Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-09
Che Anti glaperp Bngle.
SALEM, OHIO, FEBRUARY 9, 1856.
THE SLAVE CASE.

We give up e large space this week to tho trial
OF the fugitives in Cincinnati. 1t is important
that all should know what it is claimed should be
done and what is done in Ohio under authority of
the Federal Constitution for slave catching. Moth.
ing else will Sc efectually teach our citizens their
actual subsection to the Shareholders through the
Constitution ami Union. .E
The trial which we have reported only concern
ed the f~ugitives claimed by Marshall. Those
claimed by Gaines are yet to have their trial before
the Commissioner
Tho Coroner's jury in the case of the child which
was slain, rendered as their verdict, That the child
was killed by its mother Margaret Garner, with
n butcher-knife with which she cut its throat
Two of the jurors found that the two Simons. tho
elder and younger were accessory to the act.
The city seems deeply stirred by the events.
The Gazette says "a deep sympathy prevails
throughout the city" "And yet, neither that sympa.
thy for the fugitives nor any proper sympathy With
justice and freedom, is in existence there among
many of the citizens, as is manifest from the facts.
For example, the Gazette itself a Republican
paper, which exults over the glorious triumph Of
freedom in the election Of Banks, says:
"If the fugitives are legally entitled to their free.
dom, no one will dare to deny it TO them; If this
cannot be establis he'd, they will be returned to,
bondage. However much we may despise the law;
and however deep our sympathies may We with the
unfortunate negroes, we would not counsel or en-
courage resistance to the law, because such resis-
lance would manufacture pro-slavery sentiments
ten thousand times more rapidly than the work can
be accomplished by the slavery propagandists Of
the South. Pr.
Again the Gazette says, speaking of people Of
the city and State, ave observe a general wRlinq-
ness to submit to the laW." This is tho "deep sum
pathy" which the Gazette feels for the fugitives.Y
And its anti-slavery policy is equally remarkable.
"To prevent the manufacture Of proslavery senti.
ment," it would have the fugitive slave law obeyed.
Even when it demands the surrender of those
heroic men-father and On-when it requires the
sacrifice of that Spartan mother and her surviving
children. Its Internal acquisitions are not to be
regarded. Such claw abiding citizens" are
morally to near akin to the claw and order" ruff.
aus who lately invaded Lawrence.
But yet we believe there is a real and thorough
sympathy with the fugitives, and a proper regard
for the law that would enslave them. among very
many Of the people Of Cincinnati. The slavehold.
ers and the United States Officers evidently think
SO if we may judge from the following item which
we clip from the news column Of Tuesdays Gazette:
Four hundred special U. S. Marshals, are en-.
gagged at present at 81 a day, guarding the three
fugitives 1.-TWO men aud an old woman) claimed by
Mr.. Marshall.
Ifthis be a true statement, either the kidnappers
are arrant towards or else all the Cincinnatians
are not law abiding citizens after the pattern of
the Republican Gazette.
This class of citizens were desirous of holding A
public meeting to give utterance to their sympathy
and such a meeting was appointed to be hold one
evening last week at Smith and Nixon's Hall Ihs