Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-05

who, with threats and curses, was trying to
break it open.
"What,'' he exclaimed with an oath, ''are |
you doing with your doors fastened at this
time of night"
"Whv master,'' said Hannah meekly, 'it's
most bed time and storming so hard, Ididn't
think any body would be stirring"
ayes. ves,' says the %ruflian, so much the |
better for folks like you: just the time to har-
Dor runaway slaves. I've got two to night
already. and ! reckon I'll find one here.'-
SO saving. he strobe toward the dark part of
the room, and threw the full light of a dark
lantern, which he carried concealed for the
purpose under his o~vercoat full upon poor A.
my's face. Dazzled, bewildered, with the
sudden light. and half Supplied with terror
at the prospect of falling iuto the hands OF a
patrol, of whose cruelty she had heard dread
ful accounts, she sat with vacant gaze liked
upon the object of her dread.
"Come out here, you black imp,"he cried
with fendish glce, sand give AN account OF
Yourself. You don't belong here, | know
Old woman you don't pretend she's yours
do yonl'
s:No, mas.cr,'' said Hannah, '.its my sis
tors child. She came from Manchester to
see us to-day, and coulnd't get back home
cause it rained so hard. Do pray master,
don't take her to the cage, she never staid
all night from her nanny before, and she'll
be scared to death.
"What o thatl' said the unfeeling wretch.
Who do you belong to, girll'. 'She don't
belong to nobody, MASTER" said Hannah;
s'her mammy's "A free woman"
''Free, you say! where's your passl No,
that won't do, where's your free papersl-
Got none, ELI! never fear, old woman, I'll
- all, I,nr 70 tho a,ro chn'n no c,fa nnouub
in iail before / leave her, | tell you;-you
cursed dcyils,' he exclaimed, giving the
child a severe push, ''you're always getting
where you're no business to be. Come,
march"
Poor Amy, when she heard the word
Jail, and understood she was to 90 there, fell
back upon her scat with a shuddering grOan;
nor did her friends dare to speak a word of
comfort orsympathy for fear of giving offence
to the patrols, who have the free eolorcd peo-
pie completely in their power, and whom of
Tended, reak their vengeance on them in the
most barberous manner.
ssAmy, child" said her aunt, "you better
90 along quiet as you can, and I'll go to
Manchester right soon tomorrow morning
and tell your nanny, may be she'll soon
ret YOU out. The Lord bless you child"
she added in a lower tone, ''and take care of
you, for if He don't do it, | don't know who
will"
With a passionate grief and esies which
We're speedily stilled by the lash of the pat
rolls whip, the little girl went forth into the
darkness and storm. The firm grasp of the
man held her by the arm, and pushing and
dragging her along through the nud and the
water, uttering the most horrid oaths when
ever anything obstructed his path, he procee-
dcd toward the Jail. AT last, during IA bright
flash of lightning, poor Amy saw the horrid
Jail with its guant whipping-post standing
near, wet with the blood of many a victim.
She her eyes closed in terror, and heard the pat
rol speak a few words to the %jailor, by whom
she was hurried in and conducted along a
dark passage. A door grated heavily on its
hinges, and in a moment she was thrust
rudely into a cold, damp cell, and left alone,
Half dead with terror, she sank down or
a heap of straw that formed the only bed
where she lay in stupor until the morning
light shone through the bars ofher windows
and the Tailor came with her food. The poo
child felt no disposition to eat, and she tim
idly asked the man if her mamma had come
, yet.
"No," said she gruhly, shows she going
, to know your in Jail, didn't you tell the pat
1 Iol you belonged to Manchester! I'll bt
bound YOUR IA runaway from some planta
l tom. but we'll see if we cam stop it-th'
: whole country is pestered to death with run
5 aways."
81 amt a runaway" said Amy mcekly.-.
r "But please master II mamma comes, won
you let her in to see mel"
''Tll see about it, said the jailer as he clos
! ed and fastened the door, and Amy felt com
=, forted in the hope of seeing her mother, 70
e surely, she thought, ''mamma won't let III
r stay here all alone, if she can help it."
| Toward noon Amy's mother came. Th
iailer asked her if she had brought the girl
| free papers. She said she had not; for j
her entire ignorance of the law she did nc
know that free papers were necessary to pre-
Il cure the freedom Of one put in Jail for til
simple offence of being from home afto
night without a passport. The mother, tho
once a slave herself, had married and raise
= her family since she became free, and fee
t ing perfectly safe herself she had not prov
ded for her children's slfety, by procurin
for them free papers, and as She had none {
d an age to leave home, she thought theI
p would be time enough to do it. Ignorant
the forms of the law, and having no one
tie counsel or direct, she knew not what to do
7 "Amy," said she, 'don't you give up an
cry 50 much about it. I'll do all | can +,
ut you child. Tho the Lord knows | don
p know where to go, or what to do. If poe
at Miss Edwards was only Twin, she'd help m
for if ever thar was a blessed woman on art
lie she was one"
ID The heart-stricken mother sat on the flo
ID beside her child, with her face buried in h
S apron, and rocking herself to and fro in
agony of distress. For she well knew tn
t, her child was in the hands of men who lac
So. oil ,,,iflor tlo will mr. tho ,,nu-nr m oconr
r, plish any deed of darkness.
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