Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-20

tie remorse as the narrative of this infamous
libeller would make us believe AMI that the
laws of Maryland. which operate alike upon
black and white, bond and free, could permit
such foul murders to pass unnoticed ~
" No." you say it is impossible" am
not to determine what charitable, feeling men
can do /; but, to show what MARYLAND slave
holders actually do, their charitable feeling is
to be determined by their deeds, and not their
deeds by their charitable feelings. The cow
Skin makes as deep a cash in my flesh, when
welded by a professed saint, as it does when
welded by an open sinner. The deadly
muskct does as fatal execution when its trig-
ger is pulled by Austin Gore, the Christian,
as when the same is done by Beal Bondly,
the infdel. The best way 10 ascertain what
those charitable, feeling men can do, will be
10 point you to the laws made by them, and
which You say operate alike upon the white
and the black, the bond and the free. BY
consulting the statute laws of Maryland, you
will find the following ~" Any slave
for rambling in the night, or riding horses in
the day time without leave, or running away,
may be punished by whipping, cropping,
branding in the cheek, or otherwise-no rem
dering him unfit for labor."-p. 1897. 90
Then another = OF "Any slave %convic-
ted of petty treason, murder, or wilful burn
ing of dwelling-houses, may be sentenced to
have the right hand cut off, to be hanged in
the usual way his head severed from his
body-the body divided into four quarters,
and the head and quarters set tip in the most
public place whore such act was committed -
p. 100. I'D
Now, Mr.. Thompson, when YOU consider
with what ease a slave may be convicted ofany
apa nr al nf fhnnD p i'm hn,r ll.AI, -
atrocious do those laws appear! Yet, sir,
they are but the breath Of those pious and
charitable, feeling men, whom you would de-
fend. lam sure | have recorded in my mar
r~ativc, nothing so revoltingly cruel ,murderous,
internal, as may be found in your own stat
ute book.
You say that the laws Of Maryland operate
alike upon the white and black. tho bond and
free. If you moan by this, that The parties
named are all equally protected by law,
you perpetrate a falsehood as big as that
told by President Polk, in his inaugural adj
dress. 1t is a notorious fact, even on this
side Of the Atlantic, thai a black man can
not testify against a white man IN any Court
in Maryland, or any other slave State. II
you do not know this, you are more than
ordinarily ignorant. and are 10 be pitied rather
than censured. Twill not say that the de.
lection of this falsehood proves all you have
said to be false for | wish to avail myseli
of your testimony, in regard to my identity
but | will say, you have made yourself We.
ry liable to suspicion.
l will close these remarks by saying
your positive opposition to slavery is fully
explained, and will be well understood by an.
ti-slavery men, when you say the evil Of the
system does not fall upon the slave but the
STAKEHOLDER. This is like saying that the
evil of being burnt is not felt by the person
burnt, but by him who kindles up the fire a.
bout him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS.