Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-01

termined to maintain their right to hold their slaves
in transit through the fire., States. During tho
last scason, when for months the Ohio River vas
not navigablc, very many slaves, as We have
reason TO believe, we're carried through Ohio on
our railroads. The closing proceedings of our
last Anniversary worry fttingly gave freedom, to
one Of these, a child of tender years, who was
being transported as a slave across our territory,
from North Carolina to Tennessee. This enamel
pated child is now rejoicing in her freedom, and
enjoying the benefit of our public schools. An
other youth was also released in Guernsey county.
soon after, on a writ of IIabeas Corpus, and two
other efforts we're made in other cases, without
the samo satisfactory result. The most remark
able case. however, in our own State, was that of
Rosetta Armisted, claimed as the slave of Rev.
Henry M. Dennison, Pastor Of q Protestant Epis
copal Church in Louisville, Ky, and son in law
OF Ex-frosident Tyler. Soon after the girls arri-
val in Ccier bus, Judge Jamison, of tho Probate
Court of Franklin county, on a hearing of n writ
of uabeas Corpus, pronounced her free and, as
she was a minor, appointed L. G Van Slykc, Esq,
of that city, her guardian. The Rev. Pastor left
his Kentucky flock, and proceeded to Columbus, to
dccoy his property back to slavery. The girl pre-
fering liberty, the Row. kidnapper procured n
warrant from slave Commissioner pendery, of
Cincinnati, and sent two Of his kidnapping accom-
plices to Columbus, who by fraud and falsehood
succeeded in Selling the girl and male all haste to
drag her on board the cars, and proceed to
Cincinnati. Fortunately, despite especial plots to
the contrary, Rosetta's faithful guardian got on
board the same train, and previous to her hearing
before .the Commissioner, be obtained a writ of
Habeas Corpus. The two trials proceeded, the
one with a Wow to establish her freedom, and the
other to consign her to slavery. Senator Chase
and Judge Walker distinguished themselves as the
of Rosetta. and Of the rightful suprem-
|acy of the Constitution of Ohio over the slave
laws of Kentucky; and Judge Parker, who issued
the writ, decided, quite, in conflict with the recent
decision Of Chief Justice Lewis, of Pennsylvania,
that
upon writ Of Habeas Corpus issued by Courts
of n State, the Court might and would look into
the legality of the detention of persons held under
process of a United States Court, and if such de-
tention was found to be illegal, would grant a dis
charge therefrom."
Judge Parker did look into that decision, found
the detention under Commissioner Pendery's war
rant Illegal, and confirming the decision of Judge
Jamison, pronounced the girl free.
In contempt of this decision, L. S. Marshal
Robinson seized upon the girl by virtue of his old
illegal warrant, and brought her before the Com
missioner, who contented himself with asserting
his Commissioner Court as superior to all the
Courts of Ohio, and then gravcly but singularly
deciding that Rosetta was free, not even accepting
his fire dollar fee.
I,IUxa D,.Io, klor II. A.ly r.
contempt of his decision, in seizing a free person
under protection Of the Court without legal process.
Judge Mclean, of the u. S. Court, issued a writ
Of lIabeas Corpus, and thereon released the Mar
shall from confinement. asserting the paramount
authority of the Fugitive Slave Law to the Con.
stitution of Ohio, and of the U. S. Marshal and
Commissioner Pendery to the whole judiciary Of
the Commonwealth. And thus the matter stands
AN open question with an excellent basis fol
future serious differences between the Federal anC
State authorities. One characteristic feature dis
tinguishes this from the case Of Passmore vii
hanson, now pending In Philadelphia. Judg,
Mclean, the Shareholders agent for the ~interpre
tation and execution of the Shareholders C~onstitu
ton, was most prompt and decided in rescuinl
Marshal Robinson from the consequences Of hi
zeal in serving slavery, and in humbling State au
thority under slaveholding usurpation, while Chic
Justice Lewis utterly refuses to even inquire int
the proprietyof the Imprisonment Of Passmore Vii
liamson, the friend Of freedom, or into the indignit
which theCommonwealth has suffered in the outrag
upon liberty in the person Of one of her citizens
And the whole Supreme Bench are taking Who'll
days to deliberate, not whether they shall re
dress Mr.. Williamson's wrongs. and protect tn
State from a gross and before unheard of usurpa
ton, and show themselves able and willing to pre-
tect the personal liberty of their fellow citiz ems
for which they especially bold their office; bu
their grave inquiry of days and weeks deliber
ton is whether they shall even issue u writ to ia
quire into the legality of Judge Kane's highland
cd outrage against justice, when even his wea
and ridiculous p~retence therefor has been swet
away, as is manifest to all the world, friends an
foes of freedom.
And this is the last, and a very fair illustration
the value of our boosted Union 'for the more, pc
feet establishment of Justice, and the security c
liberty to..oui selves and our posterity." The senic
Judge Of the Federal Court pronounces a slav,
catching Commissioners warrant in authorit
above the whole Judiciary of the State-whil
Judge Kane, knowing no law Of Pennsylvani
which ~deprives Shareholders Of their peculia
property when they come into her territory, in
prisons a man without inquiry or form of trial
without bail or mainpriso-merely for the offenc
of informing a widow and her orphan childre
that on Pennsylvania boastedly free soil they ar
free from the control Ct their master. When sue
is the protection which the Union affords to th
, personal liberty Of Northern free citizens, we ma
be justified in demanding to be released from il
D support. But when we add to this the inconcei'
= ably greater wrongs it daily inficts upon it's thre
and a half millions of slaves at the South, whoI
. i unitcs all its members to crush, how earnest ar
indignant should be our cutlery against all sue
!" guilty union with shareholders.
y The people of this nation should be aware thu
there is a systematic and general effort now i
: progress to establish slavery by judicial decision
Y and forms of law, not in Kansas,--that work, nc