Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-17
Protection 10 Personal Freedom.

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giving protection to personal freedom. A mere
show il Is, as thc unfortunate Sims and the
fugitive Shadrach can testify. 1t is however a
show which few politicians out of Massachu-
setts choose to make. But VIC arc hopeful,
and expect tho time when Massachusetts will
extend real protection, and some other states
will begin to make show. As an indication
Of this good time coming, VIC have PROPOSE
ton, which has been made in the Senate Of
Massachusetts,, proposing to appoint Commits
sioncrs, in the several counties to defend alleged
fugitive slaves and also to extend the Trial of
Jury tosu.l persons Whether the legislature
will have ,o.l enough to pass it, remains to be
seen. W, don't expect they will. The presi-
dental election Is too near Justice and Liberty
must have no practical support till that is over,
though it will be found necessary to talk very
loud in their favor, in some localities.
The Essex Frcomcn, speaks out spiritcdly in
its favor 1t says:
1t is getting TO he doubtful whether citi-
zenship in Massachusetts is worth n rush as
/ a protection against the barbarians of The
| slave states. Whnt with the sale of native
! Bostouiuns ut auction in Texas, and the in-
famous return of Sims, it is very obvious
that to citizens of an unconstitutional col
! or, " our stnte sovereignty is valuelcss. 1t
has long been true that not even ULite citi-
zens are safe beyond Mason and Dixon's
line, unless their opinions on slavery are Of
the kind tolerated in that region.
Ii is quite time for our State Legislature
to take these outrngcs under notice, and tic
eide, like men and not sheep, whether Mns-
sachuseus men eau be protected 10y their
native State in the exercise OF the common
rights of humanity. Ii professional Man
Hunters can enter our territory. aud run of
tree born citZens-or those not free born
| to slavery, without trial, aud if every col
! orcd seaman who happens to he landed in II
| Southern port, is liable TO be seized aud cast
into prison, or sold at public auction, then
we are, indeed, miserable cravens, if we do
not resist and refuse 10 be thus kicked aud
cuilrd about.
Don't misunderstood US in what we have
written above. While we rejoice that politi-
ciats arc disposed to give those who may be
claimed as Slaves, u chance to escape, by means
Of Jury Tria! or otherwise; we arc decided
ly opposed to exposing them to any danger of
slavery, by any trial, whatsoever. We give
no consent whatever to the subjection Of any
| innocent mans liberty to trial, ty Bomb
Marshal, Commissioner Judge, or Jury Such
: icquisiton is a concession of the Slave holders
right of property, surrender, that should
never be made, except as the purse or life il
surrendered to the highwoy-man.
We hear men who pour out indignation and
snathcmas, without stint upon tho fugitive
save law, and It's Infamous execution, rcgrctting,
that VIC had not less outrageous law-and a
respectable magistracy to administer it. Even
the New York Tribune, minglcs with its denun-
Citations Of the Preston outragcs, its wailings
that we have not in place of the present law
aT1rdins Jury trial. Itsays;
"lIcrcaltcr it will be IN vain for Mr.. Webster
or any other apologist for the Act, to say, that
the Magstracy It creates is most respectable
> and reliable and the investigation it provides
as good as Trial by Jury. All if the Massa.
chusetts Senator had only stood by his frs
convictions, and secured a fugitive slave BILL
Since one VIC must havc,--with such trial, as
ono Of its features. What trouble and what
: disgrace, the country would then have beer
spared"
Just as though men or station or forms
could make kidnapping honorable or right No
At is best as it is. 1t is fitting that where tho
principle of justice is contemned and outraged
its time honorcd forms should be also tramplet
in the dust. The sooner will men learn wha
they have lost, and return both to the form ant
the principle, Slavery in the guise of respcc
, liability, liberty aud justice, is more to b.
dreaded, than when she appears in her NATIVE
deformity.
How has slavery obtained the ascendenc,
over this nation; How, but by adopting tn
: cant phrasoology, assuming the forms, an
clothing herself in the habiliments of freedom
= The commerce of the land has ovorshadowo
her with its wealth. The legislature of tn
land, has clothed her with its power. Tn
president has crowned her with his patronage
The judiciary has defended her with its veners
/, bic forms and around them all, the pulp
,f has thrown the halo Of its Divinity. There
90 fore it is, that this people have put darkne'
for light and slavery for freedom. No, ava
- with all this triekery to blind and deceive.
10 VIC must have slavery, let us have her as 81
:, is. LIST US look, not upon the external of Il
beautifully adorned temple of freedom, whic
sho has made her scpulchre; but upon Il
y "lead mems bones and all uncleanliness" whiC
arc her truo forms and representatives al
. which she would fain conceal.
"Since fugitive law we must have, '-let
preserve the fitness of things-and have OF
/, as ug!y as the object it contemplatcs Tho
g rampant, raging, slave holders at the sou'
/, who have forced tho fugitive law upon US, al
!, ,rhn nrnss its oxeontion with all the horr