Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-03
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]MURDEROUS ASSAULT.

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CRAwFoRD Co., o., June %, 1916.
ESTEEMED FRIENDs In laboring for the
oppressed, | find great difficulty in getting the
people to listen SO strong is their prejudice
against the negro, that they will not hear tho
advocates Of his cause. Since | left Salem,
some of my audiences have been very small.
At Knoxville, Jefferson CO., l could OBJ
tain only a small house which was filled by
the women, the men standing in tho street.
Almost the entire village was out the pro-
slavery clan made much noise at a distance,
+ but did not greatly disturb the meeting. At
Richmond, the meeting was considerably dis
turbed. At Jefferson, Harrison CO., | could
get no meeting for the people were all agog
about the Mexican War. At Mt. Eaton,
Wayne co., the rabble made so much noise
that | could not be heard by the audience
The shouts of Eggs, niger, hurrah for
Texas" were incessant. In going to my
lodgings in company with two young men,
some 30 or % of the mobocrats followed us,
crying, Egg him egg him" and COM
monced throwing stones. On Friday eve
ming | had a large meeting in the Methodist
Church. | had not spoken more than TWEEN
ty minutes, when a rail was thrust at me
through a window behind the pulpit. 1t did
! not reach me, but the occurrence disturbed
the audience very much. When order was
restored, | proceeded with my discourse.-
The mobocrat, having entered the house,
= seated himself directly in front of the pulpit,
and told me / was a liar, a blackleg, &c. 1
= demonstrated mildly with him, but he became
}: more rude. Several men plead with him not
to disturb the meeting, but he grew more flu
: rious, and they put him out of the house. In
d a few moments he returned, and with a brick
bat, struck one of the men who had aided in
:. taking him out. The missile was thrown
with such force that the man dropped as if
struck by a grape shot. SO singular was the
! sound produced by the blow, that l think his
If skull must have been fractured by it. After
the wounded man had been seated in a pew,
. and while the blood was streaming from his
head, the demon finding he had not killed
r him, rushed through the crowd and seized
him by the hair in order to finish the work of
death. He was however quickly thrust
% away, and the wounded man removed to a
ID room near by, where he received the attention
to of a physician. The murderer here made an
N other attempt, and strove to break in the door,
n but was defeated. He then went into the
Id pulpit, (Which l had left seized a book and
TO commenced reading a sermon, but soon called
o' the Mcthodists blacklegs, because they
ID countcnanced a blackIeg, &c. A person pre-
Of sent seized a chair and struck at the william
IN five or six times, bat was too low to reach
him. He afterwards sought for this man in
order to kill him, until the time of his arrest,
ks which was about two o'clock at night. 1t is
e. said he had 10 grudge against either of these
II, men. lie had prepared himself through tho
NJ day to do mischief at night, and | was the
&C. one against whom his attacks were to be di-
10 rected and | know not why l escaped un
~ hurt, and David Officer was the suffer-
er, unless it was because that Inflated friend
of humanity had aided in putting the william
'se out of the house. The next morning l visited
the wounded man, and from appearances,
ro Judged he could not long survive. | have
10 since learned that he died a few days after.
ward, leaving a wife and five little childrentl
"a mourn his ~untimely end. lie was an honest
inonensive citizen, and possessed but little
property.
\ Thus is the name Of another martyr added
Ie- to those of a Lovejey and a Torrey. Thus
=, the anti-slavery enterprise is irrigated by tho
ith blood Of another friend of human rights. May
leo his spirit rest in Paradise, and the blessings
lse of God be on his disconsolato widow anC
oil fatAorless little ones. Would it not be wei
III for Abolitionisls to raise some funds for tn
benefit Of this unhappy widow and orphan