Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-28
CoLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO SATURDAY MARCH 2S 1857

expect to help yourselves2 Wha. will oil your
protests and agitation amount to 2" Let us an
swer these gentlemen briefly, but clearly.
l. We do not propose to resist the Federal au.
thorlties nor to break up the Union. Wc do not
esteem either rebellion or disuniUn the proper
remedy for political or judicial wrongs while the
Freedom of the Press and the right Of Suffrage
are maintained. Especially should we deem dis
union most untimely, now that the highest tribu
nal has--though extra judicially and without au-
thority- Slavery National, not a
sectional, institution, making it concern of the
nominally Free equally with the Slave States
When this doctrine comes to DO positively es,ab.
lished hereafter, it will be settled that Slavery
must pervade and control the whole Union or be
expelled from every part of it. We have not de.
sired such an issue but, when it is made up and
forced upon us by the Slave Power, we shall not
shrink from it. Disunion involves the abnn dom
ment of our enslaved couNtrymen to perpetual
bondage We choose not to desert them.
2. We do mean to make plain to all our coun-
trymen who read the iniquity and enormity
of the Dred Scott decision in all its parts, but es-
pecially in its fundamental denial to the feeble
downtrodden Of any right of appeal to the Fede
raj tribunals BY every principle of righteous
jurisprudence, the humble or degraded an
individual or class may be, the more imperative is
the duty of the tribunals to hear the plea dings
and assert the right cf such suppliant or class
We mean to make the American People percieve
and feel that in ustice to part is peril to ALL and
that the refusal to consider Dred ScOtts prayer for
liberty on tho express ground Of his being black
man, therefore possessing no rights which white
men are bound to respect, is fatal blow at the
rights and liberties of all.
3. We mean to show that decision of the Su.
preme Court, though formidable, is not irrevers.
ible. That Court affirmed the constitutional va.
lidity Of the Alien and SedtiOn acts yet the peo-
pie annuled those acts and paid back the penal
ties imposed under them by the Federal Ju-
dietary That Court pronounced Bank Of the
United States perfectly constitutional, yet the Peu-
pie ultimately made a contrary decision, which
prevailed over the Courts. So in other cases.
So will it be again.
4. We mean to urge and effect adjustment Of
the basis on which Justices Of the Supreme Court
are appointed Now Six hundred Thousand Free
People in n slave District have equal weight in the
constitution of that Court with tour Millions in IA
Free District and Six Millions of Free People in
Slave States have more weight than Six Millions
in Free States. This is grossly unjust, and
not lie upheld. Make the Judicial Districts equal
let Judges be fairly selected theretrom and the
Dred Scott Decision will soon be oyerruled and et
faced.
| 5. We mean to create and arouse an elighten-
| ed public sentiment which shall ultimately place
the Federal Government, in all its departments,
in the hands of men who love the Constitution and
! the Union much but Liberty, Eternal Justice
and the inalienable Rights of Man, still more
men who will regard Freedom as the universal and
Everlasting rule and Slavery the local and tran
STORY exception men who will give Sbylock his
pound of flesh" but warn him in taking it to
shed mo drop of Chistian blood"-men who will
be tenacious Of the rights of men legally free,
like Dred Scott, of those permitted by vicious
local regulations, over which the Nation has no
control to claim property in the limbs and bodies
Of their fellow men.
! 6. In short we mean to prove, by the issue OF
this contest thai Justice is the law of Gods uni
verse, to which all human laws should and must
conform and that patient waiting and earnest
working will eventually secure its triumph.
If there Se treason in this. let the Federal
DiStrict-At.orner hurry up his documents.