Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-10
SALEM, OHIO, APRIL 10, 1852.
ExEcurlvE COMMITTEE meets April 10th.
Our Imprisoned fellow Citizens.

We have received from the author, A. l.
Benedict little book entitled the "Mcmoir oI
Richard Dillingham;" The subject Of this
memoir, native of Morrow County, in this
State, died of cholcrs, while an inmate of tho
Ponitcntiary at Nashville Tennessee. lie died
a victim to the bloody Moloch of slavery, as
Crandal' and Torrcy had done before him. lie
died in the vigor of his carly youth, exhibiting
an all porvading bcncvolencc, and an heroic vir.
tue, which conquered his enemies and charmed
them, even to admiration-woll docs Whittier
sing of him;
Thou brave and true one, upon whom
Was laid the cross Of Maityrdom,
How didst thou in thy faithful youth,
Bear witness to this blessed truth!
Then was the seed time; God alone,
Deholds the end of what is sown;
Beyond our vision, weak and dim
The harvest time is hid with him.
Yet unforgottcn where it lies,
That seed Of generous sacrifice,
Though seeming on the desert cast,
Dnull IlsC VILE ulOOul ullu run ~ llSts
Unsuitable slavery It's cruel devastatons arc
every where. 1t Brutalizcs the dominant race
at the South: it degrades to fawning syco.
plants and whining, greedy hounds, mulutudcs
Of the same class at the north and follows
with slander all upon whom it can lay its hands,
who dare to resist its will or thwart its purpose.
1t marks for imprisonment or death, tho purcst,
the trucst, the bravcst of the white race, that
it may doom the entire race Of the blacks to ig-
norancc and slavery. 1t has Aoggcd, gibbitcd
and burned at the stake its victims. 1t coolly
butchered Lovcjoy, and is now wasting away
the life blood of Drayton, Sayrcs, and others in
their prisons, and all this and more, that must
ever remain untold, is done that it may condn-
ue to subject 70 all the tortures Of brutalted
.si.'i;-atior. threo millions Of pqcn ;rsncil md
It has just sent another victim, TO the Peni-
tcntiary CALvfN FAmBANKs, and that with
out other than mere circumstantial evidence,
of his participancy in any manner, with the
flight of the alleged slave. In fact there is no
eridence that he committed any offence against he
laios Of kentucky. The only offence that the
slight circumstantial evidence would at all indi-
cate, was one against the fugitive slave law /;
and that committed if at all, on the soil Of In
diana. But the Kontuckans unwilling to trust
his conviction and punishment, to the summa.
ry process of that miquitous law, even as ad-
ministercd in slave ridden, southern Indiana,
kidnapped him in the broad glare of day, hur-
ried him to Kentucky and doomed him without
evidence, to fifteen years incarceration in the
was present at the trial, gives the following re-
port Of The evidence in the case.
The testimony amounted to this,-that
Fairbanks had attended a colored Church OF
Bnptists in Louisville, and took some part in
the exercises. This was on Sabbath day.
The mullatto girl Tamar, was member OF
the same Church-and also attended meet
ing-went home TO her masters after service
went ont again, as the family supposed, to
an other meeting, or to visit her friends
she was "likely mulatto girl about nine.
teen years OLD, and could have been sold foI
$1,000 cash." Tamar did not return, and
ven that Fairbanks hired horse and buggy
from man in Jeffersonyile on Monday
evening following the disappearance of Ia.
mar, and paid four dollars for the hire
That he gave his name rs King. That be-
tween Jeflersonyille and Salem, (which are
thirty miles apart prisoner stopped ,abou
nine o'clock at night at a house on the road
in consequence of something having broker
about his buggy. II was soon repaired
however, and travellers proceeded on lhei
way-prisoner had with him when he stop
ped lady dressed in dark clothes, straw
bonnet and green veil witness did not SEE
her face very plain, but thought that sht
was the gentlenans wle-indeed, he I'M
derstood that she was, and that the gentle
mans name was King-and that they lived
in Jeiiersonsville, and were going TO Salem
lhAi night, in order TO take the Railroad
the next morning, witness found a handker-
chief near by where the lady got into the
buggy. Here the handkerchief was pro-
duced in court,-and much interest was
manifested at its exhibition. Indeed to poor
f. il was the charmed handkerchief in 9th
clio; and from that moment his fate was
sealed. The handkerchief was linen cam
brio and was marked with the name of
"Nancy Bullock" young lady Of Louis
vile who, as il was shown gave the same TO
Tamar, the mullatto slave girl. During
these moments of painful interest, watched
the conntenance of the prisoner; but not y
muscle in his face quiyered, nor did his eve in
The least loose its eomposure, he kept OH
writing out his notes Of the evidence with
the most remarkable nanehalance,
Another witness was introduced, who
swore that the same prisoner came on board
the cars, at Salem, about the time testified
to by the other Witnesses Upon being ask
ed what made him remember the time, he
replied, "ihat any body would be likely tC