Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-30
STATE Comfy.

The last Salesman contains an Official cores.
pondenCe between Gov. MagoHiu Of Kentucky and
Gov. Donnison of Ohio, the subject of which may
be thus briefly stated. 1t appears that Willis La.
20, contrary to the laws Of Kentucky, and in the
language of the indictment found against him, Sc
dueed and enticed Charlotte, & slave, the property
Of Q. W. Nichols, to leave her owner and posses
sor, and of aiding and assisting said slave in an
attempt to make her escape FROM her said owner
and possossor.' Having himsclf escaped to Ohio,
be is demanded as a fugitive from justice, that he
may be tried for the alledgod offence.
The Executive of Ohio, with more honor to his
heart than his head, refuses to surrender him,
speaking from behind the special pleading of At
torney General Woleott, who finds q reason for
such refusal in the feet that the act charged is
neither treason nor felony, nor any other crime ao-
cording to the laws Of Ohio. However much it is
a cause for rejoicing to know that in the opposition
which the people of Ohio feel to slavery they have
arrived at that poin. where they evade, under
slight preteuces, the Constitutional duties they
have sworn to perform, it is deeply to be regretted
they have not attained that higher state which
will as stcrnly forbid them to promise to do vile
deeds, as prohibit the performance of them.
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by Ohio, shows that her Constitutions obligations
require her to deliver up persons charged with
treason, felony or other crime, and very properly
contends that Kentucky has a righe to determine
what nod stitutes crime upon her own soil, and to
classify crimes. If this right does not belong to
a State, then q man who manufactures )r sells rum
contrary to law in enc State, can escape the pains
and penalties pronounced against the deed by tax
ing refuge in another State whore rum selling is
licensed and distilling is a Legitimate business. If
AttorneyGeneral Wolcott's position be correct, then
Utah, when erected into a State, will be o city OF
refuge for escaping ~bigamists, and the Constitution
becomes n nose of wax that the fingers Of any
State Executive may pinch into such form as best
suits his ideas of political coneliness. '
The Kentucky Governor, in concluding his res.
ponse reminds his brother Executive not Of the
good time coming,' but of the good time they had
at olum last winter when Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee preserved the Union, and quotes
from Gov. Dennisou's speech on that occasion, in
which be declared,
Believe me, gentlemen, the people of Ohio ask
no peculiar privileges under the Constitution.
They cheerfully recognize as belonging to their
brethren oil the rights they claim for themselves.
The exclusive right Of the people of every State to
establish and maintain undisturbed their domestic
institutions, lies as the foundation Of the national
confederacy. Without its recognition there could
have been no Union of the States. Without its
continued recognition, as the basis of all national
legislation. and for the regulation of the inter!
course between the people of the States. in theory
and in fact, there can be no practical union Of the
States. The sovereignty of the States in all mat.
ters not clearly delegated to the Federal Gov.
eminent must be maintained
Commenting upon this Governor Magoffn says,
This was the solemn pledge given to US on our
visil last winter to Ohio by you, as the Executive
of the State. and, be assured, nothing less will sat-
isfy tie people of Kentucky. Nothing less should
be conceded by the people of Ohio. | cannot con-
vey to you my surprise and disappointment when
| read the reasons given for your refusal to sur
render the fugitive Lago, in direct violation, 1 con.
ceise, of the sentiments and principles laid down
in the above extract from YOUR speech Upon the
occasion alluded to. According to your own ad-
missions and position SO distinctly stated, that VIC;
alton involves a dissolution Of the Union
While our State pride leads ds TO tnaht6ih that
Dennison can make better Union saving spggEtiSa
than Magoffn. our sense Of justice compels US ID
admit that in the matter under consideration Ken
lucky has the best end Of the constitutional areu,
ment.