Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-02
KIDNAPPERS.

Last week we recorded the account of the Kid
mapping of a colored girl in Cincinnati, and of
her subsequent enlargement by a magistrate in
Coyington. The Kentucky Yeoman published at
Maysville, states that a gang of kidnappers exists
along the Ohio, whose business it is to cntice
slaves from Kentucky, or in Kentucky language
"steal' them, and to kidnap free colored persons
from Ohio that they are IN partnership with ne
gro traders in the interior of Kentucky to whom
they pass their victims, and who sell then further
South.
The Yeoman is in a strong fever of excitement
against the negro traders. 1t says:
Let me here apprise the slave owners of Ken
lucky that negro traders are more to be feared and
require a closer ocatch than the incendiary abolition
lists secretly insinuating themselves among us.
1t is Justly estimated that tuo-thirds Of The slares
that escape from their masters are transported Mro'
the agency Of STARE dealers TO the South. Let the
loser of slave property examine the negro pens of
the state and throughout the South before offering
rewards or looking towards Canada. Now | here
fearlessly charge, that any man or set Of men, tcho
deal in slares as a business or profession, ,ciU not hes
itate from conscientious Sc,1ples, to receice stolen
property, or assist in deluding a c~ontented slave
from n home for the sake of gain.
Let citizens OF this state frown down these of
fensiye characters, destroy their inhuman pens,
and the condition Of our slaves will be much I'M
proved"
So there are some persons worse that abolition.
lists. But this writer is rather hard upon the ira
traders. What would Kentuckians do with their
young stock if there were no buyers. They might
in such case thank the negro thieves for stealing
their property. To the shareholders, the traders
are certainly a very useful and indispensable class
of men and they will doubtless think themselves
prosecuted and claim the honor of martyrs for the
abuse from those they serve.
Then again as to negro theiving, every slavc-hold-
err is a man theft, and these negro stealers and their
~accomplices, the traders, are nothing more. The
Indignation against them by Shareholders is not
therefore a virtue above suspicion, and it will be
hard to show cause why if these thieves should &C
to the peniteniary, the masters should not also ac
company them.
Three brothers, named Young, have been arres
ted as part of this gang, and as con ,erned in thu
Cincinnati Kidnapping case.
FREE CoucRED YorERs IN New ~YoRK.-Unlikt
other voters in New York, the colored people are
required, as a condition of franchise, to be thu
loNucfS y 4 tfCc nOia tuttC " d lax NuiNO VI |~OO
over and above all debts and encumbrance'
charged thereon, and upon which tax shall have beer
paid. Notwithstanding this limitation Of the fran
chise, there are three thousand voters of this class
in n. York City. What is the entire coiored popu
iation of the city We cannot say. But even with
out tina. knowledge. this fact is a loud attestatior
against slareholding and colonization slanderers o
the eolored people of the North.
A writer in the last Standard, from the South
exhorts antislayery men to direct their labors es
pecially against this SANDER of the free coioieC
population. lie represents it as a serious and very
honest objection in the minds of many Southern
ers. The actual conviction being very strong witt
them tina: this ciass Of persons are below all other
in degradation and suffering, and that emsncipa
ton Will sink their slaves far below their presen
condition