Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-12
out from them. Gods work cannot be done
the worlds work cannot be done, in any other
way.
From yours, Ever and Truly,
PARKER PILLSBURY.
The Bloody Institution.

! While pro-slavery press and canting pull
pit, arc whining about the cxtravagances OF
Mrs. Stowe in Uncle Tom, deeds are transporting
every day, which in their horrible reality, throw
everything written into the shade, and make
romance tame. But these things are for the
| most part hidden to the "wise and prudent"
and revealed only to the foolish and reckless.
A case has jus. transpired, which ought to
have found its way into every press, and to
have been thundered from every pulpit, till the
people aroused TO manly resistance, should
swear upon the altar of the Eternal, that such
deeds should be perpetrated no longer.
Hear it, yc cavillcrs against inidelity, ye
venerable worshippcrs of "ye know not what
and turn your attention homeward for while ;
see if ye can comprehend for once what is
meant by Remembering those in bonds, as
bound with them"
There lived few weeks ogo in the neigh
boring state of Maryland, man who in his
physical appearance, commanded the attention
Of all who saw him. Tall and robust, with
rather an imposing face and head, gcntcmanly
in his manners, and withall well dressed, he
was one to be noticed. And noticed he had
been-for God had converted his soul, and his
brethren had ordained him to the work of the
christian ministry. He bad received call
from church in Fredericktown, and had been
installed as pastor. This free American citizen
this disciple of Jesus--this minister Of the
church, had wife whom he tenderly loved |;
loved above all earthly price, Of whom had
been born eight sons and daughters. But
though they called him Father, another claimed
them as his-though that woman called the
father Of her children, husband, she was the
property of another, and subject to all the
vicissitudes Of property.
The anxious husband and father, felt their
hazardous condition, and resolved to free them
by purchase; aye-he resolved to purchase his
own wife and children! How much he payed
towards the sum demanded, l cannot tell. But
! like toise man, he determined TO flee with
| them from the prison house, at all risks. Ar
rangcments were made for this end. The fam
! lily finally reached the neghborhood of Bedford
in the slave state of Penn, where in conse-
quence of information having been sent by one
Jackson, a colored Wesleyan wretch, they
were overtaken after suffering horribly from
the cold and exposure. They were frost-bittcn
and lame. But amid cold and pain, they were
dragged to Cumberland Jail, and advertised for
sale. One boy escaped, and is safe nestled
under the name Of the old Lion. The father
escaped the clutches of the lac, which would
eonsign him to q felons Jail for life, for daring
to attempt to secure the happiness of his own
family, and arrived at Pittsburgh, where the
friends raised money and sent AN sgont to
! Cumberland, hoping the family might be pur-
chased at low rate for the husband and iGther.
Meantime it was thought unsafe for Mr. Mitch
ell to remain under the jurisdiction of Gov.
Bigler, the miserable tool of the slave power.
So he came on to Ohio, swaitine intelligence
| from the agent sent to Cumberland. Word
came at last. The agent was too late. The
fumily had been sold to the Orleans traders for
I four thousand dollars, and hurried into the
abyss of u southern plantation, there to suffer
under the lash and sun, for daring to love lib
| erty. Men, if your hearts are not made OF
! Granite, think of it. The family:-a wife and
seven children of n MANA free man,-an
American freeman,-a christian, aye, christ
ian minister, too, torn from him, and he from
them. Separated forever They sent to the
far south to be worked up into cotton and rice,
/ he driven from the land of his birth, from the
christian associations, from tho flock he fed
with the word of life, to the northern cline
of another government. Could you hear the
walls of that stricken wife, the cries Of that
bereavcd and tormented family, could you see
the heavings of that manly bosom, and above
all could you feel the intensity of their souls
agony, you would stay, surely you would stay,
long enough from your efforts to prove aboli-
tionists infdel, to call down the curses of the
Almighty upon the wretches, who cause such
sorrow, and perpetrate such deeds as these.
As l stood and looked at that man in his
sorrow, told him could not tell how he en-
dured it. His answer was that Christ taught
us to pray for those that desptefully used u.s.
told him l could bear any thing myself but
when it came to deeds so damnablc, my prayer
was that God would gather tho thunderbolts
of the universe and hurl them with almighty
vengeance into the hearts of such soulless
bloody wretches. 1t may be wrong, but l feel
if had the power should do it. May uni
versal curses come down upon the whole sys-
tenn. W.
: The New YoRK INDEPENDEST.-The ability
of its editorial corps is an abundant guarantee
of its ability. The whole weight of its inhu-
ence is, however, given to the union of North
ern churches with Shareholders, though 1t
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