Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-16
SALEM. OHIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1910.


plates the existence OF a positive unqualified
right on the part of the owner Of the slaves,
which no State law or regulation can in any
way regulate, control, or restrain"
The opinion of the other learned Judges
was not less emphatic as 10 the importance
Of this provision and the unquesiionable right
of the South under it. Judge Baldwin, in
charging the jury, said elf there are any
rights Of property which can be enforced (; II
one citizen have any rights of property which
are inviolsble under the protection of the SUI
preme' law of the States, and the Union, they
are those which have been set a, naught by
some Ut these defendants. AS the owner OF
property, which he had a perfect right 10
possess, protect, and take away-as a citizen
Of a sister State, entitled 10 all the privile-
res and imnuniiies OF citizens Of any other
States-Mr. 5ohuson stands before you on
ground which cannot be taken from under
hint is the same ground on which the
government itself is based. IL the defen-
dants can be justified, we have no longer law
or government" Again, after referring more
particularly To the provision foLdelivering up
fugitive slaves, he saidS Thus you see,
that the foundations of the government are
laid, and rest on the right of property in
slaves. The whole structure must fall by
disturbing the cornerstone"
These are grave, and solemn, and admoni.
tory words, from a high source. They con-
firm all for which the South has ever con-
tended, as TO the clearness, importance, and
fundamental character Of this provision, and
the disastrous consequences which would in
e~vitably follow from its violation. But in
spite of these solemn warnings, the viola
ton then commenced, and which they were
;o,ooJoJ 10 rab,La hoe haar C,Il, a,J 800,
fectly consummated The citizens Of the
South, in their a,temptto recover their slaves
now meet, instead of aid and cooperation,
resistance in every form resistance from
hostile acts Of Legislation, intended 20 battle
and defeat their claims by I'll sorts Of devices,
and by interposing every description Of i'm
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES from judges and mag
istrates-and finally, when all these fail, from
mobs, composed Of whites and black, which,
by threats or force, rescue the fugitive slave
from the possession of his righiful owner
The attempt TO recover a slave, in most d
the northern States, cannot now be made
without the hazard of insults, heavy pecu'
MARY loss, Imprisonment, and even Of life it
self. Already has a worthy citizen Of Mary
land lost his life in making an attempt to en-
force his claim 10 a fugitive slave under thi.
provision.
UNDERGRouND RAILROAD COMPANIES.
Buta provision Of the constitution maj
be violated indirectly as well as directly, by
doing an act in its nature Inconsistent wtl
that which is erioined to be done. OF thi
form of violation there is a striking instanc,
connected with the provisions under consid
Grafton. We allude TO secret combination
which are believed to exist in many of thu
northern States, whose object is to entice
decoy, entrap, inveigle, and seduce slaves tc
escape from their owners, and 10 pass then
secretly and rapidly, by means organized fol
the purpose, into Canada, where they will be
beyond the reach Of the provision. That Il
eniice "A slave by whatever %arlifce, to abscond
from his owner into a non-slaveholdina
State. with the intention TO place him beyond
the reach Of the provision or prevent his re'
covery, by concealment or Otherwise, is as
completely repugnant to it as its open viola
ton would be, is too clear TO admit of doubI
or TO require illustration. And yet, as repug
nant as these combinations are To the true
intent of the provision, it is believed that
with the above exception, not one OF The
States within whose limits they exist has a
dopied any measure to suppress them, or &c
punish those by whose agency the object fol
which they were formed Is carried into exc
cution. On The contrary, they have looked
on and witnessed with indifference, If no
with secret appreciation, a great number Q
slaves en,iced from their owners and PLACED
beyond the possibility OF recovery, to thu
great annoyance and heavy pecuniary loss o
the bordering southern States.
When we take into consideration the grea
importance Of this provision, the absence o
all uncertainty as TO its true meaning and in
tent, the many guards BY which it is sur
rounded TO protect and enforce it, and thel
reflect how completely the object for which
it was inserted in the constitution is defeat
ed BY these two-fold inirartions, we doubt
=. taking all together, whether a more t1agran
breach Of faith is to be found on record. w
, know the language We have used is strong
: but il is not less true than strong.
AsTrSLAvERy SOCIETIES.
: There remains to be noticed another elias
of aggressive acts. of a kindred character
, but which, instead of striking at an expires
: and specific provision Of The constitution
aims directly at destroying The relation be
tween the two races at the South, by mean
subversive in their tendency Of one of tn
, ends for which the constitution was estat
lished. We refer to the systematic agilS
: ton of the question by the aboliiionists
. WHICH, commencing hpoh' iOOO' 10 S'h' wi
: timed in all possible forms. Their avowP
intention is to bling about a state Of thing
!, that will force emancipation on the SOUTH
r To unite the North in fixed hostility TO sli
y very in the South, and TO excite disconieI
among the slaves with their condition. al
among the means employed to effect it,
With a view TO bring about the former, eveT
!, means are resorted TO in order to render II
= South. and the relation between the two r
ces there, odious and hateful TO the Morrill,
> For this purpose societies ard newspaPe
are everywhere established, debating clnt
opened, lecturers employed, pamphlets ar
other publications, pictures and petitions
Congress resorted to, and directed 10 tn
single point, regardless of truth or decehcy
while the circulation Of incendiary publlci
lions in the South, the agitation Of the sui
iect of abolition 10 Congress, and the en-