Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-01
Che anti slapcrp Buelr.
SALEM, ono, AUGUST l, 1857.
THE STATE SOVEREIGNTY OF OHIO AND
ITS DEFENDERS.

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In the preceding columns will he found the
of several of our leading Republican
relative to the outrageous tyranny of Judge
late decision. 1t will be seen that there
is a seeming waking up to the humiliating posi-
ton Of the State Of Ohio as q subject province
to the slaveholding States through the Fed
eral Government. We say q seeming wakon-
ing, for really from the articles themselves there
appears to be no more than this. There is really
no objection taken to the deprival of our citizens,
white or black, of liberty, under the provision Of
the Fugitive Slave Law. That is law, and it is
TO as such. Their controversy with
Judge Leavitt is not that he sustains the authority
of the Commissioner, Marshal and his deputies, in
seizing fugitivcs, or in Furnishing any whom he
may choose as the slaves aiders and abcttors:
but it is against the insulting form of tyrannv
which Judge Leavitt has sustained, forbi5ding
the right to any State oacor 10 institute oil inqiry
as to whether the alleged Federal officer be really
such, and if so, whether he have the customary
authority or no. Our Republican defenders Of
State sovereignty re really alarmed at this extra
amount of dignity and inviolability of person
which is thus throw around these governmental
slave hunters. Itij indeed a case to excite their
alarm and to provol c and justify the brave words
they utter, that while the slave hunter is so pro-
tccted by his official dignity that nc may not be
inquired of by any State authority whether he
has a Commissioner warrant or not, our State
Judge, This represent itives, the Sheriff and his aids,
may be fined and i'm prisoned for vonturing to ask
in legal form for the authority on which one of
Al , gn.oro,r, ,-I,,o Ao,-1o ac nL:o :. .Ia--a
or imprisoned. There is, we Say, in this pal
pablo subversion of the forms of law and liberty,
enough to awaken IT, indignation and arouse the
resistance of the most stollid, who have any regard
to the interests of freedom But whom these de-
tenders of State rights are once aroused, mark the
modcsty of their clairis. They do not claim the
right to prevent Kidnapping by aid of a Commits
sioner's warrant.-Tt ey do not claim the right by
the State TO protect tn, people of Mechanicsburg
from the legal persecution to which they have been
subjected. 1t is the ri ght of the Federal Govern.
ment to execute the Fugitive Slave Law, and il
can be done without ctllision between the Federal
officers and the Republic lean State authorities. AL
that these defenders of the writ of habeas corpus
and the rights of personal liberty ask, is that the
writs of our State judges be respected so far by
the Marshals, that they Condescend to show their
Commissioners warrants md thon they may &c
their way with their prisoners to q Cincinnati
prison, the Kentucky collie or wherever else i
plcases them to direct heir steps. With the con
cessiOn in all the action in our State officials tina
this is the extreme point of resistance to this
tyranny which is p~ractisod under the Fedora
Union this the only protection to personal liberty
| and Stafn snyerpiUntv tbot tln aytran,oSt pOlitioo
friends Of these blessings can devise, they 81
down contented that go it shall continue to be
And while this development is in progress. oul
State rights Governor, who was elected especial,
to secure personal liberty to our citizens, il
among the iMaryland shareholders, lauding thi
Union, the instrument of this humiliating despo
tism and pronouncing it perpetual in the name o
the subjugated and enslaye d people of Ohio,
The articles We copy, especially the one from
the Pi;tsburg Gazette, puts our relations to tn
slave despotism in ito true light. 1t represents u
conquered, our State laws and Constitution as null
lifted, and all this as only preparatory to the actua
holding Of slaves in the State under the alread
announced opinions of the Federal Court. |
seems to us no intelligent person can fail to Sc
this to be the actual state of affairs, and yet tn
5 central Republican organ of the State takes thi
: opportunity to convince its readers that wit
!. prudence and a proper regard to the Constitution
n the Fugitive Slave Law may be executed upo
i. slaves and their friends in Ohio, white and blacl
withous any necessary collision with the Sta
government. What can be hoped by way of suI
# preston of the slave power from so amiable
o spirit of concession and compromise. 1t is n
!" worthy even of the idea attached to the name
s the party, SO much coveted as expressive
C their object.-''the white mans party."-Tt
% white men as we'll a3 blacks of Johannesburg
and any other place where humanity dares
exercise its commonost attributes, are to be XII
mapped by United States Deputy Marshals
n pleasure, their property consumed by prosecution
u and fines, and their persons imprisoned mil
from home, and in all this "there need be no CO
lision with the State government" All they n
is that the kidnappers shall show their warran
> on request, to our sherifs and judges. And tn
Il is the way the Ohio State journal proposes
le protect the rights of white men. and secure t
re sovereignty of the State. Perhaps hereafter f
the sake of Union the Deputy Marshals may co
sent to cultivate good manners sufficiently to con
$. ply with this triding ceremony even though Jud
Leavitt says they are under no obligations
90 SO. Then the State Journal can swell wi
the dignity of our State sovereignty and go
like Governor Chase in Baltimore, in rhapsodi
over the blessings and glories Of our Union.
PLATE AND HERoD MADE FRIENDs.-The O
and New School Presbyteries of West Tennessee
e have united in one, ~forgetful of the heresies tn
d have hitherto divided them. The love and suppc
Of slavery is the ~fraternal bond that has drawn