Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-03

or provision TO interfere with the legal rights Of
the slave.owner. lii not in the least offensive to
the South, unless the clause in our constitution
against slavery is offensive, and we have not the
least idea that conservative southern men will take
the leas, exceptions to it. This we say, not that
We do not regard the protection Of our own citi-
Gems as the FIRST duty Of the State, whatever those
Of other States may think; but because we think
that subserviency to southern opinions has been
overd ne in this case, and that even the loco-focos,
who have put themselves on record against fur
nishing protection to our ci,iz ms, subject strictly
to the federal constitution and federal laws, may
hereafter find the record inconvonient.
The bill provides 10 brief, lst, tina. there shall
be no more slave-holding in Ohio than is strictly
according to the constitution, End, that there shall
be no more kidnapping in this State, than is re-
quired by the constitution Of the United States
and by federal legislation.
Below we give the bill as passed by the Senate,
not doubling that our readers will concur with us,
that ii the State Of Ohio is not competent 70 ex-
tcnd this protection to her citizens, we had better
have no more to say about State sovereignty, and
should at once surrender our State Constitution
and assume a colonial position in fact, as democ'
raoy would have us in spirit.
A BILL.
To prevent Slaveho!ding and kidnapping in the
State of Ohio.
SECTION |. Be IL enacted by The General Assem-
bly, Of Ire State of OHIO, That il any person shall
bring into this state any other person, with intent
to hold or control, or shall aid or assist in holding
or controlling, directly or indirectly, within this
Iat.No 49, 49, -. =. 1-o .rAI na,sn1 g "a
offending, shall be deemed guilty of false iupris
oument, and upon o nvictlon thereof, shall be
punished by imprisonment in the county Jail, not
less than three, nor more than nine months, and
by fine not less than two hundred, nor more than
fse hundred dollars; and every person coming
within this state otherwise than as q person held
to service in another state under the laws thereof,
and escaping into this state, shall be deemed and
held in all courts as absolutely free.
SEC. 9. If any person shall seize or arrest, or
shall attempt TO seize or arrest, or shall aid in se:z-
ing or arresting, or in attempting to seize or ar
rest, or shall use any fore or fraud for the purpose
of holding, OBTAINING or controlling any other per-
son, upon any pretence or claim that such person
is a fugitive from service, such person, so often
ding, shall be deemed guilty of false imprison-
ment, aud shall be punished by imprisonment in
the county Jail, not less than three months, nor
more than nine months, and by fine not less than
three hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
SEC. 8. If any person shall seize or arrest, or
sha all attempt to seize or arrest, or shall aid in
seizing or arresting, or in attempting to seize or
arrest, or shall use any force or fraud for the pur-
pose Of holding, OBTAINING, controlling, or inhuen-
cling any other person with intent to carry or re.
move such person outsof this state, or with intent
to cause such person voluntarily to depart Out Of
this state, in order that such person may be taken,
held, or controlled as a slave, in some other state,
territory, or jurisdiction, such person so offending,
shall be deemed guilty Of kidnapping, and shall be
punished by Imprisonment in the penitentiary at
hard labor, not less than three, nor more than sew
en- years.
Sec. 4. Nothing in the preceding sections Of
this act shall apply to any act done by any person
under the authority Of ,Ls Constitution of the Uni.
ted States, or Of any law ofthe United States, made
liz pursuance thereof.
SEC. S. This act shall take effect upon its pas
sage.