Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-08
Che Anti Glaperp Rnole,
SALEM, ONO, MARCH s, 1856.
THE WICKED THE DIsGRACEFUL END


THE WICKED THE DIsGRACEFUL END.
Whose soul that does not sink within him at the
humiliating the horrible termination of the Gin.
cinnati slave case. Take the case all in all, it is
without parallels in the history ofkidnapping under
that spawn Of injustice which lying Shareholders
North and South call lav-the act of 1850. The
representatives of three generations of slaves;
The old grand parents with their heroic son and
daughter had achieved for themselves and their
infants, the great boon Of freedom. They bad
achieved it in the dead of winter, against all odds
Of their masters and their complies. They had
counted the cost, they bad resolved upon fight and
were prepared for resistance. That noble mother
springing. from the depths Of Slavery and yet the
very incarnation of bcroism and maternal self
sacrifice, had said with more impressive emphasis
than Patrick Henry ever gave to speech Of his
"Gicc me Liberty Of gire me DEATH" Give it me
for myself, give it for my babes. Her own maternal
hand had snatched one from the lustful tyrants
grasp, and sent it to the land of freedom, Of purity
and rest, but had faltcred in attempting to do this
good service to the remaining ones. And that
mother, whose heroism has enobled her race,is given
back to the william whose cruelties had wrought
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given back with her helpless, surviving babes,
under the hypocritical sanctions IF religion-by
the mock forms of justice-and by authority of
what is falsely called law.
Well may the demon Shareholders of Kentucky
and Cincinnati-Wel may all He'll on earth and
beneath the earth hold Internal revel over such
success. This family of slaves have been sent
back after the facts of the case have appealed in
vain from the Bar to the Commissioners the
State and the Federal Courts, after they have APP
pealed in vain to the humanity the morality of
the people. After this appeal has been before
them for weeks, the Courts all agree to consign the
whole party-the gray headed, strong armed and
tho infant, to their chains, and the people acquiesce
This is done not only in defiance Of justice and hui
mainly, but also over the PROSTATE sovereignty OF
the State. 1t is done when we have three judges
on the Supreme bench Of Ohio who were elected
by Republicans expressly to vindicate the sovereign
ty of the State and the freedom Of indiyiduals.
1t is done, whilst the government of the State is in
the hands of men who were elected because they
call themselves Rcpublicans-call themselves anti
slaverv.-It is done, whilst we have q Governor Of
Ohio, of whom it is the boast Of his political asso-
ciates and friends, that in intellect in craftsmanship
in anti-slavory feeling and purpose, he stands
Saul-like head and shoulders above all his national
competitor Governor Chaseis renowned as the
champion Of State Sovereignty and yet while he
sits to execute the laws and protect that Sovereign
ty, it is ANONYMOUSLY ~trampled In the dust and no
act Of resistance, and rs yet no word of protest
even has fallen from his lips.-While Salmon P.
Chase is Governor Of Ohio her State Sovereignty is
made the Jest of a bachanalian mob in Kentucky.
1t is right it should be so, for the kidnapper has
spit upon that sovereignty, has spit in the face
of her republican Government. We have no law
but the kidnapping law-It is God-aboye all
The hicf-the robber-the murderer shall all so
unpublished and crime of every grade shall run
riot-if the stakeholder chooses to interfere to save
the criminal from the law.-And while the State
authority is thus cloven down, our Republican
Judges can sit in quiet dignity in their Offices
Our Legislature brand rs insane fanatics and men
Of bloody treason those who would break the pow
or by which this infumy is wrought-~Or they are
; Enabling Of our national freedom in the very City
whore these victims Of slavery lie incarcerated
Yes. and the very State officer who in person sur
rendered the sovereignty Of the State-'who lee
out by the hand, Margaret and her children ant
/ surrendered them to the kidnopper, was chic
(, marshal on the festive occasion and led the i'm
: mense procession perhaps by the very prison walls
I where Margaret lay confined, and the Governo,
: and Legislature followed after in honor of the lib
/ erty of this land! What mockery Of common
sense is this? Who does not see that we mus
n have something more than Republicanism to as
sert our State sovereignty, to protect liberty AM
save US from the contempt of the world.
d Ohio is but a conquered province of kentucky
y Archibald X. Gaines is the kidnapping Satrap VIII
I has ruled her during the last six weeks, and notGoy
q ernor Chase. Now that this foreign d~ignitary ha
retired to sell his stolen babes on SoutlIerl
auction blocks, our Republican Governor ma.
n again assume the forms of Office till kentuck,
y sends another representative TO administer tL
a law. Commissioner Pendery and Judge Leavit
have been the Law makers, this winter for Ohio
+; and not those grave bodies at Columbus who hav
been listening to the reports Of Committees
making speeches and saving the Onion. They ma,
go on with their forms and spread out their act
a ON the Statute book, hut what of that? 1t is al
g ~mockery. They may swell with the illusion tina
they are verify legislators. But it will vanisl
when the Commissioner has again occasion to cit
n and the District Court Of tho United States ba
Of occasion again 20 hnck him, Then II will DO see-