Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-03
Supremacy of the Law Sustained.

Our readers in all sections of the country
will he gratifed to find, by the accounts pub
lished in this days paper, that notwithstand-
ing the violent opposition made to il by the
"highcr-law" party in and around Boston,
in the case of the fugitive Sims, and every
resort to legal forms as well us to iutimida-
ton to defeat the execution of it, the late act
of Congress for carrying into effect the con-
slitutonal provision for the restoration ol
fugitive slaves has been maintained by the
judicial nuthorities-the fugitive having been
surrendered to his owner, and without fur
thcr obstruction taken away. In the result
of this case we are happy TO find that the
opinion which we expressed some weeks
ago has been fully sustained. The issue has
been fairly made and fully tested in the head.
quarters of the most jealous ennity TO the
law; all its opponents, of every shade, and
by whatever motive impelled, put in action
every expedient to defeat it but the minis
ters of the law were firm, the local police
and the great body of the law-abiding citi-
zens stood ready to support them, aud the
result has been only to show the violence OF
the opposition, aud, at the same time, iIs
weakness. In this struggle against the exc
cutiOn Of the law, we presume that fanaticul
resistance to it has spen; itself, and that we
shall hear no more of any serious attempt 10
oppose or Illustrate its quiet operatiOu.-
While the event has justified the confidence
which we expressed in the loyalty of the
great body of the people of Massachusetts
aud all the North to the Constitution, il must
he especially gratifying to those gentlemen
who, in the Senate of the United States and
elsewhere, expressed their disbelief that the
law would be carried out in the North.
The fugitive Sims has been delivered up
in accordance with the requirements OF the
Constitution. While we pity the hard LOT
which consigns him back TO bondage, we
rejoice in the vindicatlon of the majesty o
the laws. 1t is better that n man should be
returned TO his master than that the compact
of Union should be violated, nation arrested
IN lis onward progress, aud consigned to anar.
chy and evil war. The rigors of slavery
were not increased by the formation of the
Union, and they would not he diminished by
its dissolution. To protect few fiigitivcs
from recapIure, might benefit them, but
would entail greater woes upon millions.
We rejoice that the authorities aud people OF
Boston have vindicatcd their character as
law-loving and law-abiding people.-.Abany
Register.
We clipped the foregoing from the Nation
nj Inteligencer-such is the language of
Slavery and its Northern allies. In tho same
paper we find the following. What mocke-
ry TO congratulate the country on the return
of a helpless bondmnn to hopeless bondage
and Oh the next page exult in the impression
our Gree(O institutions are making on for
eigncrs.
Sir Henry BULwER, Lady, and Nephew
did not go to Charleston, as was reported,
but on "Wednesday morning took the steam
er for Norfolk. They will probably stop at
some of the large estates on James river, to
see little of Virginia agriculture and coun-
try life. Those who made the acquaintance
of the British Minister were pleased with his
simple and frank manners and genilemanly
liberal bearing Much more than any of his
predecessors, he has mingled with the peo-
pie of this country, and seems to have form
ed n just conception of our free institutions
and the great destines Of this country
Richmond Enquirer.