Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-13

lie government, but thought it more perfect than
any othor extant-that the great body Of the peo-
pie vt Ohio were loyal to tho confederacy-"that
tor these and a variety Of reasons that might be
stated but were not,) The Committee in the
most decided and emphatic manner, condemn the
reasonable objects Of the memorialists and ask to
he discharged from tho further consideration Of
the subject"
Neither branch Of the Legislature took any no
tice whatever of a request, respectfully urged in
the memorial, that it should DO referred to a special
committee and that the memorialists should be
heard in support of the object Of their memorial.
Notwithstanding the cavalier manner in which
the Committees ANA both branches of the Legisla-
ture disposed Of the memorial, il gave rise to II
very earnest debate On the right of petition, In
which the gentlemen to whom tie memorial was
committed. with others, distinguished themselves
by the decision and ability with which they de-
Tended it; whilst a considerable number showed
themselves willing to suppress this constitutional
right Of the citizen for the sake Of partisan sue.
cess and the privilege of continuing in fellowship
with Shareholders. The presentation Of this start
ling proposition to the Legislature in a form which
called for acton, excited attention throughout
the State, and awakened for the time 4 h%ealthlul
agitation on the subject. And we think its success
indi Gates u course which it would be well to prose.
cute still further.
AT the time of our last Anniversary, the slave
power through the Federal judiciary was striving
to subdue Pennsylvania to more affect submission
10y substituting for the ordinary FIRMS OF law, the
arbitrary dicta of a Federal Judge. Passmorc
Williamson was then in prison, aud through him
it was designed to strike down the personal liberty
of all who dared effectively to vindicate the cause
of freedom, and by asserting the supremacy OF the
Federal court, it expected through its decision to
maintain the right of sllveholding in Pennsylvania;
in the EN- IN attic Language of the court to es-
tablish the fac: that "a man has as good right to
travel through that State with his slaves as with
his carpet-sack or his overcoat." Subsequently
Judge Kane without retreating from this monstrous
legal position, which he has left ON record as law
and precedent for future use, released MIR. vii.
hanson. Not however until the Supreme Judiciary
Of the State had acquiesced in the munstrous claim
of the slave power as asser ted by Judge Kane.
Thus the State Judiciary Of Pennsylvania was
thoroughly subdued and the work that was desired
Ivy the slave power really done, although Pussmorc
Williamson received his discharge, aud Jane John
son and her children are still in the enjoyment of
comparative freedom. TO maintain which how.
ever, in Consequence OF the victory Of s.ay eholders
in this case, she is compelled to surround herself
with all possible means to elude the search of the
national blood. hounds which at any time her claim.
ant, The U. S. minister at Nicaragua, may set
upon her track.
DESTROYS in every possible manner to resist this
dangerous method of slavery extension into the
MISUNDERSTANDING States, the Executive Committee
took measures to secure the circulation Of petitions
to the House Of Representatives, for the impeach-
ment Of Judge Kane for this high handed tyranny,
A very consideral lie number of signatures were
obtained to these petitions which were forward, cd
to various members Of the House. There however
they were permitted to pass quietly into oblivion
Why we cannot say. Perhaps because it was
thought it might conflict with som Of their plans
Of political operation.
A few months subsequent to this success in lie.
gally extending slavery over Pennsylvania, the
same object was sought and secured in Ohio.
The year previous was also distinguished by n
similar and successful effort by the Shareholders.
la the case Of Rosetta Armistead, Judge M'Lean
bad asserted the authority Of n slave Commission,
er's warrant to be above that Vt the Judiciary OF
Ohio, and in fact that the fugitive slave law multi.
fed the CONSTITUTIONS provision of our State, which
secures liberty to all its inhabitants unconyicted
of crime.
The facts are briefly these. Judge Parker or hear.
ing of n writ of Haheas Corpus, released Rosetta
from the custody Of the Marshal, who held her by
virtue of a commissioners warrant, as a fugitive
slave. In defiance of this decision and by author
iy of his old warrant, the Marshal again seized
her. whereupon Judge Parker Imprisoned him fol
contempt. Judge M'Lean of the Federal Court
on a hearing of a writ of haJeas corpus released
the Marshal thus affirming that the Commissioner
warrant, was paramount to Judge Parker's author
ity; and here this question Of supremacy was ther
left. Ohio like Pennsylvania was disgraced anC
~subdued, and she quietly submitted. Daring the
last winter a most favorable opportunity offered
which the shareholders eagerly embraced to secure
a repetition of this decision.
Among the hundreds of f~ugitives who passed
the Ohio river last winter in search of freedom, wa,
the heroic and noble woman Margaret Garner witt
her family.
1t is not necessary particularly to recapitulatt
her history. 1t will BE- recollected that after cross
ing to Cincinnati, Margaret ard her children were
seized as the slaves of Archibald K. Gaines. anC
her husband with his parents,as the slaves Of VIM
Marshal, both of Kentucky. After a protracteC
trial, in which it appeared clear to all except the
kidnappers and the commissioner that Margaret
her husband, her motherin-law, and her children
were entitled to their freedom from the fact, tina
these adults had been brought previously to Ohio
they were all a~djudged the slaves of their respec.
tive claimants. To save her children from thu
horrors of slavery, which from experience, Mar
garet knew how to appreciate, she attempted t.
f take the lives of her children and was euceessfu
in the case of the eldest, a little girl Of unusua
beauty of form and features. During the progress