Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-10-05

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The yVlrig Candidate for Lfeufenant
!, Governor Nm favor OF the FugltaVe
Shave Law!
The Ohio Star is urging its readers to vote for
DIR. ALLEN the Whig candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, of Ohio. 1t seems that the contract
between the banks and that journal is not intend
cd Ia be limited in its operations to the county
alone, but it is bound to every effort to secure
the election of Wing to that important office.
Under. date of August .l6, 1860, the Star an
nonncet that the Free Sell party 'tsrouM look with
contempt upon Gay effort to entrap as (the Free
Soilersy into, e'tange lnia party aOhose lead
sng lie psostrate at the feet of the szave po,oer
Now its editor devotes columns of his paper, en-
deavoring to persuade his readers to vote for &
man who will not, and dare not deny that he be-
lieves the Fugitive Saee Laso to be Constitutional
Hear him; in his letter TO the Ashtabula Sentinel
dated September Sd, 1853, and which is published
by the Star week before last, DR.. Allen has the
following:
As 10 the Fugitive Slave Law ofl850:-While of
/ woald be unwilling to disturb the provisions of
the Constitution which the law Is based, there
are, nevertheless, various provisions and require
ments of the law itself to which cannot yield
my assent. For, were my views to be consulted,
] would insist, as a sane qua non; that such mod-
fcation should be made as to exonerate the Treas
ary of the Nation from becoming, in any manner,
erNndeG any circumstances, chargeable with the
fees end costs accruing in the prosecution, under
this law, for the recovery of whats said to be in
diyidual property" and would thus insist, not
90 much because of the unjust drafts upon
common treasury under this provision of the law,
40 because of the implied recognition therein Of
the nationality of slavery.
"UNWILLING TO DISTURB THE PROVISIONS Of
the constitution ON WHICH THE LAW is BASEDm
Does the Free Soieparty believe thatth Fugitive
Law which they have often denounced, is BASED
upon the CONSTITUTION; and yet Mr.. Allen
says to us as plainly words can testify that the
Fugitive Staue Lao is based upon the Constitu-
tion, and accordingly must be constitutional. If
this law is based upon the constitution, it can in
no event be unconstitutional, and yet DR.. Allen
asserts that he is unwilling that the provisions
OF the Consultation ON which the Fugitive Law is
based. should be disturbed Is that the principle
YOU profess! can the Star SO completely humbug
you with. its specious "God and liberty twaddle
to vote for Wings and bunker Wings at that just
when he pleases. Be candid, honest, and look
we'll to the testimony you have within your reach
and observe the fraud, and heartless stratagem
employed by this miserable sreakly abortion of
doughfaced hypocrisy, reeking with filth and full
sumness, without one redeemng virtue. charged
to the brim with slander and falsehood, adopted
to every meanness that could possibly degrade
Dillingsgate calendar or disgrace LYMAN w.
HALL Blu, it is fattery to say that the editor of
the Star is blackguard; better, much better men,
inf FOL, hoVyo
received the epithet as a complment-and until
another DR.. Webster shall be born among US,
there will be no expression of reproach, nor name
for villainly, that can express the very quint es
sence of extra refined double distilled meanness,
no 10 seen and felt in the editor of the Ohio Star.
We hope our readers will excuse us for conde--
scsnding, but we must get lo,e in order to reach
Aifn But to return to DR. Allen; he, it seems, is
willing that the law should be modified, SO that
the general Government shall be exonerated from
paying the fees and costs of the Commissioner,
but willing that the Fugitive be returned to his
master, provided, the master pay the costs. And
further he 10 in favor of modifying that portion
that requires "penaty to compel private citizens
OF free State" !" .for the purpose of aiding in the
recovery of fugitive Fir. Allen thinks that if
slaveholders wish to recover their slaves, they
should do it themselves without our assistance,
and consequently is willing that bevy of slave
drivers and blood-hounds should recapture the
fugitive and considers that would be constitutional
We call the attention of our Free Soil friends to
this letter, which they will find in the Ohio Star
of Sept 81, last. accompanied with an editorial
remark that "his positions are such as must COM
nand the confidence of anti-slavery men,"