Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-17

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quite instructive and sentimental. She went
to Washington on Sunday, April 9TH, to see
her mother, Margaret Lee. Our cid friend.
Jacob Henson, says he knows Margaret very
well, and she is a respectable and Christian
woman. She is a I" free woman" and yet
her daughter was not her own, but belonged
to Gov. Pratt. We thought child rem follow
ed the condition of the mother. 1t does not
appear whether she had leave to 90 to WASH
lngton, nor is it said she went without leave.
Probably that point is Intentionally left OBJ
scure, for 1t would not tell well for the police
of Annapolis, if she could 90 by the railroad
without leave, nor very well for Gov. Pratt's
own slgacity, if he gave her leave to 60 with
all that large trunk fall of clothing . of the
very best quality" There is a point here
which needs clearing up, and we hope the
Governor in his next publication will be more
particular.
Sophia spent the Sabbath with her mother.
Who can tell the thoughts that coursed in her
mind, under the conviction that size was con-
versing with her mother for the last time
How must her heart have swollen to burst
ing at the idea that she was about to take so
momentous, SO perilous a step, and yet dared
not even tell her own mother, lest that parent
should suffer even for knowing the desires of
her child TO be free. Gov. Pratt makes no
ia hEllu0l WIS. lItt.
At .Eur O'Clock on Monday morning, So
phia left her mothers house, in a hack, os-
tonsibly going to the railroad. She did not
shy which railroad but every body knows
that, on the Shareholders railroad, the cars do
not leave until sir o'clock. Consequently. it
was the under ground" or what is now best
known as the ToRrGY RAILROAD, that she
was going by. And hence we infer that Gov.
Pratps Information was not INFINITELY accurate,
and that Sophia must have started in the hack
a little before four o'clock, because the cars
leave, in the Spring arrangement, precisely
at four in the morning, as all who have tray
eIled by that line know, and as Gov. Pratt
may ascertlin by calling at the depot in -
street. 1t is best to be particular in such
matters. Those who desire information of
the cars on the ToRREY RAILROAD at the pres
ent season, are referred TO the hand-bills, to
be had by calling on the agent.
The Governor says Sophia left her mothers
house in a hack, and as she has not since
been hear OF, he sirmises that she is either
concealed in Washington, or has gone to
Pennsylvania in lint hack. All, Governor,
you can learn all about it, if you could only
find Tint hack. And it would relieve the anxi-
cites of many other mourners among the pa
triarchs, who have had their choice treasures
conveyed away in that hack. The mystery
is. to find that huck. The hacks in Washing
ton are all numbered and registered. The
hacks that com from other places are all
care fully observed by the police. Not a hack
wheel t%raverses the streets unnOted. And vet,
every now and then, persons are taken into
That hack, and you never find a trace of them
again, until you hear they are in Boston, or
Canada or some other unreachable place. One
would think its steeds must be shod with felt,
and its wheels must roll on rails of india-rub-
Der. We beg Gov. Pratt to try once more
to find thai hack. II you could only get the
track Of it, if you could stand by when it
tlkes up a passenger or company of passen-
gers, see how the "cream-colored horses ,"
pant and paw the ground, and then follow it
as it flies with its precious freightup the well
known avenue TO - street, and then along
that street till it reaches a certain spot, and
then you look, and the hack aint there, but
you hear a low rumbling noise, like a train of
cars passing through a tunnel that is closed
at both pndS-and you return home as wise
as you went. To find out any thing, you
must interrogate that hack before it gets to the
ToaREY DEpoT in - street.
But one of the most touching points in
Gov. Pratt's appeal to the public, is couched
under the form of an argument by which he
satisfies himself that his woman has gone to
a free State, because she went off without
the slightest provocation." That was the UNI
kindest cat of all. How could she do it q
Bat are you sure she had no provocation =
Her mother is, you say, a free woman, while
she herself is a slave. Is not that provoca-
tive of the desire for liberty! What you say
of her use of language shows that she has not
been wholly unaccustomed to listen to the
conversation of her supervisors. May she moi
have heard at your table sentiments ~calcula-
ted to inspire a love of liberty ! May she
not have heard the state Of slavery spoken OF
as a degradation, to which no generous sou
could possibly SUBMIT Has she not hearC
it said that i true man would choose LIBERTY
OR DEATH! Can you wonder that such con
vorsation should produce its effect
Again, it my be that she has heard tn
case of Torrey spoken of-his false phllau
, thropy, in pretending to pity the niggers-
= his folly in throwing away his life for tn
! nirrcrs-his recklessness in acting as if MIG
j rers had the same rights with other people
. his extraordinary art, almost like wtchcraf
in aiding the escape Of %slavesl Perhaps sh
1 rot her first knowledge of the undergroun
railroad from your own lips.
There is one thought more about the wal
t of provocation. You can tell all about it,
We at the North can only surmise and as
= questions. Bat from what we have heal
0 of the Institutions and usages Of slavery, v
X are prepared to think it not strange, if a han
If some mulatto girl, living in the family Of