The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-02
vILLANoUs OUTRAGE BY ABoLITIoNlsTs.

We find the following narrative in the Cleveland Herald
of the 10Th ult.
We apologists for slavery, but at the time
despe rowdysm and ackguardsm when used by
in their rash and illegal efforts carry their mistaken
notions of philanthropy.
" Yesterday, when the arrived at Salem in Column
biana county from Pittsburg crowd had gathered the
depot despatch from Pittsburg having informed them that
slave girl board under charge Of her and
mistress When the stopped big negro stepped into
them and accosting the girl asked her if she slave
She made reply but her mistress answered that she
Thercupon the black ruan seized her. and She clngng
her mistresss neck begged pteousy not to be
away but the black fellow violently her away and in
the effort bruised the ladys neck severely and carried the
child out Of the and hourshed revolver in
the other hand amid the plauds of the excited crowd.
The master of the child just then in the and
upon hearing of the offered to go before any officer
and free papers if the girl wished to be Free leaving
the matter to the girl But the mob would listen to such
thing The childs screams were heard above the tumu
begging go back that she could again her mother
who belongs to the
The life of the threatened and he dare not
main over the carry grief the mother
Of the girl.
"Ths is outrage, and the people of Oolumbiana it
to themselves to wipe out this stain.
"That long haired brainess G. c. Bureigh was on hand
and made a harangue to the crowd
THE GREY TOWN AFFAIR.
The Philadelphia North American, a whig paper, COM
language:
The government however, through its commissioned of
cers demolished the town, and has since avowed and st
fled the transaction and is therefore, responsible for it
before the world As regards its moral character mankind
free pass Judgment the event at their pleasures but
when foreign State undertakes make it the subject Of
special complaint involving outrage upon its rights,
demands suitable PREPARATION under threat of resentng
what pleased to consider ndgnity and against
ITSELF the matter assumes very serious aspect and requires
to be contemplated entirely legal diplomatic ques
ton.
To this complexion, indeed 1t would seem, the has
comethe British government according to late advices
having fit to put itself in the position of aggrioved
party the at Greytown and to raise issue
with the United States the point of jurisdiction and do
minon in that quarter. Under these circumstances, it
is necessary to assert and maintain national honor
and rights in the controversy and while it may not be
possible yncate the morality the courage of the
IRENE which resorted in the difficulty at San
Juan we admit that the sovereignty of England
in any degree invaded by them, that she has
the slightest valid pretenson which will authorize her to
make the United States answerable any such ground
Whatever claims of this sort she possessed they
we always contended, expressly and formally
rendered by the and Buwer treaty. and to this
struction of that treaty the administration must and will
doubtless adhere The Geographic despatch from ashing
ton which published yesterday, announcing that, in
recent correspondence between Mr. Buchanan and Lord
Clarendon Central American affairs the most extreme
British preenon were reassere has neither alarmed
surprised u.s. If the statement should prove to be we'll
founded it furnishes another manifestation of the ndispos
ton of the ministry the acknowledge the plain
and we'll understood meaning of convention whose proys
ions they have endeaYored escape by buster and equyo
cation and WELL perhaps that occasion has at length
arisen which may lead TO distinct and defnye settlement
which has been allowed to remain too long open
to dispute