Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-03-20
Rachel kidnapping.
Core ponderce of the Pittsburgh Daily Gaz.
WAsHINeroN, March 4tb. 1859.

Core pondence of the Pittsburgh Daily Gaz
WASHINGTON, March 4ib 1859.
Subsequent events have fully confirmed
the importance which attributed, inarll al
the time of their occurrence. ~ the during
aud vIl.uUus crime Of the kidnapping ol
Rachel Parker, free coorrd citizen aud ua
tive oi Pennsylvania, aud the murder OF 10.
spph G. Miller. ul Chester County, hy whose
alleged couniyauce the unfortunate girl was
abducted. u is now proved beyond a doubt
l That Miller was murdered under circuni-
sianrcs of trcachery aud deliberate cruelty
rarely paraIIclcd. Tic lradrr of the band ~
kidurppcrs, and probably the ronirivcr il no,
the actual prrputrator ol the murder is Me-.
/ Creary, mail contractor, il j. said. u the
/ Federal Government. There has been n
/ singular darkness aud mystery about this
trausactiun, ur rather the proceedings in re-.
gard to IL in Maryland. The freedom OF
Rachel Parker is but lrcily disputed, yet she
lies like icIon in the jail Of y ltimorc, with
q prospect tia, snc VIII be sold into slavery
90 pay iha eNpcnsos ui her imprisonment. II
Is not denied thar Nc'Crcaly led the band OF
riii1ns who took thr weu,4n from her home.
yot the Governor uf MIN land treats with
cool c"i'mpi tuc rrqui,i'on oi Gov. Julu-
SION Tor III, surrender ! hesitate not to say
tilni the pretended cN miu1iiuu oi that mis-
'rctt briurc magistrates ia Biltuore ter.
minated iu manner 20 indicate That their
only purpose was Ia shield him from the lc-
gal consequences uithc outrage The proof,
% tie crime, and Of his paricipuncy in it
could not he suppressed; Yet when his guilt
was clearly established, they admitted the
testimony of lIis arcompliccs evidently per-
jared, 10 slow that Miller with whom the
ioung woman lived in PrnnSylvanin, had
denounced her 10 them us u fugitive slave,
aud bad sold her to thCm for two hundred
dollars, tie F:!tc of blood; aud that he had
assisted them 10 capture ller. What ii be
hNd, how could that effect tie question of
her freedom or the crime OF "kidnapping?"
u was sickcning farce. Ii was far worse,
II was u Judicial conuivancc with irlons after
The act, and then, how came Miller in Bult;-
more, Tie motive to his murder while On
his way back is plain enough. The mur-
derefs knew well lht the moment lie reach
ed place of safety hc would expose both
The kidnapping aud the perjmry. But how
hc was induced TO 20 there remains TO be
developed.
There is nothing surprising in the con-
duet of either Gov. Lowe or Gov. Biglcr.-
The latter has to win his spurs in The ser
vice of slavery, nud he is dning il by not fol-
lowing up the requisili0n OF Gov. Johnston
by the pardon of Alberli, &c, &c. Aud as
TO the Governor OF Maryland on The very
day after the abduction OF Rachel Parker, he
threatened Pennsy lynnii in his annual mes
sage, with a state oi border war, TO he car
ried on by precisely such acts as these of
Mc'Creary aud his cOniedcrtes. The pre-
text for this quasi declaration oi war, and It's
actual prOst cuion, is the aflruy in which
GOrsuch lost his life. That affair, that
chance medley, ms the law terms il, occur
red not from nn INVASION OF Mary hy
armed Pennsylvuuinns, hut because armed
attempted TO take the law of
the United States into their own hands on the
soil of Pennsj lvann
Aud now let all lla,crs of"niggcrs" take
notice that Miller was not 'niggcr." lie
was a peaceabe white citizen of pcnns, Iva
MA. He was moi even an uholnionist or an
uuii-comproniso man. Ills death is one OF
tiosc "hOrrors of border civil war" 80 cool
~ presented by Gov. Lowe TO tie conteni-
plali0n OF your citizens. Shall it he suffered
to pusS without the notice OF your State Au-
thurllics! II is n serious question.
On n second reading OF the resolution
pnssed by one house of your Legislature, Oh
Rachel Parker's ease, ! observe tia; it refers
only To The asrerianment of her frccdom.-
1t hliiiks altogether the offence ngninst tie
peace aud dignity of Pennsylvania, of lar
greater inpnrlaucc in nay Judgment, than
her personal freedom. Ii seems to ne that
il Gov, Loves doctrines, aud his conduct
also, be acquicscc'I in by Pennsylvania, she
might rs well quietly annex herself to Mary
land, aud declare at once the jurisdiction OF
tLut state extended over her.