Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-13
SLAVERY'S SHELTER.
From the Clereiand american.
THE BLOODY FLAG OF ASHTABUL

THE BLOOD1 FLAG OF SEIADOLA
There is nothing perhaps more difficult fol
persons to see, than their own Inconsistency
We were never more forcibly struck with the
correctness of this sentiment, than in the
ease of Abby Foster and her husband, while
lecturing in this city. Churches clergymer,
Liberty men, in fine every one, came in for
their share of abuse. None escaped. If a
man belonged to one of the pro-slavery
churches, however correct his own individual
sentiments, still he was none other than a
pro-slavery man. No one would live in our
nation, and be anti-slavery, unless he took
his cue from Abby, and entered, life and soul,
into the ancient quarrel between Garrison and
Leavitt and their eastern friends, concerning
which we here know but little and care less.
Indeed, we know of no association of pro-
fessed anti-slavery persons who escaped the
lash of their tongues, except a little knot of
professed anti-slavery women in the county
of Ashiabula. Let US now examine their
claim TO this distinction.
Some thirty years since, there lived a law
yer in Kentucky, who, his biographer informs
us, was once employed to prosecute a poor
colored man, for one Of the eleven crimes for
which the unfortunate slave is doomed to
death in that State. His eloquencc, COM
bined with the prejudice existing against the
black man, rendered it an easy task to con-
vict him. His biographer says most unqual
iliedly thu the unfortunate man was inno-
cent. He only relates the case to show the
power Of his eloquence. This same man, a
few years afterwards, by his man9uvring in
one instance, and by a casting vote in the
other, was the means OF extending slavery
over the States of Missouri and Arkansas
At a still later period, when an honest inof-
fensive Quaker ~ventured to present a petition,
beseeching him to live an honest life, and to
cease robbing the poor man of his liberty,
his earnings, his wife and children, with a
truly patriarchal scowl he exclaimed, &c
home and mind your business; how dare you,
a poor laboring man, come in TO my presence
and ask me to live an honest life. 10 stop rob
bling and stealing. My slaves are fat and
sleek" And when the tyrant aspired to the
high Office of Chief Magistrate in our nation
the slave-owning ladies of Lexington offered
to give that county which would most de
grade itself by polling the largest majority
for this man-thief, a banner purchased will
the hard and unpaid earnings of the slave
extorted by the lash. Ashtabula, to her eter
nal disgrace, won the prize Of infamy. A
man, who-if the strong and forclble Ian
guage and definition of our friend Foster b,
correct-i 10 both a thief and a robber, wa
employed to bear the badge of degradation
and present it to the county. The name o
this miscreant is TO be found with the son o
our Hero, in the famous committee of sixty
who SO v~alianily entered tho Office of a sic
man, &c. M. Clay,) destroyed his press an
robbed him Of his property. But when h
arrived in the county which had clothed heI
self in infamy, by despising the slave, show
in sustaining the oppressor, he went iroI
tow to town to display his rag, stepped i
the blood of his victim. Not a penny oil II
cost was the earnings of freemen. Its Sill
en- folds were purchased with the blood
ahe down-trodden. The expense of its tram
portation was wrung from the toll of bont
men. Its stripes were but the counterpart
the back of the slave. But alas, there WI
none to demonstrate or rebuke. The lad
politicians and female de~magogues, loud
their anti-slavery professions, all 'gathere
around the blood-stained banner to WORSHIP
1t was the price of their country's basenes
and treason to the cause of the slave. WI
was the man who thus received almost dlvlI
honorsl 1t was he who declared that sit
a visionary dogma, that man cannot no
property in man''-thst +" slavery is sanctio
ed and sanctifed by 200 years Of legisl
tion." Who was the man these anti-slave
ladies delighted to honorl All, it was {
man who declared that he and his friends
Z" the course of $50 years would BLEACH 8
very cut of existence
Hear that, We modest, p~irttIous ladies, W
gathered around the Lexington banner.
the course Of a century and a half, all trac