Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-04

day was approaching, and no eye in all that land
would look upon her in pity, nor no arm would
shield her and her babe from the merciless tyrants
that pursued her. When the night came on,
again she resumed her journey, taking the north
star for her guide, and thus through many long
and dreary nights she carried her babe in her
arms, and 10y almost superhuman e%xertions she
bafied all her pursuers, and finally reached Cana
da in safety although greatly emaciated and en-
reeblod by her perilous journey, often having been
three or four days without food of any kind, ant
then, subsisting on fruit and berries or whatever
she could procure without impeding her flight, OF
subjecting her to the danger of capture.
When she had arrived at a place Of safety, and
the excitement that had sustained her, abated
she became utterly Frustrated, and was for week:
confined to a bed in a state Of fearful stupor, from
which it was feared she would never recover. But
rest. and the safe arrival of her husband, who
faithfully followed her, has partially restored her
and she now lives to bless the remaining child, ant
mourn for those lost ones, who are
"Gonc, gone-sold and gone,
Where no mothers eye is near item,
Where no mothers ear can hear them,
Never, when the torturiug lash
Seams their backs with many a cash,
Shall a mothers kindness bless them,
Or n mothers arms caress them"
But the most pleasing sight that we bcheld wa
the Fugitive School. Here in a comfortable schoo
room, erected by the contributions of America,
Abolitionists, are gathered the children Of ostra
cised Americans, learning to read and write "witl
a will' that | never saw equalled in any whit
school | ever visited. With eager Joy they shove,
us their writing books. and pointed out thei
lessons, and told the short time they had beer
studying, eyincing a capacity to learn that vii
well repay all efforts made in their behalf. TIL
countenances of many bespoke unusual intelli
gence, and gave good promise Of making some da,
men and women that will stretch out their hand
toward their fatherland, and pour out curse
agains its peculiar institution that shall cause then
to wither before the frown of a justly ~indignan
world. Among the scholars was a beautiful, sym
metrically formed young woman about eightccl
years of age, so white that few would suspect he
of African descent. Some four months since, SD
was a slave in kentucky, the property Of a piou
Presbyterian, who had raised her in his family
where unusual advantages had cultivated her min
and manners far superior to most persons in he
condition. In the language Of slavery, she was
" Fancy Girl" and as such would command tn
highest price in an American market, where femal
chastity is sold by Christians to the highest bidder
Taking advantage of the usual competition in sue
cases, her pious master for an enormous sum sol
this trembling girl to a most l%icentious master, VIII
was selecting such sacrifices for the he'll of soutf
crn slavery. Fortunately, she heard her doom be
fore she was delivered to the purchaser, and il
stantly fed from a fate she dreaded more tina
death. Crossing the river without much difficulty
she found n friend who secrcted her from her pul
suers and then conveyed her t. this State, wher
other friends carried her to her present home
Her pursucrs followed her to Detroit, but dared nj
cross over the Jordan" that flows between TIL
and the promised land, for on that other shor
American slaves are free.
G. S. S. GRIFFING.