Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-23

or the executive for the legislative depart
ments think such an idea was never
bronched before.
But, inquiries Mr. Phillips, if one who
takes the oath to support the Constitution
should he blasted with the swiftest light.
ning,' how swift ought the lightning TO he
for me, if voted for Mr.. John p. Hale foI
President, last fall, or consented that any
friend of mine should vote for me for Gov.
ernor?
First, do not men vote for others, or con.
sent to lie voted for themselves, nt every
election, merely rs n rallying point for the
expression of principles, when they would
not do either, it there was any expectation
of their being chosen? Il that q sufficient
offence for which to call down lghtnings !?
Is il any offence at all, und uot merit
rather?
Again, suppose one should be elected, eli
ther ms President of tie United Stntes, or MS
Governor Of Massachusetts, what chance is
there that he will he called upou TO do any
co isiiimioudi act for tic return of fugitive
slaves? For sixty.four years past, neither
the President of the United States nor any
Governor of Massachusetts has ever been
called upon 10 perform such duty; aud
there is much better chance for the next
sixty-four years than for the last. | think
no Governor of this State will ever issue his
warrant for the return of fugitive slave,
who has not had trial 10y jury; and prob
ably slavery itself will he blasted hy the
Lord, before such jury trial will he granted
by Congress. The danger, therefore, is at
the very vanishing point.
But still further, suppose an indefinite
number of highly improbable, or impossible
conditions suppose Fugitive Slave Law
To. l,.., .I.
pose cnsc legitinately within its purvicw
TO nrise, and even suppose jury 10 find the
dreadful verdict of slave could not the
Governor buy him and emnncipate him, aud
thus escape any conflict with the Higher
! Law? Or, in the last resort, could lac not
do ns Mr.. Phillips himself has done,-iear
| up his commission, aud retire To his oiium
cum digniidtc, ut home? llns Mr. Phillips
any right to complain, if others follow him
through his own hole?
Let us see how much better he succeeds
with his next drgumenium dd hominem aud
that hc may present his own case, | quote
him again:
If for the last two yenrs, Mr.. Mann has
voted for the usual bills approprniing money
for the expenses of government, he has yot-
ed to pay Marshal Devcns for carrying
| Thomns Sims from Boston back to Georgia,
aud TO pay the salaries of Peleg Sprnguc
and Is. X. Curtis, who tried Elzur Wright
! aud other alleged rescIIers of Shadracli. IL
he has ever voted for an appropriation bill,
during his whole Congressional life, lie has
voted 10 pny the salary of one Judge Me-
Lean, II Western miscrennf, who is rarely
heard of except MS sending hack some hap
less fugitive, or fining, into absolute poverty,
some Christian who has helped the wander
er. Whether it is more honorable to return
slaves ones SELF or 10 pay other men for
doing it, Mr.. Mann can decide at his leisure.
The old saw. Qm facii per alum, ficii per Sc,
hold TO be good logic aud good Latin, &C.
will not deny that have voted for an
appropriation bill within two years but GER
tninly never voted tor one, believing that
any Marshal or Judge had any more legal
right 10 seize aud carry away Thomas Sims,
or 10 do any other net under our Fugitive
Slave laws, than they had to adopt, as good
law, the celebrated telcgraplc message scnt
to Mr.. Webster, and to hang Mr.. Phillips for
! high treason. Nor do consider myself any
more accountable for their unconstitutional
proceedings in tie Sims case, lan | should
had they sentenced Mr.. Phillips TO he drawn
aud quartered. II responsibility is TO lie
extended and difiiIsed in such n way, no
man can live in society for day without
ncurring daInning guilt. ! do my duty, in
my office, on my responsibility; others must
do theirs, on their responsibility.
But suppose the Appropriation Bill passed,
aud by my vote. That Bill would certainly
not he worth the parchment il was engrosscd
on, if there had been no money in the treas
nry to draw for. With an empty treasury,
its passage would have been hut an attempt
.l,I N. "A
Phillips pay some of his money into that
treasury? Did lIe not pay it voluntarily and
without protest? Have not Judges Curtis
aud Sprague, aud that Western miscreani,'
Judge Mclean, 90; some of Mr.. Philips's
money in their pockets to-day? Ay, and
Marshal Devens, TOO! And did not MIR.
Phillips even pay part of that Infamous
debt of s:}500, incurred by the city of Bos-
ton, for imprsoning Sims, and paying SOL
diers to rob him of his liberty? The very
cnins that festooned the Court House
didn't his money 90 TO put them there, and
didn't they syllable his name ms they clamk-
ed? On that nccursed morning, when an
armed band drove down the innocent, help
less victim, TO almost the very spot where
our ancestors revoked aud annulled The tea
duty, hut where their degenerate descend
ants paid duty in bones anl blood,-there,
in sight of Bunker Hill, 10y Faneuil Hall, rs
il were in the very presence ot noble rev0-
lutionary efigies, which all the while ran
blood,'-llere, ! say, was not Mr.. Phillips
present in more senses than one Ills
money, voluntarily paid, was perpetrating
the deed Nay, lac embarked with Sims on
board the foul Acorn,
Built i III eclipse, and rugged with curses
dark
he spread its snis--he sieered its COURSE
he landed at Savannnh--le saw his victim
l,olted in the noisesome Jail. Mr.. Phllips's
money did all this. 'Wheiher,' snys he, in
the above quotation, I'll is more honorable 10
return slapes ones SELF or TO PAY OTHER MEN