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

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In Oberlin, the Judges of the election, at
the late election, were all Liberty party men,
and if the election was a regular one, an oath
of the following form was taken by the judg-
es and clerks:
"You, A. B., do solemnly swear Cor af-
firm as the case may be,) that you will per-
form the duties Of a Judge or Clerk Of this
election Gas the case may be,) according to
law and the best of your abilities and that
you will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud,
deceit or abuse, in conducting the same
See act TO regulate elections, : Sec.
The constitutional provision, in reference
10 voting, is as follows, which, be it remem-
bered, is the fundamental law Of the State.
an all elections, all white male inhabi-
tants above the age Of twenty-one years, hav-
ing resided in the State one year next pre-
ccding the election, and who have paid or
are charged with a State or County tax, shall
enjoy the right of an ]eiector; but no person
shall be entitled to vote, eXceptin the County
or District in which he shall actually reside
at the time of the election" Art. 4, Sec. /.
The Judges, however, we have been told,
paid no attention TO the law, or their oaths,
SO far as color was concerned, but let whit e
and black, men of all colors, vote indiscrinli-
nately.
We understand that it IS the determination
Of some Of the citizens Of Elyria, to prosecute
them for a violation of their sworn duties.-
That black men have equally as good a right
to vote as white men, We affirm; but what
is to be the result of such applications of Lii
berry party's theory Of morals in practice 3
Will it not destroy all confidence of man in
man When such Il theory of morals is gen.
orally practised, no ones language will be
regarded as an index to his heart and all the
horrors of the French excuses, in their bloody
revolution, will be precipitatcd upon US.
Talieyr ard, WHOM as educated d priest, but
became a politician of the French Revolution
airy school, when asked what was the use Of
language, replied, 'to conceal our thoughts.''
Was not the oath taken by these Judges, on
the occasion referred to, employed to conceal
their thoughtsl
We understood President Mahan, Of ODER,
lin, in a discussion with S. S. Foster, to main,
tain that it would be right TO take an oath &c
support the Constitution of the United States
and then disregard the decisions of the Su.
f preme Court, suffer Impeachment, and Their
force upon the court 4 reconsideration of it:
former decisions. Such being the morality
| taught by the President Of the Oberlin Col
lege, is it strange that it should be put in prac
= tice therel We are among those who viii
S meet out equal justice to black and white
: hence, we will not swear to do otherwise
/ we are one Of those who will not obey unjus
: decisions Of the Supreme Court, but then W,
will not swear to observe them. S
: We would call particular attention 10 tn
: article on our first page from the Covenanter
This publication is an organ of the Reforme,
PresbyteTians-a church free from slavery
politically and enthusiastically. 1t receive
not into its membership, either the slayehoI
der, or him who legalizes slavery.
The Coyenanter speaks of the abolitionist
> as being malignod-it does not call them ina
ligners. 1t is those churches which are guiI
ty of slaveholding that malign the abolition
lists for rebuking pro-slavery sects. The Re
formed Presbyterians, feeling conscious c
their innocency in this regard, do not fec
that our assault upon pro-slavery churche,
is an assault upon them. We do not hea
them crying out, you abolitionists are oppos
ed to all churches and all government.
S.
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