Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-03
WHOLE NO. '725.

stuff The Slave Power can afford to give such
State, that will th hus sacrifice tho personal liberty
Of its citizens at the bidding of on infamous uns
constitutional Federal slave bill the largest liberty
Of the yard, the fatest pasture. and the longest
tether. A State that will bury ts State rights be
noath the ds Of such sepblchre and then receive
boon the release Of its innocent citizens from
the Federal prison, by itself releasing gang Of
robbers and kidnappers, whom 1t was under sacred
obligation to have puuised-a State that will buy
as good bargain, or accept as boon from tyran-
ny, what belonged to it by freedom and Justice.
what it ought TO have c.tor,sd 6s its sim plest right
its indisputable authority and possession-a State
tnat for the sake Of such q bargain such grct
cious condescenson of the Slave Power, win agrsS
tv stand = and see the violation of it's State
laws with impunity-a State that will consent to
dismiss a gang of kidnnppcrs from its prisons tin-
harmed, on condition that its own fec siti5ans,
unrighteously imprisoned, may Be Unbound
and let off without trial-such State may bs in1
dulged by the Federal government and the Slave
Power enhroned over it, in any Of the most ex-
travagant, jubilan. anthems concerning the open;
ing of the prison doors, and letting the oppressed
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demonstrations in conventions, in resolutions, in
speechs all blazing with the protechnics and thupd
cring with the decorating powder of the highest
republican and democratic liberty. The grandef
such harmless ineffective enthusiasm the safer for
the slave tyranny; the more sublime the fight Of
the spread eagles Of State eloquence, the more alb
jcct and spiritess will such people be, whose arr
dor in the of freedom is afraid to assert the
right, and brides the wrong; whose zeal shuns
the form and cost of brave deeds and exc
2ands itself in speculative tOasts and haelujahs,
There being no intention nor any danger Of 60
ing beyond the form Of mere speculation concern
ing liberty: it costs nothing, Burke said of tho
flights of hypocrisy, to have il magnificent. And
our slave-drivers need not be afraid though Brnkef
Hill Monun itself shotld, one of these Fourth
of Julys, be rammed fdll with powder, and thg
charge wadded with all the gl;itering generaities
of the Declaration of Independence, and the cob
umn started and fred down South, with the huge
Kissing redhOt ball flaming from its granite ,hroat
that all men are born free and equal, black OF
white. and that property in man is o lie, cursoi
and an impossi5ility. ',a.... ~. % r4iEo
On the other hand, Of the four men I'VE believe
there were four) imprisoned in the State of Ohio
for the crime of kidnapping, were really guilty sf
that crime. thay should have been treds sentenced
and punished for it. Where was the authority;
either in law or justice, to let them off? If they
had not been guilty of that crime, then their ae-
cusers, those who threw them into prison. ought
to have been tried for sander and false imprison-
ment. If they had been guilty of that crime, be-
ing of the most atrocious offences that eau be
committed against society, capital crime, de-
nouced by God himself worthy of death. and BY
our own laws, when committed in Africa, as piracy
and in even this couhtfy, as tobbery and malig-
nant vioence if they had been so guilty, then the
State of Ohio guilty in letting them 20 free.
1t would seem that while Slares cannot 60 freq;
criminals But by w. hose authority could the
nol pros in behalf of these wretches be issued or
entered and the indictment against them dismiss
ed? Suppose that hteo or four rascas were TAX
en- at midnight in our streets, in the act of high
way robbery, and thrown into Prison for trial
where is the power, legal, judicial executIye,
State or Federal by which it could rightly bs ssia
They shall not be brought to trial let the prose-
cutlon be Withdrawn, and let them 60 forth again
into society, cnscathed by the law or its penalty4
Where is the man, or the body of mer, the judge
or the personal OF political friend the president or
the government, that would dare propose the emp
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deivcrance of the prisoners there, as condition;
a boon, bargain, cartel of exchange on the
ground Of which those four highway robbers
should be released and sent homo to their dens to-
plot new crimes with impunity, the public, ssean'
while mystfed and astounded with such processes
of justice 2
Again we ask, Why were not these kidnappers
brought to justice Is that the kind Of State SOW
ereighty which Ohio is going to teach and eser:
else, the right of entering noH, pros in behalf Of
vile criminals on condition that her own free citi-
sens may not be oppressed 6y the Federal Govern
ment, or brought to trial for their humanity by the
Slave Power! Is the right Of delivering ntsm seal
ers out of prison without trial. without psnishmept
a State fight which Ohio can exercise, While her
Judges dare not rescue her own injured citizens
from despotisn? Are the people of Ohio willing
that the deliverance of their citizens from ucjust
Imprisonment shall be barganed for, bought by
the shelter and release Of rogoes and vilfsfnS hat
deserve to be hanged .,......-..
There is greater outrage still in this shameful
proceeding. We see it noted that Judge Wilson Of
the United States Court in pronouncing sentencS
against young Bushnell for obeying God rather
than man. in disobeying unjust law, declared
"that if the standard of right is placed above and
agains, the laws Of the land those who act up that
standard are anything else than good citizens or
good Christians.
What insoent defiance Of God and his word,
God and his righteousness, God and the authority
of his righteousness. by such juSgeI The stan
dard Of right is Gods hw, Gods Word ! and here
we have judge of the United States Court de-
clarng the laws of the lard Superior to it, and to-
be obeyed rather than the right, and that he who
acts rightly, when the right is against the human
law, is anything rather than good ctisena OF
good Ghristianl What a teacher OF injustice and
immortality by law, in our highest public traSunaisE
What denal Of the common law, common
sen common liberty and common piety