Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-01

eyes rolled about as if in great tribulation,
and remorse and despair seemed to have fas.
tened themselves so strongly upon him that
he appeared almost dumb. If g%uiltv. well
may his fortitude have forsaken him, for
before his eyes stood thousands of enraoed
citizens, ready TO greet his return, and anx.
ious 10 visit upon snch an offender the Sc.
verest penalties Of the law. True, no vio-
lence was offered him on reaching the depot,
for our citizens are orderly people but under
the circumstances he could not fail 10 dread
that vengeance which he well knew should
tall upon the head of such an atrocious often
der.
On arriving at the Jail, the officers pro-
ceeded to make their customary search, when
they discovered, tied up in the corner of his
shirt tail, $73, a $50 note, a $40 note, two
50 notes, and $50 in gold, with some little
specie, most OF the notes and gold cores
ponding with the money described by the
negroes as having been paid by them to
Smith.
The slaveholding democrat of the Re-
publican could not have shown more for
chilly the folly and absurdity Of his pre-
tense that the slaves are happier in bon
dagc than they could be in freedom, than
he has done in repeating the stale false
hood in this connection. Here are two
slaves according TO this statement. whose
situation must have been far preferable.
in the matter of treatment, to their fellow
bondmen, men ''of good character" men
who must have known that they were
running a fearful hazard, who willingly
pay the accumulations of years of eco
nomy and toll, and risk the most horrible
suffering, and even deaIh itself, for the
doubtful chance of freedom; vet in the
face of this act Of heroism-this practi-
cal declaration of 'liberty or death"-
and while narrating the facts, the Repub-
lican contrasts the comforts, the happi.
ness, and the peace of q life of slavery.
with the "poverty, misery, hunger" and
wretchedness of a life of freedom, and
talks Of these happy slaves having been
"coaXed' TO escape from slavery 10 free
dom. We hardly know whether this is
stupidity, or downright dishonesty, or a
mixture of both; but we are inclined TO
the last superstition. If paying their all
OF money, and conserving TO be entomb-
ed alive, not for the assurance, but for
one hope of liberty, does not prove them
in earnest in their desire, what evidence
could do in
OF the character Of the unfortunate
man who has been discovered in this act
of kindness to the oppressed, we know
nothing, but We need other evidence than
the censures Of a paper which %denounces
his act OF mercy as San aIrocious Of
fence 10 satisfy US that he is s'capable
of any thing dishonest" Much more
easily could we believe this of the tvrants
into whose hands he has fallen, and
whose cowardly revenge he is now en-
While we doubt the prudence and re-
gret the failure Of this enterprise, all good
and unprejudiced men will honor the hu-
manity which prompted it, 1--WE presume
a good act to spring from a good motive
in the absence Of proof 10 the conlrary.)
and remember the deed with gratitude.
We confess our surprise aud regret to
the action Of Mr.. Sanford, of this
in This matter, if il is reported COR
rectly in the Richmond papers. From
what we had known of him we had sup
posed him incapable of doing anything
which should return the flying slave. 10
The awful doom Of the recaptured fugi-
live, and expose a fellow man for an act
of humanity, to the fury and hate of en-
ragged Shareholders. Had his wife, his
brother and mother been The slaves whose
he anticipated, would he have
'harpened the scent Of their hunters by
warming them of the fact? Would he
exposed their benelactor 10 afslon's
ate, for attempting TO save those dear
1nos! For him 10 sci The watch-dogs of
he slave pen on the watch for fugiIives
md their helpers, is a gratuitous offering
o slavery, which, though twins him the
praises Of Virginia tyrants and kidnap-
'crs, we believe will not give him the
of good mon or The approval of
lis own conscience. A thousand times
iobler and better would it have been 10
.ulier any %pccuniary loss, rather Than {
nercilessIy defeat the long cherished
loPes and aspirations of wronged and
men,-had he been threatened
With loss, which he was not. His act
has not even thep poor excuse of personal
pecuniary dangerto palliate it,. What
obligation or principle of honor required
TO reveal his suspicious, or 10 volun-
eer his services to the k~idnappers? 4:
Descended from Puritan stock, born
md educated in The home of the Pilgrims,
mbibing the sentiments Of freedom from
lis mothers breast, and inhaling them
n the air he breathed, how could he SO
oreet his origin and dishonor his man.
as 10 prospectiveIy betray those
rembling fugilivcs and their humane
into the hands Of their enemies?
Would he have done The same to Lafay-
lie, in the prison at Oimutz, and the no.
le Huger and Bollman who attempted )
is Liberation! Would he thus have de- {