Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-01
WHOLE NO. GIG.

questions and now stads forth Gs tho champion o.
strong and supreme central governmental which,
the State must yield their sovereignty and such re.
served rights stand in the way OF that suprema-
cy. This is FEDERALISM revived under the name,
oi DEmocRAcY--Jef dethroucd and laniltons
installed in his place.
| TO understand the case thoroughly it may be
well to promise that the legislature Of Ohio some,
time since passed law empowering the Judges of
the State to issue wrts Of haJcas corpus and in.
qure into the causes of the detention of ann
person persons under arrest within their jurie>
dcton. and making it the duty OF the sui ordinate
officers Of the Courts to execute such writs. The
right of the State to enact such law cannot sue
cessfully be questioned. If Ohio is sovereignty
i lsupreme within her own bounds che owea il to,
herself t1 that the sovereignty is exercised to
the protection of every man within her limits and
see that no one is victImzed or oppressed 1t her
sovereignty not equal to THIS it is hardly worth
the nlmc
Some weeks since q slave escaped from Ken
lucky and was followed to one Of the centsal couu
ties Of Ohio, Champagne county, we believe. The
Unite lSatesdeputy Marshals who on his tack
Iallepe that they traced him to the left of house
where he had taken refuge, but refusing to be ar
rested he fired upon them and they although folrin
number were unable to arrest him. They left tho.
house and the negro made good his escape The.
Marshals then made information against number
| Of individuals, four we beijeYc who were in
about the house where the negro had taken refuge.
charging them with aiding the fugitive to eseepa;
and armed with warrants lur tHelr arrest, RETURN
ed to the county from which the armed negro had
frightened them They succeeded in making the
arrests; but while on their way to CINCINNATI with
the prisoners writ of hdJeas corpus was ssuedto,
bring the prisoners before the Probate judge to in
qure into the legality OF their arrest aud deteptIou.
The writ was not served in the county, because the
marshals hadgot outofit ahead of the officers charg
Cd with its service; but the Sheriff of Clarke
ty was then entrusted with it, aud while undertak
ing serve it, fired apon by the Marsials and
cd nd he "
Iccssfully resisted The Marshas, however, were
arrested in Greene county, and were committed TO-
Jail charged with assault and battery with intent
to KILL and such other criminal offences as natur-
ally grew out Of the resistance. After their COM
mitmcnt Judge Lcavitt of the United States Dis
trict court issued writ Of hdGeas corpus to bring
the imprisoned Marshas before him, and after a
prolonged hearing and various postponcments, dur
ing which the Judge got his cue from the presses
and leaders Of tho democratic party, he at length
decided that the Marshals being in the discharge
of official duty had right to resist the State Off
GERS and were not amenabe to the State Courts
for having violently resisted and dahed the laws
of the State. The llarshals were therefore dis
charged.
But this is not the end. The attorney who sued
out the writ of hdJeds corpus on which the Marsh
ais were arrested, the Judge who issued the writ
!, and the Sheriff and posse who served it have all
been arrested and held TO bail to before the
United States Circuit Court for having exercised
+ the duties imposed upon them by the statutes Of
7 the State If the democratic party compass it
u they will all be severely punished for exercising
allegiance upon their soil to the laws Of thcir
+ own State.
: The question arises whether Ohio is really pos
sessed of the attributes of sovereignty. Accord
ing to Judge Leavitts decision any fool kpaye or
Iscoundre who may get an appointment as United
States Commissioner may issue writ at any time.
arrest any citizen of Oho-governor. Judge. sher-
! ih legislator farmer or mechanics, and the Feder
| al Mnrshas may seize the designated citizen upon
Iorv fri
however unconstitutional, and drag him be-
fore this petty Commissioner; and there is no.
power in any State court which can protect him
from the outrage. Neither the State nor any Of
her citizens has any rights which these federal
bloodhounds are bound to respect The Marshal
and his deputies may create any riot in serving tho
writ, shoot, knock down or kill whom they please;
but the courts of the State must not lay hand
upon them for their violation of the law, pIa:
sumo to hold them to account therefor. The
State is simply conquered province of the gener-
al government.
And this is the case with every other State, as
well Ohio. The fugitive slave law, as interpret
ed by the United States Courts makes an irrespon-
sible set of officials whom it empowers, supreme
OYER both the people and their State authorities.-
The States are nothing; the general government is
everything.
What was begun under this law will be carried
out to legitimate conclusion under the bred Scots
decision by and 10y we shall have men coming
in here with their slaves from Virginia and Ken
tucky and holding them such upon our soil in
in spite Of our laws to the contrary. The cup
ust administered to any State that dares to attempt
protection of its sovereignty against tho conceal
cd Federalism Of the Democratic party backed up,
as it is by the bayonets Of the National Adminis-
tration. And after the rights of the States have,
one by one, been Frustrated thus, the people will
wake up 20 the reality, and to wish that they had
wakened sooner. They are slumbering, now, or,
if awake at all they are looking with drowsY
eyes. We await the full awakening with keen
anxiety to the result. Meantime, the duty of
the press is plain-to watch and deveiope clearly
the stcalthy but steady march of central despot
ism. There is where the great danger of the
country lies. The only way of escape from that
danger in the utter overthrow of the party which
IS thus Federalizing the national governments and
the party that accomplishcs that overthrpW must
do it, if it would attain Il permanent succese upon
the broad and really democratic platform OF STATE
RIGHTS and the SOVEREIGNTY of the various Com-
lmonwoGlths, opposed to the Capitalization of
power in the hands OF the government Washing,
ton.