Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
From the AntiSlavery Standard.
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING.

In commenting upon the recent decision of the
Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, we referred
TO the rule Of our southern masters, never va.
riod from to test always the obedience of the North
either when he really complains that her burden
was greater than she could bear, or when the load
laid upon her patient shoulders is so heavy that
she might be expected to complain. In other and
hUmelie- words, the South always proves her pud-
ding according TO the proyerb. 1t may be very
good pudding, fair to look upon, round as ball,
unbroken as II globe, smooth as glass, and smoke
hot-but the proof, after ALL is in the eating there
of; the good maker is not deceived by the outside
Ia fair seeming does not satisfy her ; she must
plunge into the depths fer the evidence she needs
she eats the pudding, and thus proves it. DO not
accuse us of treating serious matter Lightly
Proverbs are epitomes Of the wisdom of ages, an d
sometimes Of these pithy sentences illustrates
more completely than columns do the wisdom
OF an action which is universally in accordance
with it,.
The Dred Scott case is decided; the Supreme
Court makes the law of the land, so far as they
could in decision of this case, the monstrous
doctrine which Judge Kane was the first to pro-
mugate, and profess to be governed by, in the
seat Of Judge We, at the North, have had our
say about it; the TriJunes have clustered the
Journals have sneered; the CourierS have soemnly
argued; class has thundered in indignant
words; another has protested in meek humility
o third has given apprehensive warning of trouble
to come; all moved. 1t is desirable to know,
say the overseers, just what these 'niggers'
mean; are they moved even to the point of sez
! ing the whip which is laid on their backs Let
us see.
| We beg the intelligent reader to consider for five
minutes the character Of the decision of the Su-
preme Court; how it ignores all history; how j,
sets all law at defiance: how it outrages common
sense; how it scorns all humane pretences; how il
mpies upon the panest principles of the Chris
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SCOTS at democracy; and how it scouts all Northern
pretenson to freedom of thought, or free iom Of
net, or freedom of conscience And consider theI
that the March in which all this was done has
counted out but little than half its thirty
days ere, under the very eyes, and within the
reach of the very hands of some hundreds o.
thousands of grown men, to whose faces all these
things have been snid, there appeared first in Bos
ton slavehunter, in search of a man who haC
lived there for years, respectable, thrifty, ar
honorable man-the free citizen of free State
who helped to make Governors and Mayors anC
other officials, more or less worthy-who paiC
taxes, and, probably, supported the preaching o.
the Gospel like any other man who goes daily
down State street, or on Sundays into the broaC
aisle Of the Rev, DR.. Adamss Church-but whC
this slavehunter was to take, if he found him. bacl
to the South to drag out his weary life hereafter
a mere chattel slave.
Boston stands where it did eighty years ago, ,ant
Ilhe uuV INV NhiOh hoi peopio Ohce lhIeW CdrRS
OF tea still rolls into her harhor. Have they thrown
a man into it this time? Not at all. In all proba
bilty the slave hunter has the best rooms IN the
Revere lIouse-it may be, like Daniel Webster, il
entertained only for the honor done by his pres
ence; perhaps he has dned with Judge Loring
and Edward Everett invited to meet him, perhaD,
asked to say grace over parson Adams breakfas
table, or to lead in prayer in any Bible Glass ol
Sunday School whero his hungry soul might lead
him to seek a meal Of spiritual cold victuals. AnC
how is it with the man whom he seeks? The Vigi
lance Committee, as the best thing they Gun do
and Notwithstanding the Personal Liberty Law
of Massachusetts hurry him of, as fast as steam
| can carry him, to where British Law and Lore
Palmerstons Government will give him a refuge
If the slave.hunter had got hold of him. he woulC
have been taken back to Virginia as sure as ther
is monument on Bunkers Hill.