Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-16
TALKING TO THE POINT.


liberty and the federal cou,t as the agent and rep
rescnta;ivc of slavery, will not be long delayed.
1t ought to come, and ought to como quickly. Most
honorable on the pngo of history will be that State
which shall have the boldncss first to bring that
question to the issue. But Wisconsin has got to
have Judges of stcrner stuff than her Judge mil
lcr) has proved himself before she will earn that
honor. lie decided nobly ut first but the contest
came and he surrendered without a blow.
From the Western Freeman:
RYECRAFT'S CASE.
We occupy a large portion of our space this
week with a full report of the evidence, and the
charge of the Judge to the jury, in the case Of
JonN RYEcRArr. 1t will be seen that the evidence
conflicts in regard to his having an actual hand III
breaking down the Jail door. but the Judge told
the jury to believe the witness that testified he
had hold Of the Delivcrcr--tIc bcam-instetd Of.
those who testified they saw him several rods frCm
the beam at the time it was moving on its mission
OF mercy. We presume he violated the h~cll-born
spirit of the Act, whether he had hold of the tim
Der or not. We should he quite sorry to learn,
and believe, that he did not have q hand in the
actual work that opened the prison doors. A deed
that thrilled the bosom of the COOL all over the
continent, took somebody's hands to do it, and we
would just as soon have them John Ryecraft's as
any other mans besides our own.
The judge puts the claim of the Shareholder to
take his slave in Wisconsin on tho same ground
that q father has to take his minor child, the mas
ter his ndcntcd apprentice or a surety has abscon-
ding principal.
BY intoxicating the doctrine that Legislative
enactmcnts are law, If they command us to seize
fleeing christians and cupsign them to clattlehood,
lie has made the jury lclicvc it was their duty
to condemn a man 10 prison whom al men honor
us 6 hero.
lie has made them believe that they had nothing
to do but say whether they believe John Hyccruft
was aiding and ahetting the delivery of Joshu
Glover from the Jail of Milwaukee. The question
of the inhumanity of the law its onstitutionality
whether it is the business of Wisconsin freeman to
be engaged in such despicable business as reduc-
ing immortal men to bondage, he told them was
none OF their business. lie falsiicd when he told
them that the Fugitive Act was passed in pursu-
ance OF Il constitutional engagement we were I'M
der to return ~straying chattols, aud told them that
the plea of higher law or rights of conscience
came with a poor grace before a jury sworn to
render q verdict according to law and evidence.
and then told them the law is as he says it is. ii
that is the miserable machine a juror becomes by
taking n seat in the box, Heaven save us from ever
being II juror.
But We turn from the sickening sophistry palm
cd off upon US under the name of law to state tn
the people just what hey can expect if they give
their bread to the hun Try, in Wisconsin. il they
are arrested by a process from n commissioner.
they can go to Jail till they can get u writ Of Iia-
hcas Corpus from the Supreme Court of the State,
when they can get ont Just far enough su that II
process from the District Court will know Just
where to find them, when they can go to Jail again
or give bonds 20 appear at court, appear. be tried.
convicted. and then run the risk of getting relief
from the Supreme Court of the State. After that
the S!avcites would appeal to the Supreme
Court of the L. States aud lie sustained, m doubt
Then comes the tug Of war, whether Wisconsin,
In Nv ia ia lac hppln1 a = ,yln,b.r yn nro a, lnpt thp
knee to the tyrants of the land. For one we have
looked rs far towards the end from the beginning,
us our vision will reach, and our mind is made up.
we will never obey the Act and shall diSobry il
again, rs We have already, whenever occasion de-
mands it. Administrator If this government may
do their worst. but we would see them sunk to the
depths of p%erdition, and shout hnllaljah as tho
smoke of their toImcnts nscendel, beioie we would
think a thought, say n word. or do II deed, that
would help them to enforce their bloody edicts. II
the men of Wisconsin would say so in their acts
at the polls. in their pulpits and ON their knee,
before High Heaven, it would lie enough. Ere,
dom then would have a birthplace, that our stupid
ity, %intideiity and cowardice has as yet denied her
Speaking Of Ryecraft, the Frccmen says:
Here is n man. not dragged from the low pit o.
pollution. and arraigued before a tribunal toanswe,
for a crime that all men abhor, but Il master build
or of stately stores-a man having the confidence
of business men sufficient to lie entrusted with
job worth Sl4 ,OGO, is to have pains and penaltic,
visited upon him for having n human heart in hi,
bosom that can he moved when the cry Of the cap
tive. to be delivered from his bondage, is ringing
in his ears. We don't know John liyecraft, per.
sonally, but he has got 4 soul somewhere ihat
shines like a star. Honor to John Ryecralt.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel
THE CASE or RYrCRAFT.-Wc shall publish to
morrow an able and elaborate review of the RYE
CRAFT case, by a prominent member Of the Nil
waukee Bar. Weare glad To see that the press
throughout the State, are ealing the attention o
their readers to the prominent features of this re
markablc trial, and the infamous act under which
Ryecratt was convicted.
VINO is THE IItRo?-On our first page to day w,
copy some OF the heart sickcning details o
the w.r now raging in lmue. lie las
fight did not rise in dignity to a battle.
was only a holiday skirmish, in honor Of the arri
val at the camp of the Russians of the sons o
the Aulocrat. Bus what a revolving view does
present of tie horrors Of war. And yet these lie
,ails refer only to the beginnings of those horror
and sufferings. Thousands of men were it is tu
manned, margled aud bu,chered, but no view i
given of the thousands Of wives that are mad
widows by these butcheries, of the tens Of thou
sands Of children who are made orphans and q
the ten thousand other sacred lies that wer
%sundcred by that days bloody acts. Thos
murders before Sevastopol have sent mourning
and woe to many a loving heart in the cold region
of Russia, on the mild plains of Turkey, and t
very many in the kingdom Of France and Britain
These men who died and many who survived, ar
called heroes" '1Ie bravest of the brave" Bot
hemispheres COW join to shout their praise in cor
cert. But reader, turn 10 our fourth page, an
g read the inimitable story of the "S3rtons Hcro' an
tell US if in your hearts best, truest judgement
Gilbert Dawson's honors do not outweigh those G
all the heroes of Sevastapol dead or living; aye
and of all the human tigers who have insanel
met in battle since Cain their great procenito
gained his first victory. Compare the claims {
these two classes, and tell us pho is tie hero?
FUGITIvE SLAVES AT CHiCAGo.-On Friday las