Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03
A BASE ISLANDER CORRECTED.

PUTNAM, Ohio, Feb. %, 1855.
There is now living in this village q colored man
Ivy the name of Wilson Anderson, in the employ Of
Z. Z. Converse, Esq, now Judge of the Court.
Mr.. Anderson is an honest, energetic, Industrious
man, and the testimony of Mr.. Converse to this
effect can be had by any one who may take tho
trouble to inquire. Mr.. Anderson previous to
leaving Virginia The has been here about two
years. contracted to pay the sum of 81 800 for his
wife and children. But finding the means which
he could raise by ordinary labor inadequate to
meet the required payments for the bodies and
souls of those so dear to him, he concluded last
fall to try the last resort. of asking the friends of
humanity for a little material aid" But while
on this errand in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson Co.,
several men ard boys accosted him in tho stree,
with the epithet of imposter, to prove which they
exhibited the following paragraph in the "Colum.
bian and Great West" of Cincinnati. So furious
were some of them, that for n while he entertained
strong fears of being mobbed.
AN IMrosrER.-The colored man, Wilson An.
dcrson, whom the Times recently recommended
to our charitable citizens as awOrthy object for the
exercise Of benevolence. is the same mig who.
some time ago swindled the abolition brethren out
around the brick kiln, by a story about his wishing
to redeem his wife an little ones from slavery
wills. is, we presume, well known to ex-Marshal
Ilulse, and all our own citizens, as he has been
about town for the last twenty-five years. How
he managed to pull the wool over the ewes of in.
visible we do not know, but do know that Wills.
has no wife or children in slavery, and even the
endorsement of the Times will not induce those
who know him to rate his virtues at par"
Now, it happens that the mendacious scoundrel
who penned the above, did not utter a single truth.
Not only so, but he must have kno,cingiy lied.
For there is not n fact known to any persons here
acquainted with the man, that would Justify a sim
gle statement. lie has a wife, and is now living
with her in a house owned by Judge Converse, Of
this place. A man who, to revenge a ' wrong done
by an enemy, is tempted to utter false and malici-
Gus ISLANDERS against his character, is looked upon
by all as low, base and mean. But he can offer at
least a weak excuse-he was goaded by passion.
But this villainous calumniator, without even this
fimsy excuse, for the mere love of falsehood, or
the hate of a colnrcd man whom he never saw.
sends forth the SANDER as far as his dirty sheet 10
read. | suppose it must have gratifed him to know
that it prevented Anderson from getting a few
quarters of those who happened to see the lie.
| hope those who take the Bugle in Jefferson, Bel
mont and Harrison counties, where he travelled
and procured aid, will take some pains in contra
dieting the calumny against an honest man, who
has already TO contend with a bitter and relentless
prejudice against his race.
Some may wonder how the columbian" ever
heard of this obscure colored man, living as he
does, so far from Cincinnati. The explanation is
this Previous to going to the eastern part Of the
State for aid. he went to Cincinnati, and had the
''Times" to publish a commcndatory notice of him,
and his mission. From this the whole story was
manufactured. I pity the family into whose circle
so foul a sheet is permitted to enter. Mr.. Ander.
son may yet give the gentleman a legal lesson on
Islander. w. E. LUKENS,
p. S. Mr.. Anderson is now out, trying again
to raise money for the redemption of his family.
For this reason, | thought the falsehood of tho
columbian" ought to be exposed.
W. e. L.