Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-10
Che Anti 5laucrp Brelr.
ADDITIONS TO THE NEW pOL1CAL CREED

Our readers have all heard of the theory or sys.
tenn Of developments. By the effect of that sys.
tenn single princi pie, which at first appeared of
little Importance is made to open and extend it
self iut) lateral doctrines of such magnitude as
TO astonish everybody. The process has
lately been applied to politics in this country.
The administration is developing with great
energy and rapidity, political creed for its fol-
lowers.
The last development appears in the administra-
ton organ, the Washington Union, Of Wednesday.
1t publishes the elaborate opinion Of Judge Kane
recently given in the case Of Passmore Williamson
to the effect that owner of slaves bringing them
into Pennsy yvania does not, by that act make
them Free unless he enters The state with view
OF making it his residence On this point the
Union remarks:
"The great legal question settled by the case is
one of vital moment to the people of the South
it is decided that the of slave does not lose
the title to his property by the simple act of pass
ing with it through the state of Pennsylvania.
When Judge Kane advanced this opinion by way
of dictum on the original bearing of the writ,
the organs of abolitonism clamored loudly against
the doctrine, ami pretended to quote southern le-
gal authority for the position that whenever the
owner of slave brings him into n free state the
slave instantly becomes free. This total mis-
representation of the true legal position, and an
inexcusabe perversion of the southern legal au,
thority alluded to. The true legal doctrine is, as
is clearly stated and so conclusively argued by
Judge Kane, that is only when the owner of a slave
brings him into a free state amino mOrdndi, tina:
he becomes free but that when he brings him ia
transitu, and not with the intention OF remaining,
the title to him as property remains unaffected
If the New York Tribune and other rampant abo-
ltion journals had attended to this distinction and
had desired to deal justly with Judge Kane they
could never have fallen into the palpabe error Of
maintaining that the slaves of Colonel Weller be
came free upon their entrance upon the soil Of
Pennsylvania. The decision made by Judge Kane
on this point, and ably fortified by argument
and authority, will stand the test in any judicial
tribunal that is not blinded by fanaticism"
Now then, we know what opinions VIC are tc
hold on this subject The true legal doctrine y
is that a slave brought to Pennsylvania New
York or any other free state, is slave STILL unless
the master comes among us with. the Intention Of
remaining In any other case he brings with him
the law Of slavery, that great universal law which
overrides and repeals all local laws. We can nc
longer say of the bondsmen of the South brought
hither by their masters
IL sThcy touch our country and their sAackcls fal;'
all that is sentimental fustian, for which there
is no warrant in any of the usages or statutes tC
which those who speak for the administration
allow vaildity. The slave owner may bring hi,
human chattcls into this state with iron collar.
about Their necks, and the local law cannot take
them off, lie may fog his bondman, ly way O
bravado, the steps of the City Hall the
veranda of one of the Saratoga hotels, and the
local laws cannot interfere The man is his prop
ery unles he comes int the state with the inten
ton of rem lining, and that intention must be clear
ly made Out-a very difficult matter-so that il
consequence of the difficulty of proving tho mo
tive with which he comes into the state, the mas
ter may in all cases defy interference. If tht
person thus held as a slave within II free state
escapes his master will have right to reclaim
and retake him. We expect next to see the proyis
ions of the fugitive slave law applied, by sucl
Judges as Kane, to this class of cases.
Time was when it was believed that under thu
constitution Congress had right to make law
for securing to all men within the territories o
the republic, the great privilege Of freedom. 5,
tn, ,ught Washington 50 thought jefferson, and al
the illustrous statesmen OF his time at the Nortl
Lnd South. The statesmen of the present da!
walk by clearer light, and have discovered tha
the exercise of any such power by Congress in un
constitutional. This idea has been developed int,
political doctrine, party doctrine, in regard t
clared that he will allow nobody to mask his dis
sent under significant silence. Time whel
it was thought that slavery was a local institution
custom peculiar to certain states of the Union
it was once called by its most Jealous defenders
the peculiar institution of the South. The Sys ten
of political development has brought US to se
that it is q national institution, under the protec
ton Of the federal governments that it exist
where it never established by local law, evel
in territories where two years since it was express
Gle in the improved and enlarged party creed.
few years ago nobody doubted that slave brough
into free state became frce-nobody imagined
that there any obligation to recognize tn
right of n master to his person, except when h
had escaped the frontier of a slave state. Ney
IDEAS have since sprung up; the principle Of tn
nationality of slavery has beer developed into th
doctrine that slave coming hither with his mas
ter continues as much his masters property a
the horse he rides, let the state laws order the mai
ter as they may The doctrine also is adopted b.
the administratop-"i is of vital moment to til
South, says the administration organ, and iii
Immediately registered the true legal doctrine
1t is,of course, to be inscribed the tablets whic
contain the creed of the admins tratiOn party
Next we shall be told by the same authority tha
no belong to "the democratic brother
hood" who does not 60 this length, and that II
man can be silent respecting it without being re
garded as at heart an enemy.
The Union talks of the doctrine in regard to tn
right of master to his slaves within the limits
n free state as now settled by Judge Kanes decis
ion. There never was greater mistake tina
decision settles nothing; the state government
will still retain their jurisdiction over the matter
in spite of a thousand such decisions. There ma
be a struggle between the two great powers-w
recall the expression, and use more forcible on
there toiu be struggle and violent one, bt
tween the state governments and the federal tn
state governments seeking to preserve their author
ity over the relation of master and slave with
their limits, and the federal government seeking t
aunihilate it. OF Cno thing we may be certain
the state governments of the free states will neve
yield.-N. T. Ere. Post.
An APOLOGY FOR AMERICAN SLAVERY BY A
ENGLISH LADY OF NoBiEITY.-The New Yor
Times says that the honorable Miss Murray tn
distinguished English lady who has been rlyelin
in the United States for some months past, is pr
pairing book of observations and criticism upo
our people and institutions land that she intend
10 rindicnLe The Institution Of S,areru from The