Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-26
ALEXANDER CAMPBELLISM-SLAvERY
AND THE FUGITIVE LAW. .

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
AND THE FUGITIVE LAW.
In the Millennial Harbinger of 1851, were pub
ished some articles from the pen Of the Editor,
Campbell, on Slavery and the Fugitive
Law. The extra cts below illustrate them all.
In the No. for June, page 3l6-l7 is the following:
may confidently say that the Gospel insti.
tuition as clearly, Us fully, and as authoritatively
the relation of master and slave, as THAT
of m%atrimony or civil or ecclesiastic polity and
that no Christian man can censure another Chris
man, because be is a master and owns a man,
more than because he owns o wife, o son, or o
mo Christian man, properly instructed in his du-
~, and allegiance to Jesus Christ, can censure any
man Tor being a master, and owning servants or
slaves. any more than for hiring a day laborer."
In July, on the Fugitive Slave Law, page 1888
he says:
The first question I PROFOUND to myself on
this subject, in sustaining my position, and to
those who oppose it, is What does the Constitution
Of Tie United States itself require Of me and Of
them. as citizens Of tie United States, IN reference
to american SiareryP To which l answer, in the
words of the Constitution--'No person held 10
se,uice or labor in one State, under the laps thereof,
escaping into another, shall. III consequence of any
taU or regulation therein be discharged from such
service or labor, But SHALL DE DELIVERED UP, on the
claim Of the party to tChom such service or labor
shall be due" This is not the statute of ninety
three nor of .tJfy-one, but the Constitution of the
United States. Every officer in this government 10
sworn to support it. Every naturalized citizen in
the United States is sworn to support it. l am
sworn TO support II; and it is presumable that every
natmrul born citizen of the United States is relix.
iously and morally bound to support it.
How, then, can any enlightened American citi-
zen, native or nat"ralized, be held guiltles. by tho
Judge of all, of perjury'or,of rebellion, while endeav.
oring to prevent a fellow-citizen Of another State,
from recovering one ''held to his service by the
laws" of his own State, under the sanction of the
Constitution of the United States, which he 10
most solemnly bound to sustain?
PuTNAM's MONTHLY AND Misunderstanding
friends of slavery have been rejoicing that Put.
MANS Monthly had proved a failure because Of
its comparatively independent course on the ques-
ton CT slavery having in various articles vehtured
a discussion of some questions incidental to tho
subject. In reply to the statements of this class of
papers, the New York Evening Post says:
S. P. Putnam announces that Putnam's Month
", when he sold it, was paying u handsome profit.
We understand that there has never been q mo-
ment when it has not paid a handsome profit
near SC. 1000 per annum-and the failure of it's pro.
prieturs has been owing to their book publishing,
and not at all to the Monthly. Would it not be
quite as well for those editors. WIN are making q
text out of the history Of Putnam, from which to
preach Pro-Slavery sermons, to first get at the facts
of the matter Or would that spoil the sermons?
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A SEXUAL TO A TRAGEDY.-We learn from tho
Cincinnati Gazette that Mr.. Speer Ferguson. a
wealthy and highly respected citizen Of Covington
Kentucky, stands indicted for enticing slaves to
escape.
The charge is to this effect, in part That "he
did felUniously and clandestinely plot. contrive, So
licit, and have stealthy and secret designations
and consultations and interviews, as well by
night as day, in out-houses, stables. and other Sc
cret and remote places. with a certain negro man
commonly called Irwin, a slave, and the property
of Charles A. Wi,hers," &c. &c.; and did seduce
the said negro away from his master. &c. Tho
punishment for this offence is confinement in the
Penitentiary for not less than two years or it
may be. by a law passed last year, for life. Mr..
Ferguson was held to bail in SO. 900, which he
gave. Mr.. James G.. Arnold being his security.
Major Harris. we understand, has been employed
in his defence.
With the above indictment were two others,
against a free negro named Warner, charging the
same offence, one with reference to Colonel With.
ers' negro and the other with reference to Colo
mel Stevenson's negress, Jane.
The trial of these cases is not likely to take
place this term Of the Court.
These slaves are the man and wife who after
so heroically defending themselves recently in
Cincinnati, were taken back into Kentucky /; tho
husband to die of the wounds he had received Of
the biped blood hounds and his widowed wife to
the auction blockas the only consolation which
slavery deigns TO offer. And now the Kentuckian
who had the humanity to direct them towards a
a land'of freedom. is for this very simple act Of
humanity to be sent to the penitentiary for life il
he shall be deemed to have committed this act. -
Such is the law of Kentucky. And Ohio is very
little better. For this man received his muir,
derous wound on free soil and no inquiry has
ever been made into the facts of the case. The
murderer is at large, a Federal officer and has
} since been busy ~arresting our senators, sheriffs
and judges for the alleged crime Of resisting the
Fugitive Slave Law.
Ohio gives up the fugitive husband and wife.
without furnishing the murderer what has she 10
boast over Kentucky