Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-10
From I. Douglass Paper.
Letter from Judge Jay TO Gerrit Snlilh.

We nre permitted to print the following
admirable letter. Such words from such d
source cannot fail of most happy effect.
New IORK, Dec. 5, 1851.
My DEAR SIR 81 thank you for sending
me your letter TO Mr.. J. e. Spencer. have
read il with delight. The castigation is most
richly meried, aud you administer il with
so much skill aud with such obvious Justice,
MS not 10 excite u particle of sympathy for
the victim you are torturing. hope you do
not mean to cOnhne your letter to your
printed circulars. Let The daily press spread
it abroad. j wish our cotton parsons OF the
Episcopal Church who, under MIR. Spenccr's
leadership, hnye, for some years past, been
engaged in building up the barriers of caste
III the church Of Christ, to have the benefit OF
your epistle.
This accHrsed fugitive law is Scoundrelizing
our people. Cruelty and injustice arc cult
waited as virtues. Christian love aud sym
pathy for human suffering are treated us
prejudices to be conquered, aud zeal in hunt
rug slaves made the test of patriotism aud
OF fitness for office. But the most dinboical
effect of the law is the competition it has eX-
cited among our politicians, To offer the
BLOOD of their fellow. citizens in exchange for
o'NhSlu NpA'cs HdNt ItuN > uC-
count of the atrocities of Ncapoitan despot-
ism; but that despolism is in principle just,
and merciful, and righteous, compared with
she effort how making iu Philadelphia, uu,ler
Ihe auspicesof Webster aud Fillmore, TO con-
demn iosty men TO the gibbct for rcscuing an
jnDocent man from a life of bondage
Think OF hanging man ioi telling another
ihat there is warrant for his apprehension
us slave! Think Of proicsscd republicans
putting men TO death for refusing to aid in
reducing fellow-nlnn, gultlcss of crime, TO
The condition of u beast Of burden Neither
Naples nor Austria is conscious of such an
enormity-an enormiiy aggravated 10y the
infamous lie, that these men had levied WAR
against the United States. Ii the Union can
lie saved only by Judicial falsehood aud
butchery, surely it is II sin to save it,
Let us be of good courage. We may yet
be called 10 testify our faith in Christ 10y sut.
iering lOl him. Let us expect aud prepare for
persecution. Better be hung now hy the
Whigs us traitors, ihnn he condemned here
after nt the bar of God MS save-catchers.
Have you noticed the assertion in the
Presidents Message: "The act OF Congress
for tie return OF fugitivcs from labor, is
one required and demanded by the express
words of the constitution" The mcndaciIy
OF this is nearly equal with that of the ia
nous discovery that Asiatic scenery aud the
law of the enrIh's formation, rendered slave
ry in any portion of the vast regions of New
Mexico and California, physical impOssi-
bility! II the constitution requires aud de-
mnnds that an alleged fugitive shall not have
n jury trial, then Mr.. Filmore's "guide phi
philosopher and irieud," 10y proposing to al
low such trial, proposed an outrage on the
constitution. If all the novel aud peculiar
denominations Of this fugitive net nre "re-
quired and demanded" by the constitution,
then has that instrument been grossly viola
ted, from its adoption till the hour when
hlillnrd Fillmore attached his name to II law
which is reproaGh TO the civilization and
christianity of the nineteenth century.
You and !, my dear sir, have nearly finished
our course, and will ere long, he summoned
10 account for the deeds done in The body,
before Him who is no respector of persons,
and whose judgement will he unswayed by
the pandiis or reproaehes we may have re-
eeiyed from our fellow men. God grant that
we may Then be found TO have reverenccd aud
obeyed that Higher Law, which, however, de-
rlded on earth, has its sanctions in the Joys
Of Heaven and the pains of He'll
Yours truly,
GFRat7. SNfru Eso