Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-03
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

| 1t appeared the discovery had Just been
made, that skif had been broken loose
the night before, and the tracks of four per-
sons There was snow on the ground,) lead
ing toward the locality of the skiff. OF
cource they were niggers, and these men
were volunteer hunters. As yet there was
no other evidence of any slave having es-
capped but have learned these signs are
common, and are always rightly understood.
There were the tracks of four niggers,
aud the county has a standing offer of $50
reward for the capture of each and every
escaping slave taken within its limits, and
a still greater one if taken out of the state
and to this il is always understood that the
owner will add liberal consideration. No
time was lost. A party was soon made up,
armed with revolyers and double barreled
guns, and away they went into Ohio in
broad day light. They landed aud could
see them ploddng their way on foot, on the
trail of the poor slaves for half mile on
the Ohio side. My blood boiled with in-
dignalion, when sat and contemplated tho
scene before me. Pirates armed to the
teeth, hunting innocent men and women in
open daylight, on the free soil of Ohio. But
! had hoped-Day more, had INTERIOR
assurance, as Davis would say, that the fugi-
tives would make their escape good. And
to this hour all the efforts of the slave-hun-
ters TO find even a track, after the snow had
melted (which lasted bat few hours has
proved a most glorious failure.
The party returned from Ohio soon after
noon. After the snow had melted they con-
tinued their course without being able to get
ary information Of the whereabouts of the
slaves, till they got weary and so gave up the
chase. One of them said he had been in
two houses where he made the inmates stare
goodeul, but they offered no resistance TO
his going up stairs to look for niggcys. lie
was as ugly looking fellow, as | ever saw,
and used as ugly and rough language as il
was possible for man to use. Aud when,
he said he walked right in with gun in his
hand, aud told the inmates that he "wus GO
ing up stairs to look for niges." | did not
wonder they though. il safest to stand back.
While the party were over the river the
people here were busy talking, aud it was
from my observation, and from the street, and
bar room gossip, that got my intelligence.
III and extruvigunt language about the nb-
oltionisls free niggers, and the lately escaped
slaves, was all one could hear in the street or
bar room. Some declared that if the niggcrs
had got to Ripley which is two miles above
in Ohio, they might just as well be in Cunadai
for there were 50 many ubolilionists there
that il were impossible TO get them. But h
they had gone across toward Georgetown
they were certain to get them, as the people
| there were even more dextrous in taking run
a,-ays. ihan Kentuckiansl!
Aud here let me drop word of congrntu.
laiion arn encouragement to the abolitionists
of Ohio. The shareholders here are aware
of the power and influence which you are
welding against their iniquitous institution.
They fear aud curse you. When their
slaves get amongst you they think land well
they mny] 1t is good bye niggers. They Of
fer large rewards-$900 are now offered for
the capture of those five who escaped on
Saturday night last-two men, one woman
aud two children.
In the afternoon the owners of The esca-
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be six on the missing list instead of FOUR.
Five slaves and free man.
The free man had bought his freedom a
few years before; and having tasted freedom
himself he induced his wife and two children
with two other friends to make a strike for
their freedom which think they have pret-
ty successfully done.
The free man had been in town n few days
before, trying to make sale of lot of tohac-
co. The people say il was 20 look for a skiil
and not to sell tobacco. They brand him
with iniany of the deepest dye for stealing
his wife and his children. Agains: him
they pour out their vilest epithets. Some
wished when he was in town to sell his to-
bacco, they had put him under a tobacco
press. The vicious ugly man before allu-
ded to, wished for chance at him with his
gun and he would "bring him down."
But have been too tedious aud perhap:
have written too much for your paper, abou
what every abolitionist knows full well to be
true. KENTUCkYAN.
More Rcasona6le and Patriotic-Thc Wash
| ington correspondent of the Pittsburgh Gazett,