Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-04-13
From The True Democrat.
More Of the AbOmlnaiiOns Of Slavery.
Slaves Chained, Handcy6ed and taken through
The Capital ofhe Union on he Sabbath.

WASHINGTON CRY, March 18th.
DEAR DEMocRAr "A few weeks since
gave you an account of my interview with
B1tin, the slave-dealer of Alexandria, rela-
tive to the purchase of the wtite girl, Emily
Russell.
Since that time have learned the history
of Emily's family and relatives.
There were in all twenty-five purchased
by Bruin; all related Bruin purchased them
of a Virginia gentleman" the whole gang
in lump" as these land pirates here say.
The grandmother of Emily, lady over
eighty years of age, is one of the "gaDg."-
She was thought to be an Improbable piece
of merchandise for the Southern market, and
she was sold to her niece in this city, Emily
Stewart, free colored woman, for ticenty-
fve cents and that colored woman, with a
noble and God-like devotion, took her to her
own house in this city, and now sustuins her
nged and slavery-won relation, by taking in
washing and sewing.
This old woman has been slave all her
life. One by one her family and relatives
have been torn from her, aud sold in the far
South, aud now as she is Just ready TO lay
her weary body in the grave, she beholds
them all, daughters, SONS and grandchildren,
torn from her, and sent to that hades of this
free Republic, from which few return.
in conversing with her, she said she could
not live long, and she hoped that Emily Rus
sell would die before she reached the South;
she will be far better off dead. than to fall in
to the hands of those beings who desire TO
purchase her
All those persons with Emily, and large
number beside, were shipped two weeks
since for the Southern market, aud the pen
was cleared for the reception of another gang
of victims.
Last Sunday, about the time that the min
listers of the city had dismissed their slavery
loving and savery-sustaining church mem
bers, gang OF iorty-five men, women, and
children, chained and hand-cuffed, were Ia
ken through the streets of Washington TO the
steamboat landing, aud placed OH board the
steamboat for Alexandria. Before the boat
pushed off friend of mine who was wit
Messing the heart-rending and aboininable
spectacle, noticed small mulafto boy OH the
shore of the Potomac gazing with anxious
eye at the scene before him lie approach
ed and asked him some questions. The lit
TIC fffnu. -wiftr n bursting heart. said thai he
wanted TO go back TO his mother. "Where
is your mother, my little iellow?" said my
friend. "Slle is up in Georgetown, and
they have got father tied there oil the boat,
and Willic's there too"
Just then man from the boat approached.
Here, boy" said he, ado you belong to the
gang of niggers on the boat? The little
fellow, in bis confusion and fright, said that
he did not The man then went aboard and
soon the boat pushed off, "Now," said my
friend, "rtin, boy run up the bank !" The
boy knew not what to do. There was one
parent on board and the other was in George
town, in the District of Columbia. He seem
ed to be stupefed; but soon he obeyed. But,
alas! n soullcss wretch who had seen him
with the gang, called him back, aud shouted
for the boat. The boat put about, came TO,
and the boy was placed on board. God for
give the heartess villain who consigned that |
lad into the hands of the slaye-traders.
have no heart TO-.
Those poor creatures were all taken TO
Bruins pen, and when u drope is fully made
out they will be shipped for the Southern
market The way the pirates of this cstab-
lishment carry OH their hellish system is this.
Their headquarters is at Alexandria, and
Bruin has charge of that; he prowls about
the country and buys up meu, women aud
children, and throws them into the pen, and
when a good "drove" is made out, say
hundred or SO, Hill, his partner, takes them
South and makes his sales. These pirates
have made themselves rich by this dainna-
BILE traffic. Last week a colored man was
purchased by Bruin in the District, and while
at his usual employment was seized, bound
and taken TO their piratical rendezvous in
Alexandria. He had wife and mother here
who knew nothing of the transaction ill they
heard that he was in the pen; then their an
guish knew no bounds. They came to my
house to see Mr.. Giddings. Weeping in the
anguish of their spirits, they besought him to
get back the son and husband. But there |
was no hope. The flag that waves over the |
capitol offered no sign of protection TO the |
black man. These deeds of infamy which |
make even devils sludder are stamped by
the sanction of the American Congress, and
your sneakng, heartless, miserable doughfa-
ces dare lot wag their brainless skulls against
them.
The denominations of Sodom and Gomor-
rOh were yirtuous in comparison TO the deeds
of darkness and crime carried on under the
eye and sanction of the American Congress;
and yet when we urge reform we are taunt-
ed with the cry of .janaticisnli dfrdism &c.
lie wounds the feelings of the South, and
rushes madly in where angels fear TO tread"
If this be fanaticism and ultraism, then am
a fanatic and ultrsist. glory in the name.
l will live fanatic, die fanatic, be buried
us fanatic, and il my friends choose they
may write upon my tombstone, here lies
a fanatic who hated our American cherish
ed slavery, and its various aud mutilorm vii
lanics, as he did its parent the devil.
Yours, in haste, CATO.
,.yro .rup II. 49, m Tn .v-~ D.