Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-31
MAN HUNTING.

When O man is converted into o Least il is to
be supposed that in case Of his running away he
will be hunted as n beast. The Saye-hunters,
however, do more. We do not remember ever to
have heard of man in pursuit Of runaway horses
or oxen or even pigs, shooting down the nmals
when they prove difficult to catch. Yet q U. S.
Deputy Marshal in Boston, when n in his
custody as slave seemed likely to escape, ordered
an assistant to shoot him. And at Wlkesbarre in
PENNSYLVANIA Il similar northern official actually
shot man who was pursued rs q fugitive As
this fugitive man undoubtedly human, and no
proof whatever had been offered to any Court in
Penusy syvania, that he had ever been q slave, some
indignation was felt at the murderous act Of shoot.
ing him, and the State Courts were appealed to
punish the brute who had so prosttuted himself
to the base purpose of the slave holders Uni
ted States Judge inerposed to release the ofehding
Marshal in the first instance and whether the
State of Pennsylvania will ever have pluck and
selfrespec enough to yindicate its laws remains to
be seen. But the federal government Of this great
/ country now unfortunately at the mercy Of the
to fortify itse1f against an such state action The
grave Senate of the United States has Just pass.
ed an act ~ to 8, wrestling from the Stale Courts
the power to punish for murder or any other out
rage committed in serving any process under
law of Congress, and marshal or deputy that may
be arranged in the same, by transferring the case
to Il United States Court. No power but Slavery
would ever ask that United States officials should
be exempt from punishment by State Courts for
crimes comtlittcd against State laws under color
of enforcing laws OF the United States. The
Judges Of State Courts, to sustain both Fed
eral and State laws are surely better qualified to
try crimes against State laws than Judges who
are placed under nc obligation whatever to re.
spect such laws, while in this case Of fugitive
/ slaves they hold Office on the very condition that
they will trample on the rights of the States by
enforcing an unconstitutional act Of Congress at
all events,
! 1t is a deporable thing that the Free States
have sunk so low in their degradation that only
nine Senators can be found to vote against so gross
q usurpation for so base a purpose The Federal
Governments is said by the jurisconsults to be
Government of limited powers, but if his act pas.
ses it will have utimned powers of villainy, that
is, powers commensurate with the ihellnatons
which it has for time manifested. AS soon
as slavc-catching deputy marshals slaughter
people accused Of being slaves, amenable only to
slavecatching courts, the business Of slhve-huht.
ing will be reduced 20 safe and practical system,
and the same excellent federal Government will be
ready for the acquisition Of Cuba, and the rt.ehi
slayoment of llayti. We never had the slightest
fault TO find with the Federal Union or the terms
Of it, written down in the Federal Constitution,
but we would thank any one to inform US what
the Federal Government has been, for several
years past, over and above convenient agency for
people who get their livings by plowing the backs
Of negro slayes.-Fbesidc Journal
/ The people of the South are utterly ignorant Of
the character of the people of the North. Their
most accomplished statesmen talk wrctched non.
sense upon the matter.
Northern Doughiaces" in Congress have given
rise to this misunderstanding. Each man has had
his price Congressman have been bought and
sold like cattle in the market Southern men Have
so long lorded it over Northern and the latter
have been so ahjcctly servile, that any measure,
however repugnant to freedom, is looked upon 10
sure of Northern support
The Fugitive Slave Law was passed to allay az.
itationl a brand so blazing with discord WAS
never applied to the phegmatc materials at the
North. 1t outrages freedom and justicei The
Northern mind in mass loathes the deeply Infamous
measure. 1t will never be enforced without pro-
voking deeper hatred of wrong and more wakei
ful looking after the fight.
The power of the United States Government
can enforce that law. Along brstling bayonets
and rows Of loaded cannon, the slave rhny be
dragged by force TO bondage But back of
serred rank and yawning tube the people stand
with frowns and compressed lips. Every new
case under the act kindles hatred into a fsresr
blaze
The slave catcher Aatters himself that he intinii
/ ldates when, by arms, he captures his runaway
chattel. great mistake. The Northern people,
in the main, are law-loving, law-dbiding They
rob and burn no mals-mob no stage agehts.--
But as sure as fate, they verging to that stats
where every fugitive recovered by the slave hun.
ter will cost blood and life. While the rescuers
of Glover We're going to jail two thousand Of
their fellow-citiEens. with marshals and bands OF
music, escorted them through the streets, whilo
grooming audibly" told their loathing Of tho
Judge who sentenced them. Convictions for such
rescues make martyrs of the convicted, and con.
sign the Judge to lasting nfamy. If the South
wish to allay agitation and crush out" abolition.
Iism the Slave Law must not be exhibited to the
North in its native ugliness.-Cdyuga Chief
4 f. -~- ac-
i Gov. Gardner of Massachusetts, has appointed
the 5th of April. as day Of fasting and prayer.