Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-05-07

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terrain Church, who, while asserting his anti
slavery character, was exceedingly DESTROYS
to have it known that he did not favor any Of
the ultra notions into which abolitionism ran,
which ultraisms, as he called them, are butt
carrying out of anti-slavery principles. The
discussions, at least on the side Of the Dis.
unionists, were plain talk, some Of which
was unpalateable 10 a portion of the compa-
ny, who could not bear that the American
church and the American government should
be spoken Of in ireverenlial terms. The
steward of the boat at this end Of the line
was a free colored man, and in the relation Of
a portion Of his own history, gave a speci-
men Of the unspeakablo blessings of the
American Union. His story is a common
one, SO common that it has ceased to excite
the sympaihies of the people, or call forth
their Indignation. The man is a native CT
Maryland, but has resided in Pennsylvania
for several years. He recently yielded to a
desire 10 visit the scenes of his childhood,
and to meet again his aged parents. He was
perchance ignorant that the laws Of his ma
tive State had branded him as an outlaw and
doomed him to perpetual exile, for Maryland,
you know, so loves her colored ~citizens that
she forbids their absence, except for a short
period, under a penalty OF forever losing their
right to a residence on her territory. The
poor man again became an inmate Of his rar-
ly home, and proIonging his visit beyond the
fatp hpt1rs which tho Stntn oraynronsI, ollo,-a
him, was sentenced 10 pay a fine Of $50, and
informed that il he again offended, the penal
~ would be increased 10 $500. And this 10
one of the blessings of liberty " secured TO
him by the creation of The American Union.
We could not but contrast his condition with
that Of those about him, and whose political
hopes were centered in that Union which al
lows of his oppression. lie may not cross
the borders Of his native State without having
the agents Of the law dog his footsteps and
eagerly watch for the expiration of the time
when, by the authority of Maryland, backed
up by Ihe pledged support of the entire I'm
ion, they clutch their victim and demand his
money or his liberty, compel the payment of
$500 or the REIMBURSEMENT of his bir,hright
to freedom. But these are Fastening TO their
homes, their families, and their friends, there
to make whole the broken circle, 10 re-unite.
the scattered fragments of household ties,
and to dilfuse light, and life, and gladness,
among those who now lament their absence.
Ehe visits which they are about TO make re-
sembfe not the privileged visits of the color
ed Marylander 10 his home, or the prisoners
friend 10 the cell of the captive the duration
OF theIr intercourse is not measured by a few
revolutions Of the hour-hand on the dial plate.
NO such anticipations rest like a cloud upon
iheIr JOY, and they hasten on without heed
ing the fate of him who is oppressed in a
land 81 nomina! freedom, and degraded in a
country Boosting of its science and religion.
The Black laws of Maryland are probably
no worse than those of other slave-claiminp
States, but that State being on The border
line, and possessing more light than some
others, its Ubiquitous code stands revealed in
more damning blackness. Yet it is a cause
for rejoicing that in the very necessity which
exists fer the enforcement of such laws We
can read of the danger which threatens her
Institutions of oppression. The anti-slavery
sentiment is forcing itself upon the attention
Of the people of Maryland, and Truth shall
yet triumph and sweep their iniquitous laws
from existence.
The Baltimore Saturday Visiter" was
doing a great work in the regeneration of
public sentiment in that State; its character
as a family paper, and the uncompromising
spirit of its editor, DR.. Snodgrass, had made
it a valuable ally in the cause of human
rights. The great truths which it uttered
were not connected with party politics, and
none viewed it with suspicion as the organ
of a clique; but now in the seventeenth year
OF its existence it has become absorbed by
the National Era-it has identified its inte-
rests with Liberty party. The influence
which the Baltimore Saturday Visiter, be-
cause Of its peculiar character, exerted over
the minds of hundreds, and it may be of
thousands both North and South cannot be
exerted by the National Era, OF any other po-
litical journal advocating similar views. It
is a cause for regret that the city which in
1880 incarcerated VIM. Lloyd Garrison in
prison for his denunciations of the domestic
slave-trade, and in 1916 murdered Torrey be-
cause he aided the fugitive in his escape, has
no longer a paper to testify against the sim
fitness of slaveholding and plead the cause
Of them that are appointed to desuuction.-
Those who have endeavored by mob-law and
by Legislative enactment to destroy the Visi-
ter will doubtless rejoice exceedingly that
Liberty party has done for them what they
conld NOT themselves accnmnlish. and has