The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30
From the Liberty Herald.
LEWIS AND MILTON CLARK.
A BIT OF HISTORY.

o~tplelnOtf, iS12, tnere arrived at the
township of Madison, Lake county, O.io,
IN the Stage from Cleveland, a Young
man, from Fl TO p years OF age. Ele
was a student at Oocrtin, aud during a
vacation there, had come 10 Madison, on
the invitation of a Citizen Of that town.
ship, TO lecture on the subject Of slavery.
He was in person of ordinary s,za, of
bright ana geuteeI appearance and active
d-meanor, and IN Complexion very much
resembling the planters aud SHAREHOLDERS
Of HE south. In fact, he was ii native Of
Kentucky, and came 10 speak Of evils he
had Witnessed and participated IN al! his
life, until a very short Tine before he is
introduced to the reader. His name was
Lewis Clark.
The day following, there came from
the same pace, (Oberiln,) 10 the same
township, (Madlson) in a common Buggy,
a wido" lady and her sick daughter, on
a visl! TO her brother, a physician in Mad.
Ison. The conveyance was driven BY a
young man, Milton Clark, Il brother Of
Lewis, also i naive OF Kentucky, OF like
complexion and demeanor, and also an
ODE Rim student.
In lulilment Of an appointment, Lewis
Clark iectured at The village Of Centre.
vile, on Sabbath evening aud the inter-
est he excited was so great, nolwuh,Laud.
ing it was the f:s, public address he had
ever made, that an appointment was made
Tor both him and his brother TO lecture at
Unlonvllle, the next evening, (Moudav.)
Early in The forenoon Of Monday, The
sick girl started out on a ride for her
health, driven by Milton Cllrk, who was
at ObeTIin a bcarder in her mothers fam.
lily. They Ind proceeded but ii short DIS
tance, however, before their buggy was
overtaken and passed by a hack, or phue.
Ton, driven BY a lad, aud containing four
men, who were not observed as they
passed, the windows of their carriage be.
ing closed. The carriage stopped soon
after passing and when the buggy con.
taining the invalid AMI her attendant
drove up, " men sprang out of The car
rlage, one of whom caught the bride of
the horse in the buggy. and the other,
drawing a pistol aud pointing il al the
driver, Milton Clark, exclaimed. You
are The very person we wanted 10 see; #
you make any noise | viii blow out your
brains" Clark, in fright, sprung from
HE buggy TO escape, bui fell, and his Two
assistants caught him. took a rope from
their pockets, bound him aad hurried him
into the carriage and drove on. The
horse with the buggy ran TO a fence and
stopped, when a neIghbor who came along
soon after, took the sick girl back TO her
friends, from whence she started. She
lived but a few weeks, her death evident
y being FASTENED by the fright she re.
ceived on this occasion.
Milton Clark was carried to Centre
vile, and taken before a Judge of The
Common Pleas, of notorious pro-slavery
feelings, and in complexion darker than
the prisoner. He was about to deliver
him over SUMMARY 20 his captors, as Il
slave; but the friends OF the Slave, having
been notified, came and demanded a trial,
strongly intlmating TO the Judge that he
should not b. taken away without a trial.
He accordingly assented, and appointed
two O'Clock in the afternoon as the honr
Tor the trial to come on. The %sIave's
friends, we'll knowing they had nothing 10
hope but the most iIhbcral construction of
law and bending Of fict, against the pri,-
oOer, from the Associate Judge, endeay-
ored 10 get IA habeos corpus, in order 10
bring hun before the President Judge Of
the Circuit, who lived in PainsviIle, in
the same county but he being absent
from nome, that project failed. At TWO
O'clock, the trial came on; and, after de-
Gliding questions Of law, in one instance
point blank against decisions of the high
err courts of Ohio, and in another as de-
cidedly in the face and eyes of the Su-
preme Court OF the UnIlcd States, the
Judge delivered over the prisoner 10 his
claimants, rs the slave of one Archibald
Logan, of Lexington, Ky, fugitive from
the service of his master.
In the mean time, a warrant had been
procured against the captors of the slave
for assault and battery. On this theyE
were being taken a distance of two or
three miles, before the magistrate who is
sued it. Ga the way TO his office, they
came TO a road lying directly on the line
between Lake and Ashtabula count;es.-
AS ,heir carriage turned out 10 pass one
ofthe many vehicles that blocked up the
way--the excitement having brought a
great multitude togelher-they were thus
brought within the limits oil Ashtabula
county, when a writ Of habeas cornus
was served upon the two men bayipp