Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-22

From the North Star.
To Capt. Thomas Aud, formerly my Master.
No. 4 ALExANDER-sT., ROCHESTER, !
Sentember Sd, 1919.

No. 4 A~LExANDER-sT., ROCHESTER,,
September Sd, l949.
Dear Sir II propose TO celebrate this, the
lIth anniversary Of my escape from your do
minion, by addressing TO you a friendly ePis-
tie on the subject of slavery.
/ do this partly with a view TO the fulfil
ment of a promise | made you on this day
one year ago, and partly 10 neutralize certain
charges which | then brought against you.
Ungrateiul and unjust as you, perhaps,
deem me, | should despise myself if | could
w%ilfully malign the character even of a slave
holder; and if, at any time, | have appeared
to YOU guilty of such conduct, you have
greatly misapprehended me. can say, with
a clear conscience, in all that | have ever
written or spoken respecting yourself, have
tried to remember that, though am beyond
your power and control, | am still accounta-
BILE to our common Father and Jndge,-in the
sight of whom | believe that stand acquit-
ted of all Intentional Misrepresentation against
you. OF course, | have said many hard
things respecting yourself; but all has been
based upon what knew of you at the time
| was a slave in your family. OF the past,
therefore, | have nothing to take back but
information concerning you and your house,
hold, lately received, makes it nnjustan un-
kind for me 10 continue the style of remark,
in regard 10 your character, which ] primarily
adopted. have been told by a person inii-
maiely acquainted with your affairs, and up
on whose word | can rely, that you have
ceased to be a stakeholder, and have enamel
| pated all your slaves, except my poor old
grandmother, who is now too old to sustain
herself in freedom and that you have taken
her from the desolate hut in which she for
| M arlu Euad into uouF oyn Kitchen. and are
now providing for her in a manner becoming
a man and a Christian.
This, sir, is indeed good news !; and is all
the more gratifying 10 me, since it deprives
the pro-slavery public Of the North Of whal
they deem a powerful argument against me,
and the abolitionists generally. 1t prove:
that the agitation of the subject of %alaveTy
does not hinder, if it does not help, the eman'
c%ipation of slaves at the South. | have beer
frequently told that my course would have ar
unfavorable influence upon The condition o.
my friends and relatives in your possession
and the common argument against abolition
lists may be stated as follows: Let slavehold'
ers alone, and they will emancipate theiI
slaves and that agitation only Tetards the
progress Of the slaves Liberation. 1t is allie
ged that the STAKEHOLDER is induced 10 clutch
more firmly what is attempted 10 be wTested
from him. To this argument your case is
plain contradiction. Ii the effect Of ~anli-sla
very agitation were such as is thus alleged
you would have been among the first 10 have
experienced il; for few Shareholders in thii
land have had a larger share of public expo
sure and denunciation than yourself; anC
this, too, from a quarter most calculated 10 an
noy, and 10 provoke resentment. All this
however, has not prevented you from nobly
dis~charging the high duty you owed alike I,
God and 10 the slaves in your possession.
congratulate you warmly, and | rejoice mos