Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-09
WHOLE NO. 50.

ltSS L nave btth ulloltu ny WIS sLiullE appeal.
That crime is committed every where, it
would he folly to deny, and that the South
has its full share, YOU must suppose my pub.
lie position has given me abundant opportu-
nifty to see humanity in its most humiliating
forms.
Of the good resulting from a newspaper ex-
posture of every fault, | could never satisfy
myself. But whenever a gross violation Of
virtue and justice occurs, however exalted the
offender may be, let the indignant scourge of
the press inflict its punishment. Policy
should not deter, and fear is the meanest ex-
cuse that a moralist can offer. am sure you
will assent 10 this.
TIN Press South discriminuies. ard | fear
often crrs en- the wrong side. Occurrences
frequently take place that for blackness Of
crime would compare with any a Northern
paper Oh ronicles. Yet the Press South is si-
lent, because policy demands it. The heart
Of the good is often appalled, at the commits
sion of peculiar crimes, yet dareS not utter
its indignant rebuke OF detestation.
The recent allucious murder in Charleston
of the poor slave by her mistress, was noticed
by but one Of the Charleston papers, and that
as modestly as could be expressed. Why?
1t was impolitic. In the South | was born
and spent my life SO far, and know the secret
reasons.
l happened some two years or so ago, TO
have been in this same goodly city, and saw
a poor emacialed, half naked and half siaTv-
ed woman, who had fled from her brutal mas
ter-was found in the public street with three
iron horns Two feet long riveted around her
neck, and so gross was the outrage that her
master was indicted for his cruelty, but as
the affair became stale, and no one felt per-
sonally interested, the prosecution was aban-
dOned and this master went unwhipt. No
note, comment or censure was IN lde or eX-
pressed by the Press. Why? Because it
was impolitic, and the offender was one of
the elite of the city.
l remember a very pious mana neighbor
Of mlne-and a deacon too, whose slave fled
from his cruelty, and was pursued by him
with hounds and overtaken in the woods
This Christian teacher tied the fugitive 10 a
tree and scourged him until he was a mass Of
, lacerated flesh. and after sating his fury, drove
. him 10 his SHAMELESS like a brute. The mas
ter's horse became frightened, threw his ri
o der, and dragging him by the s,irrup, brok'
n his thigh and leg, causing a compound fraC
n ture. lie cried Tor help but none was nigh
" save this poor slave, who true to the preccl
IN 'render good for evil" bore the wretch upc
o. his bleeding back for two miles to his hon
IN and ministered to him as a friend. The Pres
c, announced the sad accident, but not one wor
lie of The peculiar circumstances, though the
o. were well known.
ID In the same neighborhood two slaves ha
ID heen convicted Of an assault with intent 1
kill the master Of one of them. Not one iii
J. tie of proof was made against one of them
er except that he owned the gun and loaned
S to the other, and for the sole purpose Of kill
V ing deer and nothing more; without the leas
hint - apVy nthar pea - T,trht h. rnt -
It witnessed the trial, and know that this We
the full extent of the proof, yet both wer
% found guilty and condemned to death. .
mutual acquaintance of yours and mine ar
piled for a writ Of prohibition, on the groun
that there was no proof, and the writ w
d granted, restraining the Sheriff from Cal
O rying into execution the sentence so far a
S the owner OF the gan was concerned.
was delivered into the Sheriff's hands, VIII
II would have obeyed il, as ia duty bound
but the Clerk of the Court, in his indepen
n dence of law, tore up the mandate in his face
and the Sheriff, screening himself under tn
want of authority in hand, and being a yer,
timid man, actually carried the sentence int
It execution, and the man was hung. 1t wa
r highly "impolitic' the man should escap
If death. Yet not one word Of this found it
way into the paper, though the whole count
knew it--worse than all, the whole count
applauded the spirit Of the Clerk. | nee,
not tell you he was not even called to ar
swer.
could array before you numberless case
d of such revolving occurrences, but the heal
S grows sick at the retrospect, and ! blush thu
II men can be found in this day Of light VIII
k will live under a system that renders ,hes
ID foul deeds possible.
Yours truly, S.