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

MI' mann asserts that nave not quoted his
speeches at sufficient length to do him justice.
no not think your readers will blame me for
not quoting enough. 1 used your columns as
literally as dared. However, his voleme may
be found at oil the bookstores, and is, as its el-
oquence and masterly logic we'll deserves, in tho
hands Of many aboltionists. Any one can ca
silly satisfy himself whether / have done Mr..
Mann any injustice. There is one paragraph,
q few lines Of which omitted, to save space,
giving notice by asterisks that parts had been
omitted. He Gays if l do not now quote this in
full, IL will be because 1 dare not. why did
he not copy the paragraph himself, since your
columns were as open to him az to me for such
a purposei However, to crafty him in every
particular please copy in a note hereto, the
paragraph on his 2O6th and 207th pages, first
ss quoted it, and then as it stands in his vol
ume.s Every one who will take the trouble
to compare tho two, will sec that the omitted
lines do not change the sense in the slightest
degree. In this paragraph, uttered in 1850,
Mr.. Mann declared that The Consultation Of the
Untsd States, add The d,cs Of 1903, being at an
end, Me lao Of mature rerircs. By this ias, ere
ry case Of an escaping Stare is but the reeoue,y Of
stolen goods. When they cross tie line into a free
State they are Jvee-as free as you or /. The
STATES BEING SEPARATED, 1 WOULD As
SOON RETURN MY own BROTHER OR SISTER INTO
BONDAGE, AS WOULD RETURN FUGITIVE SLAVE.
BEFoRE Con, ASD CHRIsT, AND ALL MEN, THEY
ARE NY BRorKEs AND SISTERS understood
this to mean, that, until tho states were seper-
ated, his conduct would DO diiIerent clso why
make the condition. Every man whom meet
understood it SO. Idoubt whether, Of his thou
sand readers Mr.. Mann can find one who did
rot so understand il. lie afFirms he did not
mean to bo SO understood. can only say, that
with Mr. Mann's wonderful control of language
it is marvollously strange that nc should, on
this occasion, have succeeded so poorly in con-
voying his meaning. In 1850 Mr. Mann avow-
ed, as have shown by abundant quotations,
that the Constitution ordered tho return Of fu-
gitivc slaves doctrine to which, if under
stand his last letter, he still adhercs. In the
sane speech ia which he made this ayownl, he,
page 1872, classes himself with those wose al
lcsiancs to The Constitution is mistaken ; and
again, in the same speech, he uses this language
p. 2l3;
Two things exist at the North, which the
South does not fully npprcciate-thc depth ard
intensity of our adherence Of slavery and that
reverence for tho law which keeps it in check.
We arc law-abiding people. But, release rs
from our obligations, tear Oft from the bond toith
h tgIi Oh
sciences and repress our feelings, destroy those
compensalions which the world and which pos
territy would derive from a continuance of this
Union, and well may you tremble for tho rc-
| suit
What docs Mr.. Mann mean by human law
keeping his nbhorcnce of slavery in check: 1
trample in the dust every human law that
would check my adherence Of slavery or of
any wiokedncss.
Is he 'law-abiding' man in tho sense of
obeying any law which upholds slavery, Can
any human bonds or signatures bind a mans
conscience TO do wrong-to return slsvesi This
| speech, he says, was addressed to the South
Does any ono doubt how Southern men under.
stood such language, wholly unqualifcdi
Afterwards, in that samc year, 1850, tehiis
speaking Of tho Fugitire Stare act, aud Of It's III
olating the CoaHitution, he said
i disdain to avail myself in a sober argu.
| ment of the popular sensitiveness on this sub
jcct and / ACKNOWLEDGE MT CIVILIZATIONS TO
THE CONSTITUTION, WHILE 1T Is SUFFERED TO
LAST but still, l say, that the man who can
read this bill without having HIS blood boil in
his veins, has power of Refrigeration that
would cool the tropics
What docs this mean, il it does not mean
that he will obey that clause of the instrument
which orders fugitive slaves to be returnedi
With such printed pages before me, not to
speak OF others, asscr. that was fully justi-
fed in charging him with a willingness to re-
turn fugitive slaves to their masters, while the
present Constitution lasted.
lie now withdraws and repudiotes this sem
timent. ain glad of it, If he ever held it, !
am glad he repents. If he has been grossly
misunderstood, the fault is his own, and he
should thank me for calling his attention to it,
and giving him an opportunity to explain him.
self
In regard to my quotations to show that Free
Soilers have no wish to interfere with slavery
in the States, and consent to let slavery ro-
main where it is Mr. Mann says do him in
justice, because they wero all spoken in his
capacity as Congressional legislator, or with
reference to legislation by Congress- lie ia
incorrect here. The quotation which I made
before, from page 2l2, says, the South COM
plain Of Northern agitation on the subject Of
slavery, and Northern instigation of slaves tc
escape This is not party agitation, political
agitation, legislative agitation, but Northerr
agitation. He speaks ,too,of 'instigating slaves
to escape From that it is evident tha: he hac
the whole movement on his mind. and not it
Legislative aspect alone. For when did any,
1 hoIu a LII.