Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-27

an insult from a id nigger," Gorsuch fred
at the colored man, and was followed by his
son and nephew, who both fired their re-
| yolvors. The fire was returned by the blacks,
! who made rush upon them at the same
time. Gorsucb and his son fell, the one
dead, the other wounded. The rest of the
I party, after firing their revolyers, fled pre-
| cipitately through the corn and TO the woods,
pursued by some of the blacks. One was
wounded, the rest escaped pnhurt. Kline,
the Deputy Marshal, who now boasts of his
MIRACULOUS escape from volley of musket-
balls, had kept at u safe distnpce, though mr.
ged by young Gorsuch to stand by his father
and protect him, when he refused TO leave
the ground lie of course came off unscath-
ed. Several colored men were wounded,
but none very severely. Some had their
hats or their clothes perforated with bullets !
others were slightly graZcd; and others had
flesh wounds, They said that the Lord pro-
tectod them, and they shook the bullets from
their clpthes. One man found several shot
in his boot, which seemed to have spent their
force before reaching him, and did not even
break the skin,
The slave-huniers having all fed, several
neighbors, mostly Friends and anti-slavery
men, gathered to succor the wounded and
take charge of the dead.
We are told that Parker himself protected
the wounded mnn from his excited COM
rades, and brought water aud bed from his
own house for the invalid, thus showing that
he was as nagnuniinous to his fallen enemy
as he was brave in the defense of his own
liberty.
The enemies of the colored people are
making this the occasion of fresh injuries,
aud more bitter ferocity toward that de-
fenseess people, and of new misrepresentn-
lions and calumnies against the abolitionisls.
The colored people, though the great body
of them had no connection with this affair,
are hunted like partrdges upon the noun
tains by the relentless horde which has been
poured forth upon them under tho pretense
of arrcsting the parties concerned in the
fight.
When we reached Christiana on Friday
afternoon, we found that the Deputy Attor-
ney Thompson, of Lancaster, was there, and
had issued warrants upon the dispositions Of
Kline and others, for the arrest of all sus-
pccted persons. A company of police were
securing the neighborhood in search of CO.
lored people, several of whom were seized
while at their work near by, and brought in.
Castrer Hunaway and Elijah Lewis, hear
ing that warrenis were issued against them,
came TO Christiana and voluntarily gave
themselves up, calm aud strong in the conf
dence of their innocence. They, together
with the arrested colored men, were sent to
Lancaster Jail that night.
The next morning we visited the ground
orthe battle, and the family where young
Gorsuch now lies, and while there we saw
a deposition which he had Just made, that he
believed no white persons were engaged in
the affray, besides his own party. As he was
on the ground during the whole controversy,
and Deputy Marshal Kline had discreetIy
run off into the corn.ield before the fight
ing began, the hireling slave-catcher's eager
aud confident testimony against our white
friends will, we think, weigh lightly with
impartial men.
On returning to Chrstana, we found that
the u. :. Marshal from the city had arrived
nj that place, accompanied by Commission
er lngraSam, Mr.. Jones, a special Commis-
sioner OF the United States from Washing
ton, the U. S. District Attorney Asbueud,
with torty-five U. s. Marines from the Navy
Ynrd, and posse of about forty of the City
Marsha's police, together with large body
of special constables--men eager for such
mnn.hunt-from Columbia and Lancaster,
and other places. This crowd divided into
parties, of from ten 10 twenty five, and scour-
ed the country, in every direction, for miles
around, ransacking the houses of the colored
people, and capured every colored man they
could find, with several coored women, and
two white men.
Never did our heart bleed with deeper pity
for the peeled aud prosecuted colored pco-
pie, than when we saw this troop let loose
upon them, aud witnessed The terror and dis
tress which their approach excited in falni-
lies wholly innocent of the chargel laid
against them.