Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-04-03

duties Of his office We have no doubt but he
did. But we hive the strongest kind of doubts.s'
strong that they amount to sense of moral lmpos
sibility, that man cnn carry out the provsiuns o'
the Fugitive Slave Law, commanded by the
slave power of this government, aud Re q pure
wprigM generous, Independent man., and an em'
nent ornament to the bench and his country, a
alleged by the exponents of public opinion, IN
their obituary notices. This is what we complain
of. and what we denounce ns q wrong 10 the good
sense Of the people. and an injustice to humanity.
We have no doubt but there plenty OF
would be judges who are ready and willing 10 be
as faithful slave eatchers as Judge Kane, hut
we deuy that any do the acts that Judge
Kane did do, and be pure upright, and gener-
Gus" man. judge in the Circuit Court of the
United STATES, or in any other Court, who possess
ed the noble qualities OF genuine manhood.
land purity, uprightness, and generosity make up
such manhuOd) could never perform the acts or
make the decisions TINT Judge Kane did. lf he
could not declare these odious provisions Of the
law unconstitutional, or evade them his only ult-
matum would be resignation and that is just
what every upright. pure and generous hearted
man would do; he could never stOop to be the
menial of n slave catcher. Could an upright
man remand back to slavery poor negro woman
on the eve of her giving birth to her child, that
would have made it an heir Of liberty when be
could just well, snd just easy. allowed her
to remain As well might we talk Of pious
thieves and honest liars, as to talk of pure,
upright" men sending puor women from liberty to
slavery.
But there were few hundred dollars worth Of
property in that unborn child. which legal robbery
gave to the stakeholder if the event should take
place south of Mason Dixon's line: and Judge
Kane was the voluntary slave to The slave power.
and he carried the poor colored woman into the
faBgs of slavery as his masters demanded him to
do.
We take no pleasure in expatiating on the wick
ed acts of men. nor have any i'll feelings Il"
vent against Judge Kane. He was good man of
his kind but he was o. a bad kind. But justice to
our country, justice to the rights of humanity,
demand of us that men belonging to the school
of politics to which Jndge Kane helon sed shall
not, SO far prevent it, be cannnized among
the saints. as pure and upright" men. Slavery
is Il wrong, condemned by the most enlightened of
every nation, aud is disgrace TO any government.
1t is the duty. well the interest, Of every good
citizen, of every pure and Upright man and woman
to their talents and influence against the great
wrong. This Judge Kane did not do. lie had no
plan for bettering his unfortunate fellow-beipgs.-
He had no great thoughts to present to the world
lie had no wise schemes for improving society =
Reared in luxury and wealth, he had no affinity
with the great thinkers, and refurmers of mankind
and his acts belle the assertions of his applaud
ers. He belongs to a strata in the political history
OF America that il o considerable depth beneath
tho surface.
We have now recorded our thoughts of the man.
aud hrye the day ls mt far distant when enlinenf
slave ve.catchers will not be loaded on the event of
their death, with the virtues that belong only to
the pure, the good aud the wise.
We havo no doubt that Judge Kane. like many
o'her politi al characters VIII, worshipped the
shrine of slavery, will not tnd that institution. in
the next state of existence. so popular as in this,
and that there is escape from the punishment OF
except through repentance and obedi-
ence to Justice.