Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-07
LETTER PROM PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, May Cd, 1859.
We Pennsylvanians were growing in the belief,
that We had q monopoly in bad Judges and Com.
missioners, and it was but fair to conclude that
a State. that could show a list, adorned with the
names of Kane. Grier, Black, Lewis; Ingrahan
ard McAllester, nigh: safely defy competition
in tho matter of Slave catching. We must be
~pardoned then if we take some comfort in finding
that there are mean, and servile judges outside Of
our state. We would not rejoice that there are
any such in the good State of Ohio, yet the feel.
ing that we are no worse of than our neighbors,
is natural, and comes up in spite of ourselves,
Whom Judge Kane accomplished the browning
act of infamy, in his Infamous career in the Pass.
moro Williamson case-people hereabouts thought
that the lowest depth of judicial meanness and
tyranny had been sounded. Possibly they were
right so far as Pennsylvania is concerned. There
is consolation in the thought, that she exhausted
herself in producing q Kane, and that no more
such can be grown upon her soil. But they
forgot tina. Ohio was young, as we'll as ambitious;
and that the State which had disgraced itself by
it's "Black Laws" might also be further disgraced
by men, who in their s~ervility to the Slave Power,
would transcend the meanness, of which those
laws were an embodiment.
Your Wilson may certainly, fairly divide the
honors with our Kane. Nay, il a more impuden,
and shameless denial of the commonest privilege.
of the citizen, goes for anything, he is entitled tc
greater consideration at the hands of those, who
consider Slave catching the highest duty of every
American Citizen. We will not vaunt o%urselve.
however. for we know not what is before us. W.
no longer have a Kane it is true but we have q
Cadwa!ader in his stead. And if on expressed
desire may be received as evidence, he is ready
and waiting. to "follov in the footsteps Of his IL
~lustrious predecessor" 1t is said tina. the escape
of Daniel Webster afiicts him sorely that he il
exceeding wroth thereat, and promises that when.
ever opportunity offers, he will make firm the pill
lars of the Union, by sending Into Slavery whom
soever cometh into his hands. And he will doubt
less keep his word.
From many local indications, there 10 reason to
believe, that an effort will be made to sink, com
paratively, the Slavery issue. in the next cam
paign, so far as this State is concerned, and to in
sist on the Tariff question in it's stead. This is al
old trick in Pennsylvania, which has always re
suited to the advantage of the Slave Power, with
out in any instance, beneftting those interest
which it was assumed such concessions would pro
mote. Unfortunately this willingness to oonced
is not confined to those men who have always bee
willing to sell themselves, il necessary, along wit
, their dry goods. There is a secret feeling amor
men, from whom much better things might be el
, pected, that if, by combining all the elements q
: opposition to the present administration, success
may be gained. and that If such combination d.
| ponds upon the elevation Of the Tariff question
: above that Of S!avery-it is better that the cor
!, csssiOn should be made. When thoy once &c
t power in 'heir hands, they can look after the ques
r sion of Slavery. think this is not an eIaggsra
ted statement Of the feeling which exists in III
t minds Of many men, who had within a very bris
!; period, ayoWed their determination to make Anti