Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-26
a TEST.

If the tone Of the Cleveland Leadcr-the most
ultra OF the Republican papers of that city-is to
be taken as the index Of the state OF mind exist.
ing IN the party at the present time, then verify,
a worse misfortune has fallen upon US than Uould
be the surrender Of many Fort Sumpters.
What are the facts of the casei A fusi,iys
slave is arrested in the city of Cleveland, which
arrest at this time, and in that place, the Leader
rsgardss-and We thipk justly-as presenting q
'es' question, And how do the citizens Of Clsvs-,
lana meet t. Do they choke off the slave hounds,
ana tell them that the law under which they act
's inhuman and unconstitutional? Do they re-
mind them OF the meeting of ten thousand tina,
TWO years ago convened there to sympathise with
The oberlin-Welling.on rescuers, and to denoupee
siaVe-hunting upon Ohio soilf Not a Bit of H..
Ihey are as tame as whipped spaniels; and
ueekly and submissively sit down to discuss the
erect which a decision of the case either way
would have upon The perpetuity Of this glorious
Union Read the argument pro and con as pre-
sented by the Leader on Monday, and then saw
whether an anti-slavery Republican would not DO
almost justified in falseSood and perjury, who. in
view of this deep humiliation of the party, would.
swear that he knew it not; and had never acted
with it. The Leader says,
ga rescue from the officers of the law, would be-
t%rumpeted through the length and breadth of the
land. Secessionists would seize upon it, as proof.
that the North and the Republican party are will
full ~nullifers of the laws. The disuuion flame
would be famed with the assertion that all the
law-abiding declarations Of Republicans ,cere Jalss
and Of no effect; and tie hopes Of all aAo vet
I look TO a peaceful Union, would be cast dopn bv
: an untimely more.
/ "On the other hand, should the people of the
I city of Cleveland, in the Western Reserve whose
Z bitter hostility to the system of slavery is proven
r bal, and whose every sympathy is reused in ia
u vor OF the escaped ~bondman-if this people, BY
9 their acts to-day, proclaim to the country and ths
D world that they can set aside their feelings and
8 their sympathies; that they will submit to the
d power OF the Federal Laws, even though those
laws be totally repugnant and unjust; that they
s have a calm judgment which outbalances all the
impulses of the moment, and brings the latter in
;, fubjection to the former, then the e6ec: Of the det
for good al This particular crisis, sOiN b fell
y through all the country" &
After saying this, no breath need be wasted ia
telling how much the people of Ohio, and Of shS
Western Reserve especially, hate and delest The
fugitive slave law.
d The claimant of the fugitive refuses to dispose
of her to those who wish to purchase, for he iS
determined TO see if a slave cannot be reclaimed
from the Reserve, and he will not sell the Repub4
d licans an exemption from this humiliation. We
a are glad of it. just such tests are needed to prove
the hollowness and sham of political parties. We
10 are glad that Gorshom has bearded antI-sfavSTt
Republicanism in lis den, and is proving beyond
g dispute that the Republican party is Just as ready
to obey the fugitive slave law in every jot and tn
tle-though not, perhaps, so neillingly-as The
Democratic party can possibly be-, They world
not, perhaps, like DR.. Dewey, be willing to ssbd
e their mothers into slavery to save the Union, bdt
IS they would send some other woman there. Add
70 in that peaceful rendition which is now counssllsd
,r q human sacrifice is as truly offered to the bloody
Moloch Of Slavery, as though a priest of ancient
d heathepism cut the victims throat, and laid The
bleeding form upon the s~acrifciaI altar.
k There was a biting sarcasm contained in the
Q. compliment paid to the citizens Of Cleveland by
s. Commissioners White when giving his reasons for
tn cOnseutiug to a postponement Of the oase.-
ne 'The citizens have shown a disposition to main.
be tain order, and if we wait, / think this disposi.
O. ton will be increased. The South don't bellows
w that a slave eap be taken from this "hot.bed" Of
IT. abolitiCnism, They judge Us by our speeches BE-
he fore election, made in the beat of exoitemsnt.-
This exhibition shows that there is not lhs sliGhHs,