Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-04
miscellaneous.
Prom the Forest City Democrat.
EXPULSION OF A FREEBoRN CITIZEN
FROM THE STATE SENATE--HIGH-
HANDED OUTRAGE.

The most dastardy act of which the Ohio Legs-
lature has been guilty for many years was the
expulsion Of Wm ii. Day, as reporter for his pa
per, from the Senate Chamber. The Outrage was
daring and high-handed, and will damn to infamy
the seventeen Senators who perpetrated IT, Party
appliances may make free State bow low before
the slave power but this cowardy prostration in the
DIRT Will call forth the execraon Of the frceborn,
and even the scorn Of the lordlings of the south.
The individual upon whom She fragrant outrage
was committed is free white male person, accord
ing to the decisions of the highest tribunal known
in the State, gilmore than thrcc-fourths European
ancestry, while the law requires but half entitled
therefore, in the fullest degree to all the political
rights and privileges conferred by the constitution
and laws on natives OF the purest Anglo-Saxon
origin. Mr.. Day is citizen Of Cleveland, and
publishes the 4iened american in this city. lie
is young man Of excellent department. Of the
highest moral character gentleman and Chris
tian, whose word will 20 further with his fellow
citizens the than oaths of a majority Of those who
voted his expulsion
BY his upright dealing, walk and conduct he
has won the esteem and confidence Of all who
know him. He has never attempted to obtrude
himself unbidden into the social circle any class
nor tried to overleap the barriers Of any conven-
uonal usage or established prejudice Of society.
Mr. Day is q graduate of Obcrin College, a.
young man OF fine talents and literary attainments,
which he has devoted to the instruction and inn
proycment Of the Alienod race of American people
lie labors and writes and lectures for the elevation
Of that unfortunate class of our community, with
whom he is slightly related by blood. lie is in
dusrious preserving and discreet in their behalf
lie teaches them no violent sanguinnry or sedtious
doctrine, dangerous to the peace and well being
Of society, but by word and example he labors for
their moral, intellectual and physical elevation
He continually exhorts them to educate their chill
dren, to teach them Industrious habits to fit them
for useful employment, TO demonstrate to the do
minant race their capability for improvement and
self government, as well as self support, and to win
by measurement Of manhood what denied
them though prejudice-a recognition OF their po-
ltical equality could man Of any cline color be
engaged in nobler, holier work?
Mr. Day went to Columbus to spend the winter,
where he would have opportunities of extending
the circulation of his paper among the objects Of
his solcitude, and Of meeting them in personal
conference in larger numbers than at bhne lie
could also, his ,chiie friends assured him, have
the benefit Of hearing and seeing the law making
powers in their sessions, and thereby spread that
useful knowledge before his readers.
When his friends applied for an extension TO him
of the matter Of course coureses to the Press, it
was granted by the Senate without opposition. He
has held his place for three weeks, when the
Hamans in that honorable body resolved to eject
him from the reporter desk by vote Of expulsion,
and their last official act before the approach Of the
Sabbath, was to drive him out OF the Chamber.
The preamble to the resolution sets forth as the
cause, that all his blood is not Of pure Ango-Saxon
origin. No crime, or bad behavior or pecadillo is
charged against him. 1t is not alleged that in his
reports he had libeled or misrepresented any
member, or that his department was uncivil or un-
gontlcmanly neither was it denied that he was a
citizen and native Of Ohio, entitled to all the
rights and franchises Of any other citizen.
Mr. Days right, by courtesy or otherwise was
rs pertet aud full as that of any other Editor in
Cleveland or Ohio. He was driven without the
bar as wild beast or a contagious leper because
only hrec fourths Of his ancestry we're of European
origin,
supported by men of African and mixed blood, soy
eral hundred Of whom, like himself were legal vo-
ters and citizens Of this State.
1t was a maxim of Athens, in the days Of her
power and glory, that an insult to the whole state
for which reparation must be given, punishment
was sure to fall on the offender. While Athens
observed this rule she prosperous at home and
respected abroad. The action of the Senate is a
gross outrage on the rights and dignity Of the
citizens OF Cuyahoga County that must not be tame
ly borne. 1t is an insult to every voter in the
County, and to the Press and People Of the State
There is exhibited in the action Of the majority
Of the Senate spirit of deparved despotism that
is diabolical spirit which, if unchecked, would
curse Ohio with Slayery-that would glory in
welding the lash over the quivering flesh of hui
man chattels-that would make concubnes of other
mems wives, and sell the products Of their unhoy
lusts 70 the slave driver. Some Of these creatures
may perchance be nothing more that cowardy
plant partizans, whose conscience upbraids then
for their base cringng, but the demands of party
for sacrifice to appease the Slave god overcamt
the little spark Of true democracy yet vital in the
carcases.
Let the citizens Of Cuyahoga, in thunder tones
send their indignant protest to the miscreants VIII
offered this outrage to one Of their most respected
citizens-other counties will rapidly follow. lie
no man rest until the foul indignity is wiped out
This lcathsomc trucking to miserable prejudice
this triumph of hateful bigotry, must be ARRESTED
10 Oho-the oldest free-born daughter Of the Revo
lution-or she will soon stand on the same plat
form with South Carolina Let the seal of infam
be set on the seventeen libes on the image of thei
Maker. Let their names be jibbeted as carrion b
all men who love liberty and hate despotism,
THE CROTON WATER.