Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-30
5 T II Il B i G l. L J..
ThG Higher Law.


Tile Jerry Rescue celebration called ioril
some very radical sentiments from dstn
g,,ished ncn who re invited to he present
So far us tho fugitive law goes, they avov
distinctly the notification dociriue which
should be ncu!cated aud enforced in regard
to slnvery-the only true measure hy wiiicI
we eau hope to succeed against it. We shoud
he glad to publish the letters entire, did oui
limits permit. We can only give extracts.
FROM SENATOR CnAsr. In re-
sj,ect to the Fugitive Slave Act itself. how
ever, haze no ohieciions to express my upiti-
ions. Indeed, they lave been ircei, occar-
ell, and so often, in the Seilaic of the United
States, nnd before the people, that it is hard
ly necessary To repeat them here. | have
never doubted that ,lisnct was in It's enact
ment, Il clear usurpation Of power not dele
gated hy tho Constitution, o' tltni it is. ia IT'S
details, c0nspicolisy in conflict with lis most
sacred guarantees; nor have ! ever doubted
that its provisions are utterly rfcconsienhle
with the precepts of natural justice aud re-
venled religion. therefore hold it no law /;
and rejoice in the esrape of any n,nn seized
under il, as the Triumph of Right over
the Constitution over InIquiiy framed hy law.
FRoM SAMUEL LEWIS. Thank
God, the better day coming las already
dawned, aud notes of ey,illn;ion hrgin to feat
over some free spots on onr earth. You ask
for some expression of synipnily from me.
Why. nyle;r sir, no il0i4.oi i.iAssmpald ad
equately describe my sympathy instlir rescue
OF one free nInn from the iungs of slavery.
I'll, h.,. Ia,
her repcnIiug. sursly no man or woman who
hopes ever 10 make one OF ilint heavenly
company. can fail 10 rejoice that Jerry aas
RESCUED, body aud SOU, from torture aud
cr,ielt, more severe than any other L,rd Gn
Gods green earth would tolerate. Il law us
cruel ms oiir Fugitive Act, and The slavery
that it doonis men aud women 10. would
warm The cold ,l-honded German, uni! il would
melt AWAY the crown OF Prussia. or Amsirin,
or any other prince,iom in the iaiher land;
aud now, here, ii it were King that eniorc-
ed such laws, there would b. a roheliou in
an hour; but in goycrnieut prorssedly
free, party influences, aud II blind devotion
to miscaiied conservatism, holds back the
generous emotion Of millions. who do not.
vet sre their personal relations 10 those lea-
ven daring crimes.
FFoM CHARLES Frances ADAMS. *-s
1t is bad sign Tor country, WHEN numbers
of virtuous aud respectable citizens feel jas
titled in rejoicing that a law has been success
fully resisted. Terrible is the responsibility
resting upon those who raise conflict he
tween the moral sense and csi obligations,
by which such a result has heeu u,,aincd.--
Theirs is the fault, if we are obliged 10 re-
joice that tyranny, in whatever smpr il mny
appear, has been ioied in its prey. 1t Ger
tniuly cannot hc the fault of those who, so
far from desiring any such scenes us the
rescue of Jerry, would gladly see IleasureS
adopted to prevent any possibility oi their
recurrence. Living in the hope that The time
il not long distant when the people OF the
Free States mHy, by the concession Of sla-
very, he spared The scandal oi iIrth er snci
attempts.
FROM Ricu. HILpRETH. (rHE HlsronIANl.
Some OF the newspapers seem TO
he very much alarmed ut the idea o.. your
celebration us if it were purely an anli-legnl
aud anarchicnl proceeding. should advise
those gentlemen to study atentlvely the IA
BILE of the ass in the skin OF the l!on. Nilh
oil due Difference To superior wisdom, II
seems TO me that II walt is none The less
wolf for being dressed oui in slIeep's cloth
ing, hut only the more detestable when at
Tempting To creep INTO the fold under such n
disguise. The most dangerous usnrpnIiuns
are those which are attempted under The
forms of law; nor is it by Submitting to them,
but by resisting their execution in the out
set, that rights are to be preserved. So
America Thought in the days of the Stamp
Act, SO thought the Patriots who destroyed
the tea nor do ! doubt that the resc,iers of
Jerry acted on the same principle or under
the same instinct.
FRoM JoHN g. WHITTIER. ]
can only say that my heartiest synpathies
are with you-that thank you from my
heart for your heroic stand against the most
hateful and hideons niquiy which was ever
framed by law. God bless you for it May
your example be every where Initiated until
it becomes n demonstrated fact, that the
higher law of Christianity, and not the lower
law of Atheism is paramount in the land.
FRoM ELIzuR Gentlemen Be
assured of all the celebrations in this ce'e-
brating age, l most cordially honor that
which commentaries deliberate and sue
cessful resistance of the Fugitive Slave Law.
There Inuy be unwise laws-I could name