Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-02-14
From the Cleveland Herald.
The Fugitive Infatioide.

All that could be said in one hundred vol.
umes ageinst slavery would be Of no effect as
compare with the deed Of blood witessed last
week in Cincinnati; aud It would seem, too.
e If the blood-dyed argument was not 10 ad-
NIT OF a word OF reiutatiOn. for over the gas.
ping victim Of the curse Of human bondage
didlhe master assert that his slaves re all well
provided for, and had no cause for complaint
Thus it stands confessed. that slavery at best
is worse than death, and that the cold grave
is more welcome shelter than the most hu-
name roof Of the master. We know that sla-
very exists 10 Kentucky in its mildest form,
and particularly along the margin Of the state
.of Ohio, and yet, rather then see her chill
dren go back to Kentucky bondage, the moth.
er kills her babe, and attempts the lives of all
her chIdrenl Actions speak louder than words
and there is no mistaking the despair which
drives a mother TO such measures.
Kentucky must. through necessity, become
Free State. Intelligence will work its way
among the slave populat on, and friends viii be
found even within her borders ready and will.
ing to aid the blacks towards the Queens do
minions. Beside, the slave population are be.
coming more and more desperate. The cour-
age which could draw a knife across the throat
OF child, would aim a dagger at the heart
OF the master, and the lives Of the slave owners
are becoming daily more and more in peril.
Sldden deaths among the whites are alarming
ly frequent in slave States, and added to this
the insecurity Of slave property near the Dor.
ders Of the Free States, will force the gradual
extinction OF slavery in such a state as Ken
tuuky. The moral influence Of woman, too
than to whom no one is more shamefully wrong
ed through the decentralization of society Incl.
dent to slavery will be more and acknowl-
edged, and through fear, through pecuniary in.
terest, and though purer motives Of the heart,
the curse of slavery must be driven from Ken
lucky soil.
This tragedy rings across the Ohio, and since
its enactment thousands Of dollars in slaves
have been taken from she border counties Of
Kentucky the Lexington slave market TO be
sold South, and other thousands have taken to
themselves wings and flown away
In commenting upon this fearfEla deed of
blood the COLUMBUS Journal says:
Is not this most horrible What fearful
record it makes against the institution of Slave
ryl 4 slave mother, rather than see her cl il.
dren slaves for life, with more than Roman
herosm, destroys her offspring before the face
Of her master 1t was not cruelty, for her
mothers love bad braved the elements, and
ventured every thing for them. What an aw-
full scene, and what terrible condemnation
does it pronounce upon the system ofhuman
bondage! When, in the annals of the world,
has SO thrilling SO startling a tragedy been reg
istered
But We forbear. People Of Ohio, of the free
States, look at these fact They are the legli-
innate fruits Of slavery. They flow from the
system. Disguise it as you may, il is most
foul and wicked and abominable syster. This
terrible drama speaks trumpet-tongued to the
world. aud to prosperity. Il cannot be senc-
edit cannot be evaded. Here stands the ma.
ked. startling and damning fact that a slave
mother, well treated. well fed, with nothing
but the fearful life of slave before her, has
slain her own daughter rather than permit he
to live the life of a slave
And yet we have men, even in the free
States. who are not only not opposed to Slave.
ry, but who are desirous of its extension into
the heretofore free territories Of our Union.-
We confess our institutional obligations.
We have no right to interfere with this institu
ton as it exists in the States. We have nc
right to pass laws to prevent the master from
relaxing an escaping slave if he can find him
We prefer our Constitution and our Union TO
the anarchy and the ten thousand evils that
would ensue from Its disruption. Bu' we may,
and God giving us strength we will, continue
10 fight against the extension of this giant evil,
this nations curse, into territories now free.