Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-27
Maryland.

running away by families on the Eastern
shore of Maryland. In Sassafras, neck, which
contains about one hundred square miles of
territory, 900 have escaped within a year.
True Democrat.
Slaves running away from Maryland in
deed! Why Mr.. Democrat we have been ac-
customed to hear the Declaration of Indepen-
dence read in that state, and to see the names
of the Maryland representatives, in the Con-
gress of &c, attached to it. And then tho
18th Of July orators would particularly en-
phasize the sentence that says, tive hold
these truths to be self evident, that all men
are endowed by their Creator with certain in
alienable. rights, among which are a right to
life, to liberty, and 10 the pursuit Of happi-
ness And the voices Of these orators would
assume a most solemn tone as they would
read what was said about ''appealing TO
the Supreme Judge of the universe for the
rectitude Of cur intentions" And then as
they would draw themselves up 10 the great
est hight with the veins Of the forehead swell
ed out large and full, with a look of defiance
at all enemies of freedom, they would read
the concluding sentence which we believe
was in this wise, "And for the support Of
this declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of Providence, we mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honor"
The multitude would then Huzza, and say
that we are a free and happy people! Next
the minister would pray:
1--WE thank thee Oh Lord! that we live in
a land of Gospel light-of civil and religious
liberty. That here every man can sit under
his own vine and fig tree, and worship God
according TO the dictates of his own con-
science, having none to modest him or make
him afraid
And is it possible that there arc slaves
there still, who have 10 run away in "pursuit
of happiness" and who, perhaps, find no
safety this side of Canada, or in any place I'M
der the broad Aegis of the 'Sacred Consii-
tution." S.
The Erie (Pa.) Gazette, speaks of a yell
low man named Frank, who has been invei-
glcd down the river, says that paper, seized
and sold as a slave, and that his purchaser
got to learn that he was a freeman.
Now it puzzles US to understand how
Frank, while held as a slave, is any more a
freeman than any other person who is held as
a slave. The caption eff the article giving an
account Of Franks misfortunes, is a paradox;
it is headed "a Freeman in Bondage Ger
tainIy, while held in bondage, he cannot be
free. While Frouk is held as a slave, he is
no more a freeman, than any other slave in
the South, and although he was brought up,
and lived a freeman, he is no more entitled
to his freedom, than any and every other
slave in the South, every man and woman be-
! lug alike entitled TO freedom. The people Of
this country, generally, seen, to regard sla-
very as a quality, attaching itself to that part
of our population held as sIaves-a quality
which gives them a distinctive character,
different from the rest. But this is a false and
delusive idea. John Jacob Astor, James X.
Polk, or Henry Clay, would be slaves if
they were seized upon, hand cuffed, confined
on a plantation, and driven by the lash to toll
in the day, and bound fast to prevent them
from absconding at night; and slaves too, no
more entitled to their freedom than any slave
on the southern plantations, legally held I'M
: der the laws of South Carolina or Georgia.
= Mr.. GARRISON is at home again. lie re-
{ turned in the Acadia, which reached Boston
on the 18th.
. The President has called for nine more re-
j giments of butchers from as many states to
slaughter cur ncighbors.
The well trained and accomplished cut
threats on board of the U. S. Squadron in
o the Gulf tried to kill some Mexicans in AL
verado, but we are glad to learn that they
l. hauled of calling themselves unsuccessful.
n The people of the North have said much
IS about extending the area of freedom as an en-
y cuse for killing of some thousands of their
i neighbors. What the Charleston IS. c.
Courier thinks will be the result of these
murders will be seen by the following para
graph:
= EVERY battle taught in Mexico, and every
st dollar spent there, but insures the acquisition
% of territory which must widen the field Of
, Southern enterprise and power in the future.
. And the final result will be to re-adiust tho
ne whole balance of power in the confederacy,
~. so as 10 gipe us the c0ntroi IF the Government
y. in all time 10 came. Ii the south be but true
I'd to themselves, the day Of our depression and
y, suffering is gone, and gone J%orerer."
Is 1t seems from this that we of the north
H. are to have our shackles fastened still tight,
er. S.
is We are %rejoiced to hear through V. Mich
a. olson that David P. Lowe is in the field and
il laboring successfully, in company with Joel
n p. Davis, in Indiana.
e Fl. w. Curliss has commenced ~lecturing
., and will continue during the winter season
81 His first visits will be to Pennington, in