Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-12-27
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.:

gard to the duty of the citizens Of free State
in contributing to the capture Of runaway
slaves. lie said the gentleman had mistaken
the temper aud misunderstood tie character
and position of our people, when ho INDUCED in
his long and severe lecture upon them.
lie said We were not situated like citizens of
the South. We felt secure in our homes, and
could turn out in defence of our country, to re-
sist an enemy, or suppress an instruction, lcav-
ing the protection of our homes and fresdcs to
the women, without apprehcnding any danger
from domestic and servile adversary. We
were not compelled to forbid the reading of the
Bible by any of our people, or to forbid their
instruction in letters. We had no laws to au-
thorize one man to beat another mmoderately,
or to whip women We had no laws to forbid
the wearing swords as dangerous weapons, or
to prohibit the sale of powder and ball to any
man, or any color, or of any extraction. We
permitted every one to have arms, to bear arms,
and to use arms, with the proper limits Of legal
propriety; we had public schools for the goncr-
al instruction of the people, where the child of
the poor man stood on an equal footing with the
child of the rich every mans homo is held sa-
cred, and is secure, and the rights and duties Of
the domestic relations are guarded and enforced
by the law, and maintained with all the moral
sanctions of a correct public opinion.
He then gave an interesting and instructive
history of tho Constitution, and particularly of
the great slave question, showing that almost
the first effort of Washington, Jefferson, Mad-
son. Randolph and others, after the indepcnd-
cncc of the country had been achieved and set
tied, was to suppress and abolish the slave
trade. lie showed thatin 1908 it was declared
"piracy," punishable with death, for an Amer
lean citizen to steal a negro from the coast of
Africa, to make him slave; and asked what
was the difference between that crime and the
offence Of coming from Maryland into this State,
and kidnapping freeman, and carrying him in
to slavery: Why, in the latter case the crime
is tcnfold greater.
lie sad that at the time of the adoption of
the Constitution, every eminent man in Virgin
ia was in favor Of gradual emancipation. lie
strcnuously opposed the slave trade. South
Carolina could not sustain herself even in un-
ion with other Southern States, and Charles
Pinckncy therefore recommended union with
the sister States on account of their navy.
Maryland had not kept her faith she had
sent her sons into Pennsylvania to take away
free negroes under the plea that they were fu-
gityes from justice. lie did not suppose she
would come here with her prcjudiccs to attempt
to convict white man Of treason by the tcsti
mony of blacks. The evidence oftwcnty blacks
in Maryland, if against white man, would go
for nothing. Mr.. Lee had said that all the
the small pox, the Circuit Court system, and.
universal suffrage, find their way into the South
from the North.
Mr. Read asked what sost Of justice was to |
be expected from men who breathtd such an
atmosphere as that. lie alluded to the recent |
riots in New Orleans, the Boston riots, and tho |
Philadelphia riots in 1874, and said it was not
supposed that either of them were treason but
the riot in Baltimore. in 1912, when the Jail
was stormcd and person killed, and the post
were only tried for riot and murder. lie con-
cluded by a complimentary notice of the Socie-
~ of Friends.
Mr.. Stevens declined speaking, as he did not
think the case warranted it, but would, how
ever, call the attention the court to the case Of
Horne Tookc, in which it is held that the Off
GERS are bound to show that the object in making
the arrest was q lawful one.
Mr.. Cooper followed for the prosecution, and
spoke up to the hour of adjournment without
concluding. lie divided his argument into
three propositions; lst That in treason there
are no accessories. ID. IT, in committing a
trespass, felony follows, all are guilty as parti-
cipants. 3D. That, in preventing Mr.. Gorsuch
from getting his slave, he was guilty of tres
pass and tho practical question is, was Hama
way there in such way as to prevent the arrest
of the slave;
THIRTEENTH DAY.
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