Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-22
SALEM. OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1918.


our growth, and strengthen with our strength,
and Imagination could set no bounds 10 our
Greatness. But il, on the other hand, lPgis-
lstors and judges disregard these sacred in
struments, every infraction serves 10 weaken
the public respect. The consequence Of un-
constitutional laws repeated daily In The eyes
Of the people-,he deep regard for them, Of
which l have spoken, is speedily changed to
contempt and disgust. Our progress will be
stayed, anarchy intervene, and the history Of
our boosted free institutions be written In the
past, by the literary minions Of monarchy and
tyranny.
Ii must ever be remembered that a, the
foundation Of our institutions lie the pfinci-
pies Of equal rights and equal justice. OBJ
serve how carefully the constitution of Ohio
has established this substratum. an men
are born equally free and independent.'-
THAT all courts shall be open, and every per-
son " . shall have remedy by due course
Of law, and right and justice administered
without denial OF delay" "The doors Of
the said schools, academies and universities,
shall be open for the reception of scholars,
students and teachers, Of evety grade, With
out any distinction, or preference whatever"
The foundation shaken, the supers,ructure
cracks, crumbies, fails. Have not the laws
uhNCl IOHNCIipiotiOu uONClhCu NNCo6 ptiUCl~
pies! Examples explain things best. Two
citizens Of Massachusetts, one white the 9TH
er black, come 10 Ohio; one is received into
all the rights Of citizenship, the other is COM
PEELED to give bail, is excluded from the
courts, and his children condemned TO igno-
rance. A white citizen of Ohio buys and
sells with a colofed one, The first sues the
other on account, and is admitted to prove il
by his oath. The other presents his account
well kept and in amount the largest-he pos
sesses a moral character above reproach, but
Losses his offset and the fruits Of his industry
and frugaliIy, because the Almighty having
seen fit TO give him another complexion, our
laws do not permit him to testify. A few
years since, in Cleveland, a white person
entered The house Of a colored family and
broke and destroyed the furniture and goods.
The benevolent relieved their distresses, but
the outraged laws, strangled by the power
that made them, reposed in silence. A few
years since, a colored man resided about a
mile north of Cincinnati, and being in the
city, was kidnapped and sold into slavery
He got free, returned, and sued his kidnap-
per. He was sho, in his own house, In the
bosom of his family, the members o.. which
saw and recognized the murderer. But he
walks the streets Of the proud city Of the west
Nv hhIhhiNJ ~ hhSh pOhHh ~ huEtig
and say, " There goes The la,p-proteeted MIR
derer :"
The county of Clinton was The scene OF q
more horrid tragedy a number Of years since.
A man and his wife were kidnapped
Prompted by the love Of liberty and the ber-
rors of slavery, the man resisted desperate
". The frantic husband was overpowered.
They were taken into the woods, and the
husband was deliberately shot before the eyes
of his uTe. She was carried into a slave
State and sold there. She succeeded in OBJ
tanning her freedom, and returned. But the
blood of her murdeted husband cried from
the ground in vain. Her skin was black /;
and the land groans under the guilty tread Of
the murderers.
Two instances of Kidnapping have oecut.
red in Ohio three summers past. One OF them
in our metropolis, upon the person Of a re-
spectacle freeman, fourteen years a citizen
Of Ohio. A part of his kidnappets were ar
Of Columbus bribed those who had HIM IF
custody under claim of title in Kentucky
for $500, 10 give him up. He returned ic
Columbus while the trial OF his kidnappet'
was In progress. There sits the Judge il
|, robes Of Justice, The scales trembling In hi
hand-lhe guilty men are thefe-they ma,
2 and probably will escape Tor want Of proc
: -ahd there sits Jerry Phinney, the subject o
n the outrage-knows every one Of the minutes
facts of The dark Transaction. Why does nc
, The Prosecuting Attorney, sworn faithfully I
3 discharge his duties-why does not III
e Judge, conservator OF the laws, call on tn
witness to disclose the perfect knowledge |
his possession Why does not The injute
n man speakt His skin is not of the sam
complexion with that Of the ~culprit's at III
bar-his lips are Theoretically sealed by III
e law. Where, In the annals Of the chfistia
world, is justice so mahacled
S 1t is an indisputable fact, that white me
settle in the neighborhood Of blacks for Il
purpose Of plunderiGg them Of their proper
under the sanction Of law. In the case
Jordan VS.. Smith l4th Ohio Reports 1893, I
L court say "The white man may now plu
der the negro Of his property ; he may abu
OF his person; he may take his life: He m;
s, do this in open daylight, in the presence
multitudes who witness the transaction, al
IN he must 60 acquitted, unless perchsnce the
- happens to be some white man present."
s. Judge Hitchcock, the oldest member Of I
a, court, Of great and long experience, W
I'd more than any other man in the State, h
:; moulded and given stamp TO our iurispruden'
ne and who wrote the opinion of the court in I
Pl above case, adds his testimony, that at
ne uniform effect of the law has been TO pIeve
We justice, both public and private.'' BY the
ID laws. therefore, the principles of equal rigl
III and equal justice are subverted.
y, From the illustrious Washington dow
wards to the man Of the smallest degree
~ common sense, it is an agreed fact, oftel
20 reiterated than any other, that the educstI
10 Of the whoie people is the great bulwark
- our free institutions. We have now In
:. State about 10000 colored PERSONS. I
-, several census show that their increase is
gular; not a shade Of difference since the ens
~ ment Of the " Black Laws" from what
"a was before (; and relatively the same as
~ whites. They are to remsin with Us, a p
y. ton of our population, and are to incre
-, with our increase. Is it wise that they 81
i,h be kept in ignorancet Is it magnans,no
that ws, an intelligent people, should d.