Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-01
The GEORGIA MURDER BILL.

We fad the following remarkable document in
the Mobile Register, Of recent date
In his recent speech on Saturday ni,ht. Mr..
rorsyth read a Bill, or rather the project OF q Bill,
SAID 20 DO the production Of one of the Senators
from Georgia, and to be introduced into the next
Legislature Of that State, "for tho better protec-
zion Of Shareholders and their property" The
reader will feel disposed to join in the manifest
atoms of astonishment Of that immense audience
on Saturday night, when he reads the provisions
of this remarkable ILL. 1t has been published in
several Georgia papers, in some without COM
ments, and has been still more extensively dis
cussed With batod breath in private circles. 1t
coolly aud deliberately proposes to legalize murder
and arson, and to set loose all the demons of hell
to riot at will with the lives and property of
Southern born men. A man committing murder,
even in the most fendish shape, it is not he that
would have to be tried, but his victim, for the con-
viction Of the dead of having exercised the func.
tons Of a federal office would be complies iustif-
cation Of the deed. All the processes Of law that
ensure justice even to the basest felons are to 10
suspended o whole class Of offenders are to be
condemned by Wholesale the evidence is to be
supplied by individual malice, hatred or revenge,
and the sentence is to be executed before the evil
dence is furnished or the trial commenced. If you
think we mistake the bearing of the bill, read it
for yourself;
BILL
FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE OWNERS OF SLAVES
IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
WHEREAS, one Abraham Lincoln, a Black Re-
publican has been duly elected President of the
United States, for four years from the fourth Of
March next and, whereas, it is evident to every
unprejudiced mind that the whole power of said
Lincoln and his coadjutors will be welded
through the Government of the United States for
the destruction of the slave interests of the South;
and, whereas, the safety of the South requires
that the question shoald be met with the most Wig
orous measures on the part of the people of the
sovereign State of Georgia; therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
sesentatives of the State of Georgia, in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the au-
thority Of the same, That from and after the pass
ing Of this act, it shall be unlawful for any per-
son whatever to receive q commission from, or
hold an Office under the President of the United
States, or to fulfill the duties belonging to any of.
fee in the United States Government, within the
State of Georgia, which may have been conferred
upon any citizen or resident of the State of Geor-
by any previous Administration Of the United
States Government.
2. BE il further enacted, That If any individual
shall, after the 4th Of March next, per-
form any duty by virtue of any order or commits
emanating from the United States Govern
ment, or any branch thereof, such person shall be
deemed On outlaw and a traitor to the sovereign
State of Georgia, and shall suffer Death in any
manner which it may please any good and loyal
citizens of said State to inlict.
3. BE IL further enacted; That IL shall be no
for any ono or moro good and loyal citizens
Of the State Of Georgia to consume by fire all the
property of said outlaw.
4. Be ii further enacted, That in all cases of
o%utlawry, as herein defined, the habeas corpus and
the right of trial by jury shall be suspended.
s. Be il further enacted, That if any judicial
officer shall grant a writ of habeas corpus, in the
cases heretofore recited and set forth, he shall be
deemed guilty of outlawry, and shall suffer the
penalty Of death and conAagration, as hereinafter