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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03
A NEW MEASURE TO ENFORCE THE
FUGITIVE LAW.

Tho Senate on the go ult., passed to its third
reading, a bill designed to aid in the enforcement
of the Fugitive Slave Bill. lnnoyating upon all
past usages, it takes from the State Judiciary the
power to try criminals for offences against their
laws, and provides for their trial before the Fed
eral Courts, in case the alleged criminals are off
GERS Of the United States, or the offence charged
committed against United States law. 1t is design
ed to prevent the interference of the State Courts
to protect Tie I%crscrel,% lilortios Of their citizens,
against the outragcs Of the Fugitive Slave Law,
and the brutal villainies of those who execute it.
The late decision Of the Pennsylvania Judge in
the case Of the bloodhounds who assaulted Bill
Thomas, and the more recent action of the SUI
preme Court of Wisconsin, and the threatening
progress of that public sentiment which bids de-
fance to this infamous enactment has suggested
this new measure, which proposes to strip the State
authorities of the right to protect the liberties Of
their citizens, and commit it to the tender mercies
OF the Federal Court. 1t is a gross usurpatiou-
a bold attempt to ccntralize power for the mos. ne
farious of purposes.
In another column will be found an abridged
report OF the discussion which preceded The final
vote.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

ing laws, and then casting over the mgis of tbs
nation.
By such considerations as these we vindicate our
dissent from the Constitution of the country, and
we exhibit our dissent by refusing to swear paths
to support it, or the State Constitutions linked in
with it, by declining to vote or hold Office where the
oath is required, and by refusing to sit upon juries
IN courts Of law Refusing to swear, it follows Of
course. that office must be declined with which an
oath to sustain the Constitution is connected. IL
an Office cannot be held, the vote which is designed
to send the candidate to swear the oath, must also
he withheld.
In view of all this, we judge it right, safe, pleas
ing to God, and in the issue most conducive to the
high ends of our testimony, to occupy a position
apart from the national and State arrangements Of
this land recognizing at the SAM time whatever
is excellent in them, and laboring by our teaching
and our arguments to lead those around us to see
things as we sec them, that so the requisite change
may be introduced, and the institutions of tho
country made such MS can consistently be support
ed by the faithful servants and witnesses of Christ.
But whatever the immediate fruit Of our labors
may be, we cannot adopt the maxim of the Jesuits
and do evil TINT good may come :" we cannot
swear to what we believe wrong, and hated of God,
even with a purpose to seek its amendment. Let
public opinion be changed or brought ri int, and
there will be no difficulty in establishing n scriptu.
raj government. To do otherwise than we do,
would DO to sacrifice n good conscience, weaken
our testimony. aud so hinder, instead Of promoting
that reformation which we are sure is greatly
needed. and for which we labor and pray"
The above sets forth clearly the position of the
Old School Covenanters, a body of Christians who
have ever since the adoption of the Constitution,
borne a faithful and consistent testimony against
it. In this testimony we are in union, and gladly
cooperate with them in setting an example to the
other Churches in this land, which if adopted by
them, would strike an effective blow at the slave
system. When they take this position, our con-
troversy with them will be a. an end. Slavery
will be abolished and the religion of the land pur.
flied from its foulest and damning stain.
C. s.. S. GRIFFING.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03
ANTI.sLAvERY IN NEW BRIGHTON.

The editor Of the Anti-Slavery Buglc, in his last
issue, complains of the treatment he received on a
recent 'isit t. New Brighton, designating our 'nu-
merous congregations" ministers and members, as
PRIESTS and LeviteS, because, iorsOoth, they re,
fused 10 give him the use OF their churches, on the
Sabbath day, to dennunce its membership, and rail
against the religion they profess. We trust the
churches of New Brighton will ever pursue the
same course, and never admit TO their pulpits the
champions Of error, however good the cause may
10, that is made the preteXt Tor their entrance
With the intelligent Z. tiZens of this place, we re-
gret the f.ct that II cause 50 righteous as that Of
human freedom is cursed with the names of those
who would blot out the Sabbath, and break up tn,
organization of the christian Church, because i
does net cunlc up 10 their radical notions, and thi.
they call progressive reform"
The people of New Brighton are not character
lied by u staid conservatism" but are anti-slaver,
in sentiment. in feeling, and in action.-Ne,
Brighton IoHng Americdn.
The statements of this little paragraph full,
eonfrm all that we said Of the prc-slavery of New
Brighton. This Young American being believed
her meeting houses are closed against a "righteou
cause'-'the cause of human ~freedom"-and 5,
pharisaieal and exclusive are they, that the,
would have none but Sabbath keepers and ortho
dox, according to their standard, labor for Tia,
emancipation Of the slave. A sacred cause ma,
perish. and milsiuns may die in their chains, rattle
than that Sabbath breakers and infdels SHOULD
join to knock off their chains. On such men
whether ministers or editors, the friends of free
dom can never rely for any efficient cooperation
in ths cause of freedom, whatever their profe,
lsions.
~ This Young American is quite mistaken in hi
insertion that We complained of our treatment a
New Brighton. We made no such complaint. Gu
Com plant was not for ourself. it was for the slav,
that his cause was sighted, that ministers an
-chnrches treated him as did priests and Lcyitss tn
man who of cid fell among thieves. ILis para
graph well reflects the bigotry and pharisesism o
such priests and Lerites. Said they of old. "Thi
sman is not of God. for he keepeth not the Sabbatl
day" Wonder If the Young American goes fol
the exclusion VI Sabbath breakers from Know
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

Nothing lodges? By the way, the only evidence
it has hat we would blot out the Sabbath is in the
fact that we used that day to preach that Gospel
which brings deliverancc to the captives and the
opening Of the prison doors to those who are
bound.
Young American is positirc that the New Brigh.
ton people ''arc anti-slavery, in feeling, sentiment,
and %sction." We hope their light will no longer
be hid under bushel. That We shall hear of their
action in the prayers and sermons and lectures OF
their ministers, in the opening of their meeting
houses to the friends of the slave, and in the cru.
%citxion of that bigotry which requires a man to
believe in the Sabbath and church organizations
before it will consent for him to give his aid to the
emancipation of the bondman.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

must the Alabaminn, then, not clear them off and
build cities thcreunY) Now, | should be willing
to meet any white man (great applause and laugh
,crl single handed ON this subject. To be sure,
I'm going south tomorrow, but then III be glad to
meet any one before | CO." &c.
Thus Jou have substantially and faithfully re-
ported, the remarkable scene. 1t mucks COM
',entary, and ! will not mar its significance by
Offering any, To look and listen to the product Of
slavery ON II white freeman, and Of freedom ON II
coIcred slave, in the persons Of these two men, was
such II sermon as neither Whitfield or Parker could
have preached. b.
There seems a fair prospect that Mr.. Loring,
released from his academic and judicial duties,
viii have opportunity to devote himself exclusively
to the labors Of his slave-catching commissioner
ship.
TRAcTs.-At the Wesleyan Book Establishment
in Syracuse, can be procured the following valu-
able tracts.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

+. RIGHT OF PETITION IN THE SENATE.-On the 22d
ut, Mr.. Chase presented numerous petitions for
the repeal Of the fugitive slave act. and moved their
reference to a select committee.
Weller of California; move, sir, that these
petitions be laid upon the table, where l hope they
will fluid that sleep that knows no waking. / call
for the yeas and nays" which being ordered, stood
on Weller's motion. Yeas 90. Nays 10. So it
goes-n quarter of a century of anti-slavery agita-
ton, moral and political, has not yet secured to the
citizens Of this Reptile the use of the natural and
constitutional right Of petition in the IS. Senate.
That is the fruit of the Union of Freedom and Sla-
very.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

A Divorce Convention was recently held in Bos.
ton. The principle resolution ado 'ted was as fol-
lows: THAT we unite ourselves into an associ-
a,ion to be called the Massachusetts, League. for
procuring the enactment Of a law similar to the one
now in force in State of Maine. which allows Q
divorce from the bonds of matrimony to be deoreed
when it is reasonable and proper, conducive to do
nestle harmony and consistent with the peace and
morality Of society; or. aiming to procure the en-
actment of a law, similar n principle to the Main:
and tried by a committed of the Legislators, IN
stead Of the Supreme Judicial OJurt.o
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

THE AURORA has just completed its 7rentieth
losme. Brother Frost purposes to enlarge it to
double its present size, and m~1dcstly asks for l5O
new subscribers, to enable him to accomplish it.
By all means send on the names The Aurora is
an advocate of liberty, and its editor an honest
man. The banner under which it sails is true and
noble-"DeaM to Slarery, or DiSSolmion."
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

General Houston lectured on slavery on the I'D
ult. in Boston. The Telegraph says tho lecture
was not up to the public expectatian.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

WoMAN's RIGHTs IN New YoRK.-On the l7th
ult., Miss Antoinettc L.. Brown and Mrs. Ernestine
l.. Ri Sc were heard before a Committee of the NY.
Legislature, in behalf of the numerous petitioners
for the equal government and property rights of
W men. To this Committee had Lcen referred the
subject, with all petitions respecting it.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

Hon. ANDREW STUART has our thanks for q copy
of the Congressional Globe for 1854.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

DIscUssIoN.-The National Intelligencer admit,
a long communication, very triumphantly adyocat.
ing the superiority of freedom over slavery. Tru,
it is admitted under protest; yet still it is some
thing to find an argument Of such SOFT in such f.
quarter.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

THE STUFF THEY WANT.-D. Y. of the Anti-Sla-
very Standard. describes the kind of Northern
lumber Shareholders can best manufacture into
their wares. Speaking of Judge Curtis's appre.
hension of Massachusetts, public sentiment he
asks: 90 what consequence is it what Massachu-
sets thinks of him? The material thing is to
conciliate the confidence of the Shareholders
They are the men tina. make Chief Justices. We
Abolitionists will give Judge Curtis a certificate
that his conduct has been consistent, ever since he
tried to make Massachusetts, II slave State by the
sacrifice of the poor little slave child Med, down to
his Charge last June. But it's OF no use. Mt
all his influence, nor yet ours, will ever procure
for him that highest seat of the law. lie is too
able II man. The shareholders would as soon have
a Webster for President rs a Curtis for Chief JUS
ticc. 1t is reserved for some Frank Pierce of a
law yer, whose insignifcance can never give them
unensiness. and will ever secure his subservienry
| advise him to discharge his mind of all notions of
the kind. And | ask nothing for my advice"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

CAPITAL PUNIsuMENT.-Michigaa some seven
years ago abolished capital punishment. IIunkers
there and elsewhere have frequently told us of the
bloody murder which has been since rife in ,ha,
State, in consequence of this human legislation.
Their citations have, hover, always been vague, Of
Il general and dcclamatory character. The follow.
ing testimony Of the Inspectors of the Michigan
State prison, is ample to counter-balance all this
defamation. In their recent report they say:
"The law abolishing capital punishment in this
State. took effect ON the I'd day of March, 1917,
since which time, a period of nearly eight years,
only fifteen persons have been convicted of murder
and sentenced for life to solitary confinement, at
hard labor, in the State prison. Believing that
our present statutory provision for the punishment
of IerS"ns convicted of murder has become the
settled policy Of The State. the Inspectors see no
good leasons why this policy should be abondon-
cd Or materially changed"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

WELL DONE FOR MlCHIGAN-Thc Legislature of
Michigan has passed ii Law which provides for the
trial ly jury to am slave claimed-prohibits the
use of jails to retain fugitives, and requires that
the prosecuting attorney of each county shall, up
on request, give aid and counsel to any such fugi-
tive slave.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

Tie Friend of the People, II pages. Gets.
a package Of SO tracts. containing four of each
of the above kinds, will I've sent postage free to any
part of the Union for so cents. Send on your or
ders for specimen packages.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

Judge Jay, of New York, has written n congrat
ulatory letter to S. NJ. Booth. of Milwaukee, Ell,
closing $4,000, to aid in his conflict with the Gov
ernmeIt on slave-catching.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

GovERNoRs.-.Anson p. Morrill, has been nomina-
ted for reelection for governor of Maine by the
Republicans, and William 7. Miner ms the Know
nothing candidate for Governor Of Connecticut.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

LIFE OF WAsnINcToN.-Wash 1gton Irving is en-
in writing the Life of George Washington,
The work is now nearly ready for the press.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03

Mr.. Trumbull, the newly elected Senator from
Illinois, is from Connecticut, and n grandson Of
Trumbull, the Historian, Of that State
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27
ROMAN INFLUENCES IN SPAIN.

However dense the opacity with which the wor-
slippers of the darkness OF past ages may endeay-
or to obstruct light-howeyer slow the world may
be ia dragging its lost rights from this obscurity
still the work OF illumination and disenthrall-
ment progresses uninterruptedly Mental and so
cial emancipation, If impeded in one avenue, for
ces its way through another. The breach between
Spain and Rome-a breach not created by a few
individuals nicknamed by their enemies ~philoso'
pliers, bat one in which the Cortes and Govern
ment are sustained by the immense majority of
the citizens Of Madrid and a large portion Of the
people in the provinees-proyes clearly that the
age in which We live sounds the death knell of va
rious kinds of despotism.
At the very outset of what are historically ter
sRee modern times, beginning with the close Of the
fifteenth century and the early dawnings of the
Reformation, Spain more than any other country
contributed to strengthen the papal power, while
the war upheld it in Italy more earnestly than the
Italians themselves.
Ii was Spain which carefully preserved the
bloody sparks of the alto.da-fes until they became
rekindled ia Italy and Rome by the aecursed Car
ahl and which alone fed the flames for centuries
afterward. In Spain the Jesuits and Jesuitism
had their birth; and when in the sixteenth century
the conflict began between Luther and his disci-
pies an one side and Rome and her tonsured le-
gions on the other. Spain threw her power-which
now for generations had overspread E~urope-into
ses asrss Of psrssesticr. ord rrined berselsin ire
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27
AGRICULTURE AND SLAVERY,

The friends Of slavery have two fces-one for
the North, another for home. When they address
the North, they put on n very cheerful and coura-
geous face. They try to look happy, and tell Of
happy %slavee, Gourishing plantations, growing
prosperity. The North, they would have us be-
lieve. is q poor dependant upon the South. AT
home, they wear their SAD aud anxious face--kcep
failing Of q leaf"-hold conventions to try and
awaken public sentiment--ond sometimes tell the
truth about their financial and business condition
and prospects. South Carolina is the model slave
State. Shareholders govern it as completely as the
nabobs Of India once ruled their miserable realms.
What have they done for it2 Read the following.
1t is from an address by the Agricultural Conven-
ton recently held at Columbia, the capital of that
Statei-
"Your Committee would earnestly bring to the
attention Of this Convention The mournful fact,
that the interest heretofore taken by our citizens in
agricultural improvement has become stationary
that our old fields are enlarging, our homesteads
have been decreasing ~fearfully in numbers, and
our energetic sons are annually seeking the rich
and fertile lands of the South west, on which they
imagine that treble the amount of profits can be
made upon capital than upon our own soils. This
is not all. We are not only losing some of our
most energetic and useful citizens to supply the
bone and sincw of other States, but we are losing
our STARE popuidtion, which is the true wealth Of
the State. Our stocks of hogs, horses, mules and
cattle are diminishing in size au1 decreasing in
number, and our purses are being strained for the
last cent to supply their places from the North
western States"
Virginia could tell the same thing. 1t is losing
ground still more rapidly. And yet these very
men would curse the vast Territory of Kansas with
this same ruinous system.-CoUeaanter.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27

The whole of Paris seems suddenly to have ac-
quired a knowledge of the English language, for
there is scarcely IA shop in which the passer-by is
not informed that English is spoken" This no.
tice of the possession of the vernacular is occasion
ally Of the quaintest kind, or ambiguously worded
ms the dicta Of the Delphic oracle. TIE English
man who has got through the elements Of the
tongue may guess its meaning by the help of the
corresponding translation in French. But it is not
rare to see new arrivals horribly puzzled when
they see on the windows of an clearinghouse in one
of the back streets such notices as this: "Bif
sticks. Rosbif-English spoken, ct cult a point
Or, again, in n Magasin de Modes "Dentelles e
blondes-EngliSh spoken avec de broderies super
bus" Or. again, "Drab bon marche, pressure
pour rien-- English spoken, a A frances la metre
Or Bon Vin-English spoken, rs confines l.
~litre," etc.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27

NATURAL BARoMETERs -Chickweed is an excel
lent barometer. When the flower expands fully we
are not to expect rain for several hours: should il
continue in that state, no rain will disturb the sum-
mer's day. When it half conceals its miniature
flower, the day is generally showery ; but if it en-
tirely shuts up, or wells the white flower with its
green mantle let the traveller put on his great coat.
The different species Of Trefoil always contract
their leaves ut the approach of n storm, so certain
ly docs this take place, that these plants acquired
the name of the husbandman's barometer. The
Tulip, and several of the compound yellow flowers
all close before rain. There is a species of wood
sorrel which doubles its leaves before storms. The
Bauhinia, or mountain ebony, cassia, and sensitive
plants observe the same habits.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27

Silence prevailed the house. In Rachel's simple
white classic dress and modesty Of attitude there
was n touching solemnity. She gazed silently on
tho audience for some minutes, during which her
countenancc changed gradually from an expression
of melancholy to one of whitening seorn. Then
suddenly the face was lit up with a look of terrific
wrath. A glowing fire Of revenge burned fercely
in her dark eyes. FROM the modest Made n she
had sprung into tho inspired goddess of liberty, in.
citing enslavcd men to noble deeds. The open
ing words "Allons enfants dc la patrie," she sung
with deep intensity of passion, and beautiful was
the touching change in the expression of her
countenance from scorn to compassion, MS with one
hand pointing to the far distance, she chantod in
slow, measured tonc-"Ils yiennent jusque dams
vos bras egorger vos fls, &C." But her stature
seemed to grow, her veins to Bill with blood, as
she addressed the imaginary tyrants loudly and
boldly in the words:
"Tremblcz, vos projects ~rnrrtties
Won't onhn rccevoir leur prix"
She reaches still higher degrees Of confidence as
she went on until she expressed the most unlimi-
ted scorn Of the enemy both in word and look, and
MS she again sums up her fiery inyectives with the
soul-stirring appeal
aux armcs citoycns,
"Formez vos battilions,"
the enthusiasm reached it's hight. T She then walk
ed to and fro for u moment as If overcome with a
terrible sorrow, but turning round she seized the
tri-color flag, and holding it high in the air, she
fell on her knees addressing it with veneration in
the words.
"Armoue sacre dc In patrc,
Conduis, souticns nos bras vengours
Iberte' iiberte cheric,
Comlats avec ties defenseurs."
No power OF language can do justice to the on
raptured alteration with which she pronounced
Hbcrte, lbcrtc chorie.
We can fancy the madness of passion which
such an ode chanted by such n woman must have
reused in the hearts of the Paris population in the
days Of revolution. Here it lacked the occasion tC
give it effect, and did no' create so high an enthu
siasm as the closing scenes of Horace. 1t car
scarcely be called a song. 1t is a scene of musica'
defamation, in which the meaning is conveyed
less by power Of voice than by intensity of feeling
and eloquence Of gesture. But whether we call i
song or defamation, it is Rachels sculptural grace
and concentrated power of utterance which keep,
us spell bound.
Let us not forget, but acknowledge with graf
itude, that this song was last night q homag,
paid to American feeling. With a keen percep
ton of her own powers, Mile Rachel declined t.
sing the Marseillaise. When, however, she wa,
asked in the name of Lafayette. a name rounC
which are gathered the memories of so man,
French struggles AMI American triumphs for free
dom, she could no longer hesitate, and exhausted
as she was after an ardous PRESERVATION, threw he
whole soul into the song.-T}i6nne.