Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-16


Cour. of the United States held them guiltes,
and the Chrietian world approved the act The!
surely manifested o superior civilization q higho
Christianity on this point than did those rrinci
pal men of Cleveland. The slaves on board The
Creole understood their natural rights they slew
their souls and bodies l, acting as the Represent,
atives Of this Congressional District, publicly vim
dicated this act Of the slaves. The British min
istry vindcated it the people Of Our district, in.
deed the people of the United States approved Of
the action Of those slaves. And the people
of Cuyaboga county for ten years, sustained me in
the posiiion had assumed on that subject.
l am laying down no new doctrine. For cen.
tury it has been held BY Christian Publicsts, thai
the right OF every human being to life and liber.
ty, lies behind aud 6bote human governments
guaranteed by the will of the Most High, tha
TO violate this will of God by murdering OF
enslaving men, constitutes the highest of human
offences, whether it be done by murdereTp, pirates
or despots. This will of God, :his natural law
cannot be changed or modified by human legis
laton. 1t constitutes the basis the essential ell
ement in cur government. 1t constitutes the life
giving principle of the Republican organization.
To surrender it, would be to surrender the Re
publican party, to surrender the government, to
surrender our liberties.
The doctrine Of submission preached by our
friends at Cleveland, when carried out would sur
render their own daughters to Southern prostitu-
ton, and themselves to interminable bondage.
Nor can Marshal johnson Le ia any degree ex-
cused, because he is an officer. He knows that
Lucy's right to liberty was held directly from ,he
stestor. Thtt neither murderers pirates, nor
members of Congress had authority to dsrobe her
Of this prerogative. He knew that the process is-
sued by Bushnell White. commanding him to vio-
late the liberty Of Lucy, was void, was q mockery,
copfering on him no authority whatever, imposing
dpoh her no obligation to submit to be enslaved
That its Only effect was to involve White in the
Crime to render him n party in the guilt There
is but one qualification to which these remarks Is
subject: The turpitude Of White, Johnson aud
Goshorn, and those principal men Of Cleveland,
who advised, OF consented to the enslavemont Of
Lucy, is measured by their intelligence. G
P. S. Since writing the above, l have been in
formed that those persons who met at Lima are
to be indicted, and punished for conspsing to Sc
cure Lucy in the enjoyment of her liberty. Such
prosecution will be consistent. If the fugitive
act be 'law," all who conspire in favor of freedom
must be offenders. And inasmuch as Hancock,
Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and their associates
who favored the great conspiracy Of 1776 are now
beyond the jurisdiction Of Judge Wilson's court,
it might be we'll to embrace the Chicago Conven.
tion and the Republican party in one general in
dictment The submissionsts and com 2romisers
will of course be glad to act as prosecuting wit
nesses. presume Judge Wade, Judge Ranney,
and all those public men who have declared they
would liberate any person captured under the fu'
gtive act, will at once plead guilty. Judge Sut-
lift and Judge Brinkerhof, having dared officially
to proclaim tho fugitive acs void, should be most
severely punished.
But what can be said to mitigate the punish
meut of Tom Corwin, Senator Monroe, and other
cOnspirators who composed the Republican State
Convention Of 1859, and before the country de-
clared this fugitive act obstructive to the rights
of the States, to the liberties of the people, and
abhorent to the sense ofhe civRiaed tcorld." l
.remble for these fragrant offenders. But trust
that the punishment of the people of our State,
who voted to sustain the views Of the convention,
who elected Judge Brinkeihof because he held
these doctrines, will receive mercy at the hands of
the slave-catchers.