Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-07
THE ANTI-sLAvERY BUGLE

,rict Judges at Cleveland. Although they are
wise in worldly wisdom they stand far behind
"little ones" in Discriminating between justice
and injustice, and in fixing a just value upon the
universal rights Of all men. II. wouldn't do for
me to be n judge, bless you, no, for | should not
read the law, neither would / hear It, if it was in
conflict with justice. Justice and human rights
come from God, and II is useless for any man to
attempt to wear the robes Of true righteousness,
while bending and Bringing - the demands of the
most God.forsaken law that yer blackened q stat
ute book. And such is the Fugitive Slave Law.
l don't know whether Judge Wilson processes
Christianity or not bat it 81 ems to me If / should
over attempt to charge @ jury as he did in the late
rescue case, ] should want 81 netting to shield my
hollow heart from the gaze Of justice. Judge lie.
witt, il seemed, was cunning enough to wear a pro
fsssion of Christian ia ". lie disappearing God.
Judges aud the expounde-S Of law generally, care
nothing for human rights so long as human law
trample them under foot. But after all the out.
cry about the Wellington rescuers, what more could
We expect than that they would be doomed to O
ielon's fatei Does not Federal law hold under
its control all State laws ; and lie not the Fugitive
Slave Law one Of the Federal laws2 The crime
committed in imprisoning the rescuers was not in
violating either Federal or State law, but it was
in violating Gods law. 1. is said, We cannot serve
both God and Mammon, therefore the judge and
jury that imprisons for deeds Of charity prefer
serving Mammon rather than God. Every citizen
that is loyal TO tho present rule Of legislation
adopted by both State governments and national
government is disloyal to himself, to his fellow,
3 man and to God.
Ohio must either submit to the decision OF the
Q court in the rescue case, or else come in contact
with Federal power. Nothing is palmer than this,
because the decision is in strict conformity with
r Federal law. Is Ohio ready for nulifcationf Is
she ready to proclaim the glorious words Of Pat
b rio Henry "Givs me liberty or give me DEATH?
, IL she ready TO receive, with open arms, every fly
d ing fugitive tia. escape from the bondman's den 7
s May she prove bravo enough to espouse tho cause
l. Of God and Of humanity and inscribe Liberty upon
T her banners.
n People of Ohio, come to the rescue OF your
r brave State. Let not not wicked legislation crowd
o your sympathies and your love of justice out OF
your own field of action, but rise up in the mighty
power Of truth, and WELD tho weapons Of spirit
& ual warfare to the destruction Of injustice and op
preston. Shall we not obey God rather thar
man we bnoulu ODey uo tuouSu All tuo Juuhe'
q in the nation should deal out to us the gall of cor
rupt legislation not only 60 into prisons, but t.
the gallows or the stake before trying the dear cx
pertinent Of a Judas. Christian people of all age
have been prosecuted, a1G prosecutions have prov
ed glorious auxiliaries in building up the broken
Is down walls Of Zion therefore we glory in tn
prospect of a better time to come. So long as Obi
., bows her neck under the death.tread of Fedora
Despotism, and yields obedience to the unrighteou
W. decisions Of Federal Courts, that long she is guilt
II Of n shameful sin.
ID Protesting Quakerism, I discard violence on a
occasions but as much as ] love innocence, reac
. and harmony, my very soul would rejoice were
to hear that the Oberlin rescuers were rescued b
force from Jail. I am aware of the consequence
= Of such a move, but yet it would only be hastenin
that day that it is sure to como. The battle'cr
he's gone forth, and hosts are crying out. let it com
Tn Tho armies Of Freedom and Despotism stand facin
RS. each other in battle array, and ere long one or tn
ie- other will die, and sink into the grave of oblivion
al Gladly would / save the nation from the curse
ow war, but while it is cursed with slavery, and o
l. slavery is piled up such massive mountains Of co
rup tlegislation, it seems impossible to add guilt
ir- this nation and for these reasons, 10 connectic
re- with the almost certainty that civil war will brea
ore down the mammoth evil of the land, it would
ex' for less deplorable than continued slavery. Wa
nd as an abstract evil is ever to DO dcplOred, and 81
ce, very viewed in the same light should be deplor
also. They are twin brothers, and tho Devil us
Of one to build up The other, and sometimes uses o
ems 10 kill to other. 1t is altogether upon the grour
that war necessarily follows in the track of slave
- that it can be viewed with anything other tn
pir- with feelings of deepest disgust. When a m
p. has become a confirmed drunkard, it is useless
'eet grisve about his card playing, fighting or, swe'
un. ing because drunkenness has thrown down
au- doors that open into the whole train of vices
s OF Where there are two great con,ending national
7 of terests distracting all elements of civil society,
had ture, through her own laws brings them clio
tor and closer, till one or the other falls in the arms
re- Death. So it must lie with our country. Moth
MIR. shor. Of the shout Of Gabriel, clothed with pov
the from the seat of Jehovah, can ever silence
ned clash Of aims. Not the Fugitive Slave Law on
the but the whole system Of American Slavery '
the fall, though with it flow rivers Of blood. If
ates time is not yet, it is not Ear distant. when the g
mutterings of courts will be more loudly p%roclai
vic. ed by the cannons' roar, an I then our country '
ions write Liberty upon her banners with the blood
hese her own citizens.
and JAS. D. JOHNSON
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