Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-04
WHOLE No. 7i2.

and rot the constitution the measure Of it pow efs
but that, as in ak other cases OF compact between
parties having common judge, each party has
equal rightto judge for itself, we'll Of infrao-
tions, as of the mode and measure Of tedress.
I'd. Thu; the law commonly tndwh aa the Fugi
tive Slave Law of 1850, was, in the opinion Of tbii
assembly passed by Congress in the exercise of
powers improperly assumed and had II been pre-
sented as an original question to wise and ihpar
tial court must have been held in conflict With the
constitution, and therefore, void
Sd. That one of the most alarming symptoms OF
degenerhcy in the general government, Ia the plant
subservehcy Of the Supreme Court OF the United
States to the objects Of party politics. thus greatly
diminishing that public confidence in the judiciary
so essential to good order that the extent to which
the Supreme Court has thus compromised ite char
ooter, renders it incumbent upon the people to ton
sider Whist meustres are necessary to restore that
tribunal to its ancient estate
4th That. in the opinion OF this assembly, "a
amendment of the federal judiciary system is in;
dispensibly necessary so that the sovereignty OF
the States may be respected and individuals
guarded from oppression. AS a means to this end
it is strongly recommended that the life TENURE af
Judges be abolished and that the judicial Office bs
limited TO term of years that Congress 80 re.
model the judicial circuits that maj jority of citi-
zens of the United States shall have a majority OF
the justices Of the Supreme Court.
5th. That the recent proceedings OF the Federal
Court for this District in producing the conviction
of persons indicted under the provisions of the
Fugitive Slave Law, by the employment Of The
most disgraceful partizan means, is without par.
allel even in the modern story of desposismj
that the victims of that Court, now hcatSsfated ID
yonGer prison, Gohficted accused Of humanity
to man., entitled to, and we hereby tender to
them, our cordial sympathy and to mako thas
sympathy effectual, we hereby recommend:
That fund be raised to be called The Fand Of
Liberty and to the end that every Republican on
the Reserve may share accommodating that fund.
that the contributions be limited one dollar each,
the same to be collected under the direction of the
several Republican County Genital Committees W
the Reserve; that three commissioners be appointed
by this assembly, to be called Commissioners Of IA
j. Libery Fund who shall receive said fund disbutaS
it for the objects named, aud account therefor BY
per odcal publications until their duties are per
II formed ;-applying any suplus to the advance
,e ment OF ResoublicaniSm and Liberty.
oil 9th. That our fellow citizens OF Lorain County
y who arc now in Jail waiting the pleasure of the
s. District Judge for their trial, are entisled !,
It their liberty. and must have in peacably and IL
= conformity with the rules of law;
In pursuit of this end it is
! Resolved, That Joshua r. Giddings, Of AshtI.
e bula County Herman Garfield, of Medina Co., and
Robert F. Paine of Cuyahoga Co., be constituted 4
Committee to sue out the writ of Iiabeas Corpus
in behalf of said prisoners without unnecessary
delay, and that they address the application u
their discretion, to any judicial officer Of the StatS
of Ohio, having power to grant the writ
7tb. That the chief reliance Of freedom in tho
American Republic rests in the great Republican
party, to which the people and the age look for
restoration Of every branch of the feGeral govern.
ment to the pristine purity of Je6ersonian Repat-
licantsm; that, stimulated well by the wrongs
and outrages which we're the Immediate occasion Of
this vast assem5lage, as by the late trumphs Of
the people over federal power and corruption, II Is
the manifest duty of Republicans everywhere to
renew their united efforts with an energy not to bs
remtted until the great result be accomplished.