Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-07
CoIUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO SATURDAY OCTOBER T.

lamcntal principles are overthrown, where the
general principle Of ldw is departed rom-the leg.
slative intention must be expressed with irresis-
tble cearness, to induce court of justice to sup
pose an intention or design TO effect such oyects-H
al. Ctanch 800.
Now it needs no showing to see that the service
or labor extracted from the slave is not in accord
ancc with natural right. 1t needs no showing to
see that fundamental principles hare been departed
from 1t needs no showing to see that rights hare
been igfinged here, &C., &c. Another rule requires
that an innocent meaning shall be given, &C.,
where the language will admit of it. In my first
we have it. Why pervcrt it? We have it at once
in strict conformity to justice, natural right, and
the natural language and meaning of the article.
draw line here, and hold that every one who
has fell in with the mad dog cry of pro-slavery
Constitution, clause to return fugitive slares, &C.,
should put your finger on the language and tell us
what it is or sound mum. If we look unto the
Constitution for the word free, we find it to result
from the distinction made between citizens and
aliens. If we look into the law of nature for it,
we find there that all men are born free and equal
Friend Marius, you doubtless remember saying
in speech week ago, at Cool Spring, that the
only difference between the fugitive slave in Can
ada and in Ohio, was, that the U. S. Constitution
was held interpreted toauthorized the return of the
fugitive to his master. The truth of the remark
touched me with much interest and force. But
was sorry to the truth, considering the reason
which you failed to attempt to find, as this attempt
would but have been the letting out of water to
the inundation of the speaker Held to mean-in-
1 l.. -
Robinson, and others of his views, are too
familiar with the history of judicial proceed
ings to have any reverence for them. They only
reluctantly believing don't believe But our own
local history is not without hope-the same Consti-
tuition once interpreted to authorize the burn
ing of witches. As able Board of Supreme
judges as ever since has set gave this decision and
fourteen innocent persons as witches were burned
at Salem, Massachusetts. But this only las
ted for season. Those deeply deluded
Judges soon found their error, and asked pardon
of God for the sin; of the people-the deeply de-
ludcd people! for thus deluding them and leading
them astray! The people joined in lamenting the
wrong they had been led to do by the dclusion OF
their deludod judges. The Stamp Act might be
cited another reversal of decison. So may the
day soon come, when the none but clearly anti
slavery language of the Constitution will make the
condition of the painting fugitive in Ohio, as in
Canada, free. Not only so, but when slave can,
not breathe in the land So mote i, be-
j. D. COPELAND.
P. S. As a typographical error occurred in my
answer to a question by j. Y. Hoover some time
back, to the meaning of "all other persons" in
| trt I Co Lot bo, - l.,
to resident aliens" "Indians not taxed" and
possibly some others. The word "ffee" there de-
scribes the native and naturalized citizens of the
U. S. A. This places the basis of representation
udon the most equitable, just and rational ground
that it can be, and the Constitution plainly ex-
presses this meaning. j. d. c.