Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-11
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this the students responded by Withdrawing
en- mdsse. Where hundreds had been there
was left mere handful. Lane Seminary
was deserted. For seventeen years after
this, DIR. Beet her and Professor Stowe re-
NAMED, endeavoring in vain 10 revive its
proserily. In 1850 they returned to the
Eastern States, the great project of their
life defeated. After short stay nj Bowdoin
College, Maine, Professor Stowe nccepted
the appointment TO the Chair OF Biblical
Literature in the Theological Seminary a,
Andoyer Massachusetts, an institution which
stands, to say the least, as high as any in the
United States.
These events caused painful reaction in
the feelings of the Bcechers Repused al ke
by tie fdnalicism they had witnessed ntnonp
the foes, and the brutal violence among the
friends of slavery, they thought their time
Tor action had not come, aud gave no public
expression OF their abhorance of Slavery
lhey waited for the storm to subside, and
the angel of truth to mirror his form in tran.
qul waters. For long time they resisted
all attempts to make them bow the knee to
slavery, or TO avow themselves nbolitiopists.
1t is to this period Mrs. Stowe alludes, when
she says, IN the closing chapter of her book
-, For many yenrs of her life, the author
avoided all reading upon or allusion to the
snlgrct Of slavery, considering it ns too
painful TO bc cnqnlrcd into, and one which
advancing light and civilization would live
down"
The terrible and dramatic scenes which oc.
cured in Cincinnati, between 1885 and IS:}7,
were calculated to increase the repugnance
OF lady TO mingEg actively in the melee.
That city was the chief battle ground of free
DON and slavery. Every month there was
some event TO attract attention to the strife
Either press destroyed, or house mobbed,
or free negro kidnapped, or trial for free
dom before the courts, or the confectionery
of IN English abolilionst ridded, or public
discussion, or an escape ofsluves, or an arm
ed attack on the negro quarter, or negro
school-house RACED To The ground, or n slave
in prison for killing his wife and children TO
prevent their being sold to the South. Tho
abolition press, established there in 1895, by
Jnmes &. Birney, whom. on account of his
mildness and firmness, Miss Martineuu called
"thc gentleman of the abolition cause,n and
continued 10y DR.. Bniy, the moderate and
able editor OF the .NaiiOnai Era of Washing
ton city, in which Uucle Toms Cabin" first
appeared in weekly numbers, was destro, ed
five times On one occasion, the mayor dis
missed, Mt midnight, the rioters who had
also pulled down tlIe houses of some colored
peoplr,witl the following pithy speech, "Well
boys, let's 90 home; we've done enough"
One Of these mObs deserves particular notice,
as its victims enlisted deeply the symyathies
of Mrs. Stowe. IN 1910, The slave. .catchers,
backed by the rff,ra of the population, and
urged on 10y ccrtained politicians and rner-
chants, attacked the quarters in which the
negroes reside. Some Of the houses were
battered down 10y cannon. For several days
the city was abandoned to violence aud crime.
The negro quarters were pillnged and sack
ed; negroes who attempted to defend their
property were killed, aud their mutilated
bodies cast into the streets women were
violated hy ruffians, and some afterwards
died OF tie injuries received; houses where
hurnt; and men, women, and children were
abducted in the confusion, aud hurried into
slavery. From TIE brow of the hill on which
she lived, Mrs. Stowe could hcnr the cries of
the victims, the shouts of the mob, aud the
reports of the guns and cannon, aud could
see lie flames Of the conflngrniion. TO moro
tlnn one of the trembling fiIgiiives she gave
shelter, and wcpt bitter tears with them-
Alter the fury OF the mob was spent, many
of the colored people gathered together Il Q
little lcll item of worldly goods, aud started
for Canada. Hundreds passed in front OF
Mrs. Stoves house. Some of them were in
II'lle wagons some were irudging along on
foot after Ileir household stuff; some led
their children 10y the hand; aud there were
even mothers who walked on, sucking their
infants, aud weeping for the dead or kidnup-
ped husbands they had ie6 Behind.
This road, which ran through Walnut Hills,
and within few feet of Mrs. Stoves door,
wns one O!ihe hvorte routs of the under
ground railroad so often alluded to III I'm
Gle Toms Cabin" THIS name was given to
a line of Quakers aud other AboliIonists,
who, living al intervals of 10, 10, or 20 mile
between the Ohio River and the Northern
Lnkes, had formed themselves into sort of
association 10 aid fugitive slaves in their es-
cape 10 Cnnnda. Any fugitive was taken by
night on horseback or in covered wagons,
from station TO station, until he stood on free
soil, aud found the folds of the lion banner
iioatng over him, aud the artillery Of the
British Empire between hin and slavery.
The first station north of Cincinnati was
few miles mp Mill Creek, nj the house of tho
pous aud lion-hearted John Vanzandt, who
figures in chapter nine of Uncle Toms
Cabin as john Van Trompe. Mrs. Stowe
must have often been reused from her sleep
by the quick rattle Of the covered wagons,
und The confused gnlloping of the horses OF
constahes and slave.cnlchers la hot pliIsnt.
" Honest John" was always rcady TO turn
out with his team, and the hunters of men
were not often ndroit enough to come up
with him. lie sleeps now in the obscure
grave of martyr The gigantic frame "of
which the novelist speaks, was worn down
aI Inst l'y wnnt Of sleep, exposure and nnx-
iety; aud his spirits were depressed by the
prosecutions which were accumulated on
him. Several slave-owners who had lost
their property by his means sued him in tho
United States Courts for damages; and judg-
ment after Judgment stripped him OF his
farm and all his property.
During her long residence on the frontier
OF the Slave States, Mrs. Stowe made several
visits 10 them. 1t was then, no doubt, she
made the observations which have enabled
her TO pnint noble, generous, and humane