Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-02

der any firm, to be impossible without guilt.
In such circumstances, no matter what the
Constitution is, whether good or bad, it is
the duty OF every honest man TO Join in the
war-cry Of the Anne lean Anti-Slavery Socie-
ty, "no JnjOH Uih S21rehOlicts 81" For if
we could not csc pc the inlamy aud the sin
of such a pro-slavery administration, as ours
always has been, under a Constitution pure
as Mr.. Spooncr describes this to be, then, as
we never can have a better, we ought to give
up the experiment.
ID. As far as we can understand him, Mr..
Spooner does not deny the universal North
ern doctrine, that the Executive officers of
the Government are bound, while they retain
their situations, to obey and execute the laws
in that manner and sense which the Supreme
Court decide and %enjoin. Hills views of the
duty of the Supreme Court itself we have
stated and shall soon discuss. But from the
Importance he attaches to them we have a
right to infer his concurrence in the opinion
that the decisions Of that Court are binding
on the other departments of Government
For if they are not so, Of what consequence
is it what those decisions are OF course
TO one has ever denied that the Supreme
Court now conslrues the Constitution in a
pro-slavery sense. This, then. is the law of
'''o i"l" mn uit'lSu' IiClt d9dt1 lhe posi-
ton OF the American Antl-Slavery Society is
untouched. For whatever be the real cha
racter OF the Constitution, If those who no'c
S1ced' 10 support lhat instrument are bound to
suPi,ort II III Tue sense "hicA inc courts give
I.' u'.lt' Su,eIy' no hoo'I'l'hlSt can consist
eh'iy taNe sue" dill oa'l oFdSh ahoIher person
! W. So
WV" nel''ei Oh lneSe PolntS mas MT.
SnOOnpr him spII nputhipn 70 do H. 49,,
SPoonel "li''e'' dhytNihs 10 40 lie we
oe''eVe' uoes not PROFESS TO De an Abolition
~ az le"s'' III t"IS Essay lie considers me
iueS.'o" sI'nPiy as a la".yer' without enter
ins lnco y II'the[ oelilngs' we suggest
tlell LOT 'Ie oeheht OF NOSE AGolitIonlsts
VINO Try TO nae themselves behind him. and
!nahe d use OF ms argument whlch he never
'"'shueu' ana Procaoiy would not sanction:
W.T.. SPooher ilFst chapter is employed IN
uThH. ~ ~ "'"' '""'
ina' lHW' l iledn' which, ana when on
~ Jnulc'dl ''ounHI' IRE ihofaliy Douhd' Hn-
uet an circumstances, 'odeciaFe and sustain.
III answering ms question, / snail at
,oi"Pt 10 s"GW mat Jaw Is an l~ntellglhIe
p'I"olPle ol !'gh'' necessarily resulting from
,Ie nature Oh man, ana moi an arbitrary rule,
bers, or power."-(n. +. ID Edition
NJ.
Io'iaTSion 49, ''"' Id" Is SIMPLY 'he
",I 'i:,C.f'o' oo'IS"'loN' u requirement Oh
D't Snd ffaaITn -SP;
ar ,hor I,w ro,II, !.
,b, r,to a" 'L"''y = = 'o'nI'S o'Ie' man
man, 81 tn'rm,IT,u, o''E''ro'' y teq"''e-
vornnon,t oan 49, - o'.o"' ''"' 20
indiyidnals nav r;,Lci lW,,' In eA.ops sue" as
no iaw RACES ,,S"g" I5 n.i.bas = tna'
can arise ont Of anv cont"so, nis"'s,
rovernment. uat ~1ant'":. Io"'P"ot y
Gny c,,.m nj oa"cn,aDo" "a ""ne|
- ;3 -; Ia y. H. ,".;t" o"'3 Z .""''
rroasi,ifonf ,g;;lS naI,naI I,, w'" a, U.eo"' l"a. are
y;,I,y. and thai, - o 81 90, "'"" = ""'"L".
nav he ovnrcssoJ hty d., - 'Pi,S' ,'u'
stitvtion, ore void and NO, law ona ~ i,Ii
c;aI rihnnaI l. , ,ro h ~ y, law, "nu an Juu,,,,
IN IL Oh EIi,ionN 0'" ~
We rirbt mass ,his oho,, J., ..;,.
notice as mot comcorni,r rrr.i Dy "'u;o"'
Mr.. Spooner not only conducts his argument
aiterward without reference to it, but distinct
~ allows that a definition exactly the oppo-
size Gl ms IS 'he enc usually adopted by the
peopie' oy Cout's oil JUSTICE and by Govern
nv ~
-. ne very name OF law has come to sig
my l''le more 'lah an arbitrary command
OF power without reference to its justice or
us ,hJIs'ce It's innocence or It's crlmlnall-
y, Up
mt ~ c"rJoc U'J ,ho e. 70 anoIisn Hlavery' ana
man boId ~ ", ~ u"u"."et'a. lue's "nlcn
men "oiI aS TO law or government; and
ont what il 0,nci;crV,, io onJ T ,% 10" oH -" ~
if we can. We MIX ,barncs "'" a"iu'u -
pass this chapter by, ,akinu LIr to mean what
Mr.. Snooner allows thar onr TrdiciaI ,r;hu,
mails, our Government. and the General sense
of the neonle bave Jofnad IL - w. - ,Lo
words he nuotes franz No,b Woh,,or ~
ruIe of civil cCrdnct nrescribod bU ,bo Co"
preme power of a State, commanding what
its subjects are to do and prohibiting what
they are 10 (orbear."
Or as Heineccius describes it: