Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-22
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CHiSiiana Tragedy,

BART, Lancaster Co., Pa, Oct. 18th.
DEAR MAmUs From this scqucstcrcd, and
unmolestcd sccne it is NY privilege to nnrate
few occurrences, accompanied by such thoughts
as may present themselves; very few days hav-
ing elapsed since could have progressed thus
far, without anticipated interruption from-l
know not what to call them; they were not Ii
gers, Wolves or ITyenas, for they were bipcd;
they had all, and more than all the rapacity tho
fcrocty.and the audacty of these races, with
out exhibiting any Of their rodccming qualities
First the nutrocious lngriham's chosen men
did their work, or rather they failed to do it,
Next the county Officers and their aids were or
hand, performing with "dlatrity' certain scrvi.
ccs. Then came Alillard Filmorcs posse of
marines and olice men. The different vcr-
sons Of the affair thus far may be left to con-
h'ct with each other for the present When in
tense sympathy on the one hand, and inveteratc
demonism on the other, shall have somewhat
exhausted themselves, reliable version may
be forthcoming. Whatever may be said, or
thought of the morality, or legality of the mat
ter up TO this point, there can be but ono opin-
ion regarding what followed.
Who has not obsorS cd that in the execution
of laws for offences deemed capital there is
generated, fostcrcd, or freed from restraint, a
spirit Of lawlessncss, rampant, in direct ratio
with the estimated magnitude Of the wrong,
which the law seeks to redress, or revenge by
its final inAictionsi The population of this
district have recently had some very disquieting
evidence on this subject. After those purport-
ing to be legal arrests were made, volunteers,
not known to have official relation to the law,
(whatever connivanoc, encouragement or hope
of remuneration they may have had from some
of its functionaries,) became extremely solicit
Gus for the preservation of the Unon,' and in
their zeal to sustain the law, they pursued their
object without the authority of civil law, and in
most fragrant violation of all the laws of dccen-
cy. Such obsccnty, profanity and fcrocity,
have never before, been exhibited in this re-
gion. Except the houses of those known to be
favorable TO "tompromisc," scarcely domicil
for miles around but has been assailed, and
many Of them searched by lawlcss ruiians, with
no other warrant than revolver the prcscnta-
God d-d abolition b--g-r, and you id abo-
lition b-ch," sufficed to prevent men, well
known for their non-rcsistant principles and
practice, from any interference with their out
rageous conduct.
1t was tho corn and potatoc gathering season
and in several cases the families had fastened
their houses, and gone to tie fields. The pa
triots in two instances, now before me, hcroical
ly forced the doors and performed the " disa
greeable duties" which then and there appcr
tanned to their avocation; among which wer
the removal of two guns, sundry articles o
clothing, and somo gold pieces, which, thougl
not strictly very reasonable articles, yet con
structively they might be, found chargeablc an
indictabe for being in the houses of those wh'
were not known to have sworn allegiance I
the "peace measures" conceived by the sage q
Ashland and advocated by the "Lion of tn
North" the "Godlike." 1t is conjecturcd tho
some of them were working at their prop'
trade, (for which the county had recently board
ed and lodged them without, chargc) when the
picked the locks of bureaus, to see if traito
or other thing they were seeking, was lurkin
there. BE these conjcctures as they may, ii
redoubtablo patriots have made such dispos
tion of the arrested articles as leaves very lit
ground to approhcnd that the former ownc
will never hereafter make use Of them, for Il
overthrow of our "glorious Union" b.
enough in this strain; such were the jacobin
manifestations. that painful sensc of insocui
ty pervaded the whole neighborhood; tho W
men feared to be left alone, and the men VIC
too, much disquietcd to plan and execute th'
farming operations. Sadness was depicted
every countenance. The distress was not wi
tho abolitionists only That violent dea
had occurred in their vicinity produced q &C
eral feeling of awfulncss that it was the
suit of a conflict for tie preservation of inherC
rights, on the part of those who have no pi
lection from government protesting to prot
all, naturally plead in justification of those "
defended their rights to SO doubtful an issue
This was the common feeling except among
abolitonsts and non resistants. The latter "