Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-04-06

al law, what will il appease--whatw viii itple.
cify? II will mingle with the eartil--it viii
mix with the waters of the ocean-the whole
civilized world will snuff il in the air, and i
will return with awful retribution on the
heads of those violators of national law and
illsticc.' Put the name Of Douglass, Brown
or Ellen Crafts in place Of Kossuth, and we
commend this fine sentiment 10 MIR. Web
ster's mature consideration. We appeal
from Philip drunk to Philip sober from Mr.
Webster at Washington, with the gewgawf
of Office tinkling in his ears, TO Mi. Webster
at home, counting OH that honorable tame
the appreciation of good men IN time TO como
or longing for that seli-rcspect, so valued IN
ones last years, when, as Kent says, we be,
gin to act more from a sense of duty, and
less from any feeling of ambition Who can
blame MS for detesting that Moloch Constiiu-
ton TO which the fair fame Of our statesman
is sacrificed! Is not the very weakest-inind.
ed CLARITY obliged to confess that its fhyorite
has loved Liberty and Justice less, and idoli-
zcd the parchment more
But there is something further TO be urged
ON this point. Full half of the villany is vol
unteored, utterly grntuitous. MIR. Webster
proclams his readiness TO support not only
lic OoIlSstutlOli, Dut llt WIOClOus liONioioh1
ofNr. Mason's hill. This proposes TO sur
render any colored person claimed as slave,
without requiring any thing but prinla fdcie
evidence of his being so--admitting atfida-
Wits as well ms oral testimony, thus wholly
debarring the victim of any opportunity OF
cross-examining the witnesses against him
refuses jury trial, aud allows any one of the
forty thousand postmasters in the Union to
authorise the transportation of an inhabltant
of Massachusetts TO New Orleans, TO have il
tried there, fricndess, alone aud helpless us
he viii be, whether he was born in Massa-
chusetts, or had escaped there All these
Objectionable features might be removed, aud
yet the Constitution faithfully Observed
There is nothing in the Constitutional provi-
sion which forbids the regulating Of the
whole process of slave surrender by all tho
jealous forms of hdbeas corpus, jury trial, &c,
which the experience of ngcs shows to bc in
for the protection of freemen
who might be mistaken for slaves; on the
contrary, the Constitution, iairly interpreted,
requires the observance of trial by jury
Without the slightest pretext oflegal or con-
stitutional obligation, therefore, without any
reason in common sense, Mr.. Webster vol-
unteers his support of oil these thoughtless
fathers thought il high crime enough to pun
it into the Declaration of Independence, iliat
Geore Ill. intended to transport the ruinhlspc-
to England for trial. To Hancock or Adams
England was next door, compared with the
infinite and hopeless distance ofNew Orleans
from Boston to any free colored nun, whom
this cruel and loose law has left to be mista-
Senly or maliciously carried there, TO be melt
I'd into the indistiDgtiishablc mass of slaves,
md have the question Of his Massachusetts
birth tried at some white claimants leisure
II a horse be claimed from his owner at
il is no insuperable objection TO
ury trial, and the requiring of fair evidence
If ownership on the part Of a Southern
;laimant, that it will much delay the gentle |
nanl But let one of the chivalry claim
nan, and the old barriers must down, lest he
DC compelled to tarry overlong, and be incon-
Does MIR. Webster remember
lis conclusive demonstration, years ago, that
he simplest governments were the most des- |
Iotc? T? and his entreaty that our countrymen |
would be patient, and willing TO give time |
md take trouble; such was the only Sc
,urity for free institutions The colored men J
If the North, whose rights he is jeopardizing, |
whose children cannot play in the streets |
With such laws over their heads, beg of him |
o reck his own reed and be as tender ofI lib |
,rty now. II his vote is ever given TO this law,
which, after all, will not be worth the pa |
,cr il is written ON, thanks TO the abolition |
sts,-let him no longer be painted, as in |
landings full length, in the grand repose of
hose majestic proportions, but running, at |
he head of forty thousand constitutional |
lounds, after some hapless fugitive guilty |
# skin less colored than his own and from |
lis mouth let there issue his own words in |
he Senate-'The Constitution is benefcent,
has trodden down no mans liberty'-'llaye |
not taken an oath to il on the Holy Evan |
,elists of Almighty God!'-'I put it to all |
onScientious men, all sober and sound minds, |
IS question OF morals and conscience, what |
light they have, in their Legislative capacity |
n any other, TO embnTdss I the free exercise |
II the rights secured by the Constitution TO |
'ersons whose slaves escape from tbem.- |
lOne at all none az all neither in he forum |
conscience nor before the Constitution are |
hey justified, in my opinion am sure, if |
hey consider their constitutional obliga- |
ions, they will fulfil then--ioith alacrify!!' |
If in the lowest deep, there be a lower
eep for prohigate statesmen, let all former |
postates stand inside and leave il vacant.- |
Hell from beneath is moved for thee, TO |
meet thee at thy coming. All the kings of
he earth lie in glory, every one in his own
Iouse but thou art cast out of thy grave as
A abominable branch, thou shalt not be join
d with them in burial, because thou hast
destroyed thy land, and slain thy people,
Influence Of he .anti-Sapey Moveme,d.
Abolition Societies MIR. Webster does mot
hink useful He 'thinks their operations
he last twenty years have produced nothing
ood or valuable That they have produced
his speech, does NOT, perhaps, in the opinion
4 many, disprove this assertion. Yet we
hink il does; for this speech will do more
D open the eyes of the North 20 the rotten
ess of politicians, than almost anything else
ould have done. We may, however, remind
DR.. Webster that Congress has done nothing
ct, this session, but copy the slips these de-
pissed Abolition Societies have set for il;