Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-29


how little do such men know or partake of
thy peaceful spirit"
The Professor does not treat the theory
that there is power above the Constitution
with any marked respect.
"When judgment is kept down, and pas
sion set up, and men become i'm their own
conceit wiser than all others, they can man
ufacture a conscience into any possible con-
venient shape.
"Such would seem TO be the fashion of
many consciences at present Conscience
bids them violate the Constitution of our
country. There is n higher law than this,
say they. But | ask: Who has discovered
and determined such a law? The honest
answer would be, their own passions and
preiudiccs. II is conscience wholly sub
jectiue. Talk of conscience in violating n
solemn compact? Of conscience which
condemns the conduct of Paul, when acting
under divine guidance? Must we trust in
conscience which plainly accuses him of oi-
ther having no conscience, or else very bad
one? Can we respect q conscience which
puts the broad seal Of disgrace and nidmy
on those immortal men and patriots who
formed our Constitution, aud who in all our
States accepted and approved of il? And
where now has conscience been these 40 years
past? What sort of men have adorned our
legislative halls, our pulpits, our churches?
Men, il would seem, who did not understand
even the first rudments of religion, or ofciv-
il freedom aud the rights of mnn. Has con-
science slept profoundly so long in the faith
ors, and now have the children become all at
once "wiser than Daniel" and discovered
what poor, grovcling, haltwitted mon their
fathers were? All this is wonderful TO me,
must confess. am astounded at the rapid
railroad progress of new discovery. II there
was not syllable in all the Bible respecting
slavery and the manner of treating it, il could
not be treated with more neglect than itnow
is, in regard to this subject"
On the other hand, he finds some strin-
gent objections to Mr. Alason's bill.
"What now shall we say to this Is the
great question of mans natural right-that
inoiienGbie right, ms our Declaration of lnde-
pendence calls it's such question as that
TO he put IN the power OF every and any post
master? God forbid that such triiling as
This with question of such moment 70 a iel-
low being should ever be allowed or thought
of! No! NEVER, NEVER! No. Mr.. Mason.
We OF the New England States believe that
negroes are men we believe that Con HAS
MADE OF ONE BLOOD all the nations that dicell
UPON me earth" And if they are men, the
question oi freedom cannot be so lightly
AssIi-,a.si-. ~ sissur-bill proposes. .'fbe next
th.t "a, should hear ofwould be, that some
Galn is on our SOIL with postmaster con-
iederatc, aud hurrying off our fieemen to the
land of slavery. This will not do. We can
not incur the danger Of such thing.
"And then the penalty for intcrposing in
the execution OF such summary proccss-it
looks very much like the expression of pas
sionato severity. 1t is iinmeasurably beyond
the denerit of the alleged crime; although
must confess that the law of Massachusetts
of 1913 stands pretty well by the side of it in
this respect, and has even less ground of eX-
cuse; for the United States Court have deci-
ded that State officers may Gdudge such cases
of lugitives, and Massachusetts has said they
shall not. Al oil events, however, any such
law as MIR. Mason's is a perfect .Jeio de &c.
II would operate Just as the bloody code did
in England, when there were some 40 or
$50 crimes punishable with death. No jury
could at last be found to convict. Even muir
derers escaped, through the horror which the
jures had of legal cruelty. So would it be
here. Could see MIR. Mason, 1 should feel
disposed TO say to him: Sir, regard you as
an honorable and talented man; but you
must I'uiuOh iIlC lOI sullHR, ui"t gpu W. HS'
know the North above all, you do not know
New England. Why, Sir, it would be as
perfect piece OF Quixotism as was ever ex-
hibited, TO bring the offenders which you de-
scribe before (for example) a Massachusetts
jury. A juryman who, for such an alleged
crime as you describe. should vote 10 inilict
the penalty you propose, would lose caste as
New Englander forever. Your bill is,
therefore, a bill of inpOssibihties,' &c.
The Professor, however, is not 10 be re-
garded as the friend of Slavery. Not he
lie brings no ten good reasons why il should
be deemed an evil, the first of which is, (ell
il not in Gath, after all the "eXegesis on
the other side,) that il is contrary 10 the "first
and fundamental principle Of the Bible,
which declares that all are of one blood."-
The few pages which Professor Stuart de-
votes 10 this subject, toward the close of this
pamphlet, after such an elaborate apology
for Slavery as composes the body of the
work, reminds us of the description given Ot
a certain tilne-seryer in another age, that hC
built church to the Almighty on one side o
the road, and chapel to the devil OH the other
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SENATOR HALE.-Mr. Hale is a large, fin'
| looking man, and bears the mark of grca
! good nature. Though his views are great.
ahhorred, yet he never speaks without com
manding the attention of Senators. In
sxirlnishing debate he is equal TO any man il
the Senate. lie speaks with ease, an,
abounds in witticisms. AT one moment III
will lash Senators into storm of passion
/ aud the next conVuIse them with laughter