Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-10
SALEM, CoLUMBIANA co, OIIIo MAY TO- 1851.

Hut nll tbI5 deNotlOn 10 HS eci VIZ -.
not satisfy our parasitic ruler rs long ns a.y
Nlordecai sat at its gate, denying us r'en
power or to existence. new tesI 80
er sign of homage, was imposed. o
sion in the form the very inost offensive W
the si,nplest feelings of humanity aud honor
was demanded and accorded. Oiher cities
bnd mid the base and cruel tribute. Last
week. Boston followed in her turn. huu W
wbnt costs II you may believe her priests
and lawyers aud chief rulers, echoed ny III
more mud Webster, she is n law abiding"
CITY. Aud so she is--a " sldUecdtchlng fdic-
abiding" city! To abide by this law, TO read
her title clear to Southern trade and the
smiles of power, she thonglt il n slight thing
to trample under foot the laws and the pre-
scriptions of Massachusetts Massachusetts
forlds all her executive officers TO take any
part in the arrest or detention of fugitive
slaves. Mayor Bigelow and Marshal Turkey
send their police officers to arrest the iugi-
tive; the whole police force and night watch
are detailed to guard him; the Court House
is put in chains, aud the constitutional and
legal right of access to the Courts of Justice
denied; and to enable them thus to set Mt
defiance the laws OF the State, AN armed
force is daily drilled in military exercises aud
evolutions. To preserve their allegiance to
Slavery, the Mayor aud Aldermen, and their
tool, Marshal Turkey, commit treason against
Massachusetts. Trcuson is defined by the
laws of Massachusetts to consist, IN one OF
it's alternatives, of "levying war against the
State" IL the employment of an armed
and drilled body of men for the avowed pur-
pose of breaking the laws of the State flor
Mr.. Tukey acknowledged that he knew his
acts to he illegal) lie not "levying war"
against her, we should like to know how the
crime can be- committed. Ii is the opinion
of better lawyers than we nrc, that If there
were any laws in Massachusetts or any en-
iorcenent of them in Boston, those swift
lunctionaries would be hanged by the neck
until they were dead.
Then Massachusetts used TO have the writ
ofll0beas Corpus. Her Supreme Bench all
Judge that it disappears when it is likely to
disturb the convenience of Slavery. She
had writ of personal repcvin to secure the
right of trial by jury TO any Other inhabitants
claimed as u slave. The sheriff refuses to
execute it. She has criminal process TO ar
rest and detain persons accused OF crime
A warrant against one charged with stab
hing with intent 10 kill falls to the ground
The broad doctrine Uist enough, perhaps,
but strange To be avowed) is recognized that
il is no crime for a fugitive slave 10 kill the
person arresting him. The personality, the
humanity, of II slave is less in Massachusetts
than in Georgia; for there he would be tried
us n man; here he is ANONYMOUSLY dismis-
sed us beast. Is il no punishment to a
Community that oil the delcnces of personal
liberty are thus thrown down? Will this
contempt of law stop here? Will it be sat
isfed when it lius unlawiully seized upon an
innocent inhubitant and reduced him TO
Slavery? Will the rights of no white man
suffer damage in the anarchy thus inirodu-
ced and lauded us the perfection of human
duty? Massachusetts, thank God, has not
yet consented to the Fugitive Abomination.
Had her laws been obeyed, poor Sims would
never have heen arrested, or would have
been surrendered only upon verdict of his
peers. When Mayor Bigelow marched down
State Street, between moOnset and sunrise,
last Saturday morning, every step ho took,
lie set his foot OH the laws of the State and
tramplcd them in the dust. When Secreta-
ry Webster shall congratulate the assembled
merchants of Boston in Faneuil Hall, next
Friday, on their obedience TO law, il will be
their obedience TO the Higher Law OF Slave
ry. When they rejoice over their victory,
Obtained at 10 small expenditure of what
they love better than honor, of money, let
them remember that the victory is over the
Constitution aud Laws of Massachusetts,
Tint it is for kidnapping us illegal as it
was cowardly aud cruel.-E. Q.