Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-19
WHOLE NO. l19.
From The Cincinnati HeraId.
The Interstate Slave Trade.


The facts stated in the following commu.
n%icatiou, are from uudoubted auth VIVA,
can we say more TO excite public indignation
at this internal and disgraceful business -
The work has already commenced. The
fruits Of Texas Annexation and Mexican
Conquest are fast maturing. Can any be-
hold them without a shudder of horror at their
lnlquity! Ought they not 10 rouse every
man, that claims TO have a soul, to more de-
termined hostility TO the whole vile system
of which these are the legitimate consequent
ces! But what shall be done to expose and
prevent the enormities which, in the dead of
night, are perpetrated right opposite our
shores Let congress be called upon to ex-
ert all its powers TO stop this hated traffic in
human flesh. Let every boat, with its OIL
GERS, who will participate in it, be marked,
and past round as guilty of a crime, which,
committed upon the high Seas, our own laws
call Piracy, and punish with ignominious
death. What is felony upon the Atlantic,
can be nothing less criminal on the Ohio
Let every man, whether as freighter or PAS
senger, refuse his patronage to any craft, that
will so pollute itself. What merchant, what
man, will be stained by the contact ola Slave
vessel! Are we all stocks and stones, or.
have we hearts Of flesh! Let it be re~collec.
ted, that it is morally impossible, that a sim
gle one of these miserable victims Of our De-
mocralic a%varice, is legally held in bondage.
IL Is not probable, that a vessel coming from
any port above, has kept clear Of The Ohio
shore. II but for a moment, it comes within
the jurisdiction of Ohio, every Slave on board
becomes, by that act, free. Srch is the I'M
doubted law of the land. And being once
free, there is no power upon the Continent
legally competent TO re-enslave them. Once
free, always free, is a doctrine which Slave
holding courts, themselves, have declared
Is there no means of enforcing this lawl |
legislation has provided no remedy for lhes,
atrocious outrages, let public opinion branC
every man as infamous, who dares to perpe
trate them.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-It may
not be known TO the readers of the Herald,
that from SOM cause unnecessary 10 en-
plain, the domestic Slave-traJe is Just now
prosecuted with unusual vigor. Almost eve-
Ty steamboat tchich Grrires from POr's, a6oce
an The night, brings from 20 TO so slaves, des-
tined for the Southern market, and intended
ultimately, | suppose, TO assist in extending
the ''area of Freedom" in New Mexico and
California. ii is a fact worthy of note, tina.
the Captains who make no objection 10 assis
in this execrable almost AWAY!
time it so well as TO reach here after So
down. Formerly it was not so. They nc
only, did not shrink from the indignant glane
of the public eye; hut they rather courted il
and 1t was common to see ccfles of slave
marched over our landing from one siean
boat 10 another.
They now bring them here in the night
and land them in C%ovington.
The writer of this has just been informed
by a passenger that on last Sunday night
about l o'clock, the Steam Boat Blue Ridge,
arrived here with % slaves, men women anC
children, the ''property' of Mr.. jeremiah
Ward and Chas. Oliver, republican and dem
ocratic slave traders, under the name an,
style Of Ward 81 Oliver. There were in tn
gang" five mothers and wives who ha,
been separated from their husbands and chill
dren, two of them leaving behind suckin,
babes but a few months old.
Let the christian wives and mothers c
Cincinnati think of this.
The Boat loaded them at C~ovington, whe
they were marched mp Main Street, and lode
ed for safe keeping in the Sd story Of a larry
dwelling.
Four of the men, at the risk of their lives
after the guards had gone 10 sleep, jumpe
!, from the third story window, and have mad
their escape. Ere this they are in the Ere
= State of Canada.
| One of them left behind in the ncighbol
n hood of Lynchburg, a wife and seven sna'
; children, the property Of a very plous made
lady named Patsy Watts.
8 HAIL COLUMBIA.
e Cincinnati, lS47.