Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-11-23
VOL. g..
Kidnappcr-ln-Chisf Of Ohio, Indiana and
Michigan.
bvbLrs, Ia, Nov. 9th, 1850.

hc - mlscreant enough 10 consent 70 act a.
the chief of the kidnappcrs in these three
States. The man who can consent to act AZ Cir
cult Judge Of the United States under that law
and to do the duties which it imposes cannot be
friend to his kind, but Is to his fellow men
what the wolf is to the lamb, or the pirate or
assassin to his victim. Let KIDSAPPRR be Join.
cd to JoHN MoLBAS Upon the record of this
world, and let their names 90 down to the end
Of time inscparable. So let Il be with the
name of every man who shall accept or hold
! Office under that law. Hold them all up TO The
cxccrntion of mankind as assassins and pirates.
John Mclean is now seeking out it agents 70
act as kidnappcrs under him. He is organizing
one band of kidnappcrs for Ohio, another for
Indiana, and another for Michigan, all of whom
| are to go and come, hunt, run down, seize, fet-
ter and consgn to the horrors Of slavery men,
women and children at his bidding. Do seek
out the naincs of all who consent to hold ufisk
under that law and their place Of residence,
and blazon them forth to the world. concentrate
the scorn and cxecration Of all upon them and
consign them to that earthly he'll of infamy for
which their dcedsdt them.
left thee at Green Plain, Oct. 2oth. Came
to Dayton and there found that certain persons.
headed by lawyer by tho name of vALAN-
DlGHAM had held a meeting to sustain kid
mapping, pledged their "fortuncs, lives and -.
cred honor to kidnappers to aid them in kid
mapping mon, women and children of Ohio, and
carrying them to the pollutions of slavery
Over million of bushels of corn are annually
converted into whiskey in Dayton and vicinity.
How much this had to do with that meeting to
sustain kidnapping, know not. bohsrs
Dayton is the only place in all the North which
has held meeting to sustain that law. Give IL
all due credit.
1 came to Richmond, Indiana, and there on
the evening of Nov lst held an enthusiastic
meeting to arouse the people to resistance 10
that law. Nov. I'd, attended County meet.
ing in Ccntrcvillc, Of the constituents Of Geo.
w. Julian, to hear him in reference to that law
and to their duties under it. His address was
bold and to the point He urged all to refuse
obedience to it:-said he would represent no
man who sustained that law or who would help
execute it! He is n clear headed, bold, far-sse.
ing man. In private interview he admitted
that dissolution Of the Union was q mere
question of time. He is holding meetings in
his District to arouse his constituents to take q
bold and firm stand against the law, by all right
means to prevent its execution. went back
to Richmond, and there held three meetings on
Sunday the Sd, and there said and heard much
Of the good effects Of thy visit, with Joscph A.
Dugdale, last year.
Nou. 4th and 5th.--I held meetings In this
place on slavery and the kidnapping law. am
just in from the last that held over four hours.
A Chairman and Secretary were appointed and
resolutions were introduced by committee, and
passed, but ono dissenting that was DIR &.
RosE lie is very religious man, and frsys
twice day in his family, says grace at every
meal, believes in the Bible, talks a deal about
the love of Christ, about Calvary, sricariOa
atoncment and being saved by faith, and by
Chrsts righteousness. This same praying, pi-
Gus Methodist was the only man who voted A.
gainst a resolution affirming it to be the right
and duty of every slave to escape from slavery,
aud the right and duty of every freeman to aid
and when l said, if the Bible says that slaves
have no right to escape from slavery, the Bible
utters falschood he declared was an in6-
del, to which readily asscntcd so far as his rs-
ligon was concerned. lie spoke over an hour
to show that we are bound to turr kidnappcrs.
and help execute this law. l could but ex-
claim save us from the religion and God of this
slaveholding republic. The praying kidnsppcr
says nine-tcnths of the people of Indiana will
turn kidnappers, and help execute the law
You see that praying, shouting glory to God.
belief in the Biblo, in the atonement, and in
Christ, arc no evidences of goodness, but arc
perfectly consistent with entire depravity and
brutality of heart and life.
A meeting of some people in Cambridge
town one mile east of Dublin-recently de.
creed that all colored people must leave the
place in two weeks, or they would be driven
out. The time came they did not 90, and .
murderous, drunken mob-led on by lawyer
by the name of HUNT-undertook to assault
them, and drive them off. They have not vet
succeeded. This same Hunt, report SAYS, has
applied to Mclean for the Office of Commits
soner for this county, and that he is back
ed up by Solomon Meredith the Marshal of tho
United States for Indiana. Said Marshal lives
in Cambridge.
The Convention to revise the Constitution of
this State is doing all it can to provide means to
drive all colorcd people out of the State. and to
prevent others from coming in. II Is dctermin-
cd to take from them the rioht n hotd v..f
estate. to vote, and to testifyin courts. In this
region that fugitive law is working great rev.
olution against slavery. against the South, and
against the Union. Thousands are beginning to
admit that the dissolution of this slaus -auntino
confederacy is mere question of time; and