Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-12
JURGE M'LEAN AND sLAvEHOLDING IN
OHIO

We think it proper to give such aid ms is in our
power to our Republican Drethreniin the difficult
work of selecting q candidate for the Presidency.
1t is proposed by various distinguished members
of the party, to confer the honor upon zone Of
Ohio's distinguished sons" Judge Mclean is a
pee candidate with some Of the Republican re.
cruits from the old wing party, who are quite rs
ready to. frozen upon agitation from the Plttsburg
rs from their old stand on the Baltimore platform.
For theibeneft of all, WI should be glad if we had
it within our reach, to r~epublish an article which
some years since appeared in DR.. Bailey's Cincin-
matt PhilanthIopist, and was subsequently copied
into other papers. The article contained a statement
of facts which showed that Judge Mclean had
been guilty of an attempt to hold q woman (from
Kentucky we Selieve) as a slave, in defiance of the
Constitution and laws Of Ohio, so that his zeal for
the supremacy of the shareholders, o yer Ohio, as
exhibited in the Rosetta case and on various other
occasions, is nothing new. 1t has only grown with
his growth Of years. lie hat strikingly exhibited
its in his private capacity, for the service of a
friend in Kentucky, as he has done in his official
station for the salvation of the Union.
Without attempting to give particulars-the sub
stance of the statement was this: q colored woman
was IOf eOuie tlHe COmpuAoNiEJ NNo0
Mclean in his family, awaiting the arrival of some
friend from Kentucky to carry her to that State
where he designed to retain her as a slave. While
in the Judges custody, she managed during his
absence, to let herself down by a rope from an up-
per story window, and made her escape to q friend
some fifty or sixty miles distant from Cincinnati.
When she arrived at the house of her friend her
hands were raw from the friction of the rope by
means of which she escaped from her attic pris-
on. Her new found friend informed her she had
no occasion to continue her fight as there was no
authority by which her kidnapper could re-
take or reimprison her. She accordingly remain
ed in the neighborhood, married and i. lie believed
lives there to this day. This statement of facts
was never denied by Judge Mclean or his friends
80 far as we know.
The editors Of the Anti-Slavery Standard will
find the article in one of the early numbers of their
file. Perhaps they may think it worthwhile to
hunt it up and publish it for the benefit it
of whilom liberty party men, who in view of
this and other facts, would SOONER cut off their
right hands than give their support to Judge Nc
Lean, in 1910 and 1874, but who are now ready to
20 for him, if the party pronounce HIM the availa-
BILE candidate. Possibly it may show them from
whence they have fallen and induce repentance and
return to their first anti.slavery love.
Since the above was in type we have received
from DR.. Brooke, of Marlboro, the following state
mont of facts regarding the act of slave holding
by Judge Mclean. 1t is worse than We had sta
ted. The Doctors recollection of the case is bet
ter than our own, and our statement should be
corrected by his. He had personal knowledge of
some OF the facts he gives.