Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-16

Slave law on the ether? By the hallowed memo
ry of the Mothers who taught us to reverence that
Biblo-by the battle fields of our revolutionary
sires we must not--dare not relinQuish this great
and glorious right of loving our neighbor as we
love ourselves. Tho President may send steel clad
men to compel us-all the woes of the human race
nay fall ON u', but still on our Bonded knees and
with outsIretthed hands will we cling to their
rights.
Here is an Ella woman quitting his hand on old
Mary's hoid) for 20 or 30 years an honoreI aud
respected member of the Church Of Christ. Ii
wo could see all thugs as they are, we should see
in this room a host Of angels arognd lter-we
should sec Jesus hers. Whatsoever sc do to the
least Of these yc do it unto me-" IL you sond her
70 slavery you send the Savior--if you send her to
the auction block you send Christ there. Whose
ever shall offend one Of the least of these, it is bet
ter that a mil stone be hanged about his neck and
chat he be cast into the depths If the sea-" Il
Congress enjoins you to pluck out IN eye or a
hand would you do it? But would it not lie better
TO enter into Heaven without an eye than having
swo eyes to be east into Hell fire.
Ny friends, turning to the counsel for Mr.. Mar
shall what would you have? just so sure rs
you tear that sucking bale from the bosom of its
mother, the very stones will rise against you, mot
in mob yiolence) but in six months the Union will
be at an end: and better far that it should end, than
TO sanction such violence. Yhe constitution does
not require you to do an act which shall wrap this
land in flame and drench it in blood. You have
only to assert your cwn religious freedom. BY
doing SO you refuse Mr.. Marshall his fugitiyes, but
you secure him a greater, a dearer right. What
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euiring him to execute such a monstrous wrong?
Suppose he were as conscientious as John Wesley
could you ask him to do it? Suppose him, on
the.othcr hand, Il degraded and wicked man, Il
am not abiding to the present Marshal, for l
s%carcely know him what right have you to add
another drop to his cup of iniquity?
1t is for you to decide whether this man shall DC
FREQ to worship God without the naughty shadow
Of his master between him and his Creator-free
to 90 where he p~leaseS-iree to embrace his wife
and his children. Then, though all the ca,amities
of earth come upon him, no stakeholder can enter
his cabin to drag his loved ones away to helpless
bondage. No! thank God, thmt is BRIGHTLY consid-
cred now the law Of the land-thatis our glorious
heritage.
a am svare that this argument has not been used
by any of cur great men in the Congress Of the
nation, but the path that The eye Of the Nulture
hath not seen, may be discovered by animals of
more limited vision. Eureka j have found it,
/ see it plainly. Do not Kcntuckians love relig-
ious freedom, as well as we do? De you think be-
cause they ere Shareholders they mean to 20 down
tohell? No. What is slavery ? Atheism. Not
that which denies the existence of a God, but shat
which denies the immortality of man.
Our friends are those who tell us our faults, and
help US to correct them, and the abolitionists are
your very best friends, (o Mr.. Finnell). These
men that are pimping to your vices, are doing So
~thatthcy may get your money or your votes. They
care not whether il is you or y~ourblack man that's
n Slave, SO that they get money by it. But you
know where TO find US. We speak out and tell
you Of your vices. But we know that you are a
generous open hearted race, and as brave men as
ever trod the earth, save only those Of old Viz.
ginia.
Slavery Is cannibalism, not that Of eating, but
nj selling human flesh aud blood ono cuts the man
up for ,ood, and the other sells him for money.
New, sir, are goa required to dip your hands in
this bloody system Of Cannibalism.
lie then read from the Institutes of J~ustinian,
an act commencing, In aomiae Domiai Jssu Christi.
NAS Wy "a Nh'NA WIN Gao n4thtS NiEH CDlllliltIC-
cd. The New Testament has it "do all in the
name Of the Lord Jesus Christ" Would YOU head
your mandate; In the name Of the Lord Jesus
Christ, hurl back that old servant Of the Lord who
has served him thirty years into the seething hell
OF American slavery? The error in Daniel Web
ster was that he took but half the Constitution
Xou must enlarge the basis, and take it all. The
theory in matters of civil government is, that there
is no higher law. My theory is, that there is a
God, and that human governments are valuable
only so far as they enable men to obey God. Dan
icl Webster said in his speech ut Cacanon Springs
near where | was born-'the North mountain
is higher than the Blue Ridge, and the Allegheny
higher than that, bat this higher law scars an ca
giles fight above them all" Sir, this higher law
rises higher than ever eagle few. If you take the
wings Of the morning and fly to the uttermost
parts of the earth, it is there. Descend to the
depths of Hell, and it is there-it follows man
through life, through dcath-and that higher law
is with Daniel Webster to-day, wherever lie may
be in the universe Of God. To send this man back,
would be to separate him from his wife, for as she
is to be tried separately, the Court will presume
her free, sntii proven otherwise, Can you find a
Jaw to separate husband and wife?
ilau Sueh II provision Deeh inserted In the act, 1t
would never have been passed. Ask for a law to
tear that babe from its mothers. breast. When
Shakespeare put in the mouth of the lady Macbeth
81 tear the nipple from its homeless gums and dash
its brains cat" tAe poets Imagination could 90 no
farther. But this is not to dash its brains out, (oh
its mother would kneel and %implore you to do so,)
but to send it back to the roaring, SETTLING, hiss
ing hot hell of American slavery,
viii you do it? ITO counsel for cIainant) Gen.
tlcmen, look to it if there is any such law. Take
your pound of flesh, bat not one drop Of blood.
lie then reeapituloted the testimony, in rela-
ton to the ~iugitives having been in Ohio, and said
that the maxim Of law was once flee, always Free
The Kentucky courts did not deny this, but deci-
ded that the freedom must he asserted at the time.
But young Simon was then a minor, and Mary a