Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-22
II E CAPTIVE.

BY intelligence from Baltimore we learn
that poor Torrey has been at last set free by
the great Liberator, Death. Though the a.
gent Of Maryland stood at the door of his
prison-houso, invested with all the power
that State authority could give 10 confne his
captive with bolts and bars, yet a mightiey
than he proclaimed his freedom.
The malignity with which his prosecutors
followed him, even to the brink of the grave,
has cast a stain upon the history Of Mary
land which no after repentance can wash OF.
Her Executive was regardless of the appeals
OF his wife, the mother Of his now Eltherless
children; he coldly rejected her petitions for
his release, and doomed him to a captive's
death. How cherries must h ave seemed to
the dying man the thick walls and grated
windows of his prison-house. Day after day
wore YEARLY away, more and more feebly
beat the pulse of life, and the shadows of his
setting sun grew visibly in length. Yet G.
ven then the stony heart of the Governor re-
Tented not, for he knew that the people of
va ldllu q hOt ohilSiCAh1 kiuNhOu ehSAi
rage, and he withheld the last boon it was in
his power to give-permission to die in the
free air whose every whisper speaks pleasant
ly of liberty, and to have the blue and sunny
sky of s%pring-time look upon him in the
hour of his departure.
He has gone! but his memory liveth, and
the history of his wrongs has been inscribed
upon tablets that will long retain it. The
act for which he was imprisoned, the malig-
nifty, perseverance, and inexorableness of his
prosecutors, and his death in the prison-house,
are events indissolubly connected with the
history of that enterprise which the oppressors
vainly hoped to check by the sacrifice of a
victim. Poor deluded men! to imagine that
the blood of martyrs could quench the fire of
freedom! The legal murder of Torrey has
done, and will do more to promote the OYER
throw of slavery, than would the emancipa-
ton of all the slaves that fifty Torreys could
have freed. 1t has done much TO make man.
ifest to the people the extent of slaveholding
humanity, the character of slaveholding mer.
cy, and the genuineness of slaveholdine
christianity. 1t has shown how destitute is
the religion c. the North Of that spirit which
leads its professors to visit the sick and those
in prison. Charles T.. Torrey was no inf
del, but bore the character of an evangelical
christian, and was a minister Of one OF the
largest and most influential sects in the coun
try; but we have yet to learn that those will
whom he stood in christian fellowship hav,
given him any words of sympathy AM
encouragement, or rebuked his oppressor
with language of righteous indignation
Their religion is subject to the slave power
they can give no comfort or consolation
those who are punished for acting the part q
the good Samaritan, they know not those VIII
pine in the prison-hcusc. Verify say ur
to you, iDasmuch as we did it not unto on
of The least Of these, my little ones, ye di
it not unto me-"
Thank God for the constant development
that are being made of the corruption of tn
American church, of the falshood OF Amer
can religion. Though they are paid for wit
the wrongs of thousands, thong. they a
purchased with the lives of murdered vi
tins, it may be that the price is n%ecessar.
The death of a Torrey will be instrument
in raising thousands from a spiritual deaf
and the letters that he wore give freedom
many who are now bound by the Trad
tons of the Past, and enable them TO pre-
forward toward the ful6llment of the
noble destiny in the increasing light
that truth whose glorious effulgence now ST
rounds the spirit Ct MarylaEd's murder
victim.