Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-25
FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JERRY
RESCUE,

The first day Of Octuber, 1866, the 4th Anniver-
sary Of the memorable Jerry Rescue, is at hand
The spirit that defed oppression, and scorned as a
filthy rag the enactment of a law defying Congress
intended to give oppression power and dignity, we
thank Heaven, is an embodiment at Syracuse. Its
proportions are expanding in contempt Of roliti-
cal limits and political parties. As the organ Of
nent, we appeal to our bold country
ny he world, to confess its Legitimacy,
JUSTICE authority. Therefore we call them to
be at Syracuse the LIST Of October ~neSt,at 10 o'clock
A.. NJ, to honor the fvst successful and glorious
strike. which in the United States rescued an out
ragged slave and set him free. Yea, even from the
clutches of the Judge and the Marshal, despite the
irons in which they bound him, and the deladed
pose they employed to keep him bound. And il
they cannot then and there meet, let them send q
cheering expression of then spmpathies.
Truth grows, and the spirit that rescued Jerry
by the boldest resistance to the iniquitous power
ever made in this country, grows, because it is a
true spirit. In the light and heat of it, how is
that other, the non resistant spirit, melting down
and the delusion vanishing away 1t was q brave
decision, that the Constitution was made to estab-
fish liberty, and that justice is the only basis Of
law which the people in the highest function Of
judicial power will acknowledge, say politicians
and debauched Judges what they may. In the
light and heat of that transaction, also, how are
the passions and sentiments of the people conform
ing! Who now would attempt to rescue a fugitive
slave at Syracuse? How rapidly diminish the
number Of those who are deluded by the feloH
sentiment that slavery is entrenched and protected
in the Constitution! How rapidly diminish the
number of those who admit the integrity of the
scoundrel Judges who give slavery an ASYLUM il
that instrument, in scorn of its obvious terms an(
i%ntents, and in dishonor of its origin and cotempo
rary history. And how clearly in the light of tn
Fugitive Act, the Nebraska Act, and the still
more astounding attempt to COMPEL slavery il
Kansas, does the Slave Power declare that tb
only issue it will acoept, is, the legality of SLAYER
anywhere and evorywhere-and that the reliabl
force on its part to that end, is, not the Constitu
ton and laws. but the force of arms!
We are not for strife we are for peace. AnC
because we arc peace men, we acknowledge no
the claims of slavery anywhere, or at any time
because slavery, everywhere and at all times
is war upon the Constitution and Law made 70
the common defence and general welfare, war upo
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at Syracuse, that when it comes to us with il
claims, when it crosses our track, or attempts
kidnap our citizens, 1--WE care not for the forms
we shall meet it as the enemy of human nature
the enemy of the constitution and laws-the enem
indeed of the entire plan and providence of Jeh'
yah, which no Congress or Court or other depos
can install over the rights of the people of this
any other state. lie is a poor observer who doe
not see that this issue, made at Syracuse FIVE yeal
ago, is fast coming to ba the issue the countr
over. Come up to our Anniversary then, and hel
; unite tho voice and arms of the people into OF
grand Hdbeas Corpus which shall give liberty
every slave, open the prison door of every Pas
moro Williamson, and send every villqinops Juda
whether he be Kane or McLane, cowerering int
t retirement, Imprisonment or infamy.
JOHN THOMAS, JAMES FULLER,
=. LUCIuS C. MATLACK, t. c. WHITES,
9 MONTGOMERY MERRICK.- Committee.
Syracuse, Aug. 8, 1855.