Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-12
REIGN OF TERROR EXTENDING.

We are living in portentous times. At the
South, nobody is safe, or has been for months.
The persecution raised against Radical Abolition.
lists, is in process of being extended to Rcpubli.
cans and their denunciations of theRadicas affords
minister Of the Gospel is sentenced to one years
imprisonment for the alleged crime of having Civ
en- circulation to book showing the superior prof
tabeness of free over slave labor. In another
State juror disagrees with his fellow jurors, on
point of law or evidence, and must flee the State
for his life. For the crime Of color, whole fami-
lies are exiled from their native State, on penalty
of being ensaved Missionaries of the Gospel
with their fUcks are driven from their station and
their homes, for propogating the Gospel as held
by Wesley, Hopkins, and the Presbyterian and
the Methodist Episcopal Churches Of the last cen
tury In Congress, freedom Of speech is exercised
at the hazard Of life. The Senate by the votes of
Republican, as well as Democratic Senators, incar-
corates DIR. Hyatt without judge, jury. trial, or
hearing, unconyicted and unaccused of any offence
against the laws. And the deed finds Republican
apologists, as well as Democratic advocates.
But the Reign of Terror is not conined to The
South. The save-driver with his manaces is al
ready in Massachusetts,, and puts them on the
wrists, not Of Mr.. Keitt's slaves on Bunker HUI,
but on those of a white citizen Of Concord. The
insuted sovereignty Of Massachusetts interposes
only upon legal technicaity, a lawyers quibblc
the ieer, no doubt, Of the Federal Judges to liber
ate her outraged son-not daring to stand on her
own rights, as free Sovereign State, owing no
allegiance to the three hundred thousand men.
s.ealers.
The driver is already in the Free Northwest,
hunting his white victims. Boothe is in prison,
The Supreme Court OF Wisconsin, hears tie lash
over its head, and quails under it.
The driver is n New York city, Furnishing his
whip at Dr., Cheever, in the shadow Of his own
pulpit, in the society Of the Church olthe Purtans.
The other evening be was there, and stayed till
midnight, challenging the votes of paying and at.
tending Church members, thrusting in the vCtes OF
seCeders, absentees and enemies attempting to al
ter the SOcety's pew-deeds, and elect Trustees
opposed to the Pastor. On that occasion, he was
outvoted and three friends of the Pastor, Messrs.
Hart, Whiting, and Hall, were declared duly elect
ed by the Inspectors, who were opposed 70 them.
But the driver abdes by no decision, submits to no
defeat, sticks at measures. The driver is there
again. The inspectors refuse certificates OF cleo
ton to the Trustees they had declared elected, and
grant certificates to other men, who were not elect
ed, But justice Of the Supreme Court grants
an injunction, restraining the bogus Trustees from
exercising their functions,
! What will the driver next doP Will he crack
his whip over the head Of Judge Bonny Of the Su-
preme CourtH Why not, as we'll as over the Su-
preme Court of Wisconsin?
/ Seriously, where are we =? Who is safe What
citizen shall next be seized and manacled Who
next incarcerated in prsonH
! And what are Abolitonists doing What are
anti-slavery men doing? What are Republicans
doing?
! Cassius Mr.. Clay repeats again and again, in
every variety of form, the dogma, that Radical Alb
utionists for the heresy of denying the legality of
slavery, have forfeited the right of free speech
and should by statute law, be restrained from its
exercise, OF banished. The Republicans of New
York City propose by acclamatiOr, his nomination
for the Presidency. They pass resolutions ap-
plaudng him, and without a word of censure for
prescription of Radical Abolitionists. Have any
of the Republican, or moderately anti-slavery Re
! ligious Journals uttered word Of rebuke for his
prescription, or of dissent from itf We have
found none-not even in The Independent or The
Tribune. Is the proscriptve dogma TO go unques.
toned, unrebuked, except by the intended vic
Tins in the pro-slavery mobs, in this city and
elsewhere, in 1884?
While Booth is imprisoned at Milwaukee, by the
slave power, for the alleged crime of shelterinS
fugitive slaves, preparations are making for the
Republican Nominating Convention at Chicago
and the claims of the rival candidates are being
eagerly canvassed. Among them all is there one
that can be dopchded upon to exert himself for a
repeal Of the Fugitive Slave Bill Is there oEe
that can be depended uTcn to protect Radical