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


tranpl"d unde, foot the boosted writ Of ~llahcas
Corpus. and the authority both of the Criminal
and probate Court Of the State, aud Judge Me.
Leans decision emphaticaliy confirmed. that the
Fugitive Slave Commissioner is superior in author
iy over all our State Courts, and that tho law Ct
slavery is the paramount law of tie land, despite
our statutes and constitution. But it remained to
make still further confirmation Of this humiliation
oi Ohio. Judge Burgoin, in n feeble effort to vim
dictate the authority of the State, imprisoned the
Marshal for CONTEMPORARY disrcgarding his au-
thority, in returning the children to slavery, in.
stead of bringing them before him on the writ OF
Habeas corpus. Judge Lcavitt then p~romptly re.
leased the Marshal from prison and thus heaped
anew contempt upon the State.
Take this case all in all, it is without parallel in
the annals Of Kidnapping under the form of law.
These slaves, the old grand parents and their son
and daughter, had achieved for themselves and
their babes, the boon of freedom. That noble
mother, springing as she did from the degraded
depths of slavery, said with more impressive en-
phasis, than Patrick Henry ever gave to speech Of
his, "GieG me Liberty or gire me Death =" That
mother whose heroism has enobled her race. was
gwen bhN II III Nlldlu NuNse CIuCl Iu~lS uiu.
wrought her up to this act of noble desperation
She is given back with her surviving babes, under
the hypocritical sanctions of religion-by the mock
forms of justice, and by authority of what is false
~ called law. They were sent back after they
had for six weeks appealed in vain to the courts
and to the morality and humanity Of the people.
And this Internal act was done, when we had three
Judges on the Supreme bench of Ohio who were
elected with much noisy ostentation for the cx-
press purpose of vindicating the sovereignty Of the
State and the freedom of individuals. 1t was done
when we had a Republican Legislature, elected
because they called themselves the friends of FREQ.
dom and were the enemies of slavery extension.-
|! was done, it is well to remember, while we ha&
a governor Of Ohio of whom it is vnunted, that in
intellect, in craftsmanship, in anti.slavery feeling
and purpose he stands foremost among our public
men, aud is well known through the nation AS the
especial champion of State sovereignty; and whilst
he is Governor, IA kidnarrer splits upon that soyer-
eighty and it becomes the jeer Of a bacchnnnlian
mob of kidnappers who have successfully and sue
ccssively triumphed over it. Thus is tie kidnap-
ping law supreme above all, and while our State
authority is thus cloven down, and our Judges and
''Nli u VITA it4Ntu AZ lilN III quiet tlHIllN
our Senators treat as insane fanatics and men
Of bloody treason, those who seek to break the
power by which the wickcdness is wrought-our
wicked and disgraccful Union. Governor Chase
announced in advance the principles OF his admin.
istration to be, no SIarcry oHtSide tie stare States, -
and yet almost the first thing after his Inaugural.
ton, slavery is introduced into Ohio and its eXis.
tence recognised by the Courts, ana Governor
Chase does nothing to resist it. lie sits quietly
by while the sovereignty Of the State committed to
his keeping is pruflucd and insu!,cl.
This marvellous inactivity of such men under
such circumstances, has but increased the conyic-
ton, that under our compromising national Union,
there can &c no divorcement Of the General Gov
eminent or of the individual States from the sup.
port Of slavery-that there can be no ~cfectfa! re
st%riotion Of slavery from entering the territories
and even the nolninally free States, while it is per
mitted a constitutional existence in the nation.
The fac, that VIII lie Repubiicnniom had all pow
or in its own hands in our State when we have
men at the heal Of office who really hate slavery
and are Disposed to do every thing in their power
to crush it consistent with their fidelity to the
Union, that while such opponents OF slavery ex'
tension ruled in the State, slavery was extended
over Ohio, proud and hoastful Of her freedom, con.
firms us in the conviction that there is no hope foi
the slave, but over the ruins of this tyranical and
blood stained Union. 1t leaves us nothing 70 hope
from the Foreign mission Of excluding slavery from
Kansas whilst these same m Missionaries are admit
ting it to curse their own home soil Taught by
this as well as by all other failures of etfo rs to Sc.
49, .
Pile, let us, the Abolitionists OF the West, seek
henceIorth, with new singleness Of heart and new
conservation of labor, of fortune, and of life,
the establishment ofjustice, and the complete and
universal triumph of human liberty.