Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-01


| exposure of the cuormitics of the Fugitive
law aud lie atrocities of lis practical opera
ton; declaring that while he would not
counsel any men to organize for forciblc re-
sistanct to the law, he would not hesitate TO
strike down any ruiiian who should attempt
to cnslavc him or his family either with or
without law
1 The devil hns found no agent impudcnt
enough to Justify il in detail. We are told
in, it is a Lnr, that there is no higher law (;
that il is constitutional aud shall be enforced,
aud those who resist it shall be hung as trail
tors. What regard shall we pay TO such
dcuunciaiioDs. Daniel Webster is n great
man, but hu is not tho Almighty God. ! do
not know that even God himself requires me
| 10 obey law without an answering sense of
/ its justice in my own soul. ] rcpel this arro-
| gnnt dictaton to my conscience.
What right has the law to command me
to catch slave? Suppose he is property
/ Am bound TO hunt aud capture your horses
and pigs You ask mc TO do il, and may,
| but yon command me and | refuse. But
| when ! am commanded to seize man to
drag him into slavery, would suffer thou
/ sand deaths before | would do il. | will not
/ submit to slavery nor help enslayo others
/ Should any scoundrel kidnupper invade my
! home to drag my wife and daughters away
TO the doom Of the slaye-womun, would re-
| sist him to the hist extremity. lwould kill
him MS a religious duty. | might not resist
| i'it was only to carry them in Austrian des-
potsm or Russian scrlagc, but rather than he
should carry them into the horrors and pol
lut0us Of American slavery | would blow
ont his brnius, and so would you, every man
Of you. Nou all look as If you would do It,
in spite OF commissioners, Judges, and the
threat Of treason. | am not Turk, nor
| blood-ihjrsly, nor do | counsel any orgnni-
zcd resistance to the law, but believe that |
| violate the law of God when ! suffer myself
to be dragged into slavery without using all
| the means nc has given me 10 resist il.
Mr.. a. then read the account of the rescue
aud liberation of the slave Jerry by the peo-
| pie OF Syracuse, aud expressed his pleasure
| at the act, aud especially ut the refusal of the
/ soldiers to serve in defending the slave catch
! crS. The men who made that rescue, he
said were the men TO support gocI laws.
| lie reviewed the iscis in the Chrieiiuna
! Hiiruy, and snid hc was sorry for the death of
| Gorsuch, for man whose heart was filled
with Tyranny, who had come to slaughter
others, was not prepared 20 dic-to meet his
| Gci. But he would have been more sorry
had the s!avc-caichcrs got Parker aud Pincl(-
ney and those other brave men, and carried
them back into slavery. Those colored men
were only following the example OF Wash
ington and the American heroes of'76.
But the American Government, before it
talks of hanging any one in such n cause,
should do great many other things. 1t
should ohlitcrn,c its Declaration of lndepcnd-
Cuce burn its history and its school books
filed with the fiery eloquence Of Chatham,
Burke, Sydney, Emmett, aud even Webster
! ns lao fttD Dlyp,ptti R Rt,,.L ,p.l nj RupLs
| Hill hang every school master aud Chris
tnn teachers tumble down and grind to
( powder every revolutionary monument, for.
! forget the example and desecratc the Dnne
of Washington.
Oliver Johnson remarked TINT he had becn ]
informed by II distinguished member of the
last Congress, MAT Daniel Websters most
intimate iiend-lis man Friday, Mr.. Ash /
mun--.lad come TO him privately, and put .
into his hand n SYNOPSIS of speech in the
hand writing of Mr.. Webster. II was an an
ii slavery speech. 1t was placed in the hands I
of the member from Ohio, for the purpose of
elieil!ng from him his opinion as to whether I
it would he satisfactory to the anti-sGvery
porlion of the country The member allu-
ded to took great interest in the matter
took the manuscript TO his rOom-read il
over aitentlvey, aud returned II with few
suggestions to make some very slight nllcra-
tious, hut not Of the principles. 1t was sta
ted hy Mr.. Webster, that he only waited for
a good opportunity TO deliver the speech be-
fore the country. And this report of Mr..
WCbster's :nieLtiOu wGs circulated among
members of Congress, 0uh gave great salts
faction TO many. But, after this fact became
known, committee waited upon Mr.. Web
stcr, among whom were Mr.. Stephens and
Mr.. Toomhs of Georgia, and they presented
such arguments to him rs to induce him TO
change his mind OH the subject. And this
convention knew what sort of n speech lo
made Oh the 9Th of March, 1850. This show
ed his treachery to freedom To he deliberate.
Mr.. J. dissented from the sentiments in iil-
vor of yiOlcnce uyOwcd by Mr. Aron and
remarked that while the anti-slavery plat
form is open 10 all persons, the Society is
not responsible for their opinions. BY its
constitution, its resolution and uniform ac-
lion, il hnd ever discouraged n resort to vio-
lence, and n coHnselled reliance upon truth
and moral power
could not, said Mr. J., while listening to
our friend, but ask myself is that the tone in
| which Jesus would have spoken? Had
these been the words lie uttered on the
Mount Of Olives, ly the seaside and on Cnl-
vary, should we revere him 0s we now do p
| NAT men WHO DcleNe III NlOlcncc SUOulu uct
MS they did AT Chrisinna and Syracuse, was
! to be expected aud they who gloriiy the pa
triots ofthe Revolution can find no fault with
them. Bpr our weapons are only the mild
arms Of truth and love, weapons miglilcr far
than sword or bayonet, Perseverance, in the
use Of these must bring us success.
Mary Grew, said tlnt as this was the most
important resolulion,-it placed MS in atago-
nism To the law of the land, aud such po-
| silion was not to be Tashly assumed. We
have considered it well, and wish il te he
dislincily understood that VIC shnll not obey
this law We have been met with all kinds
| Of opposition, and now our opponents couic
with the hast argument Of tyranny, saying,
"knUw We not that we have power 10 hang
yo" May our answer be, "know ye not
that we have power TO RE hanged, and scorn
yc;" or, better and higher still, ''to be han
ged aud forgive ye." But in this conflict, our