Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-01-04

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know it is an old story, and forgotten, or per-
hnps it has been heard of by comparatively
very few now living; still, l want to turn It
over once again. We were all interested with
The account Mr.. 1Iutchns gave us of VIM. and
| Ellen Craits-shc in their escape pcrsonating a
Young Southern planter, and he acting as very
attentive body servant. But what has Ellen
| Crafts to do with the Prigg cssci wish to IL
lustrato merely what VIC all so very we'll know
and what n Southern Member Of Congress once
declared in his place, that slavery docs not de-
pend upon any grade Of color. or degree OF IN
tclcct. ave care not for color" said he
"wc had as lief have whHe slaves as 6fdch
ones, so that we cen make them do our work.
&c. Now, here is an illu 'trstion of that state
mcnt Ellen Crafts, before she could escape
the eagle eye of the constitutional watch dogs
of tho government, must be able to personatc,
not merely an unassuming modest young man ;
she must of course become full length por-
trait of real Southern BLOOD, one who can
make hotel walters stand in awe, and conduct
ors on railroads, and clerks on steam boats
quake exceedingly. No wonder that she had
to practice airs at her glass in order to become
rs she was forced to play. What l ask, must
be the intellectual endowment of one in her
condition necessary to insure success, and make
her what she has in fact become, a true heroine
in rolancc OF real Lie which drives all fc-
titious hcroincs into the shade; And what,
too, must be her physical cndowmcnts that en-
ablsd her to assume personal appearance so
uncxceptionable. that, during the journey,
wealthy and nristocratic mammas were 80 ready
Gall without any design of course) to leave their
beautiful and b,ushing daughters so near the
"intcrcsting young man." that an acqunint-
ance might have been started without any very
great deviation from the rules of proprieiyi-
What, say, docs all this show but that slave
ry has laid its iron grasp upon bodies and souls
too, which arc by nature no way inferior to
those of their oppressors' In this case the
form was as symmetrical, the features as fair and
as godlike, as those of the contemplate Daniel,
of whom will only say as the angel said to the
devil, 1.-The Lord rcbukc thee, Satan" Now
suppose, as may have been the fact in the Prigg
case, the woman fleeing was personally cndow-
cd like Ellen Crafts, and with mind fitting her
for any department of life. Slavery has many,
very many such victims. Look at the Emerson
family, look at Brown, Douglass, and host OF
other witnesses to this fact. Suppose again
that the Pennsylvania who married this "lu.
gitive from service or labor" as they arc 50 po-
litcly named in our Constitution, was man of
superior talents, just such un one ns we say de-
serves TO have such woman for his "hctter
half what is to prevent two such minds when
united, from making their way upward in Soci-
any citizen may aspire to and obtain the highest
honor and Office which is known in the govern
mcnti What then prevents our concluding that
tho man who lost his family in this Prigg case,
was the then officiating Governor of Pcnnsyl-
vaniai 1t truly might have been him or the
Governor of Ohio, or any other State in this
Union, without changing the legal or constitu- !
tional features of tho case at all. And | would |
to God that such case might even now be /
brought, by some Southern nabob-say - Hang
man Foot'-against our "bclovcd," of course,
President Fillmore, and sustained too as was
ho Prigg case, by the decision of the Supreme
Court, not that wish harm to him, or his, but
hat the world may be convinced, that the fugi-
i've slave bill which he has approved is, as he
must be supposed to believe it to be. strictly
constitutional, and not only so, but that the
world at large may sec, and Millarl Fillmore,
he President of these United States may feel
II his own experience, what millions have al
'eady felt, and are still feeling to be the neTa-
Die splcndor of that halo of blesscdness, which
must in the opinion of "all good citizens" for
'ver continue to oncirclc our supcrlatively oLo-
sIoUs CONSTITUTION
1 conclude, Mr.. Chairman, by only referring
'gan to this Fugitive bill, to consider which we
lave assembled. 1 have been out of order
perhaps, while speaking of the Constitution,
'athcr than of this Bill, but it is very common
n giving the history of any one to trace his
incal descent and speak of his pareutagc; and
now cannot do better than to quote with refer
'ncc to this Bill the memorable language of
aim of Calvary, which was addressed to certain
characters, who laid very high claims to hu-
nanity, piety, and true Godiness. John, viii A.
"Ye are of your father, the Devil, [Constitu-
ion,l and the lusts of your father ye will do.
lie was murderer from the beginning, and
lbodc not in the truth, because there is no
ruth in him. When he speakcth lie he speak
is Of his own, for he is a liar and the father of
u N. S. BEACH.
Appeal from Canada.