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


MIA Freeman, who visited Christiana for the sake
of oscertaining the facts. The press Particular
ly in Penn, is doing its utmost, 10 advance
Wing and Democratic influence by its means.
The facts in the case do not answer the purpose.
Misrepresentation and falsehood are their ncces-
sary resort. Many of the Editors seem dispos
cd to mako this affair the occasion Of arousing
the prejudice and hatred Of the people to the
point of determination, against the colored popu.
lation. And well they may hopo to eject this,
for such is the spirit of the Government.
In pursuance of its policy of degrading its
colorcd citizens, tits ready to sacrifice the whites
who would protect them. 1t will without re-
monstrancc permit any number Of free citizens
of the North to be whipped, tard and feathered,
duckod, shot or hung-for entertaining opinions,
or uttering words in favor of freedom at the
South. No sacred law is violated, no constitu-
ton trampled under foot-no majesty of gov
ernmcnt is to be vndicatcd. The Union stands
unjeoparded. Indeed it is the sure means of its
salvation. But let q Southern assassin come
North to sport with human sympathies, with
human liberty and human life, and If the vic
tim in his desperation dare to look resistance,
the whole government, state, national, civil and
military, is at once aroused to crush the poor
lone victim, and offer him up on the altar of the
Unions safety. Wonderful is its zeal for law
and order. Most brave, powerful, and magnani-
nous government Most illustrious and vir-
tuous people who sustain it
The truth is, the fugitive slave law succeeds,
and is executed, in great part, because this ex-
terminating hatred has control of the hearts of
the people. This law has during the last
twelve months done moro for the expatriaton
Of the colored people from the northern states,
than has its own sister, the colonization society,
during the whole thirty years and moro of its
existence. S. ]. May, who has just visited
Canada to make investigation in reference to the
fugitivos, reports that FIVE THOUSAND have dur
Ing this period taken refuge under the British
Crown. The thousands who voted for the cx-
clusion clause of the Indiana Constitution will
maintain the law for this very cause and so
viii the tens of thousands like them all overLhe
country. Multitudcs arc to be found who will
arog their appreciation Of the law for this reason,
and multitudes OF Others, who are osh amed to
make the avowal, arc sufficiently hypocritcal
10 act upon the principle. Under these circum-
stances for a colorcd man to obey, what the
whole people affirm to be the first law of ma
ture, self defence. is to make certain his exter-
mination and perhaps that of hundreds of 9TH
ers. Look at the fendish alacrity with which
the hounds of Philadelphia bounded upon the
track and snuffcd the scent of human blood,
With what cagerness thoy gathered up mon and
women dragging them to prison and pcrchance
to death, solely upon the suspicion which their
complexion aroused. Slavery and mammon
have in this made monsters Of our otherwise
amiablc and excellent citizens. The question
for our decision is, shall slavery bo over
thrown ;-or shall its continuance eradicate
from our people all controlling influence of hu-
manity, justice and love;
A correspondent of the Anti Slavery Stan
dard, writing from Lancaster says -
Gangs of armed rinemen from Maryland,
assisted by the loves rufians this region can
furnish, are prowling round the county, over
a district of ten or twelve miles square, ar
resting indiscrimnately all colored persons
whom they meet, gallantly including the
women. A colored woman, who had been
employed by Mr. Pownall to wash the cloth
ing of the two Marylnnders, was seized at
the wash-tub, and dragged away by her brave
cnptors, who were repeatedly assured that
she had been expressly employed for the
above mentioned purpose. All this is done
oStensibiy upon suspicion that the persons ar
rested were engaged in the affray which en-
ded in lhe death of the stakeholder. Not
less than fifty persons, in all, have been nrres-
ted; among tlIemtwo white men, who were
seized on no other ground than that of re-
iIsal TO assist the government officers in the
capture of their neighbors. The conduct of
these patriotic officials is doubtless founded
upon that clause of the Fugitive Slave Law
in which call good citizens" are caled upon
TO assist in the noble enterprise of our gener-
al government, viz, the catching of runaway
slaves in general.
Two coloured men, employed by our
friend Lindley Coates, in whose neighbour
hood the affair, occurred, were seized, OH
Saturday, and taken 10 Christiana. He fol-
lowed them TO those headquarters of " law
and order" or rather to within half a mile
of the village, but was there dssuaded, by
his friends from going farther, by the earnest
representation that his life would be ia im-
minent danger. Cyrus Burleigh, while pas
sing by, was seized and treated very Budely,
but was protected from personal injury by
the intercession Of the Marshal, with whom,
| believe be is personally acquainted.
Such is the insolence Of these scondrels
from Maryland, backed by the officers of the
government, that people passing along the
public highway in their carriages have been
rudely stopped and detained without any pre-
text whatever; and it is considered unsafe
for any one not of their own kit and kin to
approach their rendezvous. have all these
facts from perfectly reliable authority. 1t is
highly to the credit of the neghborhood that