Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-05
The National Era.

iC thNlAtlhChN III " uollAilaNOh ulltNNtu a
gainst those who were actually engaged in
the attempt to give freedom TO seventy six
American slaves, extended itself to the edit.
or and Office of the National Era; with what
Justice, may be seen by the following extract
from that paper.
DISTURBANCE.
Last Saturday night, we learn, that some
seventy or eighty slaves escaped from this
place, in a sloop or schooner, and proceeded
down the river. The fact was not discover
ed till next day, when a steamboat was des-
patched in pursuit. The fugitives, together
with three white men, who navigated the
craft, were caught, brought back, and imprts-
oncd. A great deal of excitement was the
result; and the cry soon rose among the crowd
that the National Ira was the cause OF the
mischief. Of course, there is no truth in
this-not one particle. But, excited men do
not inquire or reason. While we are writing
this, at ten o'clock at night, a crowd Of men
and boys is collected about the Office; many
stones have been thrown; but the police are
striving to do their duty. They may fail;
the multitude may overpower them; but we
hone for the best. We cannot but think that
lUt SOUtl StCOIu llOuSub VI hhO iihBiNHNtiS
in this affair will arouse conjunction for this
violent assault againt the liberty of the press
"a liberty in our case which even they dare
not say, has been abused.
All we have to say is, we stand by the
freedom of the press, whatsoever the result.
WEDNESDAY morning, s o'clock. The
mob dispersed last night about IL o'clock
thanks to the efficient conduct of Capt. God
l,rl oul a., ro,t n Tho ,n1ira Tho rpmOT
that the office of the National Era was con-
cerned in the escape of the slaves in the
Pearl, is utterly groundless-this its origina-
tors know; but they are willing to use it TO
inflame popular feeling against our Press
Whatever we do, we do openly. We cher
ish an instructive adherence Of any move
ment which would involve US in the h~ecessi-
ty of concealment, strategy, or trickery of
any kind.
No! No! We understand this outrage
1t is aimed at the Freedom of the Press
We w and edit a paper which is as free as
the winds of heaven. 1t bows neither TO
slavery nor to the mob. We stand upon our
rights as a man and as an American citizen,
and will use these rights, in speaking and
writing freely upon any subject we please,
despite ali threats or violence. 1t is a dam.
lllll2 hlSgldCCg llldl a ' AllG NCll lOllCib w
are rejoicing with the people of France al
their triumph over u Despot who undertook
to %ensiaue the press, an attempt should be made
to strike dow the freedom Of the press in the
Capital City of this Republic, in sight Of the
National Legislature.
We are again threatened-the outrage is tt
be repeated it is said. And for what! VIVA
is our ~offence1 Is there "a man in this com.
rnnnitu ,rbO,n x-a I,v, ip;nr,I7 Haze V.s
not been kind and courteous to all men, stu
dious of the properties which ought to dis
tinguish the discussion of all important ques
tons! There is no man in this city who ha'
examined our paper that finds any fault will
its tone, style or temper.
Enough. We yield to no violence. w
appeal to the good sense of this community
aye, and, as we said, the sober second though
Of the infatuated persons who, in a paroxysr
of blind excitement, assaulted our press.
cannot be that in the nineteenth century, i
the face of a world struggling for fre
thought, free speech, free action, and lookin!
up to this Republic for example and encour
agement, a free Press should be put dowT
by violence in the capital city ofthis Repub
lie.
We are sorry that DR.. Bailey has placed
himself in a position where he must be 81
polite as to refrain from expressing his feel
ings in relation to the attempted escape anC
re-capture Of the fugitive band, and mus
measure most cautiously his illusions to thest
exciting events. What he says about thu
Freedom Of The Press is good; but an outspo
ken abolitionist would, we think, have had
quite as much to say about the FREEDOM Oh
MEN, and had he believed in fighting woul,
have declared as Giddings did upon the foo
of Congress, that these slaves had right t
free themselves by any means God had put
their power. And as the editor of the Err;
prefers to adhere to the administration of hi
diet of ''milk for babes," We rejoice to know
that there are some, even in the Capitol, VIII
believe it best to feed men with %'stronI
meat"