Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-17
SYMPATHY FOR GOV. PRATT.

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Ills Excellency, Thos. G. Pratt, of Prince
Georges county, the present Governor of the
State of Maryland, chosen by the "true Lib
erty party the Wings, to that high office,
held in his hands the life and liberty of the
late lamonted Charles II. Torrey. When the
wife and friends Of the victim supplicated, in
terms that might have moved a stone, and
h lat could not but have moved the most mex
cradle Of Eastern tyrants, for the ~bestowment
of a pardon, which would probably have sa-
we'd his life, Gov. Pratt declared that he could
not give a favorable answer uutil he had an
opportunity to know the minds Of his brother
planters, alias sllvc-breeders of Prince
Georges. lie never granted it.
After it became quite certain that Torrey
must die, and about a week before his death
took place, Gov. Pratt visited the prison for
general purposes of inspection and his pros
eeuting attorney who accompanied him, APP
preached the bedside Of the helpless prisoner,
already struck with the infdllible premonito-
ries Of approaching dissolution, and soothing
" asked him. Do you think your friends
would now pay IIeckrotte his money if you
were to be pardoned !"-showing clearly
that it had been the policy Of the slave-breed-
ers and slave-trdders, whose tool the Governor
made himself, to keep Torrey in prison until
he was past the possibility Of recovery, and
then grab the money, which a thousand
friends had raised for the purpose of restoring
him to his family, a living husband and faith
er. And the Executive of Maryland wished
to ascertain whether there was yet a probable
iry, despite of the noble energy of Messrs.
Phelps and Cleveland, of yet realizing this
inefrsble meanness. Mr.. Attorney, however,
'took nothing by his notion"
We give these particulars in order to revive
the interest of our readers in behalf of Cover
nor Pratt, that they may enter with us into
the sympathies BETTING the occasion, as de-
veloped in the following official notice We
find it in circulation, but do not know in
what paper it first appeared. 1t is quite af
fecting, and we cheerfully give Gov. Pratt
the benefit of an insertion in our columns, free
of charge. Read his appeal:
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
~ THE above reward will be given for
the apprehension and delivery to me of my
servant woman Sophia. She left my resi-
dence at Annapolis, Maryland, on Sunday
evening, the 9th inst, and travelled in the
cars to Washington, and went to the house
of her mother, who is a Tree woman, named
Marperet Lee, residing next door to a black
smith shop, at the corner of l. street south,
and Bird street east,-nelr tho Navy yard,-
Sophia was at her mothers house until 1
o'clock on Monday, the 9th inst, at which
tise her mother states she left her house III
n hack, alleging that she intended to return
by the CARS to Annapolis. She has not since
been heard of, and is either secreted in the
city Of Washington, or has gone in the hack,
in which she left her mothers house, towards
the Pennsylvania line. | have no doubt thai
her Intention is to GO to some free State, as
she left my house without the slightest prov
|ocalion, and has always been treated witt
kindness and humanity.
Sophia is a remarkably neat, well looking
mulatto woman, rather under the usual size
of about % years of age, and converses witt
unusual ease and accuracy for a servant
She took with her a large trunk and a varlet.
of clothing of the very best quality.
THOMAS G.. PRATT.
Annapolis, April 7, 1916.
1t is evident that Gov. Pratt feels deepl.
the loss of his woman" from the llberallt
Of his offer, one hundred dollars reward.
No doubt, he was strongly attached TO her
perhaps has been SO for a long time, an
hardly knows how to do without her. LA
she been snatched from him by death, i
would not have offered a reward; but to thin
of her as yet alive, and still he cannot g
her; and that she has got away from him b
some humln instrumentallty which he cam
KILT moves him-and he does the ne
thing in his power-he of, rs a hundred do
lars to anybody who will bring her back
Perhaps our paper will reach somebody wi
my have it in their power to carry her ba'
TO her anxious oracr. II SO, you see 20