Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-07
WHOLE. NO.. 595..

York, the principle OF which is already decided
10y Judge Kane.
This, lie it remembered, is nm net Of the Federal
Government, recognizing slavery in the free State
If Pennsylvania, in defiance OF Pennsylvania Law.
IL is decision Of the Federal Courts, and 10 in
harmony with the policy OF tho administration.
For nught shat appears, Pennsylvania submits to-
! it, and if 50 she to be free State. Any
other slave.holder can bring his slaves there, as
well as John H. Wheeler, and can hold them there
for lite. it lie can hold them for a single dav.
The mntter.offact jurisdiction of the Federal
Government over slavery in the States. msy be
considered as established so far as usage can es.
tablish it, The right is claimed and exercised by
the Federal Government and is submitted to by
the States. Every State submits to it In, submit
ting to the fugitive slave bill.
II Very we'll Here we are The Federal Gov.
ernment protects slavery and enforces the slave
code, even in the free States.
The same Federal Government, on n change Of
administration, and acting upon the same right Of
jurisdiction abolish slavery in the slave States.
We take it there is no evadng the logic oe plain.
undeniahe, historical facts.
Should the Federal Government abolish slavery
in the United States it would in doing, take no
new ground, set up no new ducrine, and assume
no powers in respect to the jurisdiction Of the
Federal Government over slavery. 1t would only
exercise the accustomed jurisdiction Of the Feder-
al Government in new and opposite direction.
! So that the objection raised against national
abolition of slavery-that it would introduce "cens
out shadow of foundation. There would be no.
more Capitalization" or invasion of "State rights"
in aholishng slavery, than there is, and has been
in supporting slavery. Nay, the contrary of this
is true. The States Rave right to maintain free
dom, but have no right to maintain slavery The
Federal Government has no right to sustain sla-
very, but is bound by the constitution 10 secure
liberty.
| The reigning doctrine is, however. the opposite
OF this. lt assumes that the States have sover-
eign, Independent power to establish and SUPPORT
slavery, but have such powerto protect free.
dom.-that the Federal Government has power
to abolish slavery in the States, but has ample
power to maintain it in the States.
The Free Soil" or Free Republican" doctrine
in an absurd attempt to compromise the matter,
by denying to the Federal Government the power
either Of suppressing Of protecting slavery
which is literally impossible, Not only s it true
that the Federal Government claims and exercises
Jurisdiction American slavery, but it is true
that it does this by voidabe necessity, which
it can, by means, overcome without resolving
itself into njn-existence. national government,
takng no cNgrizance, one way or the other. Of
such II fact M the enslavement Of three and q half
millions of its subjects-neithe permitting it nor
refraining from the permission Of it, is an absur.
iity too gross to he believed. For the Federal
Government to tolerate slavery is to protect it,
And the protection of slavery by the Federal Gov
} ernment, 49, in fact, the exercise of Jurisdiction
over it.
The question before the nation, then, Is not
whether the Federal Government shall claim aud
exercise jurisdiction over slavery. That it al
ways has don" and always must do, of necessity
under any constitution construction Of the con
s'itution that be conceived. The only question:
that there is or that can be- is simply whether this
necessary. inevitable, unavoidable jurisdiction Of
the American Govern ment over American slavery,
shall he exercised for its proectionor for its
| throw
And the people of the free States must decids,ss
they always have decided, this question, by their
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DISTRICT SECRETARY FOR THE AMERICAN BOARD.
- Rev. William Warren. of Upton in this Coun-
~, formerly f Windham, has received from tho
American Boird the appointment Of Disr,c Sec
ret"ry for New Eng land in the place of Rev. Will
Inn Clark, resigned Worcester Spy.
The reverend gentleman alluded to has long
been known in Upton and it's neighBortood as o
most determined and relentless enemy of the An.
tt Slavery cause. lie has talked and preached
against 1t with most unyiclding pertinFcity, and
proved himself a very compliant and thorou gb.xo-
ing servant of the slavehodng churches OF this
country. What n very singular circumstance il
is that the American Board Of Missions always
has the misfortune to stumble on one Of these pro-
slavery gentleman when it has an Office to bestow
Our readers may remember good story of the
ahove mentioned minister which went the rounds
"f the papers few years since. Soon after the
passage of the Fugitive Slave law, a petition TO-
Congress for its repeal was presented 10 Mr.. War.
reh for his 81 ignLture. As the feeling in the town
was worry general and strong against the law, our
parson was in something Of quandry, but finally
compromised the matter thus-he signed the %.
'it"n adding to his name the words. "P,orided all
can he done ia good faith to The Constitution" The
next signer Of the Petition. with eqnly lnud-
able desire not to be misunderstood. appendicitis
name, and to it added these words. "Pforided all
can lie done IN good taiM 10 the Consultation; for
w'M 10 serre God so as not 10 otend the Devil"
-LiGerator.
DEATH OF THE ORIGINAL UNCLE Tox-The Ia.
dianapos Journal mentions the death in that city
nn Sunday last. of Thomas MagrUder an old
negro, aged abou: ITO years. He is supposed to
have been the one who suggested the name and
the leading features of the character in Mrs.
Stoves nuyel, Uncle Toms Cabin" This sup
position is based on the coincidence Of name and
character. and on the fact says the journal, "thst
Henry Ward Beeeher. during his residence here
WAS a constant visitor Of Uncle Toms, we'll
acquainted with his history, and sincere admrer
of his virtues. We have been, told that Mrs
Stowe herself sometimes called to the old man.
Uncle Tome Cabin" too, the name Of his
house among all his arquaintances, and was .
familiar phrase here long before Mrs. Stowe i'm
mortGlized it. At all events we know thar il 10
the impression with all the friends of Mns Stowe
and her brother, in this city,that Old Uncle Tam"
WAS the original. or at least the suggestion, Of the
hero Of the Cabin. - Cincinnati Gdzetts.
FUGITIVE SLAVES PICKED UP IN THE RIvER.--Ths
clerk of the steamer Falls City. Mr.. VIM. IT,
Scudder appeared at Justice Johnson's Court
Pine streeton Saturday forenoon with two negroes
picked up in the river opposite Booths Point, New
Madrid co., on Friday night. 8etween Q and 10
o'clock cries Of distress were heard on board, pro-
ceeding from the water. The steamer was stopped
and yawi lowered. and after sesyeh, tive
half.drOwned negrues were rescued from the wreck
Of capsaed skif. They stated that they we're
Peter aged 80. and Archy 25 years. slaves of Mr..
Watkins OF Huntsville. Alabama; that with two
others, Thomas and Prestel. they had run away
from the plantation at Convors, because the over
seer was about to a,g them. and had Travelled by
night for two weeks tho distance Of q hundred
miles till they came TO Bloth's Point, where they
sLnle q Il old 81 iR nd NM