitted to traffic in human beings,
let it be done on its own responsibility, but
let not the free States G. hat a paradox to call
them so,) be connected with the sin and
shame Of protecting it in that traffic. "Let
such a United Suites Constitution be repeaiel."
The Herald also says:
''The following account Of a cold biooded
and unprovoked murder we cut from an ex-
change paper. The unfortunate victims were
guilty of loving their freedom better than their
tyrants. The deed is spoken Of, without any
sympathy for the sufferers, with commenda-
ton Of the fendish perpetrators. Shooting
down men and women, like dogs or beasts
of prey, may not be murder by the law Of
slavery. We know what it is by the law of
God.
DREAMING Up 4 GANG OF NEGRoGs-TtpO
VOnteH shot and ttcO WOunded.-For some
time past the citizens of the Third Munich
palily have been aware that a considerable
gang of runaway negroes had congregrated
in the swamp in the fauborg Washington,
where they lived upon what they could scrapc
together at night by ~thieving and contribu-
tons upon their friends in the city. On
Wednesday afternoon a party of ten or twelve
gentlemen, SOM living in the Second, and
some in the Third Municipality, whUhad lost
slaves, determined TO break up the gang
They accordingly sailed forth, armed with
fowling pieces loadel with buckshot, and
reached the habitation of the negroes. There
were about fifteen of them, male and female,
and at the time they were surprised, they were
in the act Of eating supper. They were i'm
mediately summoned to surrender, but refus-
ed and took to their heels, whereupon a VOL
ley was fired at them, killing a man and wo-
man, and badly wounding two women. The
rest escaped. The men had a number OF
muskets but did not fire them. The two We
men were brought to town the same night,
and it is not known whether their wounds
are mortal or not"
We agree with all the Herald has said
about the atrocity of the murder. But sup
pose its candidate for Governor had beer
elected, and these slaves, resisting the effort;
to capture them, had collected around then
large numbers of insurgents. The Louisi
%anians, unable to subdue them, tie Goyerno
of that State had called upon the General Go
vernment for aid TO suppress the Instruction
Would Saml. Lewis, as Governor of Ohio
have complied with the requisition of the Pre-
sident. in accordance with the obligations 0
his oath to support the Constitution, and rails
ed troops to be marched to Louisiana to shoe
these identical persons? And in that even
would it nave been murder 10 shoot them
Or, on the other hand, would he have perjur
ed himself, and altogether refused a compli
ance with the rcquisition Of the President
and The requirements of his oath, and follow
ed the example recently set at Oberlin, in al
application of Liberty party morality Al
application where its theory of morals wa
reduced to practice. S.