Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-28

tary baseness, can have no pre.cnce Of %constitu-
tional obligation, out.Masous Mason, and stamps
himself a hound Of special 'alacrity.'
This deed ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Republican candi-
date for President, has dono Here are the facts:
Extract from a Bill suggested by Hon. ABRAHAM
LINCOLN; in the U. S. House of Representatives,
Jan. 10. 1919. tSee Congressional Globe, appen-
dix, "a Session S0th Congress, p. ply
Section 5. That the municipal authorities of
Washington and Georgetown, within their respec-
tive jurisdictional limits, are hereby empowered
and REQUIRED to provide actiDe and efficient means
TO arrest and delirer up to their opnerS, ALL Flu.
GITIVE SLAVES escaping into said District
Observe his position 1t provides no safeguards,
no jury trial; takes no care to prevent free men
from being carried off as slaves;-iu these re-
spocts, it is worse than even Mason's Bill. The
municipal authorities are to provide ACTIVE and
EFFICIENT means'-that is all.
This was my charge. l now add that the New
York Tribune ~confesSes that its Presidential can
didate, Mr.. LINCOLN, did just this deed. 1t says,
the 9Th section Of that Bill, quoted above, was
merely intended to put the District on o footing
with all the States in regard to fugitive from SER
vice. when slavery should no longer exist there,
and nothing more. If Virginia may have the
right to take her runaWays in Roston, there is no
good reason, coteyiS paribuS, why she should not in
Washington
If, as the Tribune says, there is no good reason
why the Fugitive Slave clause, constitutionally
valid in Boston, should not be extended to Wash
ington, where the Constitution does not now carry
it, then the same may be said Of Canada and Liv
erpool. Once grant that this infinite pro-slavery
compromise, which every decent man abhors, may
properly be extended one inch, and Shareholders
and their New York apologists will show excellen,
and weighty reasons for extending it to Canada
and Liverpool. We nigh, have supposed that the
Republican party, which vindicates its existence
solely on the ground Of its purpose to resist the
extension Of slavery, and Of keeping it within
strict constitutional limits, would see many a good
reason against extending the area Of this pro
slavery and diabolical covenant. To an Adolf
ZIONIST, saving even five miles square, and espec.
tally the residence of the Government, sacred to
freedom, seems something, amid this universal
wreck. according to the Tribune, such small
matters are unworthy of consideration
Hear, therefore, all ye Re publican journals and
) voters! the New York Tribune sees no good rea.
som why we may not now doom fresh Territory
to slave-hunting why the Fugitive Slave clause
] clause should not be extended further than the
Constitution carries it, and it distinctly admit.
that its Presidential candidate, Mr.. ABRAHAM
o LINCOLN, has expressed his wish and intention 81
to extend it, for which wish and intention tht
Tribune has no word of blame.
J In these circumstances, if the Tribune really
e sees mo good reason why the area of slave-huI
l ting should not be extended further than the Con
~stitution requires-then, instead of one SLAVE
HOUND, l have discovered two, among Republican
leaders-Mr. LINCOLN, of Illinois, and the New
York Tribune; aud on their collars I shall eugravu
is in black capt. is, 'VoLUNTEERs.' l might max
IN up a huntsm leash. three hounds ; putting Lii,
coin in the re, Mason of Virginia on one side
he and the Tribune on the other. But this would nc
balance; Stree Mason, poor, n~arrow.souled SHINE,
only demands what he deems his constitutions
rights, while the two 'Tolunteers,' more DARN
knaves, propose to extend the area Of slave-hun
10 ting, and doom to that base fate soil which tn
Constitution cOnsecrate ties to liberty.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
p. s. As the Tribune first introduced my nam
= into this discussion, 1 might justly claim that
r~epublish this reply. l know it too we'll to ez
e pee. such justice. l do claim, for the sake of cai
e play, that it publish in its columns the frs
D first twenty-eight lines of my former article o.
which it comments l notify it that the n%ineteent
line of that article should read, Extract from
Bill suggested by Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN e.
| have quoted those lines above, under my thir
head. W. P.