Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-13
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

II he MA been Kidnapped, OF dorctDiy or
fraud1lently conveyed from that State, know
ing himself to be free, as he must have
known, if such had been the fact, is il to be
supposed that he vonld not at some time
during the period Of twenty years bave made
his wrongs known, at lenst In nurmurs and
complainis. But The fact being established
thu, he is Of race capable of being slaves,
] must hold, in accordance with well estab-
lsl,ed rules Of law, that evidence of undis-
puted claim and possession for more Than
twenty years is proof of lawful title, or in
other words, that he was born Of race Of
slaves, and IL the leneul heir, 10 the mater
nal life, of the unhappy fate Of his ancestors,
The two first propositions on the part of
the claimants being established, the third is
not the subject Of controversy for il Is con-
ceded on all hunds, that II he is the slave or
property of any body, he belongs to the
claimants, and escaped from their service.
II appearing TO my mind, therefore, that
" satisfactory proof has been made" that the
said John Bolding "does in fact owe service
or Iahour" to the claimants in this case, in
the State Of South Carolina, whence he es-
capped, feel bound TO grant TO the claimants
the certificate provided by the net, thereby
authorizing them to stake and remove"
him back to the State Of South Carolina.
We understand that certificate was al
most Immediately aiterward asked for aud
granted, That portion Of the understanding
with the claimant by which he agreed to
waive the proposition not 10 require, on
being paid $l,720, that Bolding should first
go back TO South Carolina, has been with
drawn, and he now requires that he first
shall go back. The requisit money, Il is said,
has been raised, aud his friends will prOba-
bly, 20 there and redeem him.
Mr.. Anderson, the claimant, subsequently
mnde All affidavit, agreeably TO the law, that
he had reason to apprehend an attempt at
rescue, aud claimed the assistance of the U.
s. Marshal, under the law TO convey BoldiDg
to South Corolnn.
Holding remained, after the decision, in
one of the rooms Of the Court House build
ing, his wife nnd her mother and friends be-
ing with him. Toward the time of the star
ting of the New-Jersey and Southern Rail-
road line, in the afternoon, Bolding was d.
rected TO bid adieu to his friends, aud the
parting showed that, even if slave, the
heart of human being beat in his bosomH
and deep sorrow waslalso exhibited by those
from whom he parted. He was placed in a
carriage and accompanied 10y Major Tai
madge. the Deputy Marshal, Assistant Dep
uiy Marshal Walsh, Mr.. Culver, Mr.. Ander-
son, claimant, and one of his brothers-in-
law, conveyed to the New-Jersey Railroad,
where he was left in custody of Deputy Mar
shal Talmadge and officers De Angels and
Rakielewitz, and proceeded South. No
attempt has ever been made or threatened,
we believe, here, TO rescue him, and not the
slightest difficulty has occurred, except a
uifiing one yesterday after the decision, in
which a colored man, standing on the steps
outside the Court House building, addressed
some words 1--WE understand not insultipg) to
n inan who lives at the South. lie told the
colored man peremptorily to go away, say
ing hewould have nothing to say to negro,
and when the man made some slight reply,
him, but the difficulty soon was
over.
The Marshal, Deputy Marshal, District
Attorney, and other officers of the Court,
we are assured, extended every kindness to-
ward Boiling, and did everything proper to
relieve his unhappy situation.
The Editor of the Standard in comment
ing on the case says:
John Bolding, whose rural retreat, unfor-
tunately, was too near n metropolitan Union
Committee, is captured not by a blow, but
by stratagem. A Marshal of the United
States, the son OF one who signalzed him
self in quite another sort of warfare, invests
aud inyudes n quiet tailor's shop, and by
force of arms captures the harmless work.
man sitting therein cross.legged, plying his
busy needle. Truly a great man is this
Marshal, and engaged in a noble work J.
From the taiIor's bench he drags his danger
GUS prisoner, and, by private carriages
through by-streets, and private cars over the
swift railroad, he hlrries him to the city
where his captivity may be sure, under
sufficient guard of Union Committees and
slave catching police. And who is John
Bolding? Perhaps he il white man. Per-
haps be is an Indian. At any rate, even if
some few, or il many, drops of African
blood course through his veins, he is man
That fact thousands are confessing this mo-
ment in their hearts, aud with their lips.--
Does he owe service TO some other tailor
at the South He leaves behind him, thou
sands will remember. one to whom he owes
duty; one who will kneel a widowed wife
in desolate home, who will clasp soon TO
her bosom fatherless child, praying for
strength for herself to bear this bereavement,
untf luf fu VI TUG InlDu,
he may forget the torture Of the body which
probably awaits him, and 10 inflict which il
made part of the price of his ransom.-
But perhaps he may not live TO be ransoiDed.
This also she remembers in the hour Of her
agony this he remembers; and whether he
be or not, shallihe seizing of this man, a
good cilizan, an industrious mechanic, ten
der husbapd--this captivity, with all its Ger.
thin consequences and its possible results,
shall il be iorgotten9 Is it passing 10y un-
needed /? Verify, we believe not. This les
son which the South, and the creatures OF
the South, is teaching us, ia sinking into the
hearts Of the Northern people, aud, in good
time, will have its results.
ABOLITION IN THE SoUrR.-The Knoxville
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