Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-25
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built up Such the principle upon which the e'r1t
satioa and Christianisuficn Of that continent Ok
which we hear 50 much from the advocates OF coli
onization is to be effected
TESTIMONY EXCLUDED.
Our now revised code failed to exclude the tes.i
monv Of colored witnesses in Our courts OF justice,
whether accidentally Or by design. we know not.
But. as we have scen by an act Of the last Legs
ature, they are now expressly excluded where
white person i9 party in interest go
Al u time like the present when the spirit OF
! legal reform, gOirE upon the most rational loea
that the Object Of all testimony is to get at JacE
tie t1uttn order to the furtherence OF the enos
Of justice. is sweeping away all disabilities OF Wy
nesscs leaving the degree If their efedibity, IKE
any other fact to the ury--in some Of the States
permitting even the parties 10 testify, and IN our
own State not excluding witnesses on account OF
crime OF iuieresi--what can he more absurd nno
shcrt-sighted even with reference to the rne IN
tercst Of our white population, than the enactmch'
under consideration Surely, the prejudice
against color never exhibited Itself in more eyre
giously unjust and impolitic as well as foolish
form But, as respects the eolored mtn, Its ioiy
is swallowed up in its atrocity. For 1t leaves 7i'
uerson and property family and home, a prey !"
whatever abandoned white man may see fit to
avail himself of this legislative act of impun"y u
IAnglo-Saxon crime and outrage. And loudly sno
often have the wrongs Of the hapiess victims III
this state Of things borne testimony; aias' now
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baser sort" 10 avail themselves OF such license
EXCLUDED FROM THE COMMON SCHOOLS.
As in the case of the testimony Of colored people
their exclusion from the common schools was III
after-thought of the legislature and sought to La
effected By nm amendment TO the revised code as
originally adopted. 1t is quite natural that the
pro-slayery spirit which seems to control our leg
islation should adopt the policy OF the saveholder
of keeping in ignorance the victims OF his oppres-
i, Rut lp
shame. if not Of honesty or honor would, 1t might
naturally have been supposed, have dictated to the
Legislature the propretv of entirely renewing the
class thus excluded from said schoosirom the DUR
den of sustaining them. Yet no such relief has Deen
given. The coored people are made to contribute
towards the education Of the children OF their op-
tpressors not an inconsderaLle amount, in the way
Of penalties, to which they subject themselves.
chiefly in consequence Of that ignorance which the
law DEGREES shall lie their portion!
The Constitution, however, seems to be more
consistent Oh this suhject-to contemplate no
such exclusion Section lst Of the Sth article
Of that instrument makes it the duty of the Gen'
eral Assembly ito provide, by law, for gen
eral and uniform System OF common schools where
in tuition shall be without charge, and equally open
10 al.
Tie law. therefore, would seem to he clear
violation of the Constitution As, howeTcr, tho
trainers of the 18th article were guilty therein OF
a plain violation of the Constitution Of the United
States, we need not he greatly surprised that the
Legislature should, in cases Of Mis KIND. imitato
their example With respect to the State Consnu-
ton. Such are but samples of the manifold gross
Inconsistencies in which our lawmakers have IN
volyed themselves, in the atrocous attempt to
trample under foot the rights Of portion of cur
citizens!
SUBJECT TO TAXATION.
In the fact indicated by this title find mani
fcstaton of the EXTREMIST point Of infnitesimal
littleness. That q great "sOycreiun State" while