Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-03-08
Gflctttons.
The Boston Rescue.

From The Libcrator.
1t was as peaceful a rescue as
was ever made in any case of physical inter.
ference. The rescucrs were not actuated hy
lawless spirit, hut by n deep aud commend
able sympathy with wronged aud outraged
mnn, in imminent danger of being dehu-
maniZed for lile-by love of liberiy-by
clear appreciation of jusiice-hy the spirit
OF the revolutionary motto, Resistance 10
tyrdnts is obedience 10 Cod hey upprehend-
cd thut Shadrach was one WHO had fed from
the hell of slavery; that, legally, there was
no power to save him from being carried
back to torture that in oil human prubabil-
ity, unless lie was rescued Just at that pre-
else moment, his fate was sealed forever and
as the opportunity to take him without II srri.
ous struggle was extremely favorable, they
seized upon il with wise judgement, aud
with entire success. Thank God, Shatlrucli
is free-and not only free, but safe. Under
the banner of England, Oh the Canadian soil,
he is now standing erect, redeemed and dis.
enthralcd, bidding n proud defiance 10 Pres.
ldent Fillmore aud his cabinet, though back
Ell by the urny aud navy of the United
States PrOmulgatc thy hloody odicls, o
Nero who occupicst the Presidential Chair;
uley shall bc laughed to scoru, and tramplrd
III the dust Howl, and gnash thy teeth, o
damned and damniug Secretary ui' state, in
comparison with whom Austrian ilnNnnii j.
an angel OF light; thy prey has escaped thee,
and the higher law is triumphant! Rave,
aud roar, aud speak great swelling words of
blasphetny aud take counsel together against
the Lord and his Anoinicd, o tmfii.kcrs Ia
human flesh. lie that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh-the Lord shall have you in de-
rision!' Threaten aud conspire, aud pro-
cecd to deluge the pavemcnis of ;hc streets
with innocent blood, . Northern mnions oi
Southern slave drivers Is God no longer
God? Does the Slave Power sit on the
throne of the Universe ? Has sim no Re-
trlnltion?
The head and front of the oflending,' in
this iiIstance-what is it a sudden rush of
4 score or two of unarmed friends of equal
liberty--au uninjurous dclverance of the OPP
pressed out of the hands of the oppressor-
the quiet transportation of slave aut OF this
slavery-ruled land TO the free soil of Upper
Canada! Nobody injured, nobody wrongcd,
but simply a chatiel transformed into II mnn,
and conducted to a spot whereon he can glo-
riiy God in his own body and spirit which
are his
Aud yet, how all the fiends of the pit are
wrtliing and yelling! Not tormented be-
fore their time, but just at the right linc.-
Truly devils with devils damned, firm con
cord hold! The President of the United
States is out with his Proclamation OF Ter
ror, conveying il to us in tones of thunder,
and on wings of lightning; even as though
in the old Bay State chaos had come again,
and a million of foreign myrmidoms were in
vuding our shores A poor hunted, cntrap-
ped, fugitive slave is dexterorIsly removed
from the courtroom, aud the whole land is
sbaken! A hundred free white citizens of the
North may he thrown into prison, or tarred
and feathered, or compelled to flee for their
lives, at the South, on suspicion of being
morally averse to the slave system; but WHO
cnres? A thousand colored seanlen of the
North may be incarccrated in loathsome
cells, and compelled TO pay for their impris-
onment, though guiltless Of crime, and even
sold into slavery Oh the auction block, at the
South but whose breast burns with indig-
mutton, or what voice calls for redress? OF
ficial State Commissioners, venerable for
their years and esteemed for their worth,
sent 10 the South, to test the consttutionnli-
ay of sllch atrocious acts, are driven away by
lawless violence, and not allowed TO remain
oil The soil but where is the Presidential
Proclamation, calling on the people of the
South TO obey the laws, and observe their
constitutional obligations? But solitary
slave in Boston is plucked as a brand from
the burning fire, and forthwith cabinet coIln.
Gil is held, and behold a menacing Proclama-
zion, bearing the signature of MILLARD FILL
MORE, President of the United States HEN
ny CLAY-with one foot in the grave, aud
just ready to have both body aud soul cast
into hell-as if eager to make his damnation
doubly sure, rises in the U. S. Senate, aud
proposes an inquiry into the expediency of
passing yet another law, by which every one
who shall dare peep or multer against the
execution of the Fugitive Slave Bill, shall
have his life crushed out!