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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29
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Having with other friends OF the slave,
been most basely imposed upon by a fugitive,
or one who claims to be such, ! deem it in
cumbent as a warning TO others, and for the
veal Of humanity, to make a brief statement
OF the following facts -
About three months since, a person calling
himself GEORGE Thompson, came into this
place seeking employment as a Barber. Be-
ing destitute Of means, he was readily assist
ed, and opened a shop. By his respectable
department and attention to his calling, to-
gether with an awakened sympathy for the
story Of his wrongs in bondage, he was well
patronized, and bid fair to meet with unpre-
cedented success. Confding in his narrative
as a fugitive from slavery, we became most
deeply interested for his prosperity and per-
manent happiness. With a knowledge of his
ability he was encouraged to go forward and
rehearse the history of his su(lerings. Conse-
quently, he has spoken with good acceptance
in this, and some of the adjoining towns
But the sequel will show that tho cause Of
the slave has been deeply wounded by his
recreant conduct.
About three weeks since, said Thompson
came to me expressing great agony in behalf
of his little son left at New Orleans, when
he escaped. My sympathy was aroused, and
without suspicion | listened 10 his request.
He said he had made arrangements with Ro-
bert Purvis, Of Philadelphia, to procure his
child that the sum of ono hundred and fifty
dollars was demanded for his liberation, and
that, with the exception OF twenty-five dol
lars, he had enough to set his heart at rest,
and embrace his absent child. Not having
the ready means, | took him to the house oil
a warm hearted abolitionist, who promptly
handed over the required sum, and at an ear.
ly hour the next day he departed as he said
for Philadelphia, with the promise Of return.
ing in a week.
Facts revealed since the departure o.
Thompson, give strong reason for belief tina
he is a scoundrel, possessed Of shrewdnes:
and tact to an extent that will enable him Il
practise his villany upon others. In color
he is rather darker than a common mulatio
about five feet high, broad shoulder anC
stout bodily. His right arm is branded OF
the inside with the letter D. which he de
clares was put on by David Converse, hi
old master. In manner, he is rather bashfu
and unassuming at first interview, but on far
Their acquaintance he is more bold and com
municalive. Let the public, and especial,
the friends of the slave, be on their guar,
that they are not imposed nnon by the scoun
drelism of GEORGE THOMPSON, ALA
ALEXANDER GILES.
G. w. STACY.
Milford, Sept. %, 1877.
OF Other papers are requested to give nc
tice Of this imposler.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29
A Chapter on SWiadling.

Swindling is rather a coarse word to ears
polite, it CRATES far more harshly on the nerves
than "breach of %trust,'' or "devIation from
the path of reclitnde," which terms the gen.
teel part of community, the upper ten thou
sand, use to denote the more fragrant cases of
aristocraiic swindling. But as we are ex-
pressing our W sentiments, we must use
our W language and although We do not
design speaking of that kind of swindling
which the law Furnishes with imprisonment,
we must nevertheless call it swindIing al,
though it claims TO have a less repulsive
name.
The public are sometimes astounded by
the announcement of the discovery Of some
extensive system of fraud which has been
carried on for years, by persons moving in
the most respectable circles of society, and
enjoying the confidence of community gene
rally. We have in our mind a system, or
rather several systems of swindling which
throw entirely into the back ground the ope-
ration Of all petty spectators who flch but
Il lew Injurious o. hHouSdnus, OF mllIlOnS IL
may be. The world is in fact a vast swind-
ling shop, and rogues greatly abound in the
Offices of State and in the pulpit. Society
has been so long accustomed to be defrau-
ded, that it has come TO look upon it as a
matter Of course, and is cheated, as it were,
with its eyes open. Year after year, the po-
litical and ecclesiastical leaders of the people
procure vast sums of money, and almost ar
bitrary power by false pretencos. We are
not in favor Of indicting swindlers, not at
least as Grand Juries indict, but if the little
retail dealer in fraudulent pretences ought to
be tried and imprisoned, we certainly would
not be in favor Of letting the Wholesale ope-
rator, go scott free.
Now what are the facts in the case! A
struggle has just concluded in this and other
States between the Wing and Democratic
parties, each striving to obtain the ascendant
cy. They rallied hundreds of thousands OF
voters, extracted from their adherents hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars, and the leaders
in the respective parties now find themselves
defeated or victorious as fortune has favored
them, Now we ask, in all soberness, wha
greater political frauds have ever been perpe-
trated upon this community, than the leaders
in these parties have been guilty Of! Is not
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29
A Sharp Rebnke.

We copy, SAYS the New York CONNER
cial Observer, the following indignant letter,
signed by a well known name, from the New
ark Daily Advertiser;
To The Editor Of the Netoark Daily 2d,erhser.
SiR:-You did not, perhaps, hear-as ]
see your papers of Monday and Tuesday do
not state it-that a negress, about one hun
bred years old, was run over and killed by
the Trenton accommodation train, in the CEN
ire of the City of Newark on Saturday even
ing.
Had she been white, young and rich, her
death, and the accident might possibly have
reached your ears.
The facts of the case, of which you have
not heard, are as fellows
The train, having come at its usual speed
up the road, increased its pace at the curve
after passing the bridge, blew ono shriil note
with the steam whistle before reaching the
Centre streets depot, and went on at full
speed. Ono hundred aud fifty yards from
that point the train was stopped abruptly, and
seeing other passengers jumping out, | did
likewise, utterly Ignorant that any accident
had occurred, and proceeded on my way home
ward for a few yards. until | saw a crowd col
Iected, and something w%rithing and strug-
Cling in a ditch adjoining the cars, which |
supposed to be a dog or a pig.
From mere curiosity | went TO the spot,
and saw forty or fifty well dressed gentlemen
standing within arms length of an old snow
white haired negress, lying in utter agony,
with her arm broken and smashed to atoms
on the rail. no one Offering to assist her, aud
no one of the officers Of the train moving from
their places, nor one person from the depot,
which was in full SIGHT, stirriug,
As reached the place a person asked, ais
she killed !" another answered, mo she has
hurt her arm -
And By no solicitation, or s~cornful iaunt-
ing, could | induce one of those well bred,
well dressed Newark gentlemen to aid me in
lifting that dying woman out Of the ditch.
One mechanic assisted me, and one mulat-
20, TO carry her to her homc-ihe answer to
all my entreaties for aid being, Her own
people live on the hill let them help her"
DR.. Pennington came down with me at my
first request. DR.. Darcy was there when we
arrived at the wretched wnman's house. All
that medical skill and medical charity could
do was done to aid her-but her system new
er rallied from the shock, and she died before
the knife could be applied.
1 wish | knew the names Of the gentlemen
W no denied their aid, that ! might hold them
up TO the execraiion they deserve. ! have
no doubt on earth that some Of them are men-
bers of Christian Churches in Newark-but
the thing stands.
l ain told that no inquest has been held, be-
cause the woman was killed in bread day
light, and people saw the accident.
! dare say it is so. =
But | am ready TO swear, (and l think l
can prove the fact that, to the best Of my
belief, the woman came TO her death by cul.
pable negligence-if not so, the conduct Of
The company's servants, and Of all the by
ISLANDERS, was marked by the most bestial in
humanity.
have the honor to be your ob't serv't,
HENRY WM. HERBERT.
The Cedars, near Newark, N.J.,}
September 6, 1877.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29

ed love for the perishing souls of the poor
heather is but rretence, needs no other proof
than its uniform neglect Of the heather at its
own door, and its sanction, for popularity
sake, Of poIygamy, one Of the most promi-
nent features Of foreign heathenisn. The A..
b. C.. f. NJ. has shown itself TO be A Big
Cheat and Fraud Manufacturer.
Nor is that other pet of the church, the A.
merican Bible Society, a whit behind it in
swindling zeal, whatever it may be in finance
and aristocratic character. 1t claims to be
exceedingly interested in the circulation Of
tie scriptures, and dwells upon the impor-
lance Of furnishing a copy to at least every
family in the United States who is destitute
of one. And yet, who would think it some
Of It's members are supporters Of laws that
prohibit under severe penalties the slaves be-
ing taught to read the Bible. And if one of
the distributors of that Society should DO
what'ils agents beg money to enable them 10
do, he would be driven out of the State UNI
less the Southern members should prefer TO
execute the capital punishment Of Lynch
law upon him. But they take good care re-
yer to make the attempt to give the Bible to
the slayes-theif system Of swindling don't
require it.
But we are making this article longer than
we designed, and yet have not spoken of 9TH
er portions Of the religious machinery Of the
land, which are but a part of the SAINT sys-
tenn Of fraud, Of wholesale swindling with
which our country has long been cursed and
will continue to be cursed, until her people
choose to do their own thinking. and r sist
all attempts that are made 10 palm off upon
them the counterfeit coin Of the church.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29
WIN. How'd Garrison.

A letter recently received from S. s. Fos-
ter, dated Cleveland, Oct. 2O,h, SAYS: IL
arrived in town this evening. and found Mr..
Garrison so far recovered as TO be able TO
start for home; and accordingly have arranr-
ed to leave at s o'clock tomorrow morning,
He thinks he might have started with safety
yesterday morning had | been here but |
Judge from his looks that tomorrow will be
quite early enough. He is very thin and ema-
cia'ed' but has a pretty good appetite, and is
slowly recovering his strength"
This will be cheering news to the friends
of that devoted man; and greatly as those of
the West longed for his coming among them,
they will be far more rejoiced to learn he has
gone on his homeward way, and is probably
ere this surrounded by the loving hearts and
dear faces in his own domestic circle.
There is a subject connected with our
friends mission TO the West, which we feel
some dellcacy in referring to,and YET we should
not. He asked nothing for his services
they were freely given, but he expected the
friends in the West would see that he sus-
tanned no pecuniary loss by his mission here.
The expense incurred by his illness alone,
was $I00; and we make this statement here,
because we know there are many who will
esteem it a privilege to bear a portion of it.
Contributions designed to be applied to
this purpose, should be sent to ]. Elizabeth
Jones, Treasurer Of the Western A. S. Soci-
ety. and will be acknowledged in the Blu
gle.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29
The Buffalo Convention.

The Liberty party National Convention,
held last week in Buffalo, nominated as its
candidate for the Presidency, john p. HALE,
of New Hampshire-LEIcEsrER KING, of o.
bio, for the Vice Presidency.
The Liberty League, it will be remember
ed, went out of its ranks TO find nominees to
It's liking; and Liberty party follows its ex-
ample In prospect TO its candidate for the Pre-
sl~tency-John p. Hale being the leader of
the Independent Democrats, aud fully identi-
fed with that party and with no other. The
idea of one party borrowing a candidate frcm
another party does not strike us very favora-
bly,, but there may be some political virtue
IN 1t, which, in our ignorance, we dream not
of. We should think, however, the veterans
Of the cause, whose energies have been de-
voted for years to the support of the party,
and who had a right to expect that the nomi-
nation would be made from among them,
would not like being thus unccremoniously
pushed aside for one who is not even a Lii
beriy party man.
We should not wonder if the Buffalo Con-
veniion had opened the food gate for party
troubles.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29

chusetts, and give the South one hundred and
sixty additional United States Senators, suf-
fcient to control the Union for all time. But
if instead OF eighty it gave the Union only
eight new slave states, and it could not give
less, where would the free States be in the
confcderacy 1t is a struggle on the part Of
the South for supremacy in the Union; and
we may expect from the slave.holding inter
est connected with Mr.. Polk, an ardent and
vigorous cooperation with ! it in all its meas
ures. But not only is the South expected 10
aid the dcugh-iaces OF the North are not
less relied upon. They are spurned, ridicu-
led and derided-but they are usc8. North
ern bayonets won the slave territory which is
to effect this political result-Norlhern irea-
sure is to pay the expenses Of the operation,
and Northern votes are to sanction and con-
summate i.
Are the people of Pennsylvania prepared
thus 10 become hewers Of wood and drawers
Of water to the shareholders Of the South 7
" y = BE it remembered that this
question is not shall livery be abolished,
but shall freedom be abolished we stand on
the defensive-in favor ofhuman liberty for
the land in which it is proposed to introduce
slavery is now Free. Shall we volunteer to
clot d its sunshine with slavery! Does this
besoem the sons of our ldthers-the children
of the Keystone II it be rightful to intro
duce slavery into Llexico. why not introduce
it into Pennsylvania What is oppression
here cannot be otherwise there. \ + =
But the abstract question of the extension
Of slavery is not the only nor the greatest is
sue Of this contest. The great question is,
shall we become the dependents and vassnls
Of a Southern political ascendancy The
addition Of Mexican slave States to the I'M
ion secures to the South eternal supremacy.
Are our people prepared for thisl Are they
willing to become subject forever to the proud,
insulting, multiplying, free trade faction of the
South : II they are, farewell to Northern
lndependonce-Northem Observation-Disclosures
prosperity. The nabobs of the South will
dictate to us the terms upon which, in the
face Of their hostile policy, We shall struggle
for existence. Our agriculture, our manu-
features, our commerce, will be committed
{" their gudrdianslip-the guardianship of
the wolf over the lamb. That this domina-
ton will not be borne, need not be said; but
how will it, how can it be corrected, if it is
not now checked There are pains and per-
lis, revolutions and calamities, wars and ru-
nors Of wars, ia this scheme. Let every re-
i%ective citizen pause and ponder, before Ell
her by his vote, or his Indifference, he sup
,orts or permits the contamination Of this
most dangerous design.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29

The next day he mounted the steps Of Bar
NUNS Museum, with the design of inspect
ing the curiosities of that establishment, and
here again he was refused admission unless
he left his servant at Tie door. As he could
not, of course he had to turn back.
If the Englishman should harpen to be one
Of the writing species, it is quite probable
tAat he will be a subject Of universal abuse
on this side of the Atlantic. for entertaining
a preference for English Liberty to American
Independence. There is not another coun.
try in the world where he would have been
refused admission into a public conveyance
on account of the complexion of his SER
vant.-B.
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Notice..

VIII those Of our subscribers who are in
arrears, please take notice, that the terms of
the Bugle are $3.50 per year, if paid within
six months from the time of subscribing, or
$l,75 if delayed beyond that time. II, how
ever, those indebted for a longer time than
six months, will forward, post paid, the a.
mount due from them by the lst of Deem
Der next, the additional 25 cents per annum
will not be required but from such as neg
lect to do this, payment at the rate of $l,75
per year will invariably be exacted.
JAMES BARNABY,
Publishing .2gent.
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From the National "A. S. Standard.
COlOrphObia.

An English Baronet who is travelling for
his health, accompanied by a trusly servant,
a few weeks since landed in New York. As
be is often compelled, on account of a para
lytic affection, 10 lean upon his servants arm,
and call upon him for assistance, he never
goes into the street unless accompanied by
him. His servant is a very intelligent CO.
lored man, who has lived in the Baronet's
family from his childhood, and is in every
respect a person Of good behavior, who per-
iectly understands his position, and is an en-
cellent servant, and at the same time a conf
dental friend. A few days after his arrival
here, the Biroret one day walked up Broad
way a long distance, and being too tired to
return on foot, stopped an omnibus and was
going to get in with his servant, when he was
prevented by the driver, who would not al
low him to ride accompanied by his colored
man. So he had to trudge down Broadway
as he best could, until he came TO a stand for
cabs.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29

INSTRUCTION OF SLAvrs.-Quite a spirit.
ed discussion is still going on in the Charles
ton Is. CO. papers about the propriety of
having separate houses of worship for the
slaves, and of giving them religious ~instruc-
ton. A writer in the Evening News, after
commenting upon the article of his opponent.
remarks in closing, that the time is near at
hand when no institution can long endure in
the civilized world, which is inconsistent
with the spread of knowledge and religion.
The true policy-the best security of the
South, he says, is to maintain that slavery is
consistent with everything that is good, and
that we are not afraid to give the slave the
word Of God. He says, the moment the
South admits that we dare not, our doom is
sealed. To betray fear, is to encourage the
abolltlonists.-Luth. OJserrer.
Alas, for the Sonth even such ph4npers
as the News writer advises them to tell,
won save their institution. As for ~circula-
ting the Bible among the slaves, they have
no intention ofdoing it. Affirming they fare
not afraid TO-" is quite another thing from
actual distribution.
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ANTI-SLAVERY B UGLE
SALEM, OCTOBER 90, 1917.

81 love agitationwhcn there iscausefo fort
the alarm bell which ]startles the inhabi-
tants of city, saves them from being burn
ed in their eds."-EdmUnd Bmke.
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with the paper, will please call on James
Barnaby, corner of Main and Chestnut SITS.
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