Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-17
Gbr Anti-Glaurrp Bnole,
Salem, Ohio, September ~, 1859.
HORRIBLE BARBAR1TY-CowARD1CE.

OF all the cool-boodcd atrocities of villianous
lave catchcrs, the transaction recorded below is
'limax. We arc not surprised at such bloody hor-
rors when perpctratcd by U. S. Marshals-Com-
mssionors and Judges, or by. their humber catch
poles, the Wyncoop's and Aibcrti's of the country.
They were selected because they were qualified to
do just such things. But when the citizens Of a.
whole village can suffer themselves to be bullicd
into silence and inactivity by five such ruiiians,
can quietly look on and see them strip poor
trangcr-leaving him chilled, naked, half dead,
weltering in his blood, and not good Samaritan
among them all to afford relief, till the bloody
wretches had safely escaped--that we confess
surprises us. Has slavery blottcd humanity from
our people? Have they so long heard of its hor-
in the distance, that they now witness the
most bloody of them all at their own doors, as
quietly as they would the mock tragedy Of n
theatre?
The great question to be answered is, where is
the responsibility for this and similar outrages-
Where the responsibility for that system, which
authorizes and makes them necessary? We are
too much in the habit of throwing it upon the
South-upon the slave owners--upon the govern
ment-upon the churchcs-upon the parties, whg
and democrat-or upon any association or organ-
zation where responsibility can be absorbed-and
guilt can be dssipated by its indefinite distribution
among all, and to nobody. Edward Beechors
doctrine of "organic SIM" though repudiated by
the lip, finds practical and very general approval
Thus the people wrap it up, and hold on to the
main props and pillars of slavery-defend, sustain
and extend it, and no body is guilty of the crime
Millions of slaves arc held by the people of the
country, but nobody holds them. Thousands Of
newborn infants are weekly kidnapped but there
are no pirates. Thousands of murders arc com
mitted, and by cruelties in ten thousand forms-by
starvation-by the lash--by blood-hounds-by
bowie-knives, cudgels and revolvers, and no mur
derer is to be found in all the land who is rcspon
sible for the slaughter Of these innocents. Bu
Shareholders pirates and murderers, there must be
somewhere, because these crimes are committed
daily and by wholesale. Who are they? Where
are they?
We believe in an intelligent, living, tender con-
science-in its next to Almighty power We
would therefore brand the guilt upon every indi-
vidual participant in these crimes, by making
manifest if possible, the points of his participancy
This from the beginning has been the work of alb
olitonists and this it must continue to be. We
must fix it where it belongs not upon organiza
tons in the mass, but upon the individuals who
compose these organizations, and who authorize OF
sanction their acts
Every member of the Wing and Dcmocrati
party who has sanctioned the Baltimore platforms
has authorized and sanctioned this Wilksbarr
c outrage-and is accomplice with Judge McLear
e (nn,p,ieaiopor TnUrahon, aud hon AIhart;
= These are but the agents he employs and the
perform but the duty prescribed by their princpa
n The church member, who sits in fellowship wit
slavery, is doing his utmost to stamp this prac
and robbery as divine. Thus does he blind III
mind and paralize tho conscience Of his brother
. thus does he commit blasphemy against God an
piracy and murder against the millions of slave
a a The supporter of the Pittsburgh platform, wi
/ leave 10 the states the subject Of slavery and Il
o "rendition Of fugitiyes from SERVICE" does not
u cape responsibility, and would do well to look
y his position. Tho act of an Ohio judge, week b
fore last in Cincinnati in sending three slaves ba
to their chains in spite Of well established law al
TO precedent proves that they have committed Il
- fugitive to no safer tribunal than has the law
1. 1850, when it consgns him to the tender morci
III Of U. s. Marshal and Commissioner. Eve
1t man in the nation, to whatever party he belon,
hS is responsible for slave catching till he says O.
he phaticaly in word and deod--always and evel
es where NO SLAVE RENDITION by the nation, by I
ed state or by the individual lie is responsible
slavery, till he says, in the church, in the party,
the platform, in the government, and as an in
yidual, NO SLAVERY.
1t will not exhonerate him that he curses slave
MS an individual, and upholds it as n Wing or
ng Democrat II will not exhonerate him that
hides the fugitive as a man, while he catches h
0' as partisan. 1t will not do that he says as
individual, that slavery is of the dovil--the sum
es all vilainies, and in the General Assembly a
Is General Conference, at the sacramental table, r
H. ognises slavery divine, and receives men the
he as the representatives of Jesus and his princpl
of It will not do to join antislayery societies,