Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-28
VOL. s.
Treason! Treason !
GRFRNsBoRo, Henry Co., Ia, I
Dec, 9th, 1850. (


yether for excitement in Indiana. The quiet
,f this State is being fairly broken. All parties
in Church and State are being thoroughly rous-
ed. Every effort is being made to keep down
agitation. HUNTINGTON, the U. s. District
Judge for the District Of Indiana, acting under
orders from Washington, has instructed tho
Grand Jury to search out and present before
him, for trial, every person suspected Of hsr-
boring or concealing or, in any way aiding
fugitive slaves The Attorney General of the
State and the Attorneys General for the vari-
Gus districts have given their opinions about
the law and urged on the people the duty to
help execute it. The Convention to amend
the Constitution turned aside from their duty
end quarrclcd two days over the fugitive law,
finally passing resolutions approving il, intro
duccd or amended by ROBERT DALE OWEN
The lawyers in the various County towns are
trying to brow-beat the people into quiet sub
mission to the law by threatening to inform on
all who violate it, harbor or assist fugitives, and
to strip them Of their property: Last Of all,
the slaveocrnts of Indiana have raised the cry Of
TREASON, TREASON; and have set on foot meas
ures to arrest those who are stirring up the
people to resist the law as TRAITORS. Fools
and BLIND They know not with whom they
have to deal. l have just said to Jonathan
Huddleson, Seth Hinshaw and others, that the
best use they could possibly put us all to is, to
take us up or a charge Of TREASON. wish they
would. l covet no greater honor from men
than that of being worthy to be called traitor
to this slave holding, kidnapping Government,
and an ilfdei to pro-slavery religion, and an
atheist to what shareholders and their abettors,
what those who passed and those who would
help execute this fugitive law call God. and
trample in the dust all such laws, constitutions,
religions and gods. They arc just Internal, and
l will treat them as such.
Now the Presidents message is brought in
to help quiet the people. Fillmore reminds
Congress of the duty to stop the agitation Of
the slavery question at the North-to put down
Anti Slavery. AS well may he urgo Congress
to pass law that we shall not breathe and that
our hearts shall not pslpitatc--as well may
Congress pass law, and poor miserable KID
NAPPING FILLMORE attempt to execute law,
forbiddng the lightning to leap from the cloud,
or the planets in their course, as to think Of
carrying out a law making it crime to aid
mon to escape from slavery. AS well attempt
to put out the sun by tanning in his face with
Peacock sfeather,' as to cxtinguish our Human
ity, our outgushing sympathy for the hunted
fugitive by an act of Congress.
TREASON TREASON !! ! o the last vestige Of
my manhood must be erased from my soul,
before can be other than traitor to law or
Constitution that makes it a crime to arise from
brute TO a man, or to aid a man thus to arise.
God help me Olvcr--l am reused to madness,
to frenzy, to think of what that law and Con-
stitution would have us do. Sector Gods
sake, sec This whole nation conspired to-
gethcr to arraign man as teion for claiming
to be and not beast. John Mclean, -
Levi Woodbury., the whole Legislative, Judi
cial and Executive power of this Republic,
sitting in judgment on a man for claiming his
right to be entered on the records of this world
as man rather than as q beast / am disgust
ed with the scnscless cant of politics and re-
ligions-about the Constitution--the law-ths
Biblc-God, &c. 1t is because the victims arc
black that they utter this cant. If they or
would say, " Save us-Union or no Union
Bible or no Biblc-God or no God-even
though the nation go down in one ocean Of
blood" Yes, and had rather see this nation
blotted out forever and every living being in il
destroyed-and the whole continent sunk in q
dead sea of silence and desolation, like Sodom
and Gomorrah, than see it continued as it now
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helpless, unofending, dumb slave. If my
father and the mother who bore me were slave
holders, and their slaves should seek to escape
by cutting their throats, my sympathies and
my efforts should be for the slave. l would not
stand lJe-guard to my own mother to protect
her against her slaves--if she persisted in such
foul injustice. Yet this entire nation is made
the body-guard of all SHAREHOLDERS. Oh tho
meanness, the utter loathsomeness of that
American, or that man who is reptile enough
to strike hands with Southern tyrants against
the slaves truggling to become man. II
or the dearest object of my love and alteration
were placed before John Mclean to be tried by
him as a fclon, because claimed to be man and
not beast, if could think it right to kill any
: man, would stick dagger into that mans
@ heart who should dare to sit in judgment on
t me on such a charge, if knew that annihila.
= ton were to be my lot the next moment
S But must stop. You will soon hear from
f this region again. have held meetings in
c several places since l last wrote from Jay Co.
Deep is the feeling, and stern the resolution ia
resist unto death the fugitive law. Fillmore
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Q HENRY Q. WRIGHT.
The TARFF.-The Ilunker Manufactur.
= ers of the North are doing their prettest to
procure such alterations in the Tariff as will
J. favor their interests. Having bowed them.