Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-09
From The Boston Correspondent

From The Boston Correspondent
or THE ANTI SLAVERY STANDARD.
TmR AnouMgSr.- The Correspondent rebutes Me
Editors az accessories 10 Suicide.--He hoideh
on to his incognito.-He Wustrateth by figure
Of a kcttle.--Mr. Mann on tic three mn basis.
On Iasuyrect,ons.-- On the meaning of terms.
His Morality. - The Correspondent congratu-
hateth the Buckeyes Mr. Mann and Time.
Ills Ldto.- Our miStatesmaniiko conduct
Mr.. Mann and Jo5.-Sudden Conrersion.-
! Creased Lightning - The Doctrine Of Rcpen-
tance.-- The Correspondent gieeth Mr.. Mann
and the Free Soiicrs the best Of adeice.-He
6iesSeth them aud eonclHdeth, &C., SC,
Bosrox, June 2Sth, 1853.
sRR you published Mr.. Mann's letter of
June Sd, in your last Number so suppose you
irtend to give your readers his Second one,
giving his views on the Constitution in regard
to Slavery. Isn't il n funny production If
lac hadn't asked you to ohlige him with beam
| in your garret on which to fastcn this rope with
which he proposes to hang himself, l should
think you fairly paniceps cri,ndtis. And l am
not quito sure that you are not accessories, after
the fact, to the violence he has done himself.
am not going to answer him. Not at nll. For
l should bo obliged, according to his request,
when he (virtually) begged us to let him alone.
to reuounce that mcognito in which have
shroudcd myself for so many years. / should
have to disperso that profound mystery which
has brooded over my personal identity, and to
stand forth under my own name. This is more
than am willing to do. SO 1 shall not reply
to him. but only make such rambling remarks
upon his letter as occur to me as l write.
Mr.. Mann, l am told, has been a LAWYER,
practising at Dcdham, shire town, chiefly
celebrated for having produced Fisher Ames
and for being the residence of your Correspond
ing Elitor, for whom, Gas such) feel degree
Of regard, in spite of his unprinciped attempts,
from timo to time, to ilch from me tho credit
Of my letters. Well, Mr.. Mann having been
lawyer, wonder whether he was not the one
man was sued for breaking borrowed kettle,
viz l, He never borrowed the kettle; 2, 1t
was broken when he took it ; 8. II was whole
he returned it. ! think he must have been, for
don't believe any other lawyer could have
made this plea for the Constitution; viz, l, the
all Q, 1t was SO cracked from the beginning
! that it was useless as a proslavery kettle; and
3, 1t has been, or will shorlybc, so mended by
lapse of time, that best of tinkcrs, as to become
a sound Anti. Slavery kettle, fit for any honest
man to cook his dinner in, either at Washington
or in Massachusetts,.
Mr. Mann's doctrine on the three fifth Clause
is of the same calibro. "It rule of disabil-
ity," saith he, for the disadvantage of the South
OF the South, certainly; but is it of the Slare-
hoidepl His argument is this ; Ajs allowed
four votes on condition that he steals Eve of his
neighbours and keeps them in chains, and Mr.
Mann cannot see that this is any temptation to
A to keep on stealing, because, if the Ave neigh
bours hadn't been stolen, they and 4 together
would have had sir votes The South, of course
is weak cned by the three fifth basis. 1t is thu
Shareholders, the dominant minority at the South
that il strengthens. l wonder whether Mr.
Mann is going to instruct the ingenious you'll
of Ohio, or of Antioch, in Logic.
His views on the obligations imposed by thu
Constitution to put down Slave Instructions
arc equally original and profound. Nothing
is more untenable," snys Mr.. Mann, ethan the
doctrine that an oath to support it requires q
member of Congress to exercise the power CIV
en- him for that purpose" "H isa porer gisen,
not duty elyoined." Thus saith Mr.. Manu.
; But what saith the Constitution "The Unit
ed States SHALL GUARANTEE to every State q
Republican form of Government; shall protect
them against invasion; and, or APPLICATION OF
THE LEGISLATURE (oR EXECUTIVE, WHEN THf
LEGISLATURE CANNOT BE coNvESRD), AGAIsA1
! DOMESTIC yIoLENcE !" If that Legislature ol
Executive, happen to be Shareholders, is no
their application to be answered Has MIR
Mann ever read the Constitution 1t seem
hardly possible to account for the stupendou
intrepedity of some Of his statements on TN
hypothesis that be ever has. / wonder whethe
MIR. Mann is to enlishten the rising generation
at Antioch in Constitutional Law.
Mr.. Mann Is Eood snoagh to inform u.s. sub
stantiaily, that tho ,eor, u tho Fugitive siaV
Clause do not, legally Interpreted. mean siave'
r Mr.. Mann was for ssversl years the hoad
5 Schoolmastors Of Massachusetts, and, - shortly
: I believe, to renew his connection with IN
/. honourable business Of Education. 1t Is ne
4 unnatural, therefore, that no should claim ID
o privilege Of his tribe, which excuses Sshool