Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
ACT II. SCENE 1. OF THE GEORGIA DIS.
UNION FARCE,

The Albany Evening Jouranl, after copying the
provisions of the retaliotcry act now before the
Legislature of Georgia, and which was noticed 10
the Bugle Of last week, I'M thereon as fol.
lows.
Not a single merchant in New York or Boston
turns pale at this Second Act in the First Scene
Of the Georgia Disunion Farce. They do but
laugh at il. IT'S frightfuliy mean, and observes
the tragic rules of the Crunmelsian sword-com-
bats. But it is farce through and through.
To reason upon this project Of law" after the
flashing of the celebrated cracked kettle argument,
we should say, imprimiS that that bill never will
be passed by the Legislature of Georgia.
Secundo-lf the bill is passed, the law will new
er he enforced.
Tertio If Georgia undertakes to enforce it, she
viii slip up.
Quarto--We hope she will enforce it,
Quinto-We defy her to enforce it.
II any one of the three hundred and fifty thou
sand American Shareholders, who chuckle over this
childish attempt 81 Brighten twenty millions Of free
citizens into acquiescence into the policy of Afri-
yanizing this great Republic, has n curiosity to
know what would be the practical operation Of
such q law, we will tell lin.
A Milledgeville merchant is indebted to jobbers
In New York. The debts are garnisheed by Ger
gia planters, whose chattels have escaped to this
state. lie twists up the summons and throws it
into the face Of the sheriff, and. If his stock of
goods is low, starts of north to lay in a fresh sup
ply. lie will not allow the loss by a planter Of
one negro, to break up his business. And if he
prosecutes it, he has got to buy, and he will buy,
where he can do best. If New York is his best
market, he will continue to purchase in it, and if
he has been lucky enough tn get his pay out of the
negro owners. the first ute he will make of his
money will he to pay his debts. Otherwise he will
not get any goods. Not n garnisbor will touch n
dime of what he owes to the New York iobbers.-
lie will not pay a debt twice over, for the sake of
any number Of negroes. And he would laugh in
the face of any lawyer who should attempt TO oh
tain a judgment against him, on n garnishee pro-
cess in favour of a claimant of fugitive slaves. lie
would be perfectly certain that the Courts of Geor-
gia would nonsuit Cannon, us soon as he had
opened his case. Not n Judge in the State, out
OF the Insane Asylum or the Asylum for Idiots,
would listen to an argument in support OF a law
passed to compel the class of merchants to pay
for all the nc.roes the cotton planters lost. That
would be all there was of the law. For it could
not absolve the merchants from their Northern
debts. These could lie sued cut of them, either
in the United States Courts, or the local Courts of
Georgia. The obligation of contracts cannot be
impaired. ana would not be undertaken to be i'm
pair, anywhere in this nation, save by lunatics.
But this legislative make believe in Georgia, is
too puerile to be argued about. There is not the
slightest purpose of passing the law in any quar-
ter of that State. If any citizen Of the North
should be frightened by this foolish demonstration
from his duty to Kansas, to Freedom and to the
Republic, he would deserve h he auctioned off up
on the block in Savannah into lifelong cotton cul-
ture and African bondage. lie is already a slave
in spirit, and ought to be one in fact.