Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-17
ANTHONY BURNS IN NEW YORK.

On Friday evening, Anthony Burns made q
apeech in Rev. Mr.. Pennington's church Ia New
York city. Tho Tribune the following report;
My Fricnds,-I am very glad to have it to say,
to have it to feel, that ! am once more in the land Of
liberty that l ain With those who are my friends.
Until my tenth year did not care what came Of
ne but soon after / began TO learn that there
is q Christ who came to make us free | began to
hear about q North. md to feel the necessity for
freedom of soul and body. / heard Of n North
daring to say to them, You are my property md
| determined by the blessing Of God one day to
find my way there. My inclination grew on me-,
and I found my wd5 to Boston.
You sec, ! didn't ven. to make myself known, so
| didn't tell who I was but MS I came 10 work ]
got employment and / worked hard; but | kept my
own counsel. and didn't tell dny body that l was
a slave, but | strove for myself us I had TN or7or'
tunity to do before. When ! was going home one
night | heard some one rushing behitd me pres
emily a hand was put on my shoulder, and some
body said stop, stop you are the fellow who
broke into n silversmith's shop the other night"
| assured the man that it was n mistake, but nj.
most before | could speak | was lifted from my
feet by six or seven others. and it was no use 20
resist. In the Count House | waited some time,
but as the silversmith did not come | told them !
wanted to 20 home to supper. A man then came
to the door; lie didn't open it like an honest man
would, laughter but kind of slowly openel it,
and looked in, lie said, "Ifow do you DO Mr..
B%urns?" ana | called hin, as We do in in Virginia,
"masterH"
lie asked Inc if there would be any trouble in
taking me back to Virginia, and | was brought
right to q stand, and didn't know what to say. lie
wanted to know if | remembered the money that
he used to give me, and | said Yes, | do recollect
that you used to give me twelve and Il half cents
at the end of every year | worked for YOU" He
went out and came back the next morning. ] got
no supper nor sleep that night. The next morn.
! NJ thnv fplJ mn that M nnuto enid tfot In ho1
the right to me and rs ] had called him master"
having the fear Of God before my eyes, / could not
go from it. Next morning | was taken down, with
the bracelets on my wrists-not such as you wear,
ladies, IF gold and silver but iron and steel, that
wore into the bone. lie showed the marks which
his irons madc.
fine lawyers insisted that I should have counsel,
bit | told told them l didn't think it would do any
good, for what l had first said had crushed me, and
| could not deny the truth and my only hope vas in
the assistance Of Heaven. lie proceeded to relate
how the officers were armed in the court room how
the United States officials told him that Dana, Ellis,
Phillips and the rest were id SONS Of BIS of
abolitionists that he would be freed when lie got
back to Virginia, and advised him to have nothing
to do with those who pretended to befriend him
while they made his case worse. He replied that
they worked for him m%anfully, and if they did
Hot sicteed it was not their fault. lie said he saw
in a newspaper that he had said he wished to go
back to Virginia. Hal the Devil himself said
1t, he could have told no greater lie.
lie then described the scene of his rendition ;
how he, n poor fugitive was made q great lion, and
escorted out of the free city of Boston, and on
board of the revenue cutter, amid troops of men
armed TO the teeth. How they 1.-The law and order
mem promised to purchase him when he got to
Virginia, and when he got to Norfolk they clap
ped him into Jail, and put irons on his wrists, and
kept him in a room without bed or seat, and with
but scanty food, for two days. lie was taken to
Richmond, where he was kept in a little pen in
the Traders Jail for four months, with irons on
his wrists and ANGLES, SO tight that they wore the
hesh through to the bone, and during the month
Of AUGUST they gave him u half-pailful of water
every two days.
From his cell he was not allowed to couie out
once during four months at the end Of that time
he was sold for 005 to one David Mcdaniel, who
took him to North Carolina.
The remainder of his story is short hearing OF
his situation the money was raised, and his pur
chase effected By Mr.. Grimes.
The address wds listened to with great interest,
and was much applauded.
The Rev. Mr.. Grimes followed, after which q
collection was taken up.