Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-17

newly elected President! Should we con-
graduate them-some having aided, others
only consenting-on the elevation of "a pro-
f%essional murderer, a contemplate woman
w%hipper, a mean baby s%lealer, to be their
chief ruler and representative Of their repub-
licanism or shall we permit them TO enjoy,
undisiurbed by a single remark at this time,
the ghrioas result of the Presidential contest.
CHARGE or ABDucrING SLAVES John
Wilson, alias Bynum Thomas, was arrested
at Baltimore on Monday night, ia the Phila-
delphia cars, for attempting TO aid six slaves
in their escape. 1t was ascerlained that the
slaves were the property of persons residing
in Talbot county, and that they had been
brought 10 Baltimore in a small vessel, be-
longing 10 one Captain Henry II. Baby
The Captain and a hand employed on board
the vessel, named Charles Andrews, were
arrested with a man named James Worth,
who had engaged the captain TO do So
Worth having been arrested, was identified
by Andrews as being the man, and the agent
Of the Philadelphia road swore positively
that uron the night in question, Worth was
at the depot, and offered him self as security
" Att company " IL ltHIONS Ntltd lluN W
to go on to Philadelphia. Wilson is sup
posed to have been employed by Worth TO
persuade tire slaves TO abscond. The parties
implicated were all committed in default Of
$4,000 bail.
In Baltimore! beneath the very shadow Of
that prison where Torrey died, and within
a few miles of where the heroes Of the Pearl
arn .copG nod II,1 r,,c NE,rtI C,rv.,,.,
the fate OF these martyrs, or had the punish
ment inflicted upon them no power to deter
him from the commission of deeds similar 10
those for which they were condemned! 1t
would seem as though Torrey's example was
contagious. Never. until since his convic-
ton and suffering, had there been SO many
open, bold attempts 10 aid the slaves in their
escape. And every one who is detected in
the act, but makes the hatred of the people
for slavery more intense, and adds new fuel
TO the nlmes which are consuming il. "The
blood Of the martyrs is the seed oflhe church,
The South will learn ere long the truth oil
this, and will see within her very borders {
bold, widely-difused action against slavery
which the oppressors can neither control no
escape. Every man who is imprisoned fo
deeds such as those of Torrey, and Drayton
and Sayres, frees, by his own bondage, not
less than a thousand slaves.
Everything tells against the Internal sys.
tenn. Its weapons Of defence are converted
into means for its own torture and ultimate
destruction. Every Struggle it makes sinks
it deeper and deeper. The light q" freedom,
which is flashing lis brightness Throughout.
the whole world, is every day revealing some
deformity in the character of slavery and
men are beginning to see it as the hateful
thing 1t ever has been. In vain are all at
tempts to save it from destruction in vail
may its defenders resort 10 the prison, tn
stake or the gallows; in vain may they fur
nish to future historians The materials 70
another g Book of Martyrs" its fate is seal
ed, its doom is pronounced, and speedily
right speedily, shall the Angel of Truth pro
claim "SLAFcRY SHALL BE NO MORE! !"