Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-19
SALEM, Sent. 18th 1857.

SALEM, Sept. 18th 1857.
To THE EDITOR: Your recent anniversary at
Alliance, was so cheering in it, whole character
and results, that we may well take heart for the
Autumn campaign. Two or three thousand earn
est. devoted men and women, assembled on a
Sunday ito devise measures and means for the lib.
Grafton Of the captive, certainly present a specta.
Gle to which tyrants and oppressors will do well
to cake heed. Perhaps but o small part of that
vast gathering. are ready for Revolutionary Deeds,
though most of the men certainly seemed inter-
csted in. and impressed by the most reasonable
sentiments promulgated. And the women too
as why should they not!
Such meetings are the academies where we are
training the people and ourselves, for whatever
encounter the dire necessities Of our cause may
force upon us. Words, spoken or written. are well
only if they be earnest, manly words. But after
all, they may be only the paper currency Of which
bullets are tie specie redemption. 1t will be we'll 10
prepare for, or at least to talk about the worst.
Free children are kidnapped on the banks of the
Ohio, ard dragged off into slavery. Slave nun
tiers pursue their prey also. up into the Northern
States. Ballots surely are no protection or pre-
vention here. We cannot wait for election days
to come round, and run the chances of defeat in
our candidate or if successful, wal. the slow ac-
ton Of legal process. All that may beleug to
Reform ; and will answer on the common ques-
tions arising in civil government. But our
movement is a Revolution, not a Reform, and de-
mands Revolutionary action. The slave hunter
should not be tolerated in the streets Of Ohio, no
matter who is governor, or what is law. Much
less should those human hyenss, those demon,
that have broke Jail from perdition, and 20 prowl-
ing around the humble cabins of the free colored
people, stealing their children like lambs from the
fold, and bearing them in their Implying fangs
down to the dens Of the second death.
In the autumn of 1854, there were four cases
of free colored people thus seized at midnight
and dragged off to be sold into slavery, in only
six weeks. What political party, or what law
can guarantee against such atrocity as this p
There must be more speedy, more summary &C
ton than was ever contemplated by Law, or the
Makers of Law
And such instances are doubtless of "constau'
occurrence. Many slaves escape to Canada. Tn,
elave-holders are making reprisals on the free color
ed people, to indemnify them for their loss. Tn,
slave holders are deliberately plotting to renew
the African Slave Trade, under pretence of i'm
porting free emigrants from Africa, as the Capital
lists import free laborers from Britain and Germa
r ny, to work the mills and mines of the Now Eng
land and Middle States. And when the poor Afri
cans were once on the soil of a Slave State, ant
=. subject only to state Laws there, what would b.
their condition ? What would it have been, ever
without the bred Scott Decision =? We all know
alas, too well!
0 Now the men who would c~ontrive, defend, anC
d seek to enact that system of plumber in Guinel
and Congo. would not hesitate to steal every color
p cd person in America for the slave Markets-yea
ard every white laborer too, were it possible !
And this land piracy is going on continually
There can be no question of it. Every year re
Q veals the instances and some of them of most ter
rible description. And No doubt many of tn
n worst cases are unfold and unknown.
And then the slave hunters and slave catcher
S are no better. Why wait the slow process Of law
when the law almost invariably favors the kidnap
pers, and By its very existence, sancti6es the kid
mapping? Why should such scOurges be suffere,
to ravage and destroy ? Better far that thes
western states return back to the desolation fror
t which they have been so gloriously redeemed, an,
? become wild woods ard wilderness again 70
beasts of prey that with the red savages, held III
disputed possession. as the ages moved on! VIVA
shall we do with these worse than roaring lion
a who go about seeking whom they may destro
and devour! Who will say our streets should no
D rather run with blood, than be polluted by thei
tread? Who Of us would not arrest the wretcI
' that should lay his hand, (rather his paw on
wife or child of ours as a slave. and send hin
o with all his guilt upon him, where telegraphs viii
|. never be attempted? What could we do better
o And why should we do less for others than W
would do for ourselves, or than we would hav
a others do for us? If there be a more excellen
: way, for the love Of humanity let it be shown
t for we cannot. will not be thus cursel, so help u
Heaven.
! Some will say this is Treason, Rebellion, in tn,
highest degree. Of course it is; but what of that
, So was every decisive step in the American Rev
%olution, from the Tea Table scene in Boston har