Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-01
Prom the Aaysvo Eagle.
KIDNAPPING GREAT OUTRAGE.

On Thursday night last, about 10 o'clock, a party
of eight men entered by force the house OF free
black man named Isaac Henseey, living near Sar-
dinia, Brown county, Ohio. The family Of Hensely
consisted Of his wife and four children two of them
girls nearly grown aud two of them boys somewhat
younger. They were all in bed, but got up when
so rudely awakened. The kidnapping party knock
ed Henseley's wife in the head, rendering her
insensibe, picked her up and laid her on the bed !:
then bound Uenseey and his four children, and put
them into an old wagon covered with quilts. The
wagon was driven thence through Loean's Gan !;
and just above the Gap, Henscey and his children
were taken out of the wagon, put into skif and
rowed across the Ohio river to the Kentucky shore
The children were cohcealcd during Friday in
some bushes, but IIenselcy was taken up the river
to cabin about mile and half below Maysyille
to the house of the man who had driven the driven
the wagon. Thither after night the children were
brought from thence Henseley and the children
were conveyed to Maysyille, and put in the private
Jail of James McNillen about migdnigt.
On Friday the occurrence became known to some
OF Henseleys neighbors, and the country round
about was aroused On that evening, Chambers
Baird, Esq, of Ripley, Ohio, telegraphed to W. II.
Wadsworth, Esq, of this city; ehquring if Ilcnse-
ley and his children were in our jail. They had
not yet arrived, and of course were in no Jail in
this city; but measures taken u ascertain it
IT they should be brought here and Mr.. McMillen
was notified of the fact that lenscley inquired
for.
Accordingly on Saturday morning Mr.: McMil-
len called on Mr.. Wadswofth and appraised him of
the fact that Henseley and his Children had been
brought to him the night before and were then in
his possession. lie promised to keep them safely
even from the persons who delivered them to him.
until the affair could be investigated.
Mr.. Baird was notified by letter and by telegraph
and by Sunday arrived in the city, with some of
IIenselcy's friends; who brought with them his GER
tihcate of freedom under the hand and seal of the
Clerk of the Montgomery County Court of Kentuc-
Ky. II appears that lIenseley was enfranchiscd by
Joseph Hensely in 1882, by last will and testament
duly proven and recorded in The aforesaid County
Court. The description of Hcnsecy in the cert-
fcate of freedom was so individual and precise,
that Mr. McMien at oncd delivered Henseey and
his children over to his friends, who returned with
them 10 Ohio.
There is no apology for this outrage-it is as bad
as Christana murders and slave rcscues-it is on n
par with the lawless acts of the abolition bandit,
hnd equally with such acts deserves the peniten-
tiary.
There is no other wisdom but the wisdom of the
taC. Scorn the law tramplc it under foot in one
particular, and you despisc and put it under in ALL
Are you an Abolitionist and do you raise mob and
rescue from the officer of the law slave? Thereby
then you expressly sanction and invite the midnight
violence of the Kidnapper. Are you Stakeholder,
and do you countenoncc or engage in Kidnapping I?
Your acts are prccedents for any fanatcal felony.
In both cases you are "hgher-aw men" and de-
not get your deserts.
G In the commission of the present outrageous
Felony, the laws of Ohio and Kentucky wtfe struck
down. Let the just punishment Of the law lie
iteted out to the offenders.
There is excuse for these kidnappers. They
did not land could not) believe IIensoley and hiS
children were slaves. If they had thought they
were slaves, why keep the children hid all day in
the bushes on he Kentucky side of the river? OF
imbrson IIenseey in the cabin below Maysville
If these midnight kdnappers had believed these
FIVE persons slares why not bring them along in
open day, when in a sldUe State?
% No matter, had the persons been runaways, tn,
, act tdUless. As Shareholders we stand on III
lac; and when We quit it we become rs bad as tn,
zealots or bandits who steal property, and W,
lose our advantage to excldim against them.
- The lao is the anchor of this Kentucky Editor
hopel lie is full of indignation, he should be
at such an outrage as has been committed upon Al
" unofending citizen and his family. But then it il
only because the law has been outraged. If tn,
law had authorized the ruffans to invadca mother
sanctuary at midnight, knock her ON tile head lik
a dog and seize and bind her husband and stea
her children, why it would all have been WE'LL
And this is all the defense that be set up 70
blaysry. But thank Heaven there are some "higl
er law" men to be found in the land. There ar
Jerry Rescues, and men who will glory in Jerr,
Rescue celebrations.