Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-10
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

remember the time that white mnu and
niger woman were seen together" AT this
reply there seemed to DO much merrment
and the witness who il seems is 18th Sec.
lloosier, evidently looked upon himself ms
great wag. This last witness also went on
to state certain things about the appearance
of the woman's clothes, only fit to be uttered
by the lips of a confirmed backeiiard as he
is without doubt. Two letters were introdu-
ced on behalf of the State, which were writ
ten by the defendant since his confinement
iD Jail. They however, amounted to moth.
ing, aud when the gentleman who read
them cuine to the close of one of the letters,
as follows; 81 am as ever yours for the
slave" perfect yell came up from the mob
without the bar The State also proved that
the "dove colorcd shawl" that the travelling
lady had on, was worked with silk fos, tie
saine as the one taken away by Tamar.-
Here the State rested the case and the pris-
oner offered no testimony. ] could not see
how the State could claim conviction; for
il will he remembered that the whole matter
rested upon circumstnriial testimony, aud
the State utterly filled to show that prisoner
had violated the Kentucky Statute, within
the pale of its iurisdictiou. And assert
most positively, that there is not another
toH1 ~ lHN NnibiOEht VI tillht MHtIt u con-
viction would have been had upon this kind
Of testimony.
Such was the testimony, mono but jury de-
tcrmincd on conviction, could on the strength
Of it, have found such verdict. The prosccu-
ting attorney stated that the penalty affixed to
the allcdgod crime by the kentucky Statute,
was confinement in the pcnitentiary from two
to twenty years. lie admitted there was no
direct evidence of his having afforded aid to
lamar, while in kentucky, yet they were
bound from tho circumstances, proved subsc.
qucntly to have occurred, to believe that ho did
afford such criminal aid. lie added:
Gentlemen Of the jury, you nro called
upon to punish one of the highest crimes
known to the law; crime that must he driv-
en- from the State and country, or the State
will he disrupted, and society unhinged aud
brokcu up. IL is your duty further TO re-
member, gentlemen, of the jury, that the
crime for which the prisoner stands convic-
ted Of is one of that peculiar class, the per-
peirntion of which has caused 50 much i'll
feeling in one portion of our Union, against
another portion; aud which the friends of
order aud of the Union, have been lahoring
so sedulonsly TO arrest. viii you, n jury of
Kentucky, not uid them in cause so sncrcd
as the preservation of our glorious Union,
Ond the only FREQ government on earth P
Your verdict will he your answer. And in
conclusion, need not say TO you that the
longest term fixed 10y the law is too short,
when we consider the magnitude and enor-
nifty of the oilensc now about to meet its
just reward"
So it seems, Fairbanks is imprisoned to "scvc
our union and the only free Government on
earth !" A mistake as the end will demonstrate
FairbanlsTin his ccsolate prison house will
contribute his mite % the destruction of this
bloody, slave bound union. The tics that bind
misguided men to II viii be wakencd and sun
dcrcd by tho injustice done him. This contr-
button to the accumulating mass of injustice
md outrage, will in the end arouse all that is
generous among us to take part in the over
throw of this stupendous aud complicated
wrong.
The whole trial was hurried through most
hastily. No evidence was examined for tho
prisoner, and no defence made by his attorney,
Tho trial occupied one setting of the court, from
one to four o'clock p NJ. The jury after an
absence of fifteen minutes, brought in their
verdict. The writer in the Times, closes his
narrative as follows;
II will he remembered that ISL before this
lMMoLATIoN, tile City Council refused TO in
vite kossuih TO visit Louisville. Now that
was done openly aud above board, and |
must say they have acted consistent The
man is fool who goes among our slave
aristocracy TO find dougl-aces;" he can
find that article always nearer home. just
consider-woud il not have been most
beautiful spectacle, to have Witnessed the
grent fugitive Magyar, ringing out his trum-
pet blasts of freedoms eloquence, in the
hearing of the people, the court, and the
jury, who had just sentenced a young and
noble hearted man, without q stain upon his
moral character, TO fifteen years mprison-
ment, for doing for poor Tamnr, in christian
Americn, what Lady l. done for Madam
kossuIh in Hungary, or what the
young and gallant Mahomed Ali done for
kossuth himself in the very teeth of the
most gigantic despoiisms of tho earth. But
then, we must make some allowance; Kos
suth is protestant Christian, and the young
Sult,n had not been indoctrinated in our
christian faith and was not very much en-
lightened in our theology. Ills creed only
consisting of these few words, "God is great
and Mahomed is his prophet" while Fair
banks and Tamnr were both members of
the same Christian Church, and had doubt
less heard time and ngain, the story of
Paul and Onesimus."
am yours truly,
S. s. HARDING.