Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-10-19
From the Pittsburgh Saturday visitcr.
The Fugitive Slave Law.

This bill has created quite m excitement
| in our city. With one voice the people cry
out against il, and declare il must be repeal
ed. The general feeling is that it should al
so be disregurded while II remains on the
statute book. The old Pittsburgh Gazette
advises the fhgitivcs in our cities 10 arm
themselves and fight for freedom, if need
he, but not TO run away. Good for the Ga
zette! We really never before liked Deacon
White half so well. Forthwith we shall
rub out one half of all the black marks we
ever put down against him. The Tribune
gives place TO an unanswerablc argument,
showing il to be the duty Of all good citi.
zens to resist this, so called, id,O This docs
not raise MAJOR Kaine any in our estimation,
for IL is not anything more tban we expect
ed of him. He has a natural antipatiy to
tyranny, aud could not help hating this bill
ii he tried. So he deserves no credit on
that score. So far as we have learned, all
our city papers, except tho Journal, recon-
mend resistance; and we are surprised to
see our good friend Riddle take the prepos-
ferrous ground of submission and obedience.
lie pronounces the law intoerable, dis
tressiGg aud unjust; subyersiye Of the rights,
and insulting 10 the consciences Of slave
ry-haiing people !" and yet he urges, with
all his eloquence, the duty of obedience, un-
I'll the statute can he repealed. lie quotes
the opinion of Judge Mclean, that eminent
jurist who stole the livery Of heaven TO serve
the devil in-who borrowed petticoats to
make decent anti-slavery appearance when
hc wanted Northern nomination for the
Presidency, while he was the most pliont
tool of Slavery that ever sat on the supreme
bench. His opinion Mr.. Riddle quotes, and
says he "will not be suspected of any un-
due lenity TO Slavery" "Suspected Of leni-
ty to Slaveryn Well, no. lie should not
be, for he has cfiectually proved himself
slave. Does not Mr.. Riddle know that in q
late case Judge Mclean decided that q
Judge who issued n writ of habens corpus TO
detain colored man until the claimants
right was examined; the persons who ap-
piled for il; the officers who served il, and
all those irho rere present looking on, wero
liable to an action under the old law Of nine
ty-six-that this decision of (McLean's) hon.
orsbip was given in presence of Gov. Crit
tenden and several other important citi-
zens of Kentucky, who had been invited
over by the plaintiff to encourage his honor
to do his duty; and that under this decision
more than forty suits have been entered
4 t.s s..s..5':s 70 Ohio for aiding the es-
cape of that one fugitive? We have not the
report ut hand now, but il is TO be found in a
late number of the Law Journal. These
people did not interfere after the man was
! proved TO be slave, but only detained him
by writ until the ownership was proved;
and il is the opinion of this toudy Judge
That Mr.. Riddle quotes to decide a matter
OF inlth and conscience.
we know no claim he has TO be consider
ed an enemy to Slavery, except the fact of
ms wife being an aboitionist, and his own
private conversations. He has never once
n hat L. e
the slightest leaning towards humanity. Aa
for MIR. Riddle himself we are sorry 10 saw
his present position is somewhat consistent
with his general course. lie is the law.
abiding editor. We have never vet known
HIM admit Congress could possibly enact n
law that would not be obligatory upon tho
people Tor whom il was passed. If our State
ana National Legislators should take IL into
| lhelr heads and pass an net requiring every
editor IN their domain TO cut his mothers
throat with an oyster SHE'LL catch the blood
in basin, dist aud use il for ink, wonder if
he would insist upon obedience to the law.
Such course would be nothing more than
consistent with his present position. The law
which he now holds TO be binding, requires
positive and lrreparable crime. No future
repeal of the law could ever atone for tho
!, damnng guilt of returning one slave into
'on"So' Hn aSe III Peiu''oh couiu never
suihciehuy PUNISH one hours obedience to
1hls iaw' IL Is m direct opposition to the
, whole spirit of that Divine law which he
processes TO believe binding rs rule of faith
and manners. "The servant who has escap-
ed from his master unto thee, thou shalt not
return him un'o ms in9ster; put he shall
owen WIN thee IN one oi my gates, where
soeVer nkeim nun Dest' Ihou shalt not
Cypress him !" saith the Lord. But "you