Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-30
oHIo LEoIsLATING FOR SLAVE HUN
TEhS.

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Hamilton county, signalised his devotion to the
Union and his loyalty to the slave drivers Of Ken.
lucky by presenting q bill for the repeal of the
law Of the last legislature prohibiting the use Of
our state juils for the convenience of legalized
blood hounds and kidna2pers. Since tho intro.
duction of Ito bill, Mr.. Brooke has labored most
persistently for its success till last week, when it
was finally passed by the Democratic House of
Representatives. Mr.. Brooke and his fellow Dem
ocrats we believe did not claim that the Constitu'
ton, bad as it is, or even that inimitabie oocu'
ment, the fugitive slave law, required that ONO
should keen O Jail in every one OF her elghty OF
moro counties for the incarceration OF men,
women aud children guilty of the crime OF SEEK
inc to be free. They put it only on the grounu
of comiiy--good wiH aud good ne'ghOor8hp to
4bese nirates who search for their human prey by
DAYLIGHT in our villages and on our thoroughfares
and search houses and ransack tie bedrooms of
our women and children at midnight that they
may secure their victims. Wonderfully uroahe
and polite are our Democrats to these Williams !
and for their benefit the people OF Ohio are to be
taxed for building jails and employing turkeys
Commenting on this display of state comfy, the
! Ohio State Journal has the following.
LEGIsLATING FOR KENTUCKY.
The leader of the Democracy in the Ohio House
of representatives Mr.. Brooke, seems to have an
idea that he was chosen specially to represent the
= views and feelings Of the shareholders OF Ken
! lucky, rather than the views OF the Tree people OF
8 Ohio. The question with him Is not wat the
. rights of the people of Ohio demand, but what the
shareholders Of Kentucky ask. The repeal Of the
act prohibiting the use Of our jahS for the incar-
ceration of men charged with no crime Is not de-
.manded by the people of Ohio. 1t Is u voluntary
Offering of doughfaces to the barlot OF slavery
"a base bowling OF the knee to the naughty power
which delights in subjectIng the interests OF the
people of the free States to the demands Of a
class interest at the South. This interest cow
controls the Administration at Washington, the
Executive. Legislative, and Judicial power OF the
country and its aim is to SUBJECT tue Leglsia'ures
of the free States 10 It's control. MT. Buchanan
lends himself as "a willing instrument to do Its
bidding. 1t remains to lie seen whether tue De'
mocracy of OHIO. who represent only Il majority
of the people of the State, will follow his lead,
md repeal the humane law Of the last Legislature.
The people Of Ohio do not demand the repeal OF
this law, and will be apt to hold those who think
it their duty to legislate for Kentucky rather than
for Ohio, to a strict accountability,
From the reported discussion on this bill we ex-
tract the following from the State Journal and tue
Cincinnati Gazette,
Mr.. Monroe of Lorain, opened the debate. lie
replied in a very few words, to the opening speech
of Mr.. Brooke. Indeed, there was very little to
reply to-. Mr.. Brooke seems to be troubled with
the phantom Of National and State comfy. Mr.
Monroe replied with great force and elOquence.
lie denied that comfy or anything else, required
of us to open our jails for slave pens, and to make
our. iailors the keepers of slaves. lie asked
whether the member from Cincinnati would volun'
teer the use of his house or barn for the lmpriscn'
ment and safe keeping of poor men ana women,
whose only crime was that they loved freedom
better than bondage end, If he would not DO
that, what right, he asked, have we to pass u Dill
to tax the people of Ohio to build jails and pay
for keepers to catch and keep fugitive slaves?
Mr.. Monroe quoted from Webster and Calhoun
to show that they did not believe in the constitu-
tionality of the Fugitive Law. lie spoke OF Its
atrocious character and quoted with great effect
from the Senate journal of 1851, the resolutions
passed by the Democrats of that year in regard
to it, which resolutions were sustained by the
voice and vote Of Henry b. Payne. the late Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. Mr.. Monroe sad
that during the last GubernatOrial canvass, Payne
made q speech at Elyria, i'll which he declared
that his opinion of that law had undergone no
change, and that there was no Obligation resting
upon the State to support II. lt was a United
States Law, and the enforcement OF 1t must be by
the United States. There were portions OF Mr..
Monroe's speech which were highly eloquent and
impressive. Then again there were several ez-
auisite satirical episodes. lie impressed the
House very favorably. lie spoke about three
quarters of an hour.
Mr.. Parsons of Cleveland, one Of our best and
most promising young Republicans, followed Mr..
Monroe. He said that the gentleman from LorTln
had occupied much the same ground that he had
intended to occupy, and he had done it so well
that he would not attempt TO repeat his arguments.
Nevertheless Mr.. Parsons added several new
points, and acquitted himself very admirably
lie appenled to Mr.. Brooke to withdraw his bill
r,,,, jnr,ra ,ba IInuSn lie said that this was
not a time to speak of comfy with the South,
when the entire energies of that section of coun-
try, aided and allotted by the National Admins
tration, were engaged in extending slavery and
trenching upon the rights of Free States. lie
would, by no act of his, place the people of Ohio
in the attitude Ct voluntary slave c%atchers, such
as this bill would make them.
When Mr.. Parsons finished, Mr.. Brooke arose
again to defend his Niger Pen bill'. No one
else on his side appeared anxious to detle their
fingers with it. So he took the floor, and spoke for
about twenty minutes. He made several fatal ad-
missions for the future welfare Of his blessed ba
by. lie said distinctly that there was no law of
Congress, and nothing in the constitution, which
required of us to build jails for tho safe-keeping
of runaway negroes. The fugitive law did not de
mand it Of us. No law demanded it of US; but
vet comfy demanded it of us-that we shuld help
by voluntary taxation, the Shareholders to catch
their runaways. In other words, that the freemen
in Ohio should DO voluntarily, what, in Mississip-
pi and the south, they do with their dogs.
Mr.. Briggs of Fayette, next spoke, and made as
good o little speech as we have heard for many u
day. Mr.. Briggs is young. with a fine open face
good figure, and pleasant manners. His voice is
rich and mellow, and it has those sympathizing
chords which attract and affect men. His style OF
speaking is direct, plain and clear. lie stetes his
proposition concisely and argues logically. lie
showed, by a few quotations from legal authority,
that we are under no obligations of comfy to pass
this bill. and further, that VT are under obliga,
tions of no kind whatever to pass such a law. lie
said it would be regarded, especially when taken
in connection with the resolution which had been
gagged through the Senate, as another degrading
submission to the demands of the slave power
For one, he would never commit his constituents to
any such a bill. 1t was net asked for by any one
while he knew that the law of the last Legislature
was satisfactory to the people whom he had the
honor to represent.