Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-15
SALEM ONO, NOVEMBER 10. 1851.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meets December I.
Respeetabiliiy.

The Jury that has been summoned on occa-
sion of the Christiana trials, "toas ncper before
eguaied for respecta6iiity." Just the thing that
was wanted. Hanging men for treason because
they defend their liberties, has been rather dis
reputable business in this country, since the
time when Adams, and Hancock, and franklin,
and jefferson managed to escape the moose
But now it seems necessary that this public
sentiment should be rcvolutionizcd. And since
VIC have travelled back some centuries and
adopted the then popular definition Of treason,
it follows that the stranglins which was then
popular for the crime, should be equally so
now. Since VIC have adopted the treason code
of their Imperial AGajesties Of Russia and Aus
tria, il should also become quite as reputable to
shoot and choke abolitionists, as it has been for
Europeans to amusc themselves in like manner
with Poles and IIunsarians. And pray, how
could this be better done than by making "Ex-
Senators, honorable Judges and rich Bankers"
hangmcn in the case.
Fillmore and Greer arc evidently wise in their
generation. Hanging by the rabble under the
authority of the Lynch code, Mt the South has
never seemed to take we'll at the North. But
now when wealth and station shall give it char
nctcr, we may look for n change in this parti-
cular Men will be as ambitious TO become
hangmen, as they arc now TO DO shareholders; it
will be the grand passport to Office and power
Indcod, now, the same rope that shall hang the
Christiana victims, is the very one on which
Filmores hope for a reelection is suspended. -
The South, which has the entire monopoly of
President making in this country, has made
this the condition. And If Fillmore shall Wig
orously and successfully prosecute this job, till
the stiiened forms of these thirty friends Of free
dom, shall be consigned to the surgeons for dis
section he will be rcinstatcd in the prcsiden-
tial chair. Not by "visitation Of providence"
but by deliberate intent Of our olignrchy. An
oligarchy that sticks at no means for tho con-
tiuucd cnslavcmcnt Of the millions in this coun-
try.
Respectable! There is deep trickery in this
They would have us believe that respectability
is evidence tha; impartial justice shall be done.
Who SO respectable as slaveholdcrsi Senators
hHu JuubCS WHO pahSi uHu execute laNS lOr
slave catching are the very pink of respectable
ty. And so overpowering is the rcspectabilty
Of this very -Filmore-that when he
went to Boston the other day, Democrats joined
with cotton Wings in comforting upon him tho
highest honors. Charles Sumner paid him
visit of ceremony, and Gen. Wilson suspended
his denuncations of the Fugitive Slave Law, to
escort him before the people, that ho might re-
ceive the homage due to his rcspectability.
OF all men possessing ordinary human copaci-
tics, these respectables, are the very ones who
should be excluded from tho Jury, for incom-
potency. These Judges and ex-Senators have
their only hope Of prefcrmont in Filmore's sue
cess against the lives liberties of these citi-
zens. Tho commercial and moncyed monopo-
lists, as we all know, are directly interested, and
have staked all upon this slave. catching issue.
This conspiracy is not alone against those thirty
follow citizens, immurcd in the Philadelphia
prison. 1t is a conspiracy against all frccmen.
A conspiracy the moro to be dreaded because it
is a conspiracy of power and "rcspectahility.
A conspiracy that confidently relics upon its
respoctahility to look out OF countennncc all our
opposition to slave-catching. Shall it be sue
ccssful; 1t will be, if we prefer as heretofore to
do homage to responsibility, rather than to
Justice.