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was resolved to nd Iourn and 90 to the Ill. Two
or three Boston and New York abolitonists Sc
cretly directed the movements Of the colored
people, and by midnight, only a few men were
seen about the Jail, and they displayed no weap
ons; but matters were 80 arranged that by a
given signal, some two hundred armed men,
who were lying in ambush, would appear, and
attempt rescue. The night, however, passed
away without the appearance of the officers, and
in consequence of report that Harrison would
not be taken away until noon, the soldiers laid
down their arms and went to breakfast.
About six o'clock, the coast being clear. three
officers repaired to the prison, and, unmolested.
took the fugitive to the ears, and left ti's city.
+. S.-AmOpg the prominent movers and
counsellors to the colored people, in the case of
Harrison, were two or three of the most active
members of the Boston vigilance committee,
each of whom, it is said, We're prominent actors
in the Crafts, Shadrach, and Sims cases. They
surrounded the prisoner in the court room, and
encouraged him to preach liberty to the slaves
on his return. OBSERVER.
t4Y- The following appeal to America" can
not fail to be interesting to the friends of Hun
gary, and at this moment particularly so to those
acquainted with Mrs. TecHMAN, formerly Miss
APPoLoNIA JAGELLo)
Hungarian Appeal to America.
Address Of the Political Eriles Of Hungary in
The Cuyof New York IN the American people:
The champions of freedom in Europe, who
have been hunted to the last extremity, have
only one point of support remaining-the SYM
pathy OF the American people. A peculiar
Providence has taken the martyrs of liberty un-
der its protection. As the VestaI Virgins
watched over the sacred fire, that it should not
be quenched, so Is it the mission of the mag
unanimous American nation to exercise vigilant
care that spot may be preserved for the de-
tenders of freedom and humanity, from which
they may break forth at the appropriate time
like resistless torrent, upon political oppres-
sion and tyranny, and put an end to the un-
righteous assumptions of absolute power, thus
establishing the authority of the rights of free
men, instead of the do ninion of merely brutal
force. The fate of all humanity is placed in the
hands of the American people. tits this exalted
destiny which exctes the hatred of European
tyrants against the people and the institutions
Of the United States, knowing as they do full
well, that the decrept governmen hts of Europe
must fall in ruins, if America, with all the re-
sources at her command, is faithful to her sub
lime m ssion.
The European autocrats can send forth no
ukases to free and powerful America to be the
ailor of their victms; they cannot bribe her free
citizens by paltry gifts, nor by titles and ORDERS
to forbid their free soil to the fugit'ves from OPP
pressionl they must have recourse to other
means of the most dcspicable character; they
must scatter the seeds of jealousy, of caumny,
and distrust, in order to soil and blacken the
purest patriotism and the most elevated private
virtues.
Noble cit zens a willing instrument for the
execution OF their humane views was found by
the tyrants 10 De Alma, formerly lieutenant in
the Bavarian army, who, although he long OBJ.
truded himself on the Hungarian refugees, never
took part in the struggle for Hungarian freedom,
and armed with secret instructions, perhaps only
for that reason attached himself to Ujhazy and
his party, in order to produce divisions, and thus
destroy the sympathy for those champions OF
| Hungarian liberty.
He perfectly succeeded in this Divisions
have been fomented in the colony Of Ujhazy, and
thus, American citizens, your sympathy has been
diminished,
! We believed that De Alma and his employers
would be satisfied with the success of this un-
worthy deed, and at least not disturb the other
exiles in the asylum which they have found un
der your protection. They we're deceived.
De Alma came TO New York, where he has
certain compa' ions entirely worthy of him, who
Joined with him to obtain, by bribery, of the
| Hungarians false charges against Mrs. Apollo
mia Tochmnnn (born Jagelo,) lady who, du.
ring the Hungarian struggle for freedom, de-
served well of the cause. His proposals, ms
might be supposed, were rejected with indigna-
ton, until at lasVhe found person in German
named Koelbel, who, in point Of character, was
on level with himself De Alma had the
means of inducing Koebe to present an en-.
tirely unfounded charge against the character OF
the lady above mentioned. The value of a ties.
timony obtained in this way, can easily be es.
timated, when it is known that the author
koelbel, is now imprisoned on Blackwels Island
for an Infamous crime
1 Can De Alma and his confederates still rely
on this testimony of Koelbel, to destroy the
character of Mrs. Tochman, who has obtained
the most general esteem in Hungary as the su
perintendent of the Comorn hospital, for hel
selfdevoton her skill, and her noble disinter
4 estedness.
i We owe too much honor to the Polish nation
whose sons have bled with us for the freedom o
4 Hungary, and too much gratitude TO nobl,
Polish lady, for us to hear any longer in silence
the vile calumnies of De Alma and company
the paid emissaries of European tyranny, ant
we here publicly repeat that we are persuaded
from our own knowledge, that Mrs kpolIonis
Tochman has laid the Hungarian nation unde
the obligations above mentioned, as well al
many others, and that her character il In all re
spects above impeachment
Having expressed our unqualified respect nno
our profound gratitude for this lady, we leav,
her calumniators, De Ahnn and his companions
to the general contempt, and to the public opin
ion which acknowledges the sacred duty with
ont considerations of personal interest, to defenc
the innocent; and the more since De Alma ha
had the audacty and the obtuseness to sup
/, pose that the American people would receive
f his calumnes without seeing through them a
once.
, To the illuminated lady we now appeal:
May you continue, noble Pole, "a n martyr o
freedom, to discharge the lofty mission for tn
relief of your fellow sufferers in exile. In Hun
gary, you have strengthened the defenders o
freedom in their zeal and devotion; you hav
taken care Of the wounded among them; nm
now, far from your beloved fatherland, it is you
noble lot TO alleviate their suiIerings.