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Tl.1 THE ANTI-SLAV EKY BUGLE, S.--.r:aJ-Tr:--.-.ar.--'r-iV; ,t . Provisional Government. Il ti understood thnt nnder thit Uw, a tariff l U be Uid on ll good, fought from Ihe United State. A resolution we adopted, Instructing the Com mittee un Finance to re port promptly a tariff fot raiting revenue to support the Government. A tetolulion was adopted, authorising the ap pointment of a Committe to report a Constitution foMhe permanent government of th Confeder acy. ' ' . The Constitution of the Prot isional Government ks teen printed, and ia no made public. Tbr preamble aay t "We, tb deputies of the sovereign and inde pendent State o( South Carolina, Georg'a, Flor ida, -Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, invoking Ihe favor of Almighty Go J, do hereby in behalf ol these State, ordain and ettablish tbi Constitu tion for lb Provisional government of the same, to continue for one year from the inauguration of Ihe President, or until a permanent Constitution r Confederation between eaid State shall be put la eperation whichsoever thall first occur." The eeventb teotion of the firtt article reads : ''The importation of Afrioan negrnes from any foreign oountry other than the slavebolding States i hereby forbidden, and Congress ia required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the earee." The, second section reads: 'Congress (ball also bave power to prohibit the intredeo.ioo of slave from any State not a mem ber of thie Confederacy." Artiole fourth, third clause, second lection, read as follow : "A slave in one State escaping to another (hall be delivered up oo the claim of the party to whom Ibe eaid slave may belong, by the ezeoutive au thority of the State in which suoh slave is found; and in case of any abduction or forcible rescue, full componiatioo including the value of tho slave and all costs and expeurer, shall La mad to the party by tbe Sute.'m which the abduction or rescue ehall take plaoe," Artiole eixtb, 2d clause reads: "Tbe government hereby instituted shall take im mediate depi for the settlement of all matter be tween Ibe State forming it, and their other late confederates of tbe United States, in rclaticn to the public property and dobj at tho time of their with drawal from tbem, these State hereby declaring it to b their wish and earnest desire to adjust ev erything pertaining to the common property, the common liability, and the common obligation of that Union upon tbe principle of tight, justice, equality and-good faith," Tbe other portion of .this Provisional Constitution are almost identioal jrith Ihe Constitution of tbe United Stale. ONE OF 'EM. TTbeiColumbus correspondent of the Cinoinnati CouimeMial thu sketches on of tbe Legislators Ibere.t Tl- -Sum fo.m ftf HfnnrM- mnat have been .... , . ... , bitten fey a-aigger at some period of bis life, lie issrtai.b afflicted with neeronhobia. He eternally "picking at" the nigger, just as a ragged or ah La nick .at ihe aoab on bis sore nose. He in- -tracuoed that, tweet ecentcd bill to protect tbo chastity of ihe (Democratic patty, i:tid waa flat tered when it bscamae the Penal Act of (be Dein oeulic party. .Jt-eo affsoted bim tbat b ba al restly.. irea Dottoef 'ill intention to introduce another nigger bill -to: prevent the immigration of negroes into Ohio, and bi fellow Democrat shout amen. Making laws against nigger ap pear ito be the cceei , ex ailed conception of legis lative dulie that Democrats have in tbe General .Ataembliet of Ohio. We ere fain to assume that when tbe futuse historian .collate ibe annal onr State.. he will iaglooaiy.f tsiod, record a tbe pramioont fnot in Democratic bistery, that it fun damental .principle waa animosity against tbe fee ble and oatcast descendant of -uchajxpy African. Hat will conclude tbat. in these iraaec-it eras better to be adog than a nigger, since to.be the latter wae a italutory crime, bat that buman-sf aapalhie avert) so enlisted in behalf of tbe former that even eraocrat would not legislate against the mean esVof tbe specie sheep killing kind. Tkc per eeojttion of the Jew in the dark age, and Demo eratic persecution cf tbeegross in Anna foot 1861, will to the philosopher, "Cvo humded, years henee, indjeate. but comparatively slight progrca 'in in Ue career of intervening centuries. But come what ,may, Dr. Stout and the nigger sjrJLil be inseparably aseociatejl. VIRGINIA ELECTION. Our readers may judge from Ibe following dee patebee wtat will be tho effeots of tbi election. Special Bespatoh to N. Y. Tribune. Tbe Virginia election amounts to nothing tically. Tbe difference between Ibe two is that one propose, to sscede te-duy and the to-borrow. Tbe Ur.ion ptrrtyie pledged all the State to insist npou entttroring Slavery in tJoiistitulion. and tbi is about what tbe fossi Convention assembled here will aim to about. Tbere are men in it who bave aoted Ibe Republican party just as full of thie treason a anybody. Tbe genuine Republican ibere'm 3.t i likely tn bea a speedy retreat. Tbey are rrym'en in il who give tbe body the (lightest or aignidcance, and it is of doobt lul' -policy for tbem lo remain any longer common eivilty demand. ' Special Despatch Is N. Y. Herald. The return from Virginia gave a hopeful to conversation, and the opinion seemed to that the border slave Slates were not to eelaeol frem tbeir allegiance to tbe Union. Qst or tui U. S. Drr-urns Constable yesterday arrested ono Jamet StoCarty charge of assault end battery. McCarty is cbarg 4 with jMiultiog a negro, while acting a 'r.uty.Uuited Statei Marshal on the occasion th,. trial of tbe fugitive slave girl Lucy. (vta j set for bearing before Justin Folijambe Mosday woroioj at eight o'sUwk Cleveland Tb Bepiiblioan of Cleveland booldnow release cf thi Deputy United MrfcL n4 w' l0 P""' of suitable resolu lias aod presentation of a cold headed cane, fir (h aaeurante already given to our Southern brethren tbat Cleveland at least is willing to U. length fa the dirt to fore upon them the fit of thi gloiioul Union State Journal. nt Hi I' T . r.. "Masohustt, God forgive her, iSh' akneelin' with lb ret, She, thai uugh to ba' olung for ever - let bv grand old eegU-neeti He'thel eugb' to atsnd ad fearlese . "W He tha wrack are round bar buried, . Vvildtn op btaoon peerless . To tia oppressed of all lb world 1" VIRGINIA ELECTION. For the Anti-Slavery Bugle. FaaaiNHTOlt, Michigan, February, M1. j To rut Kifiroa: 1 have been so far West dur ing the winter, as almost to have lost sight of you, and the sound of tbe ever brave Bogle has seldom reached my ear. The Liberator I bave somewhere met, nearly every week, but Ibe Standard, only onco or twioo, in ail thie campaign. And It grioves me to think how few subscribers we have any of us added to tbe scanty lisle, myself particularly. Bui the people now want "war despatches," dailj and ismi-daily, Not even politics! Journals ore in much demand, that only come once a week. Of such papere as the New York Tribune and In dependent, tbi cannot be said, of course. But tbe exception aro few. Till I came into Michigan, my meeting were quiet and orderly, almost without exception. Here most of them are disturbed, and some of them seriously. B.aton, and th New York Conven ts. j. bave set the Weil a bad example. Both last night and the night before, we bad aome very seri ous nnnojonees. Mrs. drifting has been attending meetiags this week and a part of last, with me, but the Ruffians show no more resoect to her than they would to me. It ia not often that brutality sink to such depth as not to respect lady; espeoially one so truly eo, a Mr. Oriffing always show berself to be, befure every audience she addressos. While she wa speaking last evening, some "lewd fol low of the baser sort," oontrivod to saturate tbe atmosphere with pepper, and in a few moment many persons were nearly itranglod. Tbe church was very full, and the coughing wa frightful. Every door and window had to be opened; many rushed wildly out; one person fainted, and the whole :ene for a Ihort time, was most appalling! Order bowevor was at length restored; and' we oarried on our exercise to a regular close. In tbi wo have succeeded so far, at every meeting, to the infinite chagrin of the miiorcant who bave assailed us. Tho people in large extent, seem infatnated. It is not Democrats by any means, who mob our gathering. Nor are tbey always pro-slavery dem onstrations. Tbe Republicans seem to think all ia safe or will be next month, and that very security seem likely to prove their ruin. They will mob us, and yet denounce all concessions and compro mises to, or with tbe slave power. Tbe alarming articles in tbo New York papers, I fear are com ing too late. I have sounded tbe ram note all winter, but apparently, to little purpose. When after tbe outrage! of last evening, I read how conspiracies were forced to assassinate General Scott, as well as to seize the National Capital, and how tbe New York Tribune and Independent were both calling on tbe State and tbe people to rally by thousands, and even by tbe hundred thousand, . . .. ,i . wJ " J"pcmicen. are generauy oppo.eo U to any further gueranlie. to Slavery, and yet are la tl-.a v.a-irlA WAll rnflW Vita ! . fthtmfl'ft i Affile. 0r the spirit of 'the etupid dretmort who had tbowo ' ' themselves to uch frightful di.advantage. So of iv jlixation not alive or awake to Ihe fact that they are likely to bave to redeem their paper currency of Lincoln ballots with a specie payment in solid bullets, be fore their foe will be conquered. It is well tbat the New York Press ba at length blown so loud a blast. And yet it may be even now, too late too late! By a letter from Boston.it im there is a prop osition to petition for an amendment to the Con stitution so as "to give Congress tbe power, (if il bave il not already,) to abolish Slavery in tbe States." Tboneasd of Renoblican profess to bold th doctrine with Gerril Smith, that tbe pow er already exist, and cannot too soon be exeroised. And yet, when I proposed tbe petitioning at Ann Arbor, at an Anli-Statery Work, the Resolution found no favor outside the rank of the Disunion iets. But tbe measure will be good for agitation. Republicans, who mean anything by tbeir doc trines, know little yet, of the work lo do. Almost every one fit tbeir papers, in the Weal, excuse, while the Demoorotio press encourages the mob spirit now so rampant, from Massachusetts to Michigan. The recent elave rendition at Cleve land, with tbe full approval, apparently, of Judge Spalding, and so many eminent Anti-Slavery Re publicans, goes over tbe West, like the chill death. Senator Seward too, with hi base subser viency, sit a night-mare on the throbbing beans of myriads. And tbe church, dead and damned seems likely to complete Ihe work which Seward Satan and Slavery bave carried so far. With few exceptions, (ala bow few!) tbe pulpit is oowerless to grapple with tbe great questions the hour, as tho mice tbat steal tbeir kernel from the stacks, are, to taiae tbe wheal which feed world. iBut my letter ia growing too long. PARKER PILLSBURY. CONVENTION IN ANN ARBOR. February 1st. 1861. the with tbe po liitual'wsight than torn pre (ai be East man on m of Tbe on Her- pre iba State con go bene In accordance with call issued some time pre vious, and published in the Standard, Bugle and city papers, an Anti-Slavery Convention met Aou Arbor, Mich, for Saturday and Sunday Jan. 26th and S7tb. In oon sequence of ranrmeriog aod threats mob, a Hall previously engaged, and usually by Iho-Abolitiooists, was refused, tbe own er feeling no as-vrraaca of protection from City authorities, and the Free Church wae opened. At 2. o'clock P. M., Of Saturday, wben the Speak- ere and friends arrived, tbey found the bouse filled to overflowing, by an 'audience composed princi pally oi University Students, and to much disorder and confusion prevailed that -co permanent organ ization oould be maBo.a'libongh at times quiet obtained sufficiently for time, so tbat Mr. Grif- fiug spoke at aome length on the demand datie of -tbe hour, aod tbe necessity of our guard ing free apecvh and our own personal right at Ihe North she also showed tbat a all struments and compact are practically what are interpreted to bo by the legal authoritiee of Nation, and if thil Nation it willing to second and acopt the verdiot of Slaveholder, who say u that thi Constitution and tbi Union do protect iLA7iRff w may bave it read for Freedom. Mr. BUir appeals! earnestly ana eloquently bis fellow atudeot to luatain bim in a retolv preserve order, which wa pred by acclamation. At 7 V. M. th bout wa Crowds!, bai t'enty minute before the hour adjourned to a chairman had been chosen by th mob, wbo wa Impudent full of assurance for 4 lime, but wa afterward perauaded by personal appeal, to vacate tbe and nUtform. No one could be beard, for constant clamor of groan for Linooln end Convention, eheer for Douglas nd Ihe Union, whittling of Yank Doodl cVd. to. prevented organisation and (peeking. Tbe friend remained until these representatives of Law, Medicine tbe Classic received an accession of drunken "fooglt," and at Int,'sbout, blow, breaking benches and peraonol injury of some friends, com-'Governor pellsd the frieads ul order to retire. Alan earl hour Sunday morning Ihe bouse i Linooln PP"chea the altar of Ibis bloody Idol I J 1 ft.- .fl'..!.,. silk iViAsa 4k tr f 11 1 uu "3 """""S "'uu . " " " uccaiumus turn vircp nun umu mvii ivaiu tuc.v of a as of au put in some order, to raak a meeting possible, for Ibe day, and filled with people both morning! and afternoon. A majority of the student were on th side of free speech and good order, and oiti- tens present were also desirous to bear quietly. Tbe following list of effioere were ohosen. Thomas Chandler, President, Richard Glasier, Mrs. E. Comstock, Vice President, Jaoob Walton, Catharine A. F. Stobbins, Secretaries, Josephine Grilling and Jacob Vollaod, Finance Com., and Parker Pillsbory, Richard Glasier, and Jane M. Chandler, Business Com. The forenoon was occupied by Mr. Pillsbury whose address wa listened lo with respectful at tention, quite unlike Ibe rude uproar of the pre ceding night. 11c spoke of Free Speech ae lying at the very foundation of Free Inatituttone, and instanced tbe mob of old Greeoe and Rome, and those in our own time, to show tbat if we once submit to them, that if tboae in authority do not resist manfully in tbe begining, this spirit of mob- ecracy and violence win lor a long time bear sway, lie administered a aevere and deeorved re buko to the Mayor of tbe oily, who was presont to hear it, in Ihe early part of Ihe meeting. At 2 P. M. the house was if possible still more crowded. Mrs. Oriffing openedjtbe meeting, speak ing of tbe necessity of a unity of action among all the Friend of Freedom at this time, and of tbe whole-souled co-operation tbe Republicans had givcu bor in some parts of the We et during the fall and winter. G. B. Stebbioi spoko of tbe causes of the riot, of a paragraph in the "Mie h. Argus," tbe Democratic paper, calling out and countenanc ing this mob spirit, bi determination to crush free speech in Aon Arbor, thi determination that our friend Pillsbury should not be heard. Mr. P. occupied Ihe most of tbe time, the oppo sition being mostly against bim, and friends fur and near being desirous to hear him. He spoke of tbe dreadful sacrifice of human liberty made to the Uuion, in Cleveland only three days before, in the person of the Slave woman Lucy, laid on the bloody altar of Slavery. The Slave Claimant thanked Ohio for tbe conviction, and eaid if our servant in Congress will not ao IDeir duty, our servant in the North will. Judge Spalding re- ponded, "you hall bave safe exoort through the State" be told of a woman, a graduate of a med ical college in Cleveland, who bad been in prac tice in New Orleans, and waa sent North because sho had been connected with an Anti-Slavery per, it proved that she bad writen wrappers lor some papers, before commencing practice. Mr. P. say, you consent to make tlaves of 4 millions, as good in the sight of God as any of you, but you crave liberty for yourselves and your chillreo; let me tell yon that even its abadow is fatal lo tbe liberties of the wbite raje. Abraham at of oc cupied tbe was and in they a to not to to chair the tie tbe all and of Young men, tbat i not what yon meant to do in electing bim, but il i tbe beet you can do. Mr, Lincoln will keep bi garment unstained by Un constitutional support of slavery, but tbe guilt of constitutional support will be upon bis skirts. An individual, genuine manhood is below par, manhood tbat asks not leave to be, of any church,! any party or any constitution. With every right there is a corresponding responsibility, and theso responsibilities can never be alienated, tbey in here; every soul baa every attribute of tbe Divine Nature, differing never in kind, only in degree, lie spoke of the progress of Humanity; tbe spar row that build in tbe mountain pine to-day, build their necta a did tbe sparrows in the Cedars Lebanon in tbe days of tbe tweet Singer of Is rael ; tbe horse with necks clothed with thunder in tbe vision of th Prophet, wero tbe progenitor of tbe fleet and powerful animals, the pride tbeir owner to-day. But tbere i a mighty growth of the high capacities of man ; Homer and Shakspoare together did not exhaust poetry Bacon did not explore all tbe vast fields of Philos ophy. There are wells ol salvation in every hu man soul, and they will come to be oonscious good time. Mr. Pillsbury urged especially tbe Resolve on tbe Personal Liberty Bill, which was pissed mosi heartily. D. L. Twitchel and Mr. Elliot! spoke, disaeu- ting from the 5th resolution, but nobly advooatiog order and freedom of speech. One or two others seconded tl en. Some noist and disturbance in tht rear of tbe audience wa manifest, and a large number of young men rose to signily Ibeir readi ness to preserve order. A collec.ion wae taken up by Finance Commit tee. Richard Olazier spoke of tbe causes of tbe mob violence which bad been witnessed, tbe com promising, vacillating course of the Mayor, and Ibe countenance of merchants and other citizens that the majority of Ibe Students bad stood nobly by order aod free discussion, Parker Pillsbury remembered toncbiogly venerated friend wbo has to recently left us, Riohard B. Glazier ; of his Gdelity lo tbe Slave, and lo the Aoti Slavery cause in its length and breadth of bis contributing largely to) bnild tbat bouse, with it free platform; that its present toil ed and desolate aepeel contrasted strangely with it cleanly and quiet appearance when be was wout to worship there. Many of us thought, bed he been tbere with bis sincere calm face, and firm, dignified bearing, tbat it would bave bad great feol upon tbe mob, to subdue aod ailenoe but work is done here. Mr. P's appeal to the better nature of the young men, produced a happy and alutary effect. After tbe disoutjion and passage of tbe follow ing resolution, tbe Couveotioa adjourned, house not being in eondition ,o be lighted warmed in tbe evening. Resolved, Tbat tbe vital breath of Liberty Free Speech aod Untrammelled Discossion; wben any community or country surrender tbem, from tbat hour, despotism may date tbe beginnings of it triumph. Resolved, That in this boor of peril to the cause Free Institutions in our young, and hitherto prom ising nation, we should at whatever hazard of repu tation, properly or life, defend, and vigorously these divinely given and most inalienable Rights, a th only citadel and security cf own personal Freedom, a well a of the Liberties of Mankind. Resolved, Thai tbe friend of gtnuin Libert overy where have cauae lo rejoice at lb bold manly resistance which eo many Stale, espeoially in in west ana North West, are making to last and most monstrous demands of tbe tlave power even einkiog all party distinction in sublime determination never to be elaves, nor voluntary instramente of enslaving others. . Resolved, Tbat while In man instances Republican Preee and Platform bave utitrcd a ble rtboke of the highhanded tyranny now the land, we ctoott but an aid to cf Michigan and Massachusetts, the! honor of giving to the Chief Magistrate and tbe people of all Ibe States, ftn example of heroio de-. which redeems tbo age from dopair, a well a in famy; and which if enaoted into praotioe, would aoon restore peace to the country, after the divine order, by preceding it with Purity, Liberty, and the Law of Joetic and Love. Resolved, That dooying wholly and forever the Right of property in man, we are unutterably op posed to any ohango in the United State Constitu tion that shall reoogniie or proteot slavery in any Slate or Territory of the Union; while on the otbor band, we are in favor of such amendments national domain, Slate or Territory. I Resolved, Tbat this Convention adopt tbe fol lowing Petition, to be signed by it officer, and presented To ihe Senate and House of Itepmcnlativei of the State of Michigan. Tbe undersigned in behalf ol an Anti-Slavery Convention held in Ann Arbor, on the 20th and 27th of January, 1861, earnestly desire your hon orable body lo preserve lo full force, whatever Laws for the protection of Personal Liberty, now exist on our Statute Book. Jacob Walton, ) p,.,,v, . i Catoarim A. F. Stxbbins, votion to Juetioe, Freedom and the lligbor Law, which redeem tho eg from dosp as should authorize the abolition and prohibition i of Slavery by Aot of Congress, throughout Ihe j For the Bugle. NUMBER 9. ; ef- his tbe is of ex ercise our aod tbe a the Ibe no be striding the Mr. Jones t When a religious journal ditcusies political questions, it should pay a due tegard to veracity, as if tbo questions were theological. And here let me say that the outcry against clergymen taking part in politics, or "preaching politics in stead of religion" Is an erroneous view of an im portant publio duty. The morality or religion that doer not require and enjoin as striot probity and fidelity in politics, as in the common affairs ol life, is a shnm and a cheat. Tbe Roview is unfortunate, if not culpablo, in its statement of facts, it aseerts first, 1 these States are pledged to a porpetunl Union," mark ing the words "perpetual Union" as a quotation. Second, it asks ; "How can any Southern State justify a disruption of the Union which was de clared to be perpetual." Third, it asserts: "The contracting parties stipulated that Ibe Union shall be perpetual;" the last word marked as a quota tion. Now hero are no less tbnn three assertions as to ono faot, and yet oacb, and every one of tbem is absolutely false. I oballengo the Editor, or any one else, to produce the proof. In its "second argument against the right ol socecsioo," based upon this falsely assumed pre mise, the Reviow proceeds deliberately to draw its conclusions, namely, that : "A perpetual Union is one that oannot be dissolved except on tho consent of all the cartics to tbat union. It seems almost too plain for argument, that if the several States, or the people thereof in their sov ereign capaoity, have pledged themselves to a per petual Uuion, and ratified their plighted faith by an outh, no one State can secede without incurring tho two-told criminality of breach of faith, and violation of an oatb." Now these conclusions seem to be very logio il, but aa soon as we discov er tbe faot, that tbey are based on false premises, tbey fall to the ground. To provo a negative is always a difficult task, and here I can only show tint the "perpetual Union" oithcse States was under tbe Articles of Confederation, and that not withstanding that Union was, in tho preamble and body of the Articles of Confederation, declared lo be "perpetual," it lasted almost nine years, wben it was dissolved by eleven of the original thirteen State aotually leceding from North Car olina and Rhode Island, and forming under the Federal Constitution "a more PxnriCT Union," but not a "perpetual" Union. Tbe Review is not alone in falsifying facta. Mr. Seward in his late speech says: "Experience in war and in peace, from 1770 until 1787 only con vinced them the States') of the necessity of con verting that loose Confederacy into a more perfect and pbrpetual Union." Ibis is a shamoiul per version of facts, for tbo States dismembered "Pkri-etual Union," and formed "a more perfect Union." In ibis speech Mr. Seward divides tov ereignty between "the Slates and tbe Federal Gov ernment," and that tbe "allegiance" of the tame people it due "to the Union" and "it ihe Slate," Admirable logio this for a statesman, who says, "John Brown teat justly hung.' a modicum of "sovereignty and allegiance Virginia, Mr. Seward found bo oould not juetify tbe hanging of John Brown for treason. On tbe question of allegiance, tbe Review almost os olear-beadod as Mr. Seward. Speaking of those, who cannot conscientiously submit lo tbe Constitution, the reriow tayt, "they are bound allow it unrestricted operation or to renounce all allegiance to it." Here allegiance is claimed due to Ihe Constitution. Tbe Review continues; "But Ibe question now before ut it, whether the personal liberty laws, free Southern men from Ibeir allegiance to the country." Here "country" is substituted for tbe Constitution at entitled allegiance. Again, asks the Review: "Suppose State should prohibit the restoration of a fugitive tlavo, would that exbonorate any alaveboldiog State from it nllegiance to tbe Union?" Here tbe Reviow claim for a third party, tbe Union, tbe allegiance of a sovereign State, for it ba ad mitted the sovereignty of the States, in two differ ent placet, without once claiming a "divided sov ereignty" between the State and any olber par ty. How then it oould fall into tb error of claim- log that allegiance wa due to the Constitution, the Country and tbe Union, le inexplicable On tbe question of allegiance, Mr. Seward and tbe Editor of tbe Review part company, tnd I foroed to admit that tbe theologian is, if any oddt, the better statesman. On this vital question of allegiance, let me here remark tbat wheresoever it may be due it it, from tbe very necessity of tbe case, one and indivisible. Webster defines "allegiance" to be "tbe duty of subject to bis prinee, government, or State." Judge Blaokstone, it is true, maintains European doctrine tbat a British lubjeot, cannot expatriate himself and put off bit allegiance twearing to another. Tbe judge taye: "Indeed natural born subject of our prince to whom owet allegiance, may be entangled by subjecting bimsolf to another; but it it bit own not tbat bringa bim into these straits of owing service two masters." "Wben I say that ait alien it one wbo it born of tbe king's dominions, or allegiance, Ibis also must be understood with tome restrictions. Tbe common law, indeed, ttood absolutely to, with very few exceptions; so that a particular aot parliament became nccoeteary after tbe restora tion, for t'Je naturalisation of ohildrea of Majesty't Englitb tubjecte born tn foreign oout- Without granting tries. during the late troubles. And this maxim) of the law proceeded upon a general principle every man owe I) Mural allegiance where he is born, and cannot are ttco swift allegiances, or serve fieo matter! al once." I here appeal to Ihe common, sense of your rea ders, aod ask if "this maxim of the law" Is not true as a general prinoiple, a well as consistent with our whole experience in ihe line of anties. Can we "serve two master" Cbrist aod Belielt Let u test tbi vastly Important "sovereignty and allegiance," by faots. Virginia hung John Brown for treason. W. II. Seward, from some motive, I do not impugn his motives, unblushingly and ungraciously volunteered the assertion that ' John Brown was justly hung." Five words which he will not ask to be engraved upon bis tombstone. Now if this assertion be true, its truth rest up on two facts. Firstt That Virginia is absolutely a sovereign State, endowed by virtuo of that sover eignty with tbe bigh prerogative, right end power to punish troason. "Treason," according lo Judge Blaukstone, "is, in England, an offenoe against the king, as sovereign." "Treoson," says Gener al Jackson, "is an offence against sovereignty, and sovereignty muHt reside with the power to punish it." Virginia, then, nooording to the doctrine of Judgo Blackstone and Gen. Jackson, and the ver dict of tbe Republican party, tbat John Brown committed "one of the gravest of crimes," is a sov ereign State endowed with tbe responsible prerog ative to bang John Brown for trear.oh. The sec ond faot, upon which the truth of Mr. Seward's assertion rests, if, "did John Brown one alle giance to tho sovereign St..te of Virginia?" Sen ator Soward says "the Federal Government is sov ereign," but ho docs not claim the ' Union" to be sovereign, and yet he, indirectly, asserts thut John Bron, residing in somo one of the States, owed "allegiance lo the Union." If this bo truo, then John Brown was vnjuslly hung, because, as Judge Blackatono truly says; he could not "otce ttco al Uyiancet, or serve two masters at once." 1 deny that John Brown "owed allegiance to the Uuion" or to Virginia, and tbat consequently, be was unjustly hung. If John Brown was domi ciled in Virginia, then be might bnve committed treason against the State. But the fact that he was not a citizen, or even an inhabitant of Vir ginia, is conclusive that he did not commit treason against thai State. He may have mado war up on Virginia, but waging war is not perpetrating treason. In tbe case of John Brown posterity will re verse the verdict, of these corrupt and profligate times, based upon the Ipse dixit of W. II. Sew ard, and the corrupt judge, (the American Jeff reys,) who uncondemned by any party in politics, or any sect in religion, sentenced tbe noblest man wbo ever trod Virginia's slave-polluted soil, to die a traitor's ignominious death. I bave been unconsciously led into this digress loo, by admiration ot John urown s ai -interested devotion to tbe cause of our common humanity. In my next tbe subject will be resumed. God and Mammon,, question of B. G. WRIGHT. RURAL, ILLINOIS, Feb. 3, 1861. For the Anti-Slavery Bugle. CHRONICLES OF THE CAPTIVITY. BY WM HICK. CHAPTER I. a to is to to a ! a tbe by the be to out a of bis 1. came to pass ¬ liance wickedly congregated together to enoourage each other in violence; for they were manstealers. 2. And certain of tbe sons of Belial said, go to now, let us cast in our trinkets and silver offerings for a goldbeaded staff as a present to Cleland the Chief Conductor, for see be is faithful and exceed ingly skillful. 3. Moreover, has he not by bis council and stra tegy defeated tho Liuiaites and brought to naught their plans by which they intended to set free Lucy the bondwoman? Has be not preserved our craft and saved the lives our Philistine brethern from sacrifice at the ambush, and rendered, once more, practicable our Fugitive Slave Law, wbieh was in danr.er, and preserved oor Union with Ibe Assy. riar.s of tho South? 4. And it caiuo to pass wbon the mobiles of Al liance beard these words, tbat they shouted with great shout nnd raid, let Cleland tbe Chief Conduc tor bo honored with a great honor after the man ner cf Bully Brooks when be smote tho Jew Sum ner. S. Lot skillful artificers and craftsmen be found to make a Cane or Staff with a head of gold, and let it be givon him, lest our Allies, the Virginians be discouraged and floe like as they fled from be fore tbo fourteen men and one old cow, led on by Brown the Osawatomite. 6. So the Staff was made, and lo, a great mob was assembled in that Golgotha place called the Round Ilouxe; and all the giants of the land with the Goliuh of the Banqueting House wero present and a great company of fogies and hireling lick epittles and Mobiles to do tbe shouting. 7. And it came to pass when the multitude ba gotten together and had obtained their ttanding seats, and there was n great silence, that McKee, Captain of tbo kill'ern and eat'em corps of man slayers, and chief soribe and recorder to the Alii anceitcs stood forth with the Cane and made great speech in tbe tongue of tbe Cradlcplunders, to the praise and the glory of Cleland the famous defeator of Ambuscades. B. Ana (Jioiana ions: me uanr, albeit ae wa of a sad countenance, for be thought of Brooks th Carolinaite and tbe cause of bis death; ba thought of Herod whom God smote; he thought ol Balaam wbo sought tbo ways of unrighteousness; thought of Judas. 9. And conscience said, "behold now I have Heroded Herod, ont Brooksed, Brooks, out Bal aamed, Balaam, and out Judased, Judas, for have returned to slavery the helpless Captive Lucy the bondwoman, and lo, bere is my reward th prioe of blood not for thirty pieces of silver, for tbit Cane, I bave betrayed and told my Savior for inasmuch as I did il not unto the least of these my brethren, I did it not onto Christ. 10. And tbit staff when I lean upon it will say thou leanest unco villanyl Thou walkcst with bloodraooey! I clutch thee, Ihou reward of m doughfacedoessl Thou tool of tbe despoil my toul thou art told!" 11. And Cleland went his way tlricken in bet from the Mobitet of Alliance, Fearfulnett an trembling go with bim. He teet an ambush every etatioo, and the Limaitet are hit terror He is back to tbe city, but the men of Clevelan cannot hide bim from the frown of bim that teth upon tbe throne. 12. For thus faith the Lord, like as the execra tions of humanity pursued and tlewBrookt to thulj publio opinion pursue thee. Deoenl men sbalj avoid, and thy friend aball be afraid to own thee Tbou thnlt be a byeword and a scorn among and be known only as tbe "Dough Uoed Cooduo- tor." 13, And now call betimes upon tbe rockt that! the mountain up:n Virginia to hid thee. her send a medal lo comfort tbee, and the Mush ing honors shall burn as an Oven ; for nil the proud and all tbat do wickedly shall be elubble. 14. And verily the Mobiles themselves are dis mayed. Howbeil their rowdyism with Strong drink and the smoke of the filthy weed they en deavor to hide. But the lids nf th ginning to ebb, and there will bo none to help. For the Bugle. MEETING AT DEER CREEK. At a meeting of ibe people ol Deer Creek and vicinity, held January 28ih, 1801. B. Lancaster was appointed Chairman, and J. J. Freeman Sec retary. Tho following resolutions were presented, and! after some discussion, adopted. Jlesohed, That w esteem it the duty oi all' good men lo disregard the ponaltics of the Fugitive' slave law when any possible opportunity offers of rescuing the outraged victims of slavory from Ibe clutches of the human hounds who seek to return them to bondage. Itesohed, That while we sympathise with those- -no Kttcmpieu ine rescue of Jucy al Lima, we' emphatically deny that there wa any attempt to obstruct the railway near this place wben the re-' turn tra'n was to pass, and regard such report ar being designed to prejudice tbe community gainer the participants in tbe intended rescue. Ucsvhed, That the oourte of tbe Cleveland lea der in regard to the late rendition case, is abhor' rent to humanity, and should cause that paper to forfeit the tupport of anti-slavery men. Whereas, the emergency of the times dema4 prompt and t'eoided action on tbe pari of law friends of humauity; and whereas, the colossal power or mis nation is now, as always wielded ngoinst the oppressed, therefore liesohcd, That at this ciitical lime it is our doty to prepare for whatever may await us. llesolved, That we will be loyal to no law or laws that trample upon our rights, or those of the humblest human being. 'csolrcd, Tbat we owe no allegiance to any government thu.' (ails to proteot us in our right lo lifo, liberty, and tbo pursuit of happiness. B. Lancasiir, Chairman, 3.0. Frxxman, Secretary. ailjc 3Vnti-SlaDcr) Bugle. "PSOVIBIMCI IT.S MiDI MS ACTOR OUTLAW." luha Urown of Oiwloml. io Sltttit AS SALEM, OHIO, FEBRUARY 16, 1861. TO NON-SUBSCRIBERS WHO RECEIVE THE BUGLE. Non-subsoriber need not decline receiving the ugle, fearing ibat ibey will be called upon to ca for it. We send no concr excem oraii. i-mi . unless paid for in advance. So we say to each of the above class, the paper is either sent lo yoo ae gratuity by tbe publishers, or elso paid for in our name by some friend. JF"Wo have given up considerable of onr paper this week to communications, and bave quite number on band yet. We were only able le find room for a portion of that from W. II. PROBATE COURT IN CINCINNATI. a 'Guardianship. Catharine Hart wa art)oint- ed guardian of Ann P., Bcnj. F., and John Hart, minors. ' A little thing ; a very little thing. So small that not one newspaper reader in a hundred would notioe tbe simple record. No longer than a text for a sermon, jet what a sermon in itself. Tbe husband dead, and the mother lha leirall ar. . o j r poictod guardian of ber minor children. And without euch legal appointment by authorilv of tbe Stato of Ohio, her appointment by Ihe Judge of All who wrote his record of ibe deed ia mater nal instincts upon her heart, is nought. When her busbnnd died, Catharine vainly thought tbat to her, above all others and without question, be longed the guardianship of ber children. But in the midst of her sorrow she learned that the most beg of tho State as a boon, what God had given her a a right. And the Court granted tbo prayer of the petitioner, nnd consented to appoint Cttharin guardian of ber minor children. Oh, mtgntni- mout Judge 1 dispenser of legal justice, and dis tributor of such equality as State legislation creates. out 1 but Oh! at - tit and Let Getting Along. Tbe advent upon oor shore last year of a prince of the blood, wa signalized the universal attention tbat was paid bim, and the special care that wat takenMo teeure bim against all occidoott of travel by furnishing him with a special train, with special regulation foi it government. We learn that the tnme operation j to b again performed in the case of Abraham Linojln. In stead of bis traveling unostentatiously, and like other travelers, accepting travelers' ordinary accomodations, a Presidential car ba been prepar ed for tbe convenience of himself and suit, and the accompanying corps of newspaper reporter. Th Buffalo Exprctt toys, ' Precaution ere to be lukrn for tbe journoy ot the President on Ibe Central Railroad, similar lo those adopted by several of the Railroad Compa nies wben tbo Prince of Wales traveled over Ibeir linet. A pilot engine will be tent in advance of the train, after which all switches will be tpiked and guarded until the epeoial train passes. Every possibility of acoidont will be guarded against, so that Mr. Lincoln's journey may be an iuduilably safe one." Wben railroad companies are carrying rommoit people, they are at full liberty to run off the traok, break through bridges, and bave collisions; and for al this ihe verdiot is, "Nobody lo blame." But wben American royalty travels, send cut your pilot engine, tpike your switches, and guard bit Republiaan majetty from all barm. Tbe people of the United Statet are not by any meant to far from Monarohy to-day, at tbey were eighty yeare ago. Mark tbat! Poking ri'N at Lank. Somebody pertittt in poking fun at "gotof Lane," ae will be teen by tbe following, wbiob it laid to be an extract from a letter be wrote to one of bit poliilotl friendt. If genuine, we tbould say that "gosel" wae a cousin to Artemae Ward, and ought to write tot Vanity Fair, "I rite to tell you that 1 bave distoluted, in kommon wilb the Sowth. We ar afcard of Jeerae Buehannan, be l 2 korrupt fur ut, k we bave re solved to thro bim on tbe tender Murty of tb North. I can't tel when i wil ce you, Ibe Cuotry aeds my tenioe, k i won't gl hur ep."