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DECLARATION INDEPENDENCE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA DONE IN CONVENTION,
DEC. 24, 1860.
The Slate of South Carolina having doleimined
to resume ber separate and equal placo ainonp na
tions, deems it due to herself, to the remaining
United States of North America, and to the nations
ef th world, that she should declare tho causes
whioh have lei to this act.
Id the year 1775, that portion jf tho British Em
pire embracing Great Britain 'undertook to make
law for the government of that portion composed
f lb thirteen American Colonies. A struggle
for th right of self-governmont ensued, which
resulted on the 4th of July, 177G, in a Declaration
by h Colonies "that they arc, and of right ought
to be, free and independent Slates, and iliut as
fr and independent States they have full power
I left war, conclude peace, contract allmncos, es
tablish commerce, and to do all other acts and
thing which independent Stales may of right
do."
Tbey further. solemnly doolared thai whenover
any "form of government becomes destructive of
he nds fur which it was established, it is the
riarbl of tbo people to alter or abolish it, and to
Institute a. new government." Dooming tho Gov
ernment of Great Britian to have become destruc
tive of these ends, thoy dcclured that the colonics
"ar absolvod from all allegiance to tbe British
Crown, and that all political connection between
them apd tho S-.atos of Great Britain is, and ought
t9.b, totally dissolved."
In pursuance of thi Deolaratioo of Indepen
dence, each of the thirteen Slates proceeded to ex-
tretpe its separate sovereignty; adopted for itself
a Constitution and appointed oflicer lor tne na
rhibistration of government in all it departments
legislative, executive, and judiciul. For pur
pose of defense, they united their arm and their
counsels; and, in 1778, they entered into a league
known as tbe Articles of Confederation, whereby
tbey agreed to entrust the administration of their
external relations to a common . agent, known as
tbe Congress of the United States, expressly de
claring, in the first article, "that each State re
tain its sovereignty, freedom, and independence,
and every power, jurisdiction, and right which is
not, by this, confederation, expressly delegated to
tbe United State in Congress assembled."
Undor this confederation tbe war of the Revolu
tion was carried on, and on the 3d of September,
1783, tbe contest ended, and a definite treaty was
signed by Great Britian, in which she acknowledg.
d tho independence of the colonies in tbe follow
ing term i
Article 1. His Brilannio Majesty acknowl
edge tbe caid United States, viz t New Hamp
shire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Prov
idence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Geor
gia, to be free, sovereign and independent States,
that be treats with them as such; and for bimHolf,
bis heir and successors, relinquishes all claims to
tbe government, propriety, and territorial rights
f tbe same and every part tberoof."
. Thus was established the two great principles
asserted by the Colonies, namely, tbe right of a
State to govern itself, and tbe right of a people to
abolish a government when it beoimes destructive
of the ends for which it was instituted. And con
current with the establishment of these principles
was th fact that each Colony became and was rec
ognised by tbe mother country a a free, sover
eign, and independent State.
la 1787, deputies were app-iinted by tbe States
to. revise tbe Aniole of Confederation, and on
17tb September, 1787, these deputies reoommen
ded for the adoption of the States the articles of
anion known as the Constitution of the United
Bute.
Tbe parties to whom this Constitution was sub
mitted were tbe several sovereign States. They
were to agree or disagree; and wben nine of them
agreed, tbe oompact was to take effect among
those concurring, and the General Government, as
tbe common agent, was then to be invested with
their authority,
If only nine of tbe thirteen State bad concur
red, the other four would have remained a tbey
then were separate, sovereign States, indopon
dsnt of any of the provisions of tbe Constitution.
In fast, two of tbe State did not accede to the
Constitution until long after it bad gone into oper
ation among the othor eleven, and during that in
terval they exercised the functions of an indepen
dent nation.
By this Cotistitution, certain duties were charg
ed on tho pover.il States, and tho exorcioo of cer
tain of tlioir powers restrained, which necessarily
implied their continued exisleneo as sovereign
Slates. 13 lit, to rcmovo nil doubt, nn a'nendment
was added, which declared that tho powers not
delegated to tho United Stutes by the ConBti'.u.
tion, nor prohibited by it to tho States, arc
reserved to the Stutes rcsncctively, or to tho
ncoule. On 23J Mav. 1788. South Caroline, by a
convention of her pconle, rnsecd en ordinance as -
sonting to thh Cutitutiun, and afterward ultcrod j
her own Cunntituti.ii!, to conform borsclf to the j
slio bad undertaken.
Thus was established, by compact between the j
Slates, a Government, with defined o'jects nml
power?, limited to the express words of tho grant,
and to so much more only as w as necessary to
execute the power granted. This limitotiou left
the wliolo remaining mass of power 6ulject to the
clause reserving it to the States or to the people,
and rendored unnecessary anv specification of rs -
served rights.
We hold that the Govornmcnt thus cs'allishtd
is subject to tho two gi'oat principles asserted in
the Declaration of Independence, and wo bold
further that tho mode of its formation subjects it
tq a third fundamental principle namely, the law
of compact. Wo maintain that in every compact
between two or more parties tho obligation is mu
tual that the failure of ono of the contracting
parties to perform a matcriul part of the ngroe
tnent entirely releases tho obligations of tho other,
and that, whoro no arbiior is provided, ouch party
is remitted to bis own judgmcut to determine the
fact of failure with all its consequences.
In tho present case that fact is established with
certainty. We assert that fifteen of tho Stntes
have deliberately refused for years past to fullill
their Constitutional obligations, and we rofer to
thoir own statutes for the proof.
Tho Constitution of the United States, iu itn 4th
article, provides as follows :
'No porson held to service or labor in ono State,
under tho laws thereof, escaping into another,
shall, in consequence of any low or regulation
therein, bo discharged from suob Eervico or labor,
but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to
whom suob service or labor may be due.
This stipulation was tp.materinl to tbe compact
that without it that compact would not have beeu
made. The greater number of the -ccntractipg
parties held slaves, nnd the Slate of Virginia- had
previously declared her estimate of its voluo by
making it the condition of her cession of tho tor
litory which now composes tho States north of the
Ohio River.
The sanio article of tho Constitution stipulates
also for '.he rendition by the eeveral States of fu
gitives from justice from tho other States.
The General Government, as tho common agent,
passed laws to carry into effect theso stipulations
of the States. For many years theso laws were
executed. But an increasing hostility on the par
of the Northern States to tho institution of Slave
ry bas led to a disregard of their obligations, and
the laws of the General Government have ceased
to effect the objects of the Constitution. Tho
States of Maine, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New-York,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Iowa have enacted law which eith
er nullify the acts of Congress, or render useless
any attempt to execute them. Ia many of these
States the fugitive is discbargod from the service
or labor claimed, and in none of them has the
State Government complied with tbe stipulation
made in the Constitution. The Stale of New-Jer
sey at an early day, passed a law for the rendition
of fugitive slavos in conformity with her Constitu.
tional undertaking; but tho current of anti-Slavery
feeling has led bur more recently to enact laws
which rendor inoperative the renio-i'cs provided by
her own Isw and by tbe laws of (Jongross. In the
State of New York even the right of transit for a
slave has been denied by her tribunals, nnd the
State of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender
to justice fugitives charged with murder and with
inciting servile insurrection in the Slate of Virgi
nia. Thus tbe Constitutional compact bas been
deliberately broken and disregarded by the non
slaveholding States, and the consequence follows
that South Carolina is released from it obliga
tion. The end for which this Constitution was framed
are declared by itself to be "to form a more per.
foot Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tran
quility, provide for tbe common defense, promote
tbe general welfare, arid secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
Those ends it endeavored to accomplish by a
Federal Govcrnmont, in which each State was re
cognized as an equal, and had separate control
over its own institutions. Tbo right of property
in slavos was recognized by giving to free porsons
distinct political rights ; by giving tbeui the right
to represent and burdening them with direct taxes
for three-fifths of their slaves , by authorising the
the importation of slaves for twenty years, and by
stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor.
We affirm that those ends for which this Govern
ment was instituted have been defeated, and tbe
Government itself has been made destructive of
them by the action of the non-elaveholdiog States.
loose State bave assumed the right of dooiding
upon Hie propriety of our domestic institutions,
and have denied tbe right of property established
in ntteon ol tbe States, and recognizod by the Con
stitution j they have denounced a sinful the in
stitution of S.avery ; they bave permitted the open
establishment among them of societies whose
avowed objoot is to disturb the peace and to en
danger the property of tbe citizens of other State
Tbey have encouraged and assisted thousand of
our slaves to leave their homes, and those who re
main have been incited by emmisarles, book, and
pictures, to servile insurrection.
For seventy-five year this agitation ha been
steadily increasing, until it ha now secured to it
aid tho power of the common Government. Ob
serving the fbrms of the Constitution, a sectional
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States by elevating to citixenship porsons who by
the supremo law of tho laud, ore incapable of bo
obligntion coming citizens, oud their votes have been used to
inaugurate a new policy hostile to tbe South, and
p:irty has found within the article establishing the
Kxccutivo Department the uicjne of subverting
tho Constitution itself. A geographical line bas
been drawn across the Union, and all the States
north of that line have united is tie election of a
man to the high office of President of the United
States, whose opinion and purposes are hostile to
Slavery, llo is to be intrusted with the adminis
tration of tbe common Government, because be
has declared that that "Government cannot endure
permanently half slave, half free," and that tbe
public mind must rest in tho belief that Slavery is
in the course of ultimate extinction.
This sectional combination for the subversion of
the Constitution 1ms been aided in some of thi
Uestruetivo of its peace and safety.
On the 4ih of March next this party will take
possesion of tho Govtmmiont. It has announced
that the South shall be excluded from the common
territory, that the judicial tribunals shall bo made
sectional, and that a war must bo waged against
Slavery until it shall cease throughout the United
Mates.
Tho guaranties of the Constitution will then no
longer exist; the equal rights of the Stutes will be
lost. The Sluvchulding Stales will no longer have
the power of self government or self-protection,
and the Federal Government will bave bocome
tbeir enemies.
Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the
irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain
by the fact that public opinion at tbe North bas in
vested a grout political error with the sanctions of
a more erroneous religious belief.
We, therefore, tho people of South Carolina, by
our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing
to the Supremo Judge of tho world for the recti
tude cf our intentions, have solemnly deolared
that the Union he.ctofore existing between this
Stato and tbe other States of North America is
dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina
bus resumed her position among the nations of tbe
world, us a free, sovereign, and independent State,
with full power to levy war, conclude peace.
contract alliances, estublish commerce and do
all other aots and things whioh indepen
dent States may of right do. ...
And, for the support of this' declaration, 'with a
firm reliance on the protection of Divine Provi
dopce,,we mutually pledge to each other our lives,
our "'fo'rtunee.' and our sacred honors,
REPORT OF GEN. HARNEY RELATIVE
TO MONTGOMERY'S KANSAS RAID—
WHAT IS DONE WITH THE FUNDS
SENT TO THE SUFFERERS &C.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26, 1860.
The Secretary of War, to-day received tho fol
lowing dispatch from Gen. Harney. It contains
all the principle facts connected with Montgom
ery's raid, and throws 9ome light in regard to tho
objects and purposos of tho funds that are being
collected for suffering Kansas :
HAF.UQ.UAr.TERS DePT. OF TTIX West 1
Sr. Louis, Mo., Deo. 17, lb'GO. j
Sir: I have the honor to report, for the informa
tion of the War Department, that as soon as the
civil authorities could procuie writs for tho appre
hension of Montgomery and others of his band, I
ordered Captain Barry's command, two companies
of artillery mounted as cavalry, to proceed with
the U. S. Deputy Marshal Campbell to Mound
City, where the band was thought to be, to mako
the arrest. This was on tbe Gib of this month,
the oommand from Fort Riloy having arrive J there
the day bofore.
On the arrival of the Marshal bo proceeded at
once to make search for the offenders, but tbey
were no where to be found. Supported by a ooui-
pany of dragoons, under Captain Steele, be con
tinued the search uutil a lato hour of tho night,
but every place was found deserted. Tho next
morning he visited the bouse of Montgomery, and
found only four women nnd a son of Montgomery.
This house, known as Montgomery's Forr, is a
double houso, built of heavy logs, the roof of one
projecting over like a blockhouse, the other of very
heavy bown logs, fitting close together, except at
ubout tbe height of a man's shoulder there is an
opening of about two inches nil around. Tbe on
ly things of note in the house, excopt its filth, were
two empty Sharp' rifle boxes.
On the 8th, the Marshal having reported to Maj
or Wessells that he deemed it of no use, and would
discontinue the search, the band having scattered,
I directed the artillery to return to Fort Leaven
worth, the infantry to remain at Mound City, and
tho dragoons to take post at Fort Scott. I consid
er this force necessary for the proteotion of tb
citizens, and to assist the civil authoritioa when
ever called upon in arresting the offender.
I bave determined on account of tbe exponse of
maintaining so large a forco in that part of tbe Ter
ritory, to reduce it to one company of infantry,
and have therofore directed Major Wessells to re
turn to Fort Riley w ith his company. Captain Lyon
is ordered to relieve the squadron of drugoons at
Fort Scott as soon as the payments on the Miami
Indian roserve, which ho has been ordored to at
tend with bis company, are completed. Tbe dra
goons will then return to Fort Riloy.
I believo that Montgomery's band ia fully as
large as represented to be ; that they are sworn to
proteot each other by porjury, assassination, and
in every way possible. Their objoct is, a deolar
ed publioly by tbemselves.to proteot fugitive slave
in tbe Territory, to assist them to run away when
ever an opportunity offers, "taking them East and
receiving sixty dollars per bead," and to drive out
of the Territory all who oppose them in so doing.
A large portion of the population on tbe border
either belongs to this organization or sympathizes
with them, and those who do not dare not oppose
them or give information concerning them. I am
satisfied that the greater part, if not all of tbe do
nations, which are tent to sufferer In Kansas,
goo into tbo band of thi band, and the 'greater
portion of it ! pervertod from the use intended by
purchasing arms and munition of war for carry
ing out their plan. It would lake a large force to
thoroughly break up this band.
Montgomery ha a regularly organited band of1
about lixty men, who receive ten dollars per month,
beside a portion of the robberies, Ac, and also
spies and runnors all ovor the country, who give
him timely notico of any movement set against
him. The day before the troop reached Mound
City, Montgomery' men, to the number of be:
tween four hundred and five hundred, assembled
and passed resolutions, a oopy of wbib have boen
published in tbe black republican papers. I think
the best and cheapest way to catch Montgomery
and hi party will be lo furnish the Governor with
funds, and let him do it in his own way.
Veheving that I could render bo more service
by remaining lunger at Fori Scott, I determined
to return to my headquarters in this eity. I ac
cordingly left Fort Scott on the morning of the
11th, and arrived here on Saturday evening last,
the 15th instant.
I am, sir, Tory respectfully,
, Your ob't serv't.
W. S. HARNEY, Brig. Gen. comd'g.
FORCE OR NO FORCE.
It is the nenstaot boast of the Republican that
tbey will whip the Cotton States into obedience.
There aro two or three considerations worthy of
notice in this threat, in the first place, it sound
very muoh like the bullying whioh they aro in the
babit of considering as purely of Southern origin.
In the second place, the very curious might en
quire why it was that these saintly gentlemen de
sired to force a fellowship with barbarians, blood
hounds, slave-breeders, slave-drivers, and dealer
in their own flesh end bloodf Why it was that
they were not glad to get rid of such a heathenish,
poverty-stricken, and godless set of out-law and
scamps; and at the same time wash their own
hand of all connection with the "accursed institu
tion?" In the third plnce.it would not be amiss to
oonjectufe whether these gentlemen who are so
brave in tbeir numbers, and so fiery in courage,
when backed by the National power, intend to go
down into the fever ewamps of South Carolina
and Florida and perform this little joke of whip
ping half a dozen States into obedience, them
selves; or whether tbey expect to do all the gass
ing, a usual, get fat oontracts to supply the army
under old Abe, and let Democrat and tbeir "vo
ting battle" do she fighting?
. In tbifourth and most important clace. bow is
that littlf modest operation of Whipping and bang
ing ibAttole; Smith going to turn out? We say
tho whole South, for as sure as the sun rise and
sets in tbe beavens, the very moment ' that South
ern blood flow by an Abolition government, the
out-pests of yout enemy will be transferred from
the bints of the Pedee to tboso of tbe Pontomac
and Ohio. The man who doubts this neither com
prehends tbe Southern people nor the times in
which he lives. If there is to be war.tbere will be
one, net between tbe General Government and a
State, but one between the whole North and the
whole South. This is certain, and it i well for us,
when wt determine tu whip somebody, to know
beforehand who is to be the customer wb have to
handle.
We must calculate, wben the process does com-
metjee, to keep it upjust a long as there is bread
to eat, or a man to pull a trigger in the Southern
btates; for, in spite of your taunts, tbey are a
brave and heroic people, and will perish in de
fence of tbeir bomcs and their honor. When you
have killed a few hundred thousands, just take
breath a little and look around you and yon will
see plenty more such ready to be flogged. You can
do a greet deal of mischief, but it will be a very
ugly and two-sided gamo; and if nothing else will
do, foreign aid will be called at any sacrifice rather
than Bubmtt to you. Upon the whole we advise
our Republican friend to quit talkibg so much
about whipping people into the trace. It has an
ugly sound, and tends greatly to aggravate and
drive our Southern Brethren from us. Time
onough to talk of killing other people wben we
have got right ourselves, and have no other resort.
Chicago Timet and Herald.
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From the Liberator.
LETTER FROM MRS. FRANCES D. GAGE.
MENDOTA, (Ill.,) Dec. 1, 1860.
Friind Garrison, I have just laid down tbe
Liberator of tbe 16th of November, containing tbe
letter of Parker Pillsbary, bearing date from this
place. We thank him for those frank word of re
proof to tbe manhood of onr country; but be i
mistaken in saying that "the most lynx-eyed of
tbe Woman Rights Leotnrera havlj failed to note
the wrong" whioh he so graphically describes.
Some of u have not only noted, but we bav
been "a cbiel among thorn taking note, and, faith,
have printed them" many a lime.
Well might the sights and scenes which every
day met bis eye and ear almost make him forgot
the "plantation of tbe South ! ' The four million
slaves of tbe Southern plantations, whose (kin
mark tbeir position; are but a fraction of tbe
slaves of these United States; and if these things
meet us among reformers, among men professing
lo believe in human rights, what can be the con
dition of wivoe where men reoogcize only rights
for tbe "free white male oitixeo?" Can we expect
any earnest anti-Slavery effort while nearly every
man in tbe country over twenty-five years of age
own one pair of hands, for whose labor of a life
time be is only obliged to give "necessary sup
port?" Will be bave any realizing aense of the
degradation of caste, so long a be ipurn tbe
idea of equal right for tbe sexes ?
We beard an anti-slavery man of the strongest
tamp, a few day einoe, asserting tbe idleness and
dependence of Illinois women indeed, oT all
women there "was not one in fifty that was the
least belp lo a man in getting a living, and nino
tenth of them eould not even So tboir own work
without hired help. Tall about giving such wo
men the right to acquire and hold property I"
We asked bim demurely, who raised all tbe chil
dren of Illinois who cooked all tbe food who
tended all tb booiehold operation who mad
the olothe for tbe family who nursed tbe sick
wbo et lb tables, swept tbe house, and washed
lbs garments?
"What does that all amount to?" was hi scorn
ful answer.
"Why, my dear sir," I replied, "If yon will pay
your wife tbe ordinary price for simply doing up
your washings weokly, end allow ber to put that
money In the savings' bock, and continue it for
twenty years, she will have more money laid up
at the end of that time than half you men could
raire as the saving of the same number of yeare."
"I tell you," he replied, "it would be mighty
little tbe would have left, if she would pay me for
furnishing soap and water, tubs, fire-wood, board
and house rent."
"Heavon eaveYhe mark I" He seemed to for
get that she would, or could, or did ever do any
thing else but wash his two or four fine shirts d
week 1
We met another of these reformers, who, In the
presence of a large company, scolded a young
wifo not twenty-one, who wa the mother of two
children, and about to become the mother of the
third, till she wept like a child in her agony; simp
ly because some trifling matter of mere conven
ience to him had not been attended to in an cl
senoe of weeks, leaving her with all the household
care. Poor slave 1
Another one who writes letters for the Libera
tor, and gives his energies to the defence of tho
slave, lets his wife get up, and build fires, and gt
bis breakfast, habitually; and appropriate ber
earnings, without ber consent, to bis use. She
put sixty dollars in the bank, and for a special
purpose; and when she called for it, he had taken
it out, and spent it; thus betraying bor confidence
and trust. Yet this man is called a strictly hon
est nlan high-minded, gonial and hospitable.
"Such a good man 1" the neighbor say.
Mr. Pillsbury's account of tbe wemanwbogot
upper for ten, reminds me of a like circumstance.
I bad leotured three evenings in a neighborhood,
and the mother of seven children one at the
breast was my landlady. Tbe last evening I
urged ber to go, and the husband offered to stay
witb tbe baby. Talking it over, she let fall the
remark "I never get out anywhere."
"Ye you do 1" shrieked out a bright little girl;
"you've been out twice since I can romember:
once down to grandad's, and once over to aunt
Hannob'e."
This husband was an earnest Woman's Rights
man, and a Garrisonian by profession. He
might have emancipated one slave, surely, if be
bad been desirous of so doing
'Bat we bopo for better things, and an effort is
now making in our State of Illinois to secure to
married womeu the right to acquire and ho'.d
property in tbeir own name, and tbe right to alien
and devise tbe same, and to protect tbeir own per
sons and reputation by law asking also joint
right in the guardianship of children for tho
mother.
Mrs. Tract Cutler and myself bave Leon, for
tbe last two months, circulating petitions for this
objoot, and we find in the hearts of tbe people,
everywhere, a ready response. Much more so
than in New York last winter; and we hope that
the time is not far distant wben tbe evils oom
plaincd cf, which are often more the result of
oustom than of any positive intention of unkind
ness, will not be found marring the .household
relation.
The slavery of womon is older than chatteliem,
and I much fear it will take longer to file off her
chains from the simple fact, that the husband,
professing deep love, considers himself and wifo a
unit; acdhe being a part of himself, be has a
right to abuse himself as much as he pleases,
through her.
On the other hand, we do know women who do
not aot well their part. We pi ay that both may
do better in the lime to come. If we have spoken
especially of anti-slavery mon and reformers, it is
because we felt that they should stand pre-eminent
above all otherssin their work of kindness and
love; and, beginning their labors at home, let
them go from thence outward to the ends of tbe
earth, wherever tbore may be a human being wear
ing tbe fetters of a slave.
F. D. GAGE.
PUGH ON OHIO LEGISLATION.
Sonator Pugh made a speech in Cincinnati on
the 31st nit., in whiob be said:
Tbere was nothing more clearly written in the
Constitution Of tbe United States than that tbe fu
gitive slave that escaped from bis master into a
free State, should not by that act become free, but
should on demand be delivered up. If this was
too bard oonditioh for ns of tbe free States to
observo, why let us go at it manfully, and amend
tbe Constitution. Do it like men. Thi thing of
going about, slipping around, and speaking side
ways, and getting up a war of Constables and Jus.
tices of the Peace and Probate Judges, lo evade a
constitutional law met with bis unutterable con
tempt. (Tremendous applause.)
Mr. Pugh reviewed at lpcglb tbe legislation of
the State of Ohio in reepoot to the rendition of fu
gitive slaves. He quoted the law of 1856, and in
stanced tbe imprisonment of Deputy Marshals in
Green oounty. This law gave the Probate Judge
authority to issue bis writ of habeas corput to be
served not ably In bis own county, but throughout
tbe State. This law bad been repealed by a party
vote tbe Ri publicans against repeal, the Demo
crats for it. Tbe same Legislature that bad enac
ted this law thus repealed, bad enaoted that, if
anybody brought a elave into the State, even for a
minute, such person was subjected to fine and Im
prisonment. If a siok Southern lady for instance,
should bring ber nurse with her, and stop at tbe
Spencer or Burnot House, she might be imprison
ed and fined.
Thi too bad been wiped out. It had been In
tended by tbe Legislature of 1857, to wipe out ill
this legislation, but ome of it bad been forgot
ten. Mr. Pugb ber gave a hiitory of tb passsge of
tbe act by tbe Legisliitu're of last winter, lo forbid
tbe use of Ibe connty jails for the confinement of
fagitivet from' aervioe. The wording of tbe statute
was Ibat United State prisoner should be allowed
in the county jail only wben tbey had been
"guilt f of erime." This raw, Mr. Pugh argued,
was not according to the comity that should subsist
between tbe several States and the United States.
Mr. Pugh also referred to an old resolution adopt;
ed by an Ohio Legislature! Instructing Senator
and urging Representative to vote for the uncon
ditional repeal of tbe fugitive elave law.
He particularly emphasized the pot, Jnat tbe
Legislature that had passed tbe act, to preveci th
use of tbe jails of tbe State, for the confinement
of fugitives from slavery, was tbe one that met at
Columbus next Monday, n proceeded to state
that during the last year, tbe State of Virginial
having ascertained that a part of tb5 conspiracy
that had s'ucli a bloody outbreak at Harper' Ferry;
was batched in the State of Ohio, Issued a requisi
tion upon the Governor of Ohio, for the delivery
to the authorities of Virginia, of persons wbo were
indicted for participation in the John Crown ril'd'.
And the Governor of Ohio, had looked into the1
matter, and repudiated the requisition because Ibe
warrants had been sworn to bofore a magistrals,
instead of. before a notary public. This. was. lh
way that Virginia, tbe Stato wbo gave thi toil to1
the peoplo had been treated the Governor of Ohio
descending to tho arts of a third rate demgogti4
before a justice of tbe peace! . And that was not
all. Mr. Pu,b referred to the Logo case. A man
indicted for a violation of the Laws of Kentucky
an acknowledged scoundrel delivery of him re
fused, because he had not committed that whiob
was a crime according to the law of Ohio. Muai
Ohio become tho refuge of ell the scoundrels?'
Had we not rasr'als enough of our own? And tb
Governor of Kentucky had sued out a writ of
mandamus, to have the Govornor of Ohio ordered
to surrender, the fugitive from justice. Mr. Pugh
did riot think tbo Supreme Court would claim. ju
risdiction. He did not think it had jurisdiction
But talk of preserving the Union, when you teach
men to disregard constitutional obligation and
trample under foot the comity of States? (Ap
plause and hisses.) This very Legislature1 that
met next Mo. lay, bad gone out of the way to pas
a law framed expressly lo back np Go. Dennison
iu bis action in the Ltgo case. Here Mr, Pugh
took occasion to assure a friend of tbe Daily Press
that when he (Mr. Pugh) made a statement of fact,
it might be tuken for granted that he bad exam
ined the reoord and knew the facts. A gentleman
in the audienoe repeatedly demanded to know
what the man that Mr. Dennison refused io give
up bad been indioted for.. Mr. Pugb 'did not bear
bim, end finally eaid, if bis interrogator woall;,
come forward and put the question o-he eould
hear it, be would answer It. Mr Pugb. said h.
had no doubt some of tbe Republican friende said '
in their hearts that he bad referred lo tbe Lago
case because Gov. Dennison wK a Republican.
If they would have patienoe, be would give them -
another obapter of tbo matter. The tame thing
had been done by Whig and by Democratic Gov
ernors. It wa no new thing. But it wa a thing
tbe people of Ohio should be cognizant of and re
form altogether.
Governors of Ohio and tbe citizens of ail par
ties had not done tbeir duty in this matter. Mr.
Pugb said we bad all been derelict. Oho of the
first things that should be done, was tbe passage
of tho measure for the suppression of insurrection
ary movemonts, thai was Introddced into tbe 0b!o
Legislature by a Republican Senator (Harrison)
last winter. lie would give the Ropubliodn Sena
tor full credit for It. We niost bare independence
onough to rise above the dictation of paf ty" news
paper and sweep front the Statute book all nulli- .
lying laws and resolutions, and present lh8 Staid
with clean bands. Mr. Pugh bere referred td the
resolution of the Ohio Legislature denouncing
by camo the Judges of the Supreme Court of the)
United States, for the Drad Scott decision. Was
that the way to Inculcate a law abiding sentitnsntt
Let us take the beam out of our eye and come up
lo the work of saving the Union of Insisting tip:
on the observance of order' arid tbe enfore'erheht of
law without the embarrassment arising from onr
own commission of infractions' bt law, or omis
sions to perform plain duties. Appeal to1 the Leg;
ielature that meets next Monday to b'lsdn' Up' bar
own statute book. Having done that, we would
be in a position to admonish the secessionists of
tbo South and if need be, to admonish them se
verely (loud applause,) unles 6 dd plaoe
ourselves righ-t, how can we do anything to
establish more perfeot unin, to perpetuate that
Union which was the work of Washington and his
oompatriots, and which bad been to full of bless
ing ?
PUGH ON OHIO LEGISLATION. From the Congregational Herald.
BEWLEY AND WILLETT.
We bave received from a reliable sonrcs tbe fol
lowing narrative, wbiob will be read with painful
interost:
ATCHISON, KANSAS, Dec. 14, 1860.
Rev. Mr. Willett, wbo was reported to bave
been taken to Fort Worth, and bung on tWs cam
limb witb Rev. Mr. Bswley and Mr. Crawford, is
now bere dfter a load of relief, for bis family and
other refugee from Texa. Hs ha glverJ Ine some
particulars of their escape and affairs there, which
I take tbe liberty to transcribe.
You know that the ostensible pretext for tbefr
assassinations, was the getting up of a negro in
surrection and turning buildings; all which
oharges against the anti-slavery men were false.
Th real object was, to drive off all tbe free state
(Men, and make that portion of the State tbe
northwest one of tot four clave States, intended
to be Carved out of Texas.
Willett; like Bewley, wa outbern'born and
raited. A native of West Tonnestee; be removed
with bi parents, at tbe age of seven,- to Texae j
has never resided in a free Stale, but tra'Med
through the Norih' wben a lad. "Hew and wbta
did you embrace anti-clavery views f" I aikd. "I
was born with tbeui, for aught I know," be replied. .
"My mother wa born in Georgia and married in
Alabama; but wbn b reoeived ber patrimony;
wa unwilling to tak slave, and did not. My
father inherited three slave in North Carolina, bat
told fbt' administrator to make out free paper fof
thm, which he did, and tbey were it! fr"." .
Could the children of auob parentl 6Ver bold
bondmen f -
Thinking that kit lift was La danger ha ra$ it
