Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-03
-Four Freemen in Slavery.
From the Carson League.
CHARLsToN. FEB. 9.

CHARLESTON. FEB. 9.
The four Massachusetts free negroes,con-
yicicd of an attmpt to abduct slaves were
sold at Galveston, in consequence OF thelr
inability to pay the fines. Samuel Quarls,
of Ala, bought Anthony Hays fol- S325,
Levu nee Smith for 1870, William Brown
for S505 he ought to resell at Mobiie;-
John Fourlkey, Of Galveston, bought 'a-
cob Thompson for S365, on speculation;
These four Yankees sold for Sl56o' lhey
were sold because they were poor and could
not "pay their fines" and purchased on
speculation. They were fined for mn at
tempt to rescue another poor man from the
condition they nre now in. Aud these are
free citizens of Massachusetts turned into
properly, and made subject Of bnrter and
speculation by land pirates in Texas, because
they IRE poor, and bravely attempt TO do for
others us they would have others do for them.
The above citizens of the Old Bay State
were sold for rescuing n slave for doing as
they should do. Suppose Massachusetts and
New York reiaiiate by n law which orders
every stakeholder TO he sold who comes into
them to seize men to hold as slaves. lfa slave
holder may sell our citizens for attempting
to set men free ut the south, we surely may
sell him for attempting TO enslave ours at the
north How should we look or feel buying
and selling southerners ton speculation " 7
Lewis Cass, in the Sennte the other day ex.
claimed, " the sentence of the mother and
sister of Kossuth TO dungeon Is an act OF
oppression which cries to Heaven. The
world can no longer remain quiet witnesses
of such scenes" True enough The an
gels weep at the cruelties Of Austrian ty-
rants,
But suppose the Austrian tyrants, instead
of shutting those ladies' in prison, because
the son and brother sought their freedom,
had actually sold them in the market on
speculation, to he imprisoned, imbruted,
ard outraged forever. Ii the angels hear
their cries aud weep in the first case, me-
thinks their tears would eyaporate in their
Indignation of the unmatched cruelty and
injustice of tho latter case. Why is not
Gen. Cass reminded that the Austrinns may
turn upon him and say" we indeed inpris-
on our Kossuth families, but you sell yours
in the market to spectators, and IL our out
RACES in that regard cry TO heaven, and dis
tllrb the peace of the earth, aud urge you
TO interpose TO rescue the victims of our ty-
runny, may we not invoke the brotherhood
of man aud the mercy of Heaven to inter-
pose for relief against your greater tyrun-
ny A" Austria is great despot, but her
crimes whiten by the side of our slavery
She dare not dishonor aud wrong her most
oppressed ones 10y selling them rs property
us we do free people in America.
The human race cannot long endure sucl
nonslruus wrongs on either side of the wa
ter. They will work their own cure. The,
will wake the world against them, aud caus
os will multiply to combine oil hearts TO pu
mn end 10 them. These very men, we think
! will prove themselves TO be among those
cai,ses, When speculation sows such men
| ia tie slave territories, il sows dragon teeth
We pity their sufferings, but we would that
all the south was filled with them. We wish
every free negro Of the north, instead of lis
tcning to the fraudulent lullaby of Libcriar
Colonization would do as these brave mer
did, and set their brothers free to take place
by their side. Were they to do so, the pill
lars of the great temple OF despotism would
shake before they put their hands to then.--
The heating of their brave hearts woul'
make them iremble. The slave pirates coul'
not sleep amid such men. They can't res
while they are in the country; therefore the
besecch Government to send them to Africa
When Kossuth tells the wrongs of hi
mother aud sisters, let him not forget thi
case. When he accuses Austria in hear
let its expressions befit the more horrribl
outrnges Of America.