Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-03
CORREsPNDENCE.
How should IsI EsPgRllssPs gIs. Ts'n, tho FusI-


How should Republicans Trent tho FuEi-
tive slave LnWt
Mn. EDITOR Your correspondent of Tues
day has some very remarkable structures on
the recent letter Of Mr.. BAcKUs justifying, I
think, a word OF comment and inquiry
Mr.. BACxUs denounces the Fugitive Slave
Law as an unparalleled outrage on the rights
Of freemen, and waving all controversy as to
its validity, since it has the sanction of both
the Federal and State Judiciary, demands its
immediate repeal
Your correspondent ridicules Mr. BAcKUs
views, pours contempt on all he says then,
happily for US whom he labors to enlighten,
gives us the following novelty:
"The only manly, practical way of meet
ing that act, and avoid the odious burdens it
imposes, is not weakly and impotently to ad-
init its binding power, but to meet and de-
nOunce il as no Law
It is a great comfort to be relieved from
distressing doubts The "way' here pointed
out it will be observed, is not only "manly,
practical but we have the assurance that it is
the only manly, practical way" And it is
so easy, withal. All that is required is Just
" TO meet and denounce it as no law r and
the statute is gone. Just think Of it. Our
friends are being hunted down, arrested,
thrown into prison, and thence hurried sum
marily into lifelong bondage, by the agency
Of Federal Courts backed By all the power Of
the Federal Government, in pursuance Of the
provisions Of an act Of Congress; and TO
erase this law from the statute book, we have
simply to meet and denounce it as no lawT
What Federal Judge would ever have the te-
merity to give the Fugitive Slave Law in
charge to a grand jury after it had been once
limited to him that the law had been "de-
nounced as no law % What Attempt to
enforce an act Of Congress after it has been
once denounced as no law? PreposterOus
There is a slight indefniteness in the direc-
tions, l confess, which | would gladly have
remedied. How is it proposed to meet?-
What? Where? When? A single ray of
that same wisdom on each Of these points, if
you please. Is it proposed to meet " on the
Square p Meet the Marshal and his bum
baili6s? Meet the law? Wherein the
Courts? In the statute-bOok? There must
be the right time and the right place for the
4 ~ Old fsa.h
ioned town-meeting that is prescribed? If
so, how, when and where shall it be called,
and who shall preside? Who shall speak
ulminate-bighfalutin - denOunce ?''-
After the style, place and time Of meeting are
fixed, then be a little specific es to the man
ner of denunciatiOn. Shall it be written or
oral-which2 If written, shall it be magis-
terial and awful, or ministerial and simple
If oral, shall it be turgid-verbOse- e-declama-
tory - impressive eloquent -gymastic-
dramatic-which? Shall it be in stately pc
RODS or in quick thunder-bolts? Shall it be
denounced by one manly siX-by thou
sand ? How, oh how shall it be denounced
1t is very clear that to get rid of an odiouS
act Of Congress 1t will never do to repeal it,
for that would be to "weakly and impotently
admit its binding power "The only manly,
practical way is "tO meet and denOunce it
us no law' But how in the world is this to
be done? # l correctly remember the law
was somewhat denounced in the defence of
BUSHNELL; but clearly that was not the sort
Of denunciation referred to here, for poor
Bushnell went to jail notwithstanding that
denunciation. What the manner of denun-
citation required? You see am completely
in the mist. Give me light The supplica-
ton of Ajax is my supplicatiOn:
d" Dispel the clouds, the light of Heaven restore,
Give me 10 SEE, and Ajax asks no more %
One farther Inquiry. Your correspondent,
take it, withholds his support from Mr.
BAcEUs. Has he any favorite candidate for
the Congressional nomination who rejoices
in your correspondents denunciatOry plat
form2 If so, be good enough to name him.
He is Just the man to elucidate the platform.
he could have no better opportunity to eI-
bibit the quality c. his craftsmanship. He
shall have the music-stand on the Public
Square, an immense crowd of attentive hear
ers, with at least two hundred Wide-Awakes
to throw a strong Kerocene light on the oc-
casion. And if he will only then and there
practically illustrate his idea by such dis
play of that crushing, annihilating denuncia-
ton which shall forever blot out the Fugitive
Slave Law, will it not be splendid success?
Such man is clearly the man for this Dis
trict
This is a remarkable age. BosH.