Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-12
KENTUCKY AND OHIO.

RoRERr FEE, Of New Richmond, Ohio, was ar
rested last week on the demand Of Governor Powell
of Kentucky. charged with assisting slaves to cs-
cape from their masters in Kentucky. Governor
Mcdill has complied with the requisition, and de.
iycred up Fee to the tender nereies Of the slave
holders.
We should like to know by what authority Gov.
Mcdil surrenders a citizen of Ohio on such charge
What if he had pointed the fugitives to the north
star, or guided them in person to the Ohio river
that is no offence again,t our laws. Are we to bc
subject to Kentucky law2 If so we may as well
dispense with our own Legislature. Itisan outrage
against the peace and dignity of our citizens which
if there among them healthful spirit Of free
dom, would doom Governor Mcdill to political death
beyond hope Of resurrection.
Multtudes Of our own citizens have been seized
at their own fresdes and carried into Kentucky
slavery and who has ever demanded Of Governor
Powell, the rufhan kdrappcrs for punishment
And if they had been demanded the messenger
would have received insult and scorn instead of the
persons Of the culprits. These bipcd Kentucky
blood-hounds traverse our country as they please
search the houses of our citizens without lcga
NhilduN-ItSIhlB tNth lilt tHlnDeFs OF tnen
female inmates, snuffng upon the trail of Their
victims. Quite recently we have had occasion tc
chronicle several outrageous attempts to kidnaI
our free citizens, rs in the recent case in Brown
county and Governor Medl and all the judicial
protectors Of personal rights among us, never dream
that they have anything to do in the premises Sec
also the following account from Mr.. Pillsbury
which we extract from one Of his letters in the
Liberator:
"Tbe three States Of Ohio Indiana and Illinoi,
are, in their southern portions as regular hunting
grounds for kidnappers the California plains are
for wild cattle. | have no doubt COvington, in
Kentucky. and Cincinnati, separated only by the
Ohio, are the central points Of organized gangs Of
the most desperate counterfeiters and kidnappers
who ever looked through the CRATES Of prison, or
stretched a halter. No colored man, woman OF
child is safe Houses have been broken open at
midnight in two instances, since have been trav.
elling here and the inmates manacled and carried
of. In both cases, however, tho victims have been
recovered and returned. Bnt the hell-hounds in
whose fangs they were found have escaped unharm
cd.
do not believe the Fugitive Law was intended
by it's designers to re-capture fugitive slaves. The
South are mad that 80 many Of their victims escape
! to Canada; and this Law was passed to allow nj
/ reprsals upon ,he homes of free colored people
who live upon Slavery's frontiers, in order to keoI
full the ranks of screaming and sweating sorrow
| And this the Law is doing, aided by such miscre
ants as Mclean Finn, Spooner, Grier and Ingra
ham and brood Of Commissioners and Marshals
moro hateful far than Millions yelling monsters,
whose birth tore the entrals Of Sin, their inferna
mother, begotten upon her in rape most foul, by
Death, her rstborn son. as she sat PROSTATE at thu
gate Of hell" Hundreds. and more likely thou
sands, Of Solomon Northrups and their families arr
this hour in slavery, torn from homes as free anC
happy as any in America.
Nobody is safe The late case of arrest at Ming
ara Falls shows that white skin is no sccurit,
whatever. l should no moro dare to send children
out alone, especially at night, did live within ter
or twenty miles Of the Ohio river, than | shoulc
dare send them into forest Of tigers and hyenas
have taken special pains TO warn the colorGd peo
pie, above all things to be on their guard. Kidnap
are accessories in the damned work!l For the Low,
/ Of God and humanity, let il be cxposedl