Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-02
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

Even in the above mentioned paragraph, Mr..
Mann shows his heedlessness or insufficient in
formation. He deliberately enumerates the
compass, and twice asserts that those he names
are the only ones ever attempted. Yet, not to
mention the sanctity Of the public mail rifed
by slaveholding committees, and other smaller
matters, we do not find in his list the abolition
Of the Internal Slave Trade,-a subject on
which We have petitioned Congress for years,
and ono which every abolitionist till within q
few years, and almost every one now deems to
be within the legislative control oil Congress -
Neither do we find in his list the abolition of
the ffths slave basis of Representation, -
question on which Adams and GIddings have
given us the ablcst State paper ever written on
political nti.slavery, allude to their Report
to the House of Representatives in the year
1874 This has been an aim Of every political
movement against slavery, from the Hartford
Convention, in 1914, down to the organization
of the Free Soil party, which adopted and ably
argued il at first. Could Mr.. Mann find no
place, in his list, for that one bright spot in
Northern craftsmanship, the sunset glory Of old
Federalism, Rufus Kings movement In the
Senate of the United States, for the abolition
of Slavery itselii 1 beg, for the honor of the
North, that he will inform himself better, be-
fore he undertakes again to recount its anti
slavery history.
We come now to the question of Free Soil
ers swearing to support a Constitution which
orders the return of fugitive slaves. And here
Mr.. Mann, as is usually the case with his
friends, becomes confused ana obscure. /
asked him the plain and direct question, whcth.
er he held that the Constitution did order such
return. This question he has not anspered But
infer, from the general tenor of his letter and
argument that he now holds, as he always has
donc that the Constitution docs so order, and
that Free Sellers generally agree with him.
This being promised, let us see what he says,
in his first letter, of this Constitutional oath:-
i know Of no Free Soiler who has ever felt
any trouble on that score, or has ever been
"slow to meet the question" And this, for
Me simple reason that TOE sicedy 10 support The
Consultation Of The United States, because, pifh
our Interpretation Of IL, H requires as TO do moth
ing IN violation Of the Higher Laio Of God
Why insert the phrase, 'pih Our iiterpreta-
tion Of 10, since it now appears that their inter-
probation is the common one? 1t misled me,
confess, into supposing that Mr.. Mann had
adopted Mr.. Lysander Spooncrs view. 1t
seems he had not, and the words are superfu-
Gus. But call the attention of the anti -slav-
cry public to the sentence above, in italics
Mnrk-he says he knows of NO FREE SonRR.'
This includes the Free Soil voter, the Free Soil
Representative, the Free Soil Senator, the Free
Soil candidate for President. That Free Soil
voter is liable, at any time, to be called by the
United States marshal to help him capture fu-
gitvc slaves or If, as some think, that duty
belon,,s to the States, the State sheriff may call
on him for the same purpose; and the voter
being in some States under an express, and in
ALL under an implied oath to the Constitution,
is legally bound to obey. That Free Soil Rep
ressntative, in his place in Congress, votes to
pay the marshal, who has done that service to
the State, and the Judge who issued the pre-
cept. The Free Soil Senator is one who ap-
points Judges for that purpose. The Free Soil
candidate for the Presidency, when he accepts
the nomination, avows that he is ready to
take the Office of appointing such Judges and
such marshals, and of executing, with the
whole military power OF the nation, that clause
of the Constitution, If it be opposed. Mark,
a.. 10 Ia ..,la Qs
they intend actually to do these deeds. Mr..
Mann cannot deny that these are deeds which
the Constitution requires them to do. Now
Mr.. Horace Mann tells us, that all these per-
sons find ne difficulty lin swearing to support
the Constitution, because, with their interpre-
tation Of it, which is the usual one, 1T REQUIRES
THEM TO DO NOTHING IN VIOLATION OF THE Hon.
Err LAW OF Con-
call on the whole North and the whole
South to get this confession by heart, and fling
it in the face of every Free Soiler who shall
hereafter undertake to talk of the san of return
ing slaves into bondage.
Again, after some distinctions about his own
oath, which shall presently notice, Mr.. Mann
says, IN his last letter
Il swear as Member of the House OF Rep
resentatives not as United States Marshal or
foul Fugitive Slave Law Commissioner. When
Free Soilers are found taking an oath which
shall oblige them TO return fugitive slaves, then
let them be blasted with tho swiftest lightning
Last fall, Mr.. Mann voted, l presume, for
John p. Hale for President. It matters not to
the responsibility Of voter, whether his can
didate be elected or not He does all he can
to elect him, by giving him his vote. At the
same time, Mr.. Mann himself consented to re-
ceivo the votes of his party for the Office OF
Governor of Massachusetts. Now, if the Su-
preme Court is right Mr.. Hale, if elected
President, would have been bound to appoint
Marshals to execute the slave surrender clause,
and N axacuta n himaalf if n xyara rasiatad -