Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-10
WASHINGTON MaUERRY HANDED OVER
TO THE TORMENTORS BY JUDGE M'LEAN.

Yts, another tictini-a helpless, hapless victim
has been thrown to the remOrseless jaws OF man
devourng and soul-kiling slavery; and this, by.
Chief Judge or Justice of the United States. The
contemplation of such act of ddinhdblc atrocity
suggests the inquiry, :" Is THEhk A GuD OF JUSTICE
PRESIDING IN rus UNIvERsEW Why IS 1T, now Is
1T, that man, in cold blood solemnly talking about
good faith" "Orgdnic tdtc, The sfd6ttuy Of IN
sfitions" "humdn liberty and progress, can, acting
rs the representative Of justice, seize unohcndng
man. and doom him to fate more intolerablc than
death Can such deeds of shocking inhumanity
be pcrperated without calling forth the extermi-
mating thunders Of God Almighty? Can nation
like this reach forth its bloody hands with any hope
of mercyG Surely, prosperity cannot long crown
such deeds of hell-cOnceiyed iniquity.
| We have read the decision of JUDGE MCLEAN, in
this case, with shudder, Humanity shrinks back
in horror from the deep depravity and corruption
which this decision reveals. Judicial rottenness is
stamped upon II from beginning to end. What this
| speaking erH Of dtgniies" may bring upon usi we
know not and are not careful TO inquire. All that
is left is speech there Is no help in tsi We are
ut the mercy of mercicss judges; sold and bound
to slavery. We can only cry dIoud and spare NOT
until, pcrchance, God in His mercy shall arisr and
soften the hearts of our Republican PhdTdohs OF
ovcrwhelm them with his judgements.
We are not in n mood to argue against this de
cison or to analyzc it. The thought that freeman
has been consigned to slavery, moves the bl0Ou toe
rapidly and effects the heart too painfully, for mi
mute criticism or augmentation a deed OF great
wickedness has been done, and in of the highest
places in the nation done, too we believe, not
without n realizing sense Of its wickedncss by the
door, for even he said, before he could do the dam
ming deed: "OccupyiHy The sacred office Of JUDGE
I hare no right here 10 indulge my ympdthies; 4
'coHid hare been gratifying 10 hare .found that ms
detcndom rds a fireman. instead Qf a Stare" Oh
| yes eren in the dark bosom of JUDGE MCLEAN
there was something to silence, before he could
nerve himself up to the preparation OF 80 great a
wrong. His "sympdthies," he might have added
his judgement, his reason, his moral sense as man
his own human origin, his responsibility to God
must he put out Of sight, in order to a compliance
with the demand Just then made upon him by the
slave power. lie had no more business to send
poor MCQuERRY into bondage, than he had to send
his own son into bondage. BY nature, by the laws
of God, by the fundamental principles of human
law THE BLACK McQUERRY was as justly entitled t0
his freedom as is the WHITE MCLBAN and the latter
0reo" as much "Scrrice" to the Kentucky kidnap-
per rs the former, NO MORE. But he does it "as a
Judge" This is confession. AS man, his SYM
pathies would not allow him tn do deed so unjust
and cruel. Does the judicial Office require this
selfabandonment? Then the government itself
ought to be abandoned. Judge Mclean ought ia
have given up his Office, rather than this man.
! Such an example of loyalty to conscience and Ia
! God, would have sent his name down to posterity
/ in blaze Of glory, and made his memory imperish-
able Now his name is covered with infamy, and
like that of the wicked his memory shall rot. II
he meant to proptatc shareholders by this decision
he will bc disappointed. They will never trust him
Viewed in any light, he has forever done for Him
self and the world has no further for him, but
to cxecrate him.. Douglass Paper.