Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-12

pupllC oihceS NJ Washington, as they nhu alWayb
been disallowed to take part in the
transportation of the mails. And more, they are
to be witnessed in the fact that an individual Of
the African race may be deliberately shot down
and b~rutually murdered, upon the simple allcg-
alton that he owes service in another State, as
was done in the recent slave hunt in Cincinnati.
without the deed provoking inquiry, or examina-
ton into the circumstances And still further,
they are to be seen in the increased audacity of
the slave owners by the employment of the powers
conferred upon them in the Fugitive Slave bill to
hunt down and subdue to its bidding She citizens
of Ohio as witnessed in the Champaign county
affair! The cowardly rufian who with entire i'm.
punity even from any inquiry by the authorities
into the facts, fred through q door and m%ortally
wounded q mnn striving for the liberty of himself
and wife, and altogether without plea of necessity
to capture him or in self.defence, as he was already
enclosed by walls and surrounded by the man.
hunters without possibility of escape, marched at
the head of these forces of the United States which
have been engaged in harrassing the peaceful citi-
zens Of Ohio. And the people, with their Executive
ard Judiciary professodIy auti.slavery have given
no opposition to these earliest fruits Of this decision
oo'O q . hIHu SOuhullb NOTuS, NnlCl mhy as Ttdul-l
ly be contradicted by their arts in the future Us Sc
many similar ones have in the pastl The signs are
ominous that this outrageous decision of the
Federal court, like the equally outrageous enact
ment of the National Legislature, in the Fugitive
Slave bill, and many a preceding aggression upon
human rights, will be first submitted to and then
embraced, despite the noisy demonstrations of OPP
position with which it was greeted in the
outset.
Whilst the seductive temptation of the Presi.
dency of the United States and the honors and i'm
mense emoluments at the disposal of the govern
ment continue to be allurements, it is in vain to
expect that any man who has too little virtue 20
refuse to aspire to, or accept Office under either
National, or State Constitutions loyal to the con-
federacy, will have too much to decline the bride
these offer him to forego all effective opposition to
the .encroachments of Slavery. And the same
may be predicted of any political combination
formed under and acknowledging fealty to them.
The abject submission of Ohio to all the indigni-
ties heaped upon her sovereignty as a State with
in the past two years and whilst controlled in her
municipal affairs by a faction which came into
power solely through its professions of anti-slavery
lulcntlUhs, utilOISlTuteS the truth OF tneSe SuE-
gestions humiliatipg as it is to confess it. Oppor.
tunities for glorious and effectual demonstrations
of her determination to maintain her rights as a 81 W
ereign commonwealth and the liberties of her citi-
zens have been thrust upon her but a thirst for per-
sonal aggrandizement in national affairs, or q COW.
ardly lear of indicating her undoubted rights had
served to prevent those to whom she has entrusted
her own honor and the welfare Of her people from
fulfilling the coordinate duties. The completeness
Of the despotism which oversbadows us and which
strikes down the liberty and the property of the
citizen when and where it listeth is neither under
stood nor appreciated by the people oc our State.
Their guilty completely with the slaveowner invol
UNFAIRLY constituting themselves a portion of the
power by which be holds enthralled his more op.
pressed victims through a retribution natural and
just. though but family perceived, has brought
down upon themselves a measure of the unhap-
Ply consequences. Accident may determine who
shall be its next victim for experience proves there
exists no civil authority which is reliable in an
appeal for protection.
With this understanding of the utter insecurity
of our own individual liberties and of the fountain
of power from which flows the ability to hold in
ehS'i p'NoShe 'hbitiOh thO ihhulNOIJ mOIC up
pressed slaves, your committee have persisted In
their endeavors by all the means within their dis
posal to arouse the public to a knowledge of their
true condition and to carry forward as far as prac.
ticable asystem of measures initiatory of a change.
For this purpose during the last winter they me
morialized anew the Legislature of the State on
the subject of secession from the Confederacy.
The indecent haste of the action of the preceding
session was not again repeated. This was attrib
utable perhaps to the fact that these petitions were
81 yned somewhat numerously, considering the
slight amount of effort bestowed upon theil
circulation, by actual voters, and this was
naturally construed into an indication of the com
mencement Of a condition of !public sentimen
which must needs be recognised by such as has,
their strength alone upon the profession of mum
bers. Yet still in the Senate's report upon them,
it was considered safe and polite to ignore entire
~ the facts upon which the petition was FOUNDED
and to dodge the arguments which might not b.
answered, and the conclusions which could not b.
denied. In this tact. admission of the rightfulnes
, of granting what we ask there is decided encour
agement to renew with greater diligence thi
. mode Of advancing our cause. The circulation 0
these petitions and the more recent endeayor t
obtain signatures to a call for a Northern Conven
ton, to consider the ~propriety of a separation 0
the States, afford indications of a change il
S public sentiment in respect to the value of tn
e present confederacy the more gratifying, because
in direct opposition to the professions of loyalt
: to the Union so literally INDUCED in by politicp
leaders and aspirants, and in despite of their er
= deavors to create a similar spirit in the masses
q and this canvass for names has necessarily prC
il voked that wholesome agitation which leads to
comprehension and adoption of the principle
of the Aboli.ionists.
A statement of the labor performed by OF
N lecturing agency since our last report will nece
sarily be brief. PARKER PILLsBURY and A. :
Fuss, agents of the American Society, spent a fe
d of the weeks Immediately succeeding our Ann
versary in doing a work within our sphere
action SO profitable 20 the cause of the slave as
enhance our regret that its period was SO Unite
pr Re sides these lint for n very short sea sOn eacl