Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-18
From the New York Tribune.
The Right OF The Slave Case.


The Southern journals continue the dis
cusson of the late Slave Case, and utterly
refuse to receive the liberal payment TO Lem
mon as any sort of satisfaction for the wrong
they consider their section TO have suffered
in the decision of Judge Paine that slaves
brought here OH their way from one Slave
State TO another become free from the mo-
ment their feet first press our soil. Some Of
the less temperate among them threaten re-
prisals; the more moderate appeal to the
Federal Courts and our State Legislature for
redress We suspect they will get little from
either.
But hav'nt we n right to transport our
property through Newly orkP they mdig-
nantly ask. We amswer--That depends al
together on what sort Of property il is. II il
consisted of obscene books or prints, ou law
would confiscate il, though yoUs might not ;
il il consisted of implements of gaming, the
same discrepancy might exists or if il wds
Rum, and we had the Maine law in force, il
might forbid your bringing liquor here and
you must obey or take the Consequences.
Gentlemen you understand this question
better than you would have us think. Sup
pose n New-Yorker were to print One Mil
lion Dollars worth of sediious aud blood
thirsty appeals to the Southern Slaves to rise
aud cut their masters tllroats, they would all
he property under our laws, aud every body
here must respect them as such. But suppose
he had got them ns far as Richmond on their
way further South, aud your laws should
pronounce all such appeals couirabnnd and
no property ut aldo you suppose the own.
ncr could preserve them by pleading his right
Of property an .NeW York? No, Sirs! il
would'ut avail him for an instant. lie would
be allowed oil the rights OF a Virgiuan deal
ing IN The same si0ek-wllich would not be q
great deal.
Or suppose some cannibal clief were to
land at Norfolk with his Slaves, captured in
savage warfare, mud in pnrt constituting hi'
haren nlsO-and they were 10 escape from
him and throw themselves OH their reserved
rights-have you any law TO force them hnct
into Slavery? No, gentlemen, you kno"
you lave not
"A friend argues the case rather pun
| gently in the following article, but we wish Il
to be considered carefully, so we give him
hearing-as follows:
THAT ALTERS THE CASE, MR.. COTTON.
Vermont is a mountainous State-iull o
glens, caves and crevices IA convenient
| place Tor biding stolen property SuPP"su
then, that many years back, before Vermont
was State, the rough sud rugged descend
ants of Ethan Allen aud Seth Warner, ilnd
ing il cheaper TO steal horses than 10 buy
them, had entered pretty largely into the
business, ioraging freely from the honcs
farmers of Massachusetts, Connecticut nnd
New York very soon the Vermonlers have
n large supply of stolen horses, aud moJor'
ity OF the mountaineers soon become deeply
interested in the business-some in the steal
ing, others in the buying and Specializing II
horses, knowing them 10 be stolen property
Well, time and rascality advance. Yer
mont is about to he organized into State
A Constitution aud Code Of Laws are to D'
framed; the horse-lbeves are in the MAJOR
ty; they control the forming of the CohsII
tuition aud tie Legislature; the former re
cognizes the right to hold stolen horses