Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-08-22
Yours for humanity,
Q. F. ATKINS.
Cleveland, August !, 1915.
Mob in Indiana.

We have already upprised ov~ readers of a das.
tardlv mob in Indianapolis on ne 9TH of July, in
which a colored man was killed for his complexion !
The Sentinel, the State Democratic paper, represen.
ted the colored man murdered, as a steady iDoffensive
maDSfyho had purchased his freedom many years ago
10 Kentucky.
Inc Cincinnati Herald has obtained from an au.
thentic source, further particulars of this most horrid
outrage.
The poor fellow was murdered by a gang of drunk
en- ruffians, in the presence of tro hundred people
multitudinous voices e~xclaiming at the time, Kill the
ID niger, kill him. They beat him after he
uaS dead. And as he lay with the blood bubbling
round him, the cry arose for more blood. THE mig.
gers are Citing too thick, and they ought 10 be thin.
ned out'-I would as lIeve kill a niger as an OK
Damn them--l wish every one was shot, and the
AboIitionisls too'-were the EXPLANATIONS which
broke from their infurIate lips. No effort was made
TO stay the mob, though at any moment there was
enough of good society to arrest the violence. In
about two hours, one Of the murderers was seized.
Another remained in town 81 hours after the deed.
when, a warrant being issued, he slipped OF.
When the first arrest was made, as the crowd was
passing the Post Office, ono of them, a member Of
The City Council, brutally assaulted De Puy, the ami.
able editor of The Indiana Freeman, who abandoned
his party last fall, because of lis devotion to slavery
Other violence was threatened, when a christian pro,
lessor told him, that he must leave the street or he
would be murdered. De Puy exposlulated, but The
reply OF the man was, You have no friends here.
De Puy escaped, and it was well he did, as the moi
made diigent search for him, for an hour afterwards
The Councilman who had assaulted bin, in order
to forestall all complaint, got a fellow of his own
kidney TO conplain of him, and he was fined two dol.
lars! AS the Justice was filling out the docket, he
requested him 10 make it three dollars, and lie; him
give The AbolltiOnists another 'whaling;' and az he
left, be remarked that he knew 'just what il cost 10
"blPan AboliIionist.' The brute! Perhaps he may
be mistaken!
During all this time, it is stated, the good people
OF the city INDUCED IN the most %inlammatory Ian,
guage. On the following Saturday, however, be,
coming ashamed of themselves, or recolIectiDg prob,
ably the use which might be made Of The outrage
against themselves, they raised a subscription, and
hired two lawyers 10 prosecute the murderer. A
population, consisting Of The Rev. Henry BeecheI
and a lawyer. waited on De Pay 10 advise him TO say
nothing about the murder!!!
This is SO strange, so Notifying, so gross an of
fence against Justice-a minister of Jesus Christ, a
protested AnIISlavery man too. interposing to pre-,
vent The exposure of an act of internal atrocity, and
The denunciaIIon of conduct on the part of respecla.
BILE citizens, utterly disgraceful-that we would DoJ
believe 1t, were il not for the character of our inform,
ant.
6I-Let De Puy stand his ground. lie has friend.
out oil Indianapolis, if he has none in II. The lime
VIII yet como, when some Of the discreet men there
viii mink even him a respectable man, as those now
who are not fair weather friends, deem him a noble
spirited one.