Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-15
From tie True We5isyan.
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"a Bank Stakeholder has been informed
that DR.. Drake, of Zanesviile, avowed with
great emotion, at the recent Democratic meet
ing, that he never owned a cent of Bank
Stock, and never owed a Bank a cent in his
life.
VIII the Doctor please be so good as to
inform a friend how much better than a Banl;
Stakeholder, he considers a citizen of a free
state, who owns negroes, and who has been
known to sell, INFO irredeemable slavery. hu-
man flesh and blood, which had always been
deemed free, and TO which freedom had been
promised by those whom the seller was sup
posed to represent.
Is a dealer in hum1n stock very much more
estimable than i dealer in Bank Stock I"
Brother Lcc!-Being detained in Zanesville
some eight or ten days by affection, ] had an
opportunity Of reading the news of the place ;
and while p]eruSing the GAINESVILLE Courier,
Of Feb. 28th, 1916, my eyes lit upon the
above, which Is an extract from that paper.
1t led me 20 search into the matter TO which
it alludes, and the following are the facts in
the case, so far as | could gather them from
the citizens of the place.
The selling of a free man into homeless
bondage, by DR., Drake, of ZlnesviIle, Ohio,
which sale took place in the summer of 1915,
WAS after this manner. 1t appears that the
Doctor, though a resident of GAINESVILLE and
a citizen Of Ohio, nevertheless owned slaves
in Virginia, one Of which slaves, some four
or five years since, came to Zlnesville to his
master, Dr.. Drake, at which time the Doctor
promised the slave, that if he would work
out some four or five years, and pay over to
him his earnings, that he should be a free
man.
Thu poor slave went to work, encouraged
with the prospect of being fee, and had al
most toiled out the number of wears named
by his master. He had also married a wife.
and expected soon to be a happy freeman:
when, alas, the demon i~nstigated a plan blast
ing all his hopes. All! yes-lhe whitening
curse Of slavery in free Ohio, blasted all his
prospects Of future happines-and he, poor
slave, in an unexpected hour, was seized by
DR.. Dake's agentat Parkersburgh, Va, thrust
into a prison, detained for a time, and then
sold to the far south for six or eight hundred
dollars, which money it is supposed the Doc
tor received, and reveled upon in sight of the
residence of the poor hroken-hearted wife Of
the sold slave.
Poor woman she may now say, | once
had a husband, but he is sold, and gone 10
the rice swamps ddnk and lone, no more to
return to his poor wife, Of Putnam, Ohio,
who lives in solitude to mourn over Inc bleed
ing tie that bound her to hef husband for a
few months, and was then severed till the
judgment of the great day.
Let US inquire, who is the above named
DR.. Drake! Is he a poor heather Hottentot.
or an Arab, or a GreenTsuder, or is he an iu-
fdel or an atheist? Nay, verify, he is not.
Bat he is a prominent member of the NJ. Il.
Church, Of Zlnesville, Ohio-one that stands
high it the estimation Of q society numbering
at least 500 and what seems most astonish-
ing is the fact that the Doctor is said to pro-
fess specification in the blood Of Him whe
hath declared, : Inasmuch as 20 have done il
unto the least of these my brethren We have
done il unto me-