Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-15
Che Antt- 9laperp Buolc.
SALEM, ono, MARCH Is, 1866.
SLAVERY IN OHIO.

Onlteu states Marshall ard his kentucky deputies
have as they suppose and intended thoroughly cs-
tablished Slavery in Ohio. The authorities they cite
for this right Of slav eholding in our State are The
tugitite slave clause in the CONSTITUTIONAL fugi-
tive slave law-the decision Of n Kentucky Judge,
given some two or three years since and its corrob.
grafton and support by Judge M'Lcan. These de-
cisions are deemed amply sufficient to set aside the
unquestioned authorities of the Courts of England
and of the Slave MS well as free States Of this
country. from the time Of Lord Mansfield till the
dissent of the Kentucky Judge. Till then, there
can be found no decision Of importance dissenting
from the established Jaw, that a Stare entering free
territory is .fite-dnd once free aludys free. But
III the crusade for the extension Of Slavery, it was
resolved to introduce it not only into the terrific
ries, but also into the non.slaveholding States them
selves, and the Federal Judiciary, from chief JUS
tice to Commissioner is the power selected to effect
this object. With servile Judges on the benches
of the State Courts, it seems thus far an easy mat
er-Massachusetts basely acquiesced in the person
Of her chief Justice-Shaw--the sovereignty OF
Pennsylvania was most ANONYMOUSLY surrendered
by the Supreme Court of the State to Judge Kane.
Judge MLean trod down the sovereignty of Ohio
and released the U. S. Marshal from the custody Of
the State Court in the Rosetta case-and now, Com
missioner Peudery and Judge Leavitt supposethey
have completed the work, and ef1ectually subjected
our cowardly and sluggish State Courts, They
have taken from the consenting hands of an OHIO
Sheriff six free citizens of the State and consigned
them to Slavery. They have taken them from n
State Jail, from the custody Of State officers. They
have taken them while held by two distinct process
es OF scpcra.e Courts. At tho time of their sur
render to Marshall and Gaines the adults were held
by a State warrant to be tried before Judge Parker
Of the criminal Court, and the infants were held
on an undecided writ of Habeas Corpus, tefure
Judge Burgoyn. The Judge having issued to the
Sheriff II special order TO bold the children until
his decision. The Sheriff chose to disregard his
oath Of fidelity to the State, to treat with contempt
bis obligations to hold the adults for trial before
Judge Carter as we'll as tie special order otJudge
Burgoync, and with indecent haste obeyed the Com
missioner's certificate and the mandate Of the
federGl Judge and gave up the persons, old and
young, to the Marshal for rendition to Kentucky
Slavery. Thus is Ohio doubly dislonored, and,
Slavery established us a recognised institution
among us SO long rs by any means a STAKEHOLDER
can retainAii slaves eitherin transit, or for labor, aud
the State Courts are dcfed in any efforts to pro.
tcct them IN the liberty conferred by the cons!itu-
ton and laws-and the State itself is prohibited
from protecting its own citizens from the assaults
of any person whom the shareholders may claim us
a slave. The Federal pocer is omnipotent for
Slarery, the State poper is impotent for Freedom.
Certainly this state of things calls imperatively
for something to be done, SO seems to think one n,
least of our State Senators Mr.. Brown of Portage
county. lie has introduced into the Seuars the
following bill
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the General ASSEM-
ty Of tie State Of Ohio, That il shall be unlawful
for any person to hold or claim, as a slave, any
other person in the State of Ohio, for any period
whatever: Provided, that nothing in this act shall
be so construed MS 10 interfere with the rights of
the claimant, under and by virtue Of the third sub
division IF section second and fourth article Of the
Constitution of the United States.
SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions Of
the preceding section, shall, on conviction theroS,
be confined i'll The penitentiary and kept at hard
labor not less than twenty, nor more than thirty
years.
That is what Mr.. Brown proposes to do about
it. Will our readers look at it carefully and see
what they they think Of it. Does it meet the wants
of the case? viii it shut Slavery out of Ohio,ac-
cording to Governor Chases'R Republican motto mo
.Siavery outside the Stare States" Instead OF this
does it not especially grant the privilege of slave,
holding in Ohio under certain circumstances. That
is, under just such circumstances rs James Mar
shall claimed Simon Garner Sen. That our read
ers may the better judge of the merits of this pro-
posed law, we copy the article of the Constitution,
which according to this act makes provision for
slaveholdirg in Ohio and to which this law gives
especial sanction. "The third subdivision of sec
ton second of article fourth of the L.. S. Constitu-
ton" is as follows
"No person held to service or labor in one State
under the laws thereof. escaping into another.
ahall, in consequence of any law or regulation,
therein, be discharged from such service or labor,
but shall be delivered upon claim of the party to
whom such service or labor may be DUE"
The meaning of Mr.. Browns law is that
masters may not bring their slaves into the State
for labor-tLat they may not bring their servants
with them when they come for pleasure-that they
may not have she right of transit through the
States when they themselves introduce them here.
If they attempt to exercise this right of slavehold-
ing they are to be imprisoned not less than twenty
uuI thuutuiit yOaio'- nav &c ncii, puoo Id
much of the law and execute it.
But the proviso is Internal or worse. What does
it provide Why that if one Of the abused slaves
of Kentucky shall have the manhood to achieve
his own freedom, if he shall carve it out in spite Of
the master and through the government, why then
at shall be lawful to claim and hold" to try and
condemn, imprison, bind and transport through
and out Of the State, such heroic derotee of free
dom as a Stare. 1t is designed to save such as
young Simon Garner who had had the good fortune
to be brought to this State by his master, but it
as specifically provides for the reinstatement
of his old gray-headed father who had manfully
achieved his own freedom without any such ante
cedent.
We have another objection to this proposed law.
I~ not only proposes to execute the slave
rendition clause of the constitution hnt etooA;no