Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-02
WHOLE No. ST..

vas 4hI' Spoo'pT anu ourselves are now sup
posing it to be,) The Judges have agreed TO
DO certain pro-slavety acts, and they must
perform their whole contract, or yield up the
power they received on that condition.
are the peoples servants, employed
TO do certain acts. II they cannot do iiose
acts, let them abe no longer Stewards
This argument seems TO us conclusive rs
1t stands. But MIR. Spooner's principles rive
it additional force. lie says (p. 90, % edi-
tion,) that
Here office is not given to any one be-
cause he has a right TO it, nor because it NAV
be even a benefit to him. 1t is conferred up-
on hiui, or rather confded to him, as a trust.
and solely as q trust. for the sole benefit OF
the people Of the l nited States. The Presi-
dent as President, is not supposed to have
any rights in the office on his own account:
or any rights except what the people, for their
own benefit, and not for his, have voluntarily
chosen to grant to him"
If this be soft the President, or Judge.
has no right but what the people have grant
ed him, Will Mr.. Spoonpr affirm that the peo-
pie ever granted to any Judge the right TO
disregard the pro-slavery clauses of their
Constitution ! II Office be n . trust, and sole
ly a trust" is the trust-hoidcr TO execute his
w H. ,rWa, ! ''e"S oI "o'''ul"S
a,ia AZ. - ii,
cmsaa.' - "oooe.' "au ''''''a'neu mat
as H., c.. - oeIr''" ln'GIeh' powers
and eyncn,iDn i"s,io, "Oo, L slavery
| into the very idea of A Goverpmcnt-and avo.
nv Government possesses them. whe,her sne.
! officially granted to it or not: but Mr.. Snonnn-
err (p. 81 scouts as san imposture. the lido,
of any necessary or inherent authority or sove.
reignty in our Government, as such"-and
maintains that they are nothing but icon.
tracts" If, then, they are only contracts,
will he explain where Judges get a power
which the other party to the contract nevel
meant to give them?
When, therefore,, Mr.. SpOoner or any one
else has shown us an English Judge, for in.
stance, putting aside an act Of Parliament be-
cause OF It's injustice, he has not then reached
our case. Let him show an English Judge
holding himself authorized to disregard the
terms OF the union between Scotland and Eng
land, and between Ireland and England, and
he VIII have advanced somewhere within
sight OF the position OF an American Magis-
trate under our CONSTITUTIONS. Even those,
however,, are not equally strong cases, for
such a Judge has never expressly srOrn to
maintain those colnpacis.
Inc royal oa'h TO maintain "ihe church
established comes nearest to our case, and
IL Is well known WIN what scrupnlous ankle
y even 'Ie PIoiIHa'e oro' ' ciuhg 10 "hat
lie laHcieu HIS uuty uhuer 'nal'
"These Judicial tribunals, says Mr.. Spoon
er, cannot, by accepting Office under a Gov
eminent, rid themselves Of the paramount oh
legation that all men are under to declare, if
they declare anything, that justice is law"
elf hev declare anvlhing ;" that is a yerv
SIGNIFICANT .lF." Was there \ Iurkinu doubt
in the writer's mind whether our view was
not the correct ore whether .JuJres had a
ripht TO declare ANYTHING" in such circnm-
st3ncesl If there was lei him cherish il -
True. sucb Judoes cannot rid tbemeelvss no
men. :. of the paramount obIiratior IN docIaro
if thew declare ANYTHING. thaf ]iustice is law"
But if is nc men. as si,1nIp individn,ls mite
in the sioht Of God. that this "naramonnt oh
liration" (ests mon HEM Cod Lnoyys Them
moi ar Iudges Their onIy :. n,ramonnt oh'
n~r,t;on,, oee Indras IL 70 40 ,,bn, thora nroal
,n do wbep, hev wcro r,,do i"J,tas' So
the bench Goa does not renn;5s of ar W. ~
his creatures to iuculc ,hcir fellows ont Of tho
n;G nr novor al uH 57bon 80 ,La,
H - ttbo;r nror,isas IN nrdar s"~ L'
rnaDity 'rhat wora to ,st .. rohborn e., Ln.u,
onarinrn
Rm, nr,,inr or, or ,;or, FIJI. noi,,
..aat hp,roa6s ,hn UaonIa ond ,t ,s ~ o"-
we maintain ,ba, srcb'a Iino r indioiai dmtr,
u innnnsis,or, w;,h ,ho or;"tono ar 49,,
and rerniar Governn,nn, 81 is ,ho fra, s,nm
ra ana,oLv NOV "NP
"naIn ~ ;,,. ,.l i'll. .,
Cr,ntaJ' hrt u.ho Jo"t ~ Joas ..,
and riqht We saw that cr The nnrrosd of
"HD w" SOY "a' J." :e P"opose
.. 81 - 'r ua,i". "J5 H%''0"' 1t" 70 n''JTa-
o = IL GnaI amd oo"s,;n,,nl e., ~ ,La n, na,;oa
,w. NJ Sn"na.r ,LinLs .ot. Lo ,%;nGn
,hat eocb T,t0o H. 10 lid Co. h;n,soIf amJ
an, ocoordi"r W. 60 49, - nv
vo,nmnnt is 3ssihIo ~ ,his rJam 80
tntes' saws Webster, are bmt IecommonJa-
ions if each man is to constrne Them as he
pleases." Quot homines, tot senienGa, (manv