Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-03

dict is. IL was in prison and ye visited me not"
"inasmuch as 20 did it not to one Of the least, &c.
The "other instance" you refer to az the reason
OF want Of action in my brothers. behalf, you have
not scruplod to bring forward prominently at each
new phase Of the case, ever since the day of his
hrst arrest. As his mouth, by the propriety Of bis
position, is necessarily closed on that subject, ill
the case is finally adjudicated iu the State courts.
it does seem as if justice, as we'll as magnanimity,
would dictate somo other course on the part of the
Republican press, than to assail q man when he
can make no reply,
But in the name of all that is decent, what has
this to do with his Constitutional Rights2 Are
mems rights to be graduated by the popular pre-.
JUDGE with which they are regarded, or by their
prudence or folly in the judgment of their friends
and enemies? If purity of character were essen.
tial to the enjoyment Of constitutional rights, many
an officer and editor, and not g few of those loud
est in denouncing him, would find their liberties
seriously abridged. II he hos done anything wor-
thy Of bonds, or of death, let him bo held respon-
sible but in the name of justice let no improved
accusation be made the pretext for consigning him
to hopeless imprisonment for a praiseworthy deed,
- SASuSO II ilbHh OAOCuNluR III ONu laws,
for protecting the liberties of the people. And in
the Judgment of many Of his friends, no paper in
the State, has done so much to produce the state
Of things you say exists as the Free Democrat.
You say be deserves no sympathy because he
would not withdraw from the State. Withdraw
where? From the jurisdiction of the Federal
Government? There is no State in the United
States that can legally protect against the ven
geance of the slave power but this. And what a
position is this A great State has sworn by its
sovereignty, and by tho uplifted hands of its judi.
cial, executive and legislative officers, to protect
the liberty Of its citizens. The question whether
one of its citizens is legally free is judioially de-
termined, and all departments Of the government,
as well ms the people, swear to carry out the de.
cree, but the kidnapper comes along and says,
. Your State laws are a nullty and your boosted
State sovereignty is a nyth.-I will imprison your
citizens in spite Of your Laws, your Courts, and
your State Authorities, " and the great State Of
Wisconsin says TO its threatened citizens, Run!
You can. have no protection unless you leave the
country you can have liberty only in exile from
your native land, and the Free Democrat joins the
chorus, Tor leads III and shouts, L" if you don't 90
'NANAhNJ OuuAohmChbi 1Uu are uUueSGTVlDR
of sympathy, and may 90. The Republicans have
done their duty in advising you to leave the coun-
try" And this is vindicating State Rights and
State Sovereignty is it? This is the protection
the State Government, administered by Repu5li-
can hands, of which the editor of the Free Demo-
crat is a sworn officer, offers to its citizens is it ?
And this is the way it redeems its pledges Du-
ring the eleven years that my brother conducted
the Free Democrat, whenever any ones rights
were outraged, did any one ever know him to stop
to inquire whether the outraged man was perfect
before he demanded redress for HIM Glover was
said by his enemies-possibly with truth-to be
not immaculate. Did the Free Democrat, that
then led in the battle for liberty, stop 20 discuss
his merits or dement's! Not at all. 1t scorned
such ON issue.
1t said, "here is an outraged man, his liberty
wrongfully withheld, " and it demanded for his
protection those sacred guarantees of the Consti-
tuition, the writ of Ha6eas Corpus, and the trial by
jury. When the people and State of Wisconsin
redeem their oath to protect my brothers liberty,
and an opportunity is given him Of maintaining
his cause in other matters before the courts
of the State, it will be in order to discuss
questions of character. He is not at present an
applicant for sympathy but for justice-for that
justice which has been pledged him in the most
solemn forms, but which he has hitherto sought in
vain, and no raising of side issues or Cain-like
pleas of cam 1 my brothers. keeper" can put a
side his just demand for redress, or excuse or pal
late the great outrage hourly inflicted upon him,
In conclusion, let me say tina. my brother will
not leave the State as a fugitive or vagabond, not
even to accommodate his ''best friends" He will
not leave it until he can leave it q free man-froe
to 60 and come at his pleasure,
Is it unreasonable to ask that TIL Free Democrat
if it cannot say any thing in his behalf, will moi
hencefOrth take the part of his oppressors, and
encourage them-as l feel sure it has done-tc
treat him with still greater severity. If you have
no word to speak for his liberty, can you not of
ford him the charity of silence, and leave him to
fight the battle alone, without the weight of youl
influence against him. Let S. NJ. Booth be to you
henceforth as the dead, till be once more appears
among the living.
Respectfully yours,
ABBY S. SALESMAN.