Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-06
The Union Saved.

| these IL the recent outrage IN Buffalo. Al
outrage perpetratcd by law, and attended by un
dreamed of savageism.
The ruffain-lust, with the Shareholders az
fdavit, and the Commissioners warrant in hi,
pocket, got possession of his victim in the das.
tardly manner described in the annexed OK.
tract. The facts were proven on the trial oI
Rust, for an assault, who for his brutality, was
fined the paltry sum of $4,000.
The trial--so called-of Benjamin Rust
the slaye-catcher, for striking down an TN.
armed man, with blow that rendered him
senseless aud caused him to fall into n fire
10y which he was severely burned, has just
been concluded before Justice Gold at Buff
lhlo. Ii was clearly proved on the trial that
Rust went to the wood chest, from which he
selected, according TO the witnesses, ga large
stick" of beech wood, which he weighed in
his hand, and finding il not deadly enough
for cowurd's weapon, threw It away aud
selected II larger and heavier one. lie then
went TO the hatchway leading TO the kilch-
Ell from which he expected Davis to emerge,
aud there knet down oil one knee, over the
hatch, III such position that his piciiBl's
back should be iolodrds him as he came up
Here posing the weapon in both hands, and
measuring its sweep so us to give effect to
the blow, the bastard waited until poor Dam
iePs head appeared above deck, when IA wit
hess teslifiesl"tlIe defendant raised his stick
in both hands, thus, [raisng his hands above
his head and struck him pih all his force
He struck him once and Daniel .ftH," "faiiing
doiOn on The hOt stoue, tchere he lay, as dedd."-
.!iier being "dragged of The store" he came 10 a
hfte, and lay "squateking and breathing hard"
until handci9ed and taken into custody
A large number Of witnesses testified TO
every detail of this sickening ntrocity. Aud
in defence there was put in no denial OF the
slightest incident,-the evidence was all ad-
United unblushingly,-and attempted 10 be
justified oil the ground that "Rusi icaS acting
under a legal pO'cer Of attorney"
After having thus possessed himself of his
victim he dragged him before the Commission
er, and while covered with blood, and while
spcechless and insonsible, he was doomed to life
long slavery. He was free by the laws of the
land, as proved by the son of his claimant. But
of what avail is law in this land-whcre justice
is Knocked. The law is clear and imperative in
its requsiiions. The kidnappcr's affidavit is the
end of all controversy. 1t sets aside with equal
facility, the statutes of the country-the deci.
sions Of the courts and tho laws of God. 1t sits
in the place Of God, and aiIirms that it is as God
and King. The immutablc arbiter of human
liberty and destiny. Tho Molock of this ma
ton, moro terrible than the demon who was
Of old.
How universal the homage bestowed upon
him. Fifteen States of this nation, almost
without the exception Of en individual, arc his
and bloody yotarics-and of the
other sixteen, with the exception Of the anti.
slavery men and women scattered up and down
in the land, all are upon their faces doing infer
nal homage to his authority. Yes, and what is
more the great mass of those who scorn his
power in individual casos-do nevertheless con-
stantly sustain his power by confcderacy with
the government and support of the Union, that
authorizes and cortrivcs it all. Would that our
political abolitionists could see that TO declaim
against--to defy or to resist the fugitive law,
when it makes its demands upon them in per-
son-ahd yet to sustain government, unalter-
ably bent upon its support,i to defeat their own
purpose and destroy their own work But to
these bloody facts. Our heart sickens at their
recall.
"The poor fellow was all this time in
state of llnlf stupor, unable 10 talk ioih his
counsel, and sat dOzing, i0nh The blood Sloicly
oozing out Of his mouth and nosiriLs"
"Mr. Hawey thought it was necessary for
the protection of the rights of the defendant
ihat the examination should be udiourned.-
The man was even now in a halt sleeping
slate, aud partially insensible from the blow
OH his head.
"Mr Talcolt thought that the parties who
so brntally assaulted the alledged Fugitive,
had better, for their own sakes, not only a.
gree TO adjourn, hut put the man under med
lcul treatment Immediately. il might turn
out little more seriously thnn they aniici-
pated.
"Jhe Commissioner ,eo,lid not adjourn. The
only question submitted 10 him ipas a question of
fact. lie had icdited long enough for The tOii-
nesscs for the defence"
lOf course he had not waited at all with
the blood of the slave still flowing from the
wound OF his recent arrest aud he, poor fel-
low, in conaIose condition and unable
even to consul. with or instruct his counsel.
The Commissioner proceeded;
IL had been fully proven that the slave
owed service to the man described in the
record. The son of the owner identified the
Slave rs the property of his father, from
whom he Is alleged TO have escaped. Moth
ing remained, therefore, but TO find, as he
did find, that the man was fugitive slave
from service, mud MS such must be returned
to his master in Kentucky"
Al the conclusion of this mock-trial, the
Marshal, addressing The public, reInarked;.--
"I wish to say few words TO the colored
people here present. The agent tells me he
has at present no authority to sell the Inan,
hut he has promised me that lie shah not