Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-11
THE OBERLIN PRISONERS.

the OberliD Rescuers, and the outrages heaped up
on them by the Government was exciting. AM deep
or widespread feeling in this city or State. But
such is not the fact. 1t may be that the distance
from us, Of the scene of their praise-worthy deeds
and honorable suffering, has something to do with
the ind manifested.
With the exception of on occasional telegram;
or a paragraph taken from a New York paper, our
city press has been silent on the subject. i forgot
tho Public Ledger has twice noticed it, only,
however, to falsify the position Of he prisoners.
and TO rejoice at what it calls the triumph Of ths
Government over tho anarchical friends Of The
Higher Law. H
If it is true that
"Whether conscious or unconscious,
1lumauity's vast frame,
Through its ocean suDdered fbres,
Feels the gush Of joy or shame"
the people Of this State, and of every State in hS
North should be alive with rejoicing at the noble,
revolutionary spirit exhibited, by Bushnell and Biz
comrades and filled with shame and Indignation
at the h%eartless, base, and ~despotic conduct Of the
Federal Government. But these open acts Of re-
sistance to slaveholding requirements, meet with
as little favor among those who mako up the Re-
publican or opposition party, in this State, as with
the Buchanan Democrats. 1t is true that they have
a sort of feeling which prompts them to admit. in
a private and confidential way. that the Fugitive
Slave Law is an everlasting intamy to the nation,
and that they would not help to catch"niggers".-
But then these violent demonstrations, besides
threatening the permanency Of the Union, are Pc
culiarly i~ll-timed, and mex pedient, now that the
spirit Of reconciliation and forbearance is so neces-
-
position, to the Buchanan administration This
is true not only of Pennsylvania Republicans, but
will hold good Of some Ohio leaders, if / rightly
understand Gov. Chase's speech, made a. the Clsve-
land mass meeting.
Alter they have secured the defeat Of the b.
chanan party, what follows7 Is the Fugitive
Slave Law to be a dead letter then, any more than
it is now! Is Slavery to be blotted out from the
District of Columbian Is the interstate slave
trade to be abolished? Who believes anything Of
the kind 7 During the campaign which is to re-
suit in the election of the man who, when he gets
the power in his hands is to do these things as
little as possible must be said with regard to the
righteousness of slavery restriction, the diabolism
Of the Fugitive Law, and the abomination OF tho
internal slave trade. And yet it is assumed that =
Beo'S hNfN'Sh "hi ON'uNp "biNh wa Sothp " ~
accomplishment Of these purposes, and that he
whose success depends upon the ignoring Of these
issues may be safely trusted to carry out faithfully
the principles which they embody.
1t is all an absurdity, and mono know it bettes
than those who talk loudest about the wisdom Of
expediency, and the folly and impracticability Of
blindly following nm abstract principle.
The "Press" of this city, the organ of the Anti
Lecompton Democrats, published an editorial, the
other day, on Il Republican Platform Of 1856 and
1860. in which it was %attempte to be shown that
as the people had in the election, both of Pierce
aud Buchanan, decided against the principle Of
the Wilmot Proviso It would be a violation of
the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which the
Republicans have accepted at the hands of Mr..
Douglas, to INSIST on the idea of Congressional in
reference with Slavery in the Territories, ID tbs
coming contest; and that no party thus sec,
tional in its charater can ever succeed. How Nc
= readers of the Tribune and such like people will
relish this sort of preaching is not evident As yet.
One thing is certa n, however: if this is one Of the
y element of the opposition they propose uniting
< with, and l believe it is, there will have to be trim,
ming somewhere.
commenced with the 'Obeilin Rescuers," and
although l have depressed SOMEWHAT do not think
l have been entirely off the subject. 1t 10 doubt
full whether Abolitionists ever properly appreciate
the importance of these acts of open resistance te
: usurped authority. 1t is just such acts - these
that make history worth reading. II. as We havt
y believed, our movement is essentially Revolution
= airy in it's character, these occurrences are to b
:" noted and rejoiced over as evidences of q spirit in
the people, which, as it grows and increases. vii
-, allow nothing, however sacred it may seem. Il
u stand between them and the freedom Of the slave
p.
, THE UNDERGROUND RAiLRoAD.-We learn thu
Garrett l.. VOORHEES,, Esq, of Maury, Lost = valua
x bic woman and her two children. a short Tint
since, through the agency. it may be, Of the sndsr
st ground railroad. Our information states that thu
ID woman, whose color by no means indicated th,
presepce of African blood in her W ms, obtained