Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-26
Chs Anti-5lapsrp Buele.
SALEM, ono, JUNE. &c, 1858.
A MOVEMENT OF THE RIGHT SORT.

A MOVEMENT OF THE RIGHT SORT.
From the last LiJerator we learn that the aboli.
tiouists ofMassachusetts have in good earnest direc.
ted their attention to one specii, oljcct.-h utter
~ pjecent all stare Hunting and slace rendition
toithih Tic Commonwealth. Massachusetts having
already purged her statute book from the infamy
of caste Legislation, in regard to colored persons,
when she shall treat all kidnappers though coming
under the sanction Of Federal law, as she does
robbers, pirates, assassins aud other outrageous
criminals, will then be able to talk without blush.
ing. of being a free: State.
The following is the form of petition in circula,
ton to the legislature of Massachusetts,, and will
do well for circulation in Ohio or elsewhere:
To the Honorable Senate and House of representa-.
Tres Of tie Commonwealth Of Massachusetts,:
The undersigned, citizens of Massachusetts,,
respectfully ask you to enact that no person, who
has been held MS u slave, shall be delivered up by
any officer or court, State or Federal. within this
Commonwealth, to any one claiming him on the
ground that he owes service or labor to such clai.
mant, bv the laws of one of the Slave States of
this Union.
Speaking of this petition, the Libcrator says;
~ W. c'SbhtuiSo thiobShOu'
the length and breadth of the Commonwealth, and
signed alike by men and women, either in separate
columns or promiscuousiy as may be thought advi,
sable. Let every one have n chance to sign it; and
let there be n noble rivalry to see which shall he
THE BANNER TOWN. in regard to the number Of
signatures procured"
This mobile rivalry" should not be confined to
the towns of Massachusetts,, but there should be q
rivalry Of states, for tie honor of thus first eFec.
lively bidding defiance to the slave power. Ohio
should press Massachusetts, in this honorable
race for justice, and the anti-slavery sentiment oil
Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa
should thus DO developed and brought into action
No anti-slavery heart can fail to respond to the
proposition. however love for the Union, party drill
or desire for party success, for whatever cause
may restrain its expression.
Last Sunday at Marlboro we urged tho measure
as best we could, when Republicans in the audi
ence volunteered in response 1--WE will 20 for that.
And SO We trust they will, bringing SO much of tn,
party as is within their influence with them. lie
no one to whom its %juctice thus commclds itself
stand back and wait to see if the party will incor
porate it in its platform, but let each nan for him
self lead the way, cxcrtinG his largest possible
quota Of public sentiment in its favor both il
his party and out of it.
Last week we quoted the New England Conven
tons strong declaration in it's favor. Below W
: add, though we have published it before, Gerrit
Smiths declaration for it. We quote from his let
t ter to Governor Chase, addressed to him Just afte
his last Inauguration, when no had so shameful
t permitted Margaret Garner and her family to b
! taken back to slavery. Addressing the Governor
Mr.. Smith says:
r "Am | then to conclude that Ohio, too. like al
other States, is still to be without u government
For, surely, II she suffers kiduappers within he
r borders, and the tearing away from her soil Of in
}. nocent persons, she can have nothing under tn
naule of government, that is ut all worthy of tina
sacred name. When took up your Inaugural.
hoped to find it speaking true words at this poin'
| hoped to lind 1T declaring, that at this point Ell
y pecially, Ohio should so far as it lies in her Chic
y Magistrate, enjoy Il real Government:-that tn
day of her sham, or shirk government was pas
that hencefOrth her government was to be no Ion
ger the patron and partner Of kidnappers, but tlci
e stern, unrelentipg, prompt, efcctual punishcr.
need not add that | was sorrowfnl at your silenc
on this vital point. Of course, | did not desire
have 1t to say, that the future kidnapping Of Ohio
II TO be done by tho State, instead of the Natior
IS IL the diabolical work is TO be done, | care littl
n INHclutI ~ IS uOlG ny Dlhle uGNlIS OF GpuGT1l uc'
,f lis What | looked to your inaugural to say wa
that it sho'd not be done Mt all: and had it said
IL this hOrrid scene, to which | have ~referre,
would not have been enacted. Let me DO very G,
h plicit at this point | looked to your Inaugural
a, not to say, that no man should be taken fro,
, your State, as a slave, without first having ba
J a fair and proper trial. But | looked to it to ga
m that there should DO no trial whatever in vol
le State of tie question whether n man is a slave
or, in other words, whether a being made in tt
image Of God, is a chattol and a marketable cor
modify. If need be, in order to arrest such
trial, | would have the Governor of a State march
band of armed men, Oliver Cromwell like, into II
Court Room to expel from it the Court guilty
and OF such blasphemy against the Majesty
Heaven.
1.-THE duty of a Governor in regard to the,
l. frequent forays into the Northern States is, in N
a mind, clear Of all doubts"
n The anti-slavory sentiment of Ohio has powc
70 if it will combine and act, to compel just such q
inaugural as Mr.. Smith has suggested, from Il
10 next Governor elect, whoever he may be. To brin
d this about, commend itself to us as the speei
n anti.slavsry action Of the hour. Shall wo PCT 81
IT abolitionists everywhere, in the West and The Eas
o address themselves to 1t like men and women
earnest. Who, that calls himself an abolitionis
d is willing that any supincnsss or negligence on h
part, shall be in any measure the occasion of Il
repetition of such outrages upon the rights OF Il
q State, aud the rights of property and personal Ii
z erty as were Witnessed in the cases, of Van Zan
. Parish, Connolly, tbs Breakfasts, aud the earn,