Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-29

Waggonor-was arrested under pretencc of being f
a fugitive slave, carried to Newport, Ky, and C
thrown into gail and no owner appearing, he a
WAS sold for Jail fees. By the efforts Of Geo. p. {
Webster, who was moved with compassion for q
the captive, legal proceedings were stayed, his t
right to freedom established to the satisfaction of /
a Kentucky Court, and his discharge ordered. We 0
do not mention this case Us being one of peculiar
hardship, nor very unusual in character, save in
its termination. The kidnapping Of free colored
men is carried on extensively in tho States Dor
dering [ pom the Ohio river; and in southern Hi
nois the law, in most cases, has been utterly power
less to reclaim the captives or punish the villains.
These facts forcibly illustrate the insecurity of
personal liberty in :his free model Republic. The
case of the Jew boy, Mortara, who was fOrcibly
abducted from his parents, not that he shoold be
made a slave, but that he might be educated a
Catholic, stirred to its very centre the heart Of
Christendom. But here upon our own free soil,
a free man, known to many of our citizens, o ma
tive of Ohio, was seized and dragged away from
home and friends, to a Kentucky prison, and at
, length sold into slavery and the Sovereignty UNI
der whose rule he was born, had no remonstrance
to urge, no protest to make, no deliverance to
t achieve. 1t was a terrible outrage for despotic
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$ to educate him, but when Democratic and Prot
estant Kentucky takes a parent from his children
Q to degrade and TO dehumauize him, the offence is
/, so trining that neither Church nor State regard
9 it with any interest, but pass coldly by and nd-
dress themselves to the conversion of the heather
g abroad, and to political gambling ct home. What
y better could be expected of a people who consent
= to regard as valid a law which places the liberty
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d at the mercy of a single Commissioner, whose
g judgment must invariably be influenced by the
b testimony of the slave hounds who have an inter
is est in the rendition Of the man ?
|, Ohio under Republican rule ostracises the col
orod man, refuses his ballot, denies him equal edu.
catioual rights, and shuts him out of the ~jury-box,
: and even out of the county poor house; and to give
further proof to the South, of the strength of the
,e bond of political union between the two, we were
ie presented last winter with the humiliating specta-
" Gle of the General Assembly Of OHIO inviting to a
~ grand carousal the Legislatures of Kentucky and
er Tennessee, and spending more than $4,000 Of the
ne peoples funds il %gluttony and wine. bibbing and
Id senseless parade. And this was done too al a time,
or when more than a score of Kentucky's best citizens
cd had been driven by mob law to seek q shelter upon
81 Ohio soil, the Executive of the State from which
ks they fed being either powerless or unwilling t.
to protect them. In connection with the expulsion
I'd of John G. Fee and his Berean associates from
their homes in Kentucky, We might, if the limits
at. Of this report would permit, dwell upon the wide
Ter spread Reign of Terror at the South-the end o
as which is not yet-of which this incident is but on
ny of its numerous manifestations, and which ha
ter written its history in indiscriminato ~mobbiugs an,
M .oo,,,;pro opd Lurnip1s on1 bopo;nre onl -,
it pulsions, perpetrated in consequence of a madden
ish ed and senselcss panic. But little heed may b
nd given to this now, except by its victims, and it
Dur doubtful whether we are able to comprehend all it
Sc enormity, but when this Reign of Terror shall b
md recorded by the graphic pen of some future histc
rian, IL will bear the traces of n spirit so fierce an
cry relentless, SO cruel and bloody, chat Humanity wi
I'D stand aghast at the record.
res A year ago we had strong hoy . that Wisconsi
obg would be able to vindicate the doctrine Of Sta
ON Sovereignty, not only up to the point where resi-
I'll lance to Federal usurpation becomes q necessit
ity bat carry it triumphaltly beyond. The people i
sht- dignOntly ~trampled the Fugitive Slave Law und
pom foot, her Judiciary declared it a nullity, h
,ply Legislature anne to the rescue with her DO
IS to enactments, and her Executive stood prepared
.ical defend the rights aud the honor of the State. T.
the game was ~skillfully played; but just at that poi
h is when Wisconsin could have checkmated her O
who ponert and closed the contest, she yielded all 8
Tins had gained; thus adding another to the ma
heir forcible illustrations Of the impossibility of Sta
INFO Sovereignty and individual rights, being succe
ield, fully indicated and protected under a goyernme
n OF constituted Of the most discordant elements, Ii
st of the Federal Union of this country.
weV- Though Wisconsin in her corporate capacity
nent, terly failed, o portion of the people did what
the State ought to have done. With a writ Ct habt
tax corpus issued by Popular Sovereignty, they OPP
their ed the doors of the U. S. prison, and released
rule, captive. And to day, disregarding all consti
lssed tons and laws, judgments and writs, process
sus- and decisions which sustain the Fugitive ST.
la Law, they bid defiance to the Federal governme
snore and unequiVocally tell its officials that S. NJ. Bo
shall not be rearrested. Whether they will
ways able to maintaib this position, or be forced to
avery cumb, or, by some device evade the direct is
cur and consent to have it called o drawn game, t
I the only can demonstrate.
aved. Tho FedaraI a,,bori,;os mo, dam :, ,bo ror
sight wisdom To he less exoc,;no ,bon ,bov have hoo,
mo- several cases within the last twelve months;
~e although they may stand q good chance Of sucC
i@s' when dealing with contumacious states, the
irnoy ye are BEGINNING to show sirps Of insubo,dinat
"'oin If the government won a triumph, in the imp
anu onment of Thaddeus Hyatt at Washington.
they victory was n, hest n most barran mn. 0n3 bs
J can lease by the Senate was a virtual acknowledge
en'ai of the fact. The defeat, for it really was
, CUT was as p~alpable though different in
'ca'eS character, as when its deputized deputies, by
neon arrest Of Frank Sanborn in Massachusetts, ca,
90 an uprising of the people who released the p
'nus ner, and drove the officials from their prese
lue 0i 1t was a defeat as ~palpable as when John Br
liO0"i Jr, backed by the people of 'benighted As
10y ,e- bula', disregarded the authority and defed
'"' 10 power of the Senate, and refused either to g,
en- for - \, ,oLon hoC,ro 49, NJ. C.-. q