Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-09
WELL DONE FOR M


Read the following from the New York Tribune
of the I'd inst. When will Ohio do as much ms
this2 There is room yet for improvement even in
Vermont. She should not only protect her legal
ly' free citizens from kidnarpors, but also the
poor victims ION Congress authorizes U. s. Mar.
shals to hunt, even among the Green Mountains
of Vermont. Let Vermont go fright onward" and
she will come to this point by and by;
BURLINGroN. (yt.) Saturday, Nov. IS, 1854.
Vermont, the home Of the Green Mountain
Boys" from her settlement to tho present time has
ever been characterized for n stern, uncompromis-
ne hostility to oppression of every form. AT the
recent session of the Legislature an Act was pass
ed well worthy of Vermont and the free spirit Of
her people, the descendants of the Aliens, Chittcn-
dens, Warmers, and others Of her bravo patriots Of
the Revolution.
This Act. a copy of which is given below, was
first introduced by the Hon. Rollin j. Jones. Of
the Senate, u true friend of freedom, whose in1u-
oncc. together with that Of other leading members
Of both Houses, secured its passage in both branch
es by large maioritics.
The planters of Carol;s,;a. and the dealers IN
human flesh, MUS be careful how they venture
into Old Vermont after free colored citizens!
They will meet n warmer reception even than the
Shcrifs 81 York met, in her primeval history.
An ACT for tho Defense cf Liberty, and for the
Punishment of Kidnapping.
II is hereby enacted 6y The General assembly Of The
State Of Fer6,o"t, dSfoHowS:
SEcTIos l. Every person who shall falsely and
maliciOusly declare, represent, or pretend that any
free persons within this State is Slave, or owes
service or labor to person or persons, with intent
to procure or to aid or assist in procuring, the for
chile removal of such free persons from this State
as Il slave, shall pay Il fine Of three thousand dol
lars, and to be imprisoned in the State Prison not
less than five years.
Prorilcd, That nothing in this Act shall be con-
%strued as applying to ary claim of service from an
apprentice for a fixed term.
SEC. 2. No declaration, representation, or pre-
tense that any person, being or having been in
this State, is or has been a SLAVE shall be deemed
proved, except by the testimony of ut least two
credible witnesses, t~estifying to facts directly tend
ing to establish the truth Of such declaration, rep
resentation or pretense and every person sho,
upon any trial arising under this act, shall falsely
and willtully represent or pretend, with intent to
aid any party accused under this act, that any per-
son was or is a slave, or owes or did owe service or
labor to any person or persons, shall pay fine of
three thousand dollars, and be imprisoned in the
State Prison not less than five years.
Sec. 3. On the trial of any prosecution arising
under this act, no deposition shlll be received az
evidence of the truth of any statement contained
in such deposition.
SEC. 4. Every person who shall obstruct any
officer, in the scraice Of any warrant issued in nc
dance with this act, or who shall aid in the es-
cape Of any person arrested urder this act, while
pursued by such officer, or in his custody, shall be-
imprisoned in the State Prison, not less than one
year.
Vermont was the first State to pass n habcas
corpus act after the passage of the infamous Fu-
gitivc Slave law: and she now adds to her statutes
the above, for the further protection of the oppres-
sed would be free.