Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-03

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off; the darkness, too, and the storm favored
him. He was gone. And | do believe we
were all glad. Frank never blamed him.
How could he9 Well, two months passed
away, when early one morning, the overseer
found Ned under some bushes, and brought
him to the house. | will tell you where he
had been afterwards; but see the cunning of
the creature-a cunning and deceit that we
sow In all slaves, and therefore ought 10 reap.
He knelt to my father, and said, pardon,
master! pardon! | have tried free bread,
and it is not good. No friends for the poor
slave among the free white folks, over the
river, and so ! have come back 10 you, mas
ter My father did not have him punished
but ordered him to be bound with ropes, and
left in an empty room. The day passed
two or three days indeed-and Ned was still
bound. Meanwhile, the overseer threatened
him with being sent dc,cn The riuer. You
know what that means, dom you! 1t means
to sweat, and starve, and die, by inches in
the sugar-ields of Louisiana. Ned caught
the alarm. BY connivance of some one, he
got a knife; and, when all was still, cut
his ropes, and cautiously made his way out
OF the house. 1t was a stormy night; his
tracks were plain, but he could not help it.
lie ran TO the neighboring plantation yonder,
where his wife lived, and gave his peculiar
whistle under her window. She was awake,
and heard him. Poor soul | dare say, she
had hardly slept from anxiety, for the two
months after he ran away. She raised the
window. Jump downn whispered Ned.
Jump down, just as you are, wait not a se-
cond.' She jumped ; and catching her in his
arms, they escaped together.
"Next morning, pursuit was made from
both plantations; not that my father wished
Ned to be taken, but our neighbor was not
willing TO lose the woman, who was a house
servant, and very valuable. The pursuers
were deceived by the tracks, which were half
buried up, and chilled and blinded by the
storm, which was uncommonly severe for this
part of the world and at night, gave up the
hunt. We heard no more of them till last
Summer when, travelling through Canada,
whom should we find, as servant at the hotel
in Prescott, but this rascal, Ned. Al first,
he was shy and grave, and affected perfect ig-
norance. But it was always a saying of my
fathers, If a niger has sense enough to run
off, and get safely out of the States, he must
be a smart fellow, and has sense enough, too,
TO take care of himself, and he shall be free
and welcome : and Ned soon saw that we
were his friends, and told us his adventures.
1t seems, that when he first escaped, he made
his way good to Canada; but, no sooner did
he feel himself safe, than the thought of his
wife, in slavery, so overcame him, that he in
stantly resolved TO return, at all risks, and
free her too. Night and day he travelled hack,
till he reached our plantation: when utterly
overcome with fatigue and hunger, he fell
asleep and was taken. Then, as ] have told
you, he played possum,' as the negroes say,
till he caught the hint of being sent away ;
when he again escaped. And now see how
a kind Providence aided these poor creatures.
Would you believe it! The men who pur-
sued them, came 10 the very barn into which
they had crept for concealment, when the day
broke; they trod over and over again upon
their bodies, which were covered by the heaps
of straw and hay, they cursed and swore, and
vowed TO take them, at the very ears Of the
victims; and yet they were kept safe. As
soon as it was night, they set off again through
the snow, and hid themselves a second time
in the wood, half frozen and famished. The
third night, they reached the Ohio, by good
fortune they found a boat, padded themselves
over, and were safe. Friends forwarded them
to Canada |; and when we saw them, they
were as happy as people could be, with eve
ry prospect OF success. And now" said the
beautiful girl, drawing herself up to her full
height, and folding her arms, 81 know moi
what you may think, for some Of you Nor
therners seem TO me with all Difference, to
have the spirit of slaves themselves; but,
Kentuckian as / am, and on this slave soil, ]
dare 10 say it, Ned is a hero-a hero, who, il
he had lived in the good old days of Greece
would have had his deeds immortalized ir
the strains Of some Homer"
The conversation of this spirited woman
gave rise to some thought, which shall brief
" state for the benefit of those dull folks wht
are too lazy to crack a nut and pick out thu
kernel I:
/. al Shareholders are not insensible Il
! the great outrages daily committed by slave
! ~ upon Justice and affection; nor indiffer
4 ent to the welfare of those whom they know
= to be brethren. There are pure-hearted mel
: and women at the South, deserving our re
; spect, our sympathy, counsel, aid, and pray
: ers.
: 2. If a Northern man relishes contemp
y and insult, he can find it, in any quantity AM
u intensity, by protesting to be an admirer o
, their :" peculiar domestic institutions" at tn,
South. Southernofs rarely believe such pro
: LESSONS, and are apt to think him who make
: them, a hypocrite, or if they suppose hin
; sincere, to despise him for a mean~spirited
! stupid BOBBY.
3. If, under slavery, the African race ex
, hibits such heroic and lovely traits, woul'
they not be noble men, if bound to thei
:, white fellow-freemen, by the triple bond o
q gratitude, and mutual confidence, and gene
/ rous emulation.
k PosTPoNED.-The case of Driskell agains
/. Parrish, in the Circuit Court, has been con
+, tlnued to the nextterm. The suit, as the pub
), lie will recollect, was one brought to recove
! damages for harboring escaped slaves, know
. ing them to be such, and it has excited con