Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-06-11
From the Saturday Visiter.
The case OF Alexander Hendrltkure a free
subject Of Great Britain, kidnapped from
Jamalca, and brought 10 the United SIales.

Sir; On Saturday afternoon, Of May 2Sth,
telegraphic dispatch was received from Phila-
delpha, in this city, to the effect that one ThOm-
as J. Adams, of Nashville, Tennesee-a slave
holding Stafe-had brought from Kingston.
Jamaica, W. l., with him, colored youth, then
en- route for the South, by the name Of Alexan-
der Henrickure--H -Hcndrickson was the name
given in the dispatch.
On the receipt Of which intelligence, the un-
dersigned, with three other friends, repaired
Immediately to the depot, located on Eighth
and Liberty streets, just as the train of cars
flom tho East reached its terminus. From the
hindmost car, among the last Of the passengers
who got out, was a handsome, well-dressed
mulatto youth. called in Jamaica a brOrn in
complexion.
On approaching HIM and demanding his
name, a finely dressed white man came forward,
ordering the youth away, answering in man
ner peculiar to the upstart American siare trader
"That boy belongs to me " His assumption was
at once denied. and the youth taken hold Of by
one of us and placed in tho charge Of faithful
officer, Mr.. John Fox. the policeman of the de-
pot, who took him, in company with the kid
nappcr, to the st. Clair hotel, corner OF St. Clair
and Penn streets, to await the proceeding Of
legal issue.
An application was Immediately made to the
Hon. Judge Williams, one of the Justices Of
the Bench Of the District Court for the West
orn District Of Pennsylvania but owing to the
lateness Of the hour at which the intelligence
was received, and the day being Saturday, bus
incss was closed in the public offices, and the
officers generally scattered about and difficult
to find. The Judge also resided some way out
of the ci.y, and it was therefore full half past
ten o'clock in tho evening before writ Of ha6e-
as corpus was sued out
Officer Fox having the youth in custody at
the hotel, the writ was placed in the hands Of
Robert uaguc, Esq, High Constable of Pitts
burgh, an excellent and efficient officer, who
delivered Alexander into the hands of his friends
who awaited the issue at the hotel door. The
purport of the writ was to bring the kidnapper,
thomas Adams, before the Hon. Judge vii.
liams at ten Of the clock on Monday morning
the Both. The youth being deliverd up, Adams,
consequently fed the same evening, and has
not since been seen nor heard from. We have
placed Alexander. the youth, in the family of
one of the Undersigned. Mr.. John Peck, where
he will be provided for and comfortably faring
as member of the family and shall remain,
awaiting the requision of the British Consul
ut Philadelphia or his friends at jamaica
Alexander is decidedly youth of great prom
isc.
We have closely and carefully conversed with
Alexander Hendrickure, and making all due
allowance for his agc-which is fourteen-qual-
iiications, opportunities, inaccuracies, and dis
crcpancies yet the facts which he has impart-
to us, told in his simple, boyish, and peculiarly
native manner, developed to us the key to i'm
portant and startling truths, as connected
with the American steamers touching Jamaica,
and probably other British West India Islands.
In the winter Of 1872, this same youth
was decoycd by an American, and induced to
leave Jamaica for the United States, the vessel
in this instance touching ut Norfolk, Virginia,
where the man with whom he embarked from
Jamaica went ashore on business Ot may have
been to mako arrangement to sell him) and
overstaying his time, was left, Alexander being
taken to New York on board of the steamer,
where, on application, he was provided for by
the British Consul for tho port Of New York,
and sent back to Jamaica. The truth Of this
last statement may be easily ascertained.
The inducements which led him from home
each time, he says, was a desire to make
money. which are generally held out by the
Americans on board of the steamers, in such 4
manner as to prove entirely successful. HI
was promised by the kidnapper. Thomas J
Adams, to be taken to Tennessee, whore he hat
large quantity of cattle, to go from thence b!
the overland route to California, where h,
should Become wealthy by his industry. III,
seemed no. to have been aware, of the existence
of Slavery and the inequality between tn
white and colored people OF the United States
There were three other youths beside himself
. called Brown, John, and the other not recol
ected, all of whom were induced by American
> to leave Jamaica for this country, who came oil
the American Steamer Uncle Sam, on her las
homeward trip from California. And thes
4 youths are now in different parts of the Unite
. States. having separated at New York, Alexan
, der being destined for Tennessee.
He informs us that this is no uncommon oC
currence, almost every American steamer whic
touches the island, bringing away some colore
# youths to the United States, always predicate
IS upon great promises of doing great things f
: them. In proof of this, the kidnapper Adam
d replied to us, when finding there was TO alte
i native, that he had found the boy in Kingsto
10 half.naked and half-starued, and brought hi
S, away to provide for him, and give him a gO'
d home in Cincinnati, Ohio. This was sheer fal
Of rication.
Is In addition TO. and corroborative Of these fac