Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-15

correspondence " AlAS ~ a. AfaAg AAHAN''
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, Nov. 6.
Judge Greer gave the u. S. Marshal par
iicular instructions to summons none but
men Of the highest responsibility and stand
ing in the community us Jurors in the Trea-
son cases. Ex-U. 5. Senator Cameron, MIR
Brown the wealthy banker of this City, sew
eral Judges of the State Courts, whose courts
arc now in session, and other well-known
names are upon tie list.
1t is claimed OIL the part of the Govern.
nent, that n jury of greater responsibility
was never summoned in tie United States
The white men who are indicted for trca-
son are in moderate circumstances us regards
property. But the strong sympathy which
their cases have excited in the vicinity from
which they came, will not exhaust itself IN
mere expression; but will guarantee the
supply of all requisite funds TO provide am.
ply for their defence.
They being much fewer in number than
the blacks, and also possessed of more veal.
thy relatives and friends, have their physical
wants during their Imprisonment much bet
ter provided for.
These blacks are poor laborers, aud the
effect upon their properly of sudden sci
Ztire aud imprisonment at the important sea-
son Of harvest, is represented TO have been
very disastrous. OF course the amount OF
individual loss, the paltry fruit of few
months industry, is extremely SMALL
But il is something with them as the Scotch
woman said it was with her decopilated hus-
band: "Sure," said she, 'it was not much
OF head, but il was a snr loss to him.
at made my heart bleed" said gentleman
to me who visited the vicinity of Chrisliana,
the residence of these poor fellows, few
days ago "to see their little patches of corn
unharvested and rottng; and their little beds
of mustardsced, and OF squaslies trnmpled
down aud wasted, and their hen-coops emp
ted as these things were wha; they depend
on for their support through cold winter"
Some one here was sagucious enough to
discover, in my first letter from Philadelphia,
the "evident fact" that the writer "sympa-
ihized with the prisoners Probably the
last preceding paragraph will be regarded
as further evidence TO the same effect. But
81 tell il to you as ii was told TO me-" Mat
tcrs of fact contained in these letters are, IN
all cases, stated only OH tic best authority
But as the writer is not negro, and as this
is free country for WHITE men, | shall he
very likely, in matters ofopinion and feeling,
10 nvai myself ofthat freedom. And, more
over, as l am not only not negro, but not
even n member of the United States Senate,
but, as Tom Marshall said at tho expiration
of his Congressional term, "llinuk God, am
a private citizen" it IL hoped that my doing
so will not he thought gross breach OF pro-
priety, nor 10 SAVIOR very strongly Of "tren-
son."
The council for the twenty-five colored
men who are TO be tricd for treason, are Da-
vid Paul Brown, William 5. Pierce, and
Robert Z. Kane, Esqs., of this city, and Hon.
Thadeus Stevens, of Lancaster. Mr.. Kane
is son of one of the Judges before whom
the cases will he tried. The report that
Hon. Charles Sumner, United States Senator
from Massachusetts, has been retained, is
not correct.
1t is expected that on the part of the de-
fence, there will he n splendid exhibition OF
talent. The names of the senior counsel, to
say nothing of the younger gentlemen retain
cd whose reputation is not yet so highly and
40 widely established, aud The extraordinary
importance of the cases, not only ns involving
so large n number Of human lives, bnt as
precedents under the Fugitive Slave Law
fully justify this expectation.
The counsel employed to defend the col
ored men have been pald their rctaincrs by
the Abolition Society Of the State Of Penn'
sylvania, society of which DIR. Franklin
WINS one of the founders. This society dis
claims all purpose Of effecting the abolition
of slavery in other States, hut confines itSel
10 the rmeloration of the condition of the
blacks within the borders of Pennsylvania.
1t is also probable that money would be
contributed from Ohio, aud perhaps from 9th
er States, il necessary.
You will be kept early advised Of events
as they trunspire, respecting these interesting
cases. o. W.