Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-11
THE SLAVE CATCHER'S MARTYR.
A Philadelphia correspondent of the Tribune,
writes Of Passmore Williamson, as follows:

A Philadelphia correspondent of the Tribune,
writes of Passmore Williamson, as follows:
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday. Aug. 4, 1866.
Passmore Williamson is comfortable in Jail. He
is about IS years OF age, and has a wife and two
children. His wife will be confined within n
month. | have known him seven years intimately,
and | state the matter thus: Philadelphia has her
best man in Jail, His integrity, truth, courage
and goodness are each and ali unsurpassed, and
not a man i'll a million combines them all in equal
excellence in his single character.
lie is not rash, selfish, or ~fanatical and you
may depend upon it he will stand it out in a fash
ion that will d. credit to the best age of martyrdom
He is absolutely unconquerable.
Our friend Judge Kane will get tired Of playing
iailor to him. Passmore will! neither break nor
bend and he is bucklered by the best hearts in
the country.
Heavens what a choice the devil has made of a
foe! Sevastopol to the Allies is nothing to it.
E..
Mr.. Williamson can afford to lie in Jail much bet
ter than Judge Kane and Chief Justice Lewis can
can afford to keep him there. Commenting upon
this letter, the Tribune says:
"From all accounts, Nj. Williamson is a man
at once of great gentleness and iron resolution,
who would die sooner than vary from q path where
duty babe him walk. But even if instead of shis
admirable mould Of character, he were of a weak
and yielding disposition, it is difficult to see how
he could make any submission to the Judge who
has thrust him into prison. He is punished for
telling the simple truth in the simplest way, with
out sdisrespect and without copcealment he is
punished for having told a colored woman on the
deck of a steamboat, that by the law of Pennsyl-
vania she was free and there would seem to be
no possibility OF undoing these things and afford
ing Judge Kane "A pretext for ending an affair in
which even his reckless and unblushing devotion
to slave.catching must now begin to feel uneasy
and timid. 1t is not a pleasant thing to stand up
against such n food of public condemnation as is
now poured upon this wicked Judge.
"There is not a sane man in the community who
does not feel perfectly convinced that in the sepa-
ration Of Jane johnson and her children from
their former owner, Passmore Williamson did NJ
more than inform the woman of her rights in re-
Spouse to her OWL express desire. Everybody
now knows that she was not abducted from
Wheeler, but went away of her own will, and that
Williamson never at any time had her or her
children in his keeping. There is not a sane man
who believes that thare is a valid reason Of law, or
any reason, either technical or real, why William
son should be kept in prison for a moment Judge
Kane knows this as we'll as all the world beside.
lie knows that he is becoming the mark of univer-
sal execration, and he knows that he deserves it.
AT this hour who would not rather be Passmore
Williamson than Judge Kane, covering beneath
the weight of public indignation and l~oathing,
with a guilty conscience to add to the poignancy of
that punishment?