Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-26
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SALEM, OHIO, SEPTEMBER &c, 1857.
For the Anti-slavery Bugle.

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To THE EDITOR: In my last, some illusions
were made to the Importance of more speedy and
summary resistance to kidnappers and slave
catchers, than is provided for by law. In my
last but one, the exercise of Faith and Patience
was enjoined upon abolitionists, both as a duty,
and as an assurance of final, if not immediate
success.
At first sight, the communications might seem
inconsistent with each other. The first was ad-
dressed particularly to abolitionists, and had refer
ence to the one great question of overthrowing
slavery altogether. The other was an appeal
to all classes, and more especially to political
ag%itators of the slave question in regard to a sim
gle branch of the evil when admits Of, and in
deed demands in some respects, a very different
kind of action. When a free person young or
old, is seized by kidnappers TO be dragged into
slavery, (no rare occurrence) a remedy must be
sought, adapted to the case If the victim were
seized by a bear or tiger, we should know what to
do. Some persons would, were the destroyer a
q kidnapper from the jungles of slavery. lie would
doubtless meet the same fate, of a beast of prey
who boosted four feet instead of two.
So too when the slave hunter is abroad under
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Law. No colored person is safe a moment. No
white person is safe. A STAKEHOLDER or slave hun
ter, would seize one victim as soon as another
White persons have been seized within a fe W
years. And a prosecuting attorney in Pennsyl'
vania, not long since, among the effects of some
counterfeiters in that state, found a letter address
ed to one of the number, urging him to hunt out
among the free colored people, such as might be
clutched up and by private or other marks, de
scribed and promised a most profitable addition
to their business of counterfeiting, in a regular
system of kidnapping. Which system they were
no doubt already carrying on. in other quarters.
These are attendant evils of slavery, in which
all should engage, as regardless of Law or Law
Makers. as though it were killing mad-dogs, OF
snatching children from a house wrapped in
midnight flames.
Butt Il may yet be needful to 'resist unto blood
the whole evil of Slavery. Two most alarming
considerations are now true. One is that the slave
spirit and power OF the south. are becoming more
desperate, daring and successful, in their demand:
upon the Nor,h. The other is, that the North
grows corresr ondingly less and less conscious OF
its hsmaiul subserviency and degradation.
The Missouri Compromise of 1920 was a con
cession to slavery, of which at that tina. the
whole north was ashamed. Now in 1857, the bes,
political party at the North, including immense
numbers of Clergymen and Christians, $50 called,
are looking to and praying for a restoration of
that Compromise (which slavery has repealed, J
as a very Millennium in the political world.
In ls43, the annexation Of Texas was deprecst-
ed by even Northern Democrats, as an atrocious
and aggressive outrage Of the slave-power, to