Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-29

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e What's the next stepP Lets take general
d view Seven Marshals being told by one Of their
n number that some one who wrote out notes, some
S body who cut down the fees of the Marshals Sll,
+ 600, was in fix. Now was the time to nab him
S and then we'd see he didn't cut down any more
q Sll, 900.
Commissioner Ncwhail, filled with patriotic
desire to prevent a dissolution Of the Union there
upon issues warrant for the arrest of two negroes
= believing those two negroes to bo the chosen in
u strumonts of the Devil to break up the Union, and
spread misery all over the world. lie confdes
the warrant to these worthy Instruments the Mar
shals and at 10 o'clock the Consecrated host moves
forth They devoted to the preservation of the
Union, and the maintenance of universal freedom.
The banner of the United States waves over Them;
I they paid from the United States Treasury
they have al their command the forces at the bar
racks, they can call out the c00000 militia of
ONO to catch niggcr or break window. SO
II they 20 to No. Is Tatts building. The advance
guard of this chosen band leads on and next
have him, shaking himself, like raccoon into q
hen roost, through the transom window. Mean
while the other wings of the orces go about the
buildings Some guard the lower entrances 9TH
ers 60 upon the roof. In the Indian fortifcations
they had high towers where they could watch the
enemy from afar. | imagine one of the videttes
on the roof looking around, casting his anxious
eyes beneath, above, far away in the direction OF
Ashtabula county, in expectation of seeing the
broad face Of Joshua II. Giddings- The laughter,
which had been loud enough all along here
reached its climax, and for some minutes the
Court, the marshals, and the spectators una
ble to keep their faces sober. Why else did they
go on the house They didn't expect 70 find
nggers, like the Pharisees, saying their
prayers on the house tops? If the com
maniant of these forces took any military view
of the matter, this must have been his intention.
lie had a commission in his pocket from Commits.
sioner Newhall, stamped with TIE broad seal the !
raGian! lusre of he Republic in his jacket pocket
That banner in which you delight with
him. Yes,we see that banner which has carried def
ance aud death to all its foes, which has Redeemed
the sea with the blood Of its enemies, that emblem
OF the majesty of the United States, spread out
over them, and snaked into a transom window |
What did the niger d.? Hadn't he right to
fear kidnappers That poor niger didn't know
who was coming no drum fife announced that |
the majesty of the United States was coming into
the transom window, head foremost and so the
nigger stabbed the intruder. and majesty caved in,
and snaked itself back. What was to be done 7
The advance guard of the army has been repulsed
with loss. Cuifee has shown pluck. The interests of
humanity and the preservation of the Union de-
mand something. And sothe mpetuousKentuckian
blazes away at some body. All he knew about
him, what this liar and perfdous scoundrel
had told him, and he fires away careless whether
the ball enter the heart of the negro man or the |
breast of the negro woman.
Here is Thermopyle Three hundred patriots |
fell there. One of our Leonidases was stuck here.
And so the man fires through the door at some.
body. The whole maj esty Of the United States fir
ing ut random
Is that the calm tread of Law, or the rush Of
mob? Law requires that before you lay n hand /
upon you show your authority Did these
men do that
Well, the Marshals get into the room, the city is
taken, two niggers are captured, and the wounded
enemy carried, not, as in Christian countries to o
hospital, but to Court room. There, The man
reekinS with his blood, almost dying if to pre-
figure the other JUDI gmcnt seat is made to the
claimant. lie fingers few weeks and then goes
up 10 that other Curt where the laws.Of kentucky
no longer apply to him. The woman is delivered .
over with her husband and is now in the custody |
Of some one who claims to be her owner. My
client knowing that process is issued against |
him, and not having the money to conduct de-
fence leaves the city and you know the rest. Mr.,
Corwin then pressed the point of the disbelief by
eminent juriss in the principle that slave taken
into free State by his master is not a slave any
longer, and asked if there was any law to require
his client to know more than Judge Mills and
Mclean, and other profound jurists did
The irown of power is fixed on him, the eXecul
tive department of the government commands him
to be arrested, and the judicial department
has him indicted because he hasn': read Ben
Munroe, for that's what it amounts to. The
District Attorney thinking that the venerable
JUDGE beg your honors pardon but you have
long occupied high places of trust that we
think you venerable-didn't know Kentucky law,
brings Kentucky lawyer to teach him, and
indcts a newspaper reporter for not knowing
more than his honor!
Gentlemen, have you ever heard of any despot-
ism which has more eiTectua contrivances for tor
ture, torment and confinement than has been here
applied / am not here to censure, but did it |,
become this mighty Republic, the most imposing
Republic in the world, covering onetenth OF
the globe to chase this poor newspaper reporter
from the Queen City of the West to the COM
mereial metropolis of the Western World,
persocute and fix the VOLTS head upon him p /,
Don't you rejoice to know that you are citizens of
such country And all this has been done be-
cause my client has determined the law as Judge
McLeaH says that you have righ to,t2 shelter and
feed fugitives but Judge Mclean Is not indicted
while Connolly who acted upon his decision is
Suppose you send him to prison, won't you feel
happy to know what you have done for the coun'
tryf
When the future Tacitus or IIorodotus of our
country records this days work the turning !
point in our nations history how will your grand
children exult that you had part in it / shall
feel myself honored, although | am opposed to i
killing a man because he hadn't read Ben Monroe. !
Yes, (turning to Mr.. Matthews. honestly opposed,
for have no fee. 1t would be the greatest absur-
uty III tHe WOriu lOr me 10 eApect ono lrou my oL
ent poor newspaper reporter, who hasn't got any {
money and never will have, man who eats Bo-
logna sausages! s
If you have dramatic ideas you may imagine
the figure we shall make in some epic. The
twelve honest jurors and Corwin aud Mathews
next 10 Washington and Jefferson. Washington
and Jefferson and Rittenhouse had something to
do with starting the Republic, but didn't we take {
it in its dark day and it from ruin by aris-
ing in our majesty, killing q niger breaking a
transom window and imprisonng man who eats
Bologna sausages that would give ConSestoga
horse the dyspepsia Let the eye of beauty shed
its influence the scene, let the grave aspect oil
justice lend its countenance, and if any say here
after that my friend Matthews and myself had s
nothing to do here, let reply in the words of {
the North Carolina orator to an opponent who
charged him with not having fought Billy Bow, {
legs-"Fcller citizens was thar! As have had {
a classical education, excuse me for quoting from