Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-03-29
The Pittsburgh Fugitive Case.
From Mrs. swissholm's visi,er.

WIN HUs httn NOouSOn WHO. we were 4
confined TO our room yesterday by illness. y
aud are too nervous to-day to write on this
subject. The widowed wife Is trying to
raise funds 10 purchase her husband, and
our strong anii-slavery men object to giving
anything, on the ground that il would only
be premium on -lave-catching-tlIa Wood
son cannot be sold South, for the South will
not buy him. lest he put mischicfinto the heads
of other pieces of property--that he can
not be kept in Kentucky, for he knows the y
way out of it. This may bc right, and IL
may he wrong; but God help the man, his
wife aud iatherlcss children We cannot
write, for our thoughts nre at that humble
hearth, made desolatc. lie is, or was a
praying man, (he is man no more,) and
had little freehold. There his children may
kueel TO ask for him, and their mother can ,
say that hc is gone-not TO the grave, for :
there !" the wicked cease from troubling,
and the weary are at rest" Thousands Of
happy families kneel down every evening,
in this our happy land, 10 pray! How many
will remember these people in this their
great ailliction? II is not the quiet grave
which stands between them and their pro-
tcctor; bur The iron jaws of the slave prison.,
aud the sting of the slaves lash.
How do people learn TO talk about these
things when they come so near? We came
to the city on purpose to give full report of
the whole matter, and now our head is ach-
Ing, aching, and we eau find 10 words. IL
is very terrible, and people look SO calm aud
unconcerned, leading papers congratulate
themselves and one another TINT law has
been observed. The Gazette and Journal
are so happified that all has been done de-
Gently and in good order. This offering up--
on the altar of our great national Moloch,
has been respectfully presented, and the SER
q kya ni Y.
have been sung, thanksgivings offered up,
the victim has been slain, the priests have
sprinkcd the nltar with the blood, all have
bowed towards Jerusalem, and each man re-
turned to his home, there 10 take his baby
upon his knee, to look into the face Of his
wife and forget the family tics that their
hands have broken. Poor Mai. Kaine how
I've pity him. lie got down so io,c rs to
compliment that poor animal Swcitzer for
the humane manner in which he did his bull
dog part Why does not somebody throw N
bone 10 Jasper Il. Brady? lie il hungry for
| a word of praise, and sure lie is a faithful
hound one of the long-limbed breed, and
could he trusted for Chase lie needed inon-
/ ey! We Know he neededmofey, and he rot il,
but ie needs word of commentator morel
| Why does not some one say Bravo, Bounce!'
and give him and Sweifzer clean rug on
which TO lie down, and lick their weary paws,
| after they have picked their bones? Horses
and dogs should always he well treated. -
MIR. White, who once said the sluye law
was "norally void" shows grent pleasure TO
find il legally binding" lie has the public
printing, and keeps an eye on Washington.
Like the victim in this case, he is a good
Methodist; but the government might sell oil
the Methodist preachers in creation and Mr..
White would he happy, so long us he gets
government cash.
The Presbyterian Advocate SAYS never
word Woodson docs not believe in the Com
iession of Faith, and Mr.. Amman feels no
bonds of Christian fellowship near his heart
The Tribune, Dispatch aud Enterprise have
stood up manthlly for truth nnd freedom,
I and deserve all honor and confidence for SO
doing.
The Judge is thought to have leaned
very far over from mercy's side, and TO hive
ndjudged away mans liberty on less evil
dence than would be required to convict ono
of petty larceny. The Mayor, too, called out
the city police to aid the claimant and our
jail was used 10 keep the man all nighf--
When Sheriff Curtis learned he was there.
he sent for SweiiZer to take him away. Then
he was kept in irons in room Of our pub-
lie buildings, until Court hour. "On the side
of the oppressor there was power" while the
poor and the needy li!led up his hands in our
midst, and there was none TO deliver! Did
the people of Allegheny county build the
Court House for siave-pen? Do the peo-
pie of Pittsburgh endorse the doctrine that
man shall not live with his own wife and
support his children? Is the family relation
no longer TO he sacred in our midst? Can
any one be torn from his family on the oath
of one man, and consigned TO hopeless slav-
cry, and is there no redress? Whnt is
Union worth that is TO he mnintnined nt this
price? The old "Union with Death md
with He'll" could scarcely have required
more from its devotees.
AN UNPALATARLE FAcT-So far as we
can discover not single doughface daily in
Boston, and there are plenty of them. sees
FIJI TO mention the fact that minister of tho
Gospel has been slamefnlly lynched in Ken
tucky. They are all enterprsing and widO :
awake caterers of news, but ducking an in
offensive northern clergyman in a horsepond
eleven times, threatening TO hang him, and
then sending him out of the State, is too
trilling piece of news 10 occupy line, or
else there is something about il which does
not suit the taste of hunkerdom.-- Boston
Communicable. sst atit effia.
ARTFUL DoD6INe.- Wm. Warren
the orthodox clergyman Of Upton, Mass,, "a
was requested, few days since, to sign
petition to Congress for the repeal Of the
Fugitive Slave Law. He took the docu- 3
ment, remarking-"I ] shall probably be cone
sidered pro-snvery il i do not land wrote u
upon il as follows =" VIM. Warren, If all y
can be done in good faith 70 the Constiuliion.s :
The next person called upon 10 sign IL
wrote:-"H ii. ID. johnson, 'if all can hs
done in good faith TO the Constitution, Jor3 n