Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-02
ALEXANDER OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
AND THE FUGITIVE LAW.


In tho Millonial IIarbinger OF 1851, were pub
lishcj ONE articles from the pen of the Editor,
Alexander Campbell. on Slavery and the Fugitive
Law. The extracts below illustrate them all.
In the No. for February, page iO1, ho says
81 adopt with much pleasure the following elo
que,t passage from Gov. Wright's (of Ind,
speech" Every good citizen will obey tho law
Of the land. Whatever difference may exist as e
the compromise measures enacted by Congress, 10
lS50l, there is but one course Of action to pursut
for true patriots shat is unhesitatingly and IL
good faith 10 carry out their ensctments. Their
is no safety but in carry ing out tho law. Main
tain it in the tord and deed, as you value you
heritage above all price,"
In the No. for june page 31G.l7 is the follow
ing:
1--WE may confidently soy that the gospel insti
tuition as clearly, as fully, and as authoritatively
sanctions the relation Of master and slave, as thu,
of matrimony or civil or ecclesiastical polity and
that no Christian man can censure another Chris
tian man, because he is a master and owns a man,
any more than because he owns q wife, q son, or a
daughter"
"No Christian man, properly instructed in his du'
ty, and allegiance 10 Jesus Christ, can censure any
man for being q master, and owning servants or
slaves, any more than for hiring a day laborer."
In July, on tho Fugitive Slave Law, page 3S7 SO
he says:
The frst question I PROFOUND to myself on this
subject, in sustaining my position, and to those
who oppose it, is What does the Consultation Of
The United States Itself require Of me and If them,
as citizens Of the United States in reference to dmer.
lean SldUeryf To which I answer in tho words Of
the Constitution mo person held TO service or labor
IN one Stale. under Tie ldps thereof, escaping into
another, shall, IN consequence Of any lau or reyuid,
lion therein be discharged from such service or labor,
But SHALL BE DELIVERED UP, on the claim Of tc
party TO 'chom such serrice or labor shall be due."-
"This lie not the statute Of ninety,hree nor Of fifty
one, but the Constitution Of the United Siates.-
Every officer in this government is sworn to sup
port it. Every naturalized citizen in the Upisot
States is sworn to support it. I am srorn 10 sup
port il; and it is p~resumable that every natura
born citizen Of tho United States is religiously ant
morally bound to support it,"
"How. then, can any enlightened American cit
izen, native or natutalized, be held guiltless BY
the Judge of all, Of perjury or Of rebellion, Will,
endeavorihg to prevent a fellow.citizcn of another
State, from recovering one held to his service b,
the laws" Of his own State, under the sanction o
the Constitution of tho United States, which he il
most s%olemnly bound to sustain :"
Ills preface to the Epistle to Philemon in th,
Campbell, Mcknight & Doddridge Testament. say,
THE letter to Philemon was evidently designed
rs a letter OF introduction for Onesimus to BIZ
master, and as a means of reconciliation between
them. l, lis a beautiful specimen of the familiarity
which exists among Christians, withoutin tho leas
impairing tho relations which exist in civil soci
ETY."