Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-23

SLAVE HUNTING IN INDIANA.

MIR. BENJAMIN WAREHOUSE, n humane citizen OF
Northern Indiana. Tho first effort was IN ontire
failure, and the last we arc happy to say seems not
to have turned out much better. We copy the
Clevel md Leaders condensed account Of the trial
and its result
The Journal of Indianapolis, and the gazette of
Cincinnati, furnished the details of n case tried in
Indiana under the seventh section Of the Fugitive
act of 1850, week before last.
The facts are thus reported
BkSJANiN WATERnousE, August 1853, arrived
at the town of Orland, Indiana, with three colored
persons, CrRUs FILLMORE was present. Conver-
anton ensucd between the parties and the above
named asked WATERHousE "If he was on the I'm.
der Ground Railroad" WATERuoUsE was indie.
ted March, 1854, and this miserable man was the
chief witness against him but the United States
failing to prove that the negroes were Slaves, or
who their owners was or that the defendant was
hiding in their escape, had to abandon the case.
The indictment was %quashcd.
But tho vigil:a. United States Marshal rnsoivaiI
80 nave ~ example, and to make one of WATER
HOUSE, SO he persuades PAYNE. son of the owner
OF escaped slaves, and Cyrus FILLMORE, (payinr
fheir expenses to so to Canada, sec the colored
,nen there, and thus get the evidence needed
But let FILLMORE be heard as he spoke from the
witness stand:
SECOND wiTNEss-cYRUS FILLMORE.
I am brother to OK President; live in Lagrange
county, iadiana; nm acquainted with defcndent
an August, "a, was standing on tho steps of Il
public house in Orland. and some colored folks
with dofendent drove up in q two-horse buggy,
one of the negroes driving; asked defendant if
he was on the underground railroad he said yes,
and that he had three fine fellows, and INQUIRED
for Capt. Barry ! told him of Clark, who was
An abolitionist, and he finally drove up, but can't
say 1 saw them go out saw them no more after
they drove to Clark's; [ was within ten feet of the
negroes as the wagon tarned in the street this
was Goth to 18th August, 1853, $50 miles from Or
land to Detroit went to Canada with Payne, and
found, as | suppose, one of the same negroes, this
was latter part Of Juac last Estates facts about
rs Payne did the same negro, | think, from being
a thin, light coloree negro, and from his having a
peculiar nod, Or wink, which / had noticed before
at Orland he was pretty near all black, about as
these We call black here | would not call him
copper-eolored | might be mistaken in his being
the same negro: | understood under ground rail
road to mean a concern got up to run away fugi-
tives. Defendant lives on the road leading from
Uuion Mills to Fort Wayne.
Cross-examined-IIid n conversation with de-
PENDANT last May saw the negroes in the wagon
q. only; might have been twonty or thirty feet from
them, but did not scrutinize them noticed the one
who was driving the most, and this was not Tom
rs they turned the wagon they came say ten feet,
from me; think the negroes drove i'll town, and
then over to Clark's; may be possible | am mis-.
taken as to driving ia town became acquainted
with defendant II years ago; deputy Marshal
first wanted me to go to Canada, but / did not
want to 90, and the Marshal urged me to go;
] have always been in the habit Of working for
pay am confident defendant used the term under.
ground railroad.
Observation-Disclosures was going north, he
thinks; depends on the road they came in town
might have been 10 minutes that the wagon stop
ped Tom was not driving noticed the driver the
most; Marshal was to pay me; supposed | was tc
be paid in addition to expenses.
What a hireling! All for pay! WArERuousI
hunted down, and the negroes hunted up, for mon
ey! Well, Tom, one of PAYNE's negroes, was fount
sick at Windsor, Canada, and FILLMORE Supposed
he was one of the negroes he saw at Orland.-
Upon this evidence WArERuousE was again in
dicted.
The trial lasted three DAYS. G. W. JULIAN, anG
+. IL. BRACELET appeared for WATERHoUsE. The
District Attorney and r.. II. THOMSON for the pros
ecution. The latter made n Union speech. al
was the old fashioned diatribe," says the .JeUrRai
But most strange, the court pursued the same
course, and went So far as to declare to the Jury
"that the Cons.i, ution could never have been form
ed unless 1t had contained the clause in re gard L
fugitives; had the brazea hardihood to aver, "tha
n slave when found in Indiana, though neverthe
less, prima facis, a slave and the W ickod impu
dence to assert, rs law, that tiles with such slave
to controvert that proposition.
Thus instructed, the Jury retired, and after;scv
eral hours, returned. Their verdict was, tina
WATERuoUsE pay the fine of fifty dollars, AMI M
imprisoned in the courtroom one hour, and tina
Government pay the costs. But this rendition wa
made upon conditions. The Jury, says the gazette
refused to impose the fine, unless the court woulC
agree Immediately to remit it, tchich uaS done g.!
What n case! Government officials prossin
slave owners and hirelings to hunt down n free
man, and failing continuing to hunt up evidenc
to effect that object; a court using all its ~intuenc
to perfect the outrage. Not only is Indiana ira
rersed to get the testimony needed, bnt Canada
and tunrgn unf tha imam n,p nraI - : otnn INDI-
fillmore, were paid for their expense and trouble
1t is intolerable, that such a case should occur il
any Free State, and shows how much is to b
done ere we can have a manly and fearless North.
RHODE ISLAND FREEMAN.-The last number G
this able and independently conducted paper cor
tains the announcement that it will be discontinue
at the close of the present volume. The edito
= says, eve have fairly tried the experiment of sus
tanning q free paper in Rhode Island, and hay
failed" A sad report is that. Rhode Islam
should be constituted missionary ground, ant
slavery-wise. The great difficulty we suppose il
that anti-slavery men there make their anti-slaver
a secondary affair. They will he anti-slavery,
the Church and the ministry can in all things hay
the pre-eminencc, not otherwise. The Freema
. has been no respecter of persons. When it hi
pursued the pro-slavery sinner, the pulpit and tt
communion table have been no places of refuge ft
the guilty. We shall be sorry to part with tt
Freeman. 1t is one of the most reliable Of Il
Free Soil papers in the land, for the slave. i,
far better that it should die, honorably and in II
right, than live by a dishonorable compromise wi
sin and sinners, whether pious and clerical or othe
wise.
STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN SMITu.-The disclosur
ofCaptain Smith in regard to the slave-trade, viii,
we copy from the Evangelist, are contradicted
che SLAYER captain, in the following note to Il
Tribune:
TO the Editor Of Tie N. T. Tribune:
Sir: l read, in the Tribune Of the Sth instar
Confessions said to have been made by me, rels
80. to Aha Cloya Vr,da 10 .ba EJ;,o, e A. L..