Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-18
From the New York Tribune.

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" From the New York Tribune.
A WORD ON PIRACY.
TIE WoShtngton Union, not long since, and
some other Administration papers, made a
great flourish Of trumpets, over the praiseworthy
example set by the good people of Charleston in
submitting to the laws of the United States in the
matter of the Echo and the captured Africans cor.
ried into that port This exemplary conduct on
the part OF these good people consisted in this
that the Echo Africans being in the custody Of the
United States and protected by the guns Of Castle
Pinckney and the garrison thereof against the
greedy appetite Of the said good people, whose
mouths watered to reduce them to slavery, and be-
ing defeated in all attempts to get them within
reach dy means of writs Of habeas corpus and
other process of Law, they did not venture upon
attacking Castle ?i1ckuoy with intent to seize
them by force.
The exemplary respect Of the good people of
South Carolina for the laws of the United States
would seem, however, to have been entirely ex'
heustSd in this Herculean effort at self control.
At all events it appears to be confined to the vi
cinity of tide.water. At Columbia, the capital
of the State, where there is ne Castle Pinckney
to- by way Of buttress to respect for the laws,
no respect appears to be paid to the authori.
ty Of the UnitedStates than during the Revolution,
when the Tories of that vicinity got the upper
hand. secuted the Constitutional Congress and the
1 American Union, took to hanging and plundering
/ their Whig neighbors, and put themselves under
the protection of CORVALLIS and Lord Rawdon.
The Grand Jury of the United States Circuit
Court Cor the District Of South Carolina has refus
ed to find indictments against the crew of the
Echo, and to back up the Grand Jury in this at
tempt to nulfy the laws against the slave trade
resolutions have been introduced into the
South Carolina Senate, the General Assembly Of
the State being simultaneously in session at Co.
lumbia. These resolutions with true lawyer like
tact-thus exhibiting degree Of good sense
which the Court that delivered the famous Dred
Scott decision would have done well to initiate
avoid occupying any wider ground than is demand
ed by the necessities of the case actually in hand
Senator May the way, odd sort of q
name, whence we are led to apprehend thai
the bearer Of it my not be Of pure Anglo
Saxon lineage, but descended from some inferior
race, and therefore, according to the prevailing
theory at the South, himself proper subject fol
reduction to Slavery; and perhaps, he has taket
the lead in this matter for the very purpose o.
drawing off attention from himself-Senator MAJ
yck, who has taken the lead in this matter is evi
dently OF opinion that the whole legislation of tbt
United States in prohibition or restraint of the
African slave.rade is null and void. But as the
exigencies Of the case in hand. to wit, the case
the Echo's crew, do not require it, he has no
thought it necessary to say so; at least not in the
resolutions on the subject which he has submitted
to the South Carolina Senate. OF the two resolu
tions which he has submitted, the first merely de-
nies the right Of Congress, under the Federal
Constitution, ito interfere with the slave trade
between foreign countries" business in which
the Echo at the time of her capture engaged
The second resolution denies the power of Con
gress to declare the slavetrade piracy.
In his speech in support of the resolutions, the
Senator with the suspicious name-and why
should not names be taken as presumptve evi
dence of servile origin as well as hair complex
ion Suppose, for instance, that Senator Mazyck
instead of being Senator Mazyok, had gone lit
tie further and had been, say, Senator Pompey OF
Senator Cesar Senator Mazyck insists in his
speech thai the constitution merely gives to Con
gress the regulation of trade piM foreign coun
tries. not that bet,reen foreign countries so that
vessel employed in Transporting slaves or anything
else from the Coast of Africa to Cuba, is wholly
beyond the range of Congressional authority
This is Ingenious but we fear tho lawyers will be
apt to tell hm--for when it happens to be their
cue they are as good at dissipating quibbles as
they are ut other times in giving to them oil the
weight of sound arguments-we are afraid the
lawyers will tell him-(we are quite sure Chief
Justice Taney will, his interest, in raising slaves
tor sale being quite sufficient to keep him straight
in this matter)-that vessel sailing from an
American port and proceeding to the Coast of Az
rica end thence with cargo Of slaves to Cuba is
sti engaged in the trade oih foreign nations; the
only difference in hat case being that tbs vessel
trades with two foreign nstions instead of one,
and may, therefore. be said to ne, as 1t were'
doubly within the jurisdiction of Congress.
Bot then Mr.. Senator Mazyck has two strings
to his bow for he insists in his second resolution,
that, at all events, Congress has no power to de-
clare the slave.trade piracy. The main point up
on which this resolution is made by it's own terms
to rest is, that slavstsading is not piracy in the
nature of things" But why not? Piracy in
the nature, of shings," by which, We suppose,
Mr., Mazyck meansl piracy in the true sense OF