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lie is about fifty five years old, we should think
though he does not know his own age. lie is Of
African blood, and as black as n piece OF
charcoal. For twg or three years pas, he has been
running at largd$ no one exercising ownership
over him or putting any restraint upon his move
ments. elf he were disposed to make the attempt,
he could gain his freedom at a much less cost than
even o~ne.tenth of the expense of the famous suit.
lie will not do SO, however insisting on abiding by
the principles involved in the decision of the suit.
lie declares thai he will stick so his mistress as
long Ms he lives. Ills daughters, Eliza and Lucy,
less conscientious about the matter, took advan-
tage of the absence Of restraint on their move
men.s, a year or two since, to disappear, and their
whereabouts remains a n mystery.
bred though illiterate, IS not ignorant. lie has
travelled considerable, and has improved hs stock
of strong common sense by much information
picked up in his journeyings. lie is anxious to
know who owns him being ignorant whether he is
the property of Mrs. Chaffee or Mr.. Sanford,
though, we presume, there is no doubt that the for
mer is his real legal owner. lie seems tired of
running about, with no one to look after him, while
at tho same time he is a slave. lie says. grinning-
ly, that he could make thousands of Dollars, If al
lowed, by travelling over the country and telling
who he is.
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0 HELD AS CATTLE"

My wives and daughters" says the native
Kafr, 'are my cattle, my oxen, my COWS, my
horse, my pillow, my wagon. | bought my wife,
and paid for her and | have q right to beat or
kill her if | choose, as much as to beat or kill my
goat or my dog, for she is mine. My daughters
also are my cattle, my money, my merchandise
and | wish them to learn to dig, and not to read
and pray"
The above is taken from the Journal of Missions,
published by the A. b. G. +. NJ. Now, women
are held as cattle" in fifteen Of the States OF the
American Union, and yet | have never seen any
allusion to the melancholy fact, similar to the
above, in the Journal Of Missions. 1t is said, the
Board is a foreign Missionary Society, and there,
fore it is not its province to notice distractions to
the worlds conversion in our own land But it
does profess to notice implements to the CONVEX
sion of the world at home and abroad. Why then
maintain perpetual silence with regard to the Great
Obstruction in the United StatesP Again, the
Indians of this country are included by the Board
in its field OF Foreign Missions, aud among the
Choctaws and Cherokees, where it has mission
aries, are women held as cattle" How cheering
it would be to see in the pages Of the journal,
something like the following:
women HELD AS CATTLE.-'My concujines and
daughters says the American STAKEHOLDER, ARE
my cattle, my oxen, my cows, my horse, my pillow.
my wagon. / bought my concubine and paid for
her; and | have a right to beat or kill her, il |
choose, as much as to beat or kill my goat or my
Gog, for she is mine. My daughters also are my
cattle, my money and my merchandise; and |
them to learn to dig, and not to read and
"-1merican Missionary
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
From The st, Louis News, Aprils.
THE ORIGINAL DRIED SCOTT A RESI-.
BENT OF MISSOURI.
SKETCH OF HIS HISTORY.

The distinguished colored individual who has
made such a noise in the world in the case of Scott
against Sanford, and who became so tangled up
with the Missouri Compromise and other great
subjects-Dred Scott-is a resident, not a citizen,
of st. Louis. He is well known to many of our
citizens, and may frequently be seen passing along
Third street. lie is an old inhabitant, having
come to this city thirty years ago.
bred Scott was born in Virginia, where be be.
longed to Capt. Peter Blow, the father of Henry
G. Blow and Taylor Blow Of this city. He was
brought by his master TO st. louis about thirty
years ago, and in the course of time became the
property Of DR.. Emerson, q surgeon in the army.
whom he accompanied on that trip to Rock Island
and Fort Smelling, on the ground of which he
based his claim to freedom. The wife of DR.. Em-
merson was formerly Miss Sanford, and is now
Mrs. Chafe, wife of the Hon. Mr.. ChaHe Of Mas
sachusetts. He has been married twice, his first
wife. by whom he had no children, having been
sold from him. lie has had four children 6y his
present wife-two boys, Doth dead, and two girls
both living. bred was at Corpus Christi at the
breaking out of the Mexican war, as the servant
of Capt. Bainbridge, whom he speaks of as a"good
man."
On his return from Mexico be applied to his mis-
tress, Mrs. Emerson, then living near st. Louis,
for the purchase of himself and family, offering to
pay part Of the money down, and give an eminent
citizen of st. Louis, an officer in the army, as Sc
curity for the payment of the remainder. His
mistress refused his proposition, and bred being
informed that he was entitled to his freedom by
the operation of the laws regulating the North
West Territory, forthwith brought suit for it,
The suit was commenced about ter years ago, and
has cost bred $500 in cash, beside labor to a near
ly equal amount. 1t mas given him a heap O.
trouble" he sage, and if be had known that sit
was gwine to last SO long" he would not have
brought it. The suit was defended by Mr.. John
Sanford, as executor Of Dr.. Emerson's will.
bred does not appear at all discouraged by the
issue Of the celebrated case, although it dooms him
20 Slavery. He talks about the affair with the
ease Of a veteran iitigaut, though not exactly in
technical language, aud is hugely tickled at the
idea. of finding himself a parsonage Of such impor
lance. He does not take on airs. however, but
laughs heartily when talking Of ode fuss dey made
dar in Washington bout de ole nigger."
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
AN UNSUCCESSFUL SLAVE HUNTER

A stakeholder came from Virginia to this eitv
recently, to hunt for one of his lost chattels. lie
spent some time, wita the aid Of police, in nous.
ing around the localities Inhabited by the colored
people, but without success. Having heard some.
thing Of the marvels of spiritualism' and how the
dead come back to their friends, 'a.,ieking like a
clock" il occurred to him that, perchance, some
of the land of disembodied intelligence
might take pity on him in his extremity. and
playing the part of a blood hound, put him on the
track Of his escaped slave. In a somewhat excit.
ed and anxious mood, he visited first a medium,
through whom spirits are said to communicate by
taking possession of her body and using her organs
of speech. All that we know of what transpired
in the presence Of this medium is derived from the
sta tements made by the slaye-hunter himself who
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18

THE LEGION OF LIBERTY AND FORCE OF TRurH.
Containing the thoughts, ,oords and deeds of
some prominent apostles champions and martyrs.
Illustrated DiM engrapings. Published bv the
american Aati- Slavery Society, 1873 Nassau s..
Neo York, 1857.
Such is the quaint title of a book which every
friend of freedom will delight to possess. The
work is Al old one, the Aati Slavery Society hav-
ing issued a new edition.. The book. is a remarAar.
bic depository of facts put in, the. most asai,ahlse
form for the use Of all who are engaged in the,
great conflict with Slavery. 1t contains also an,
admirably condensed history of the present anti.
slavery movement brought down to the admission,
of Texas. Its most prominent feature is its record,
|of tho opinions Of Industrious men, in regard,
to slavery-a Legion" oS the worlds noblest men
and women who stand forth the champions of JUS.
tice and liberty-witnesses summoned from the
present and the past. from all nations and
ages-Poets, Philosophers, Statesmen, Divines,
Authors, Laborers, Soldisrs-John Wolman, Will
liam Penn, Milton, Shakespeare. Whitfield, Wesley,
Washington, Touissaint. Lie Overture, Hannah
More, Francis Wright. Jereny Bentham, Rosseau
Button, Montesquie, and q host Of others. Tho
book is indeed q valuable one. Those who want
facts wherewith to combat and silence their pros
slavery neighbors will find tEem here. ss
The book can be had at McMILLAN's Book
STORE, for the small sum of so cents, or sixty two
cents rsmittod to him, will secure it by mail, pos
tage paid. Postage stamps should be sent in such
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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
For the Anti Slavery Bugle.
SUPREMACY OF MORAL POWER.

How common 1t Is to meet with men who have
unbounded faith in political guackery-who be-
lieve that voting is n specific for rporal diseases.
Politicians take the smallest quantity of truth
whose value is known and add an immsasurable
amount Of falsehood and error; then they write
certificates of cures for newspapers aud certify to-
the sovereignty of the remedy by stump speeches,
and the results are honorable positions and lucra-
tive Offices. They have obtained the votes of the
people but have they achieved n triumph over
wrong and injustice and oppression 7 A fearful
negative comes up from the maddened slave and
from the wretched victim of intemperance.
And yet, men, with a strong infatuation cling to
the voting policy as q means of Graduating evil,
when it can never be justly regarded rs any more
than the index of achievement. These people
forget if they ever knew, that two Of the most sig
nal triumphs ever obtained by the brotherhood,
principle, were won without the sanction Of law.
without the Intervention of law and l may add
without the knowledge of law.
One of our best historians says-"it is remarka-
Die that the two greatest and most ~salutary social
revolutions which have taken place in England,
that revolution which, in the thirteenth century.
put an end to the tyranny of nation over nation,
and that revolution which, a few generations later
put an end to the property of man in man, were
silently and imperceptibly effected. They struck
contem porary observers with no surprise and have
received from historians a very scanty measure of
attention. They we're brought about neither by
legislative regulation nor by physical force. Moral
causes noiselessly effaced, first the distinction be-.
tween Norman and Saxon, and then the distinc-
ton between master and slave. None can venture
to Fix the precise moment at which either distinc.
ton ceased. Some faint traces Of the old Norman
feeling might perhaps have been found late in
the fourteenth century. Some fain. traces of the
institution of villenage were detected by the curl.
institution even to this hour, been abolished by
statute" +
If then in England the a~ntipathy of races was
overcome by the slow and natural growth of prin.
ciples, if the system of ville1age was destroyed
by the power of public opinion. why should We
doubt the potency of similar causes, to produce in
this country, similar results
In saying this, l do not undervalue the agency
of the ballot or of political manifestoes. We shall
need these in the formation of n new Republic:
but it is another and n more potent power that
produces fraternity, that creates a demand for I,
government free in practice as well rs in principle.
Would that we had more faith in moral power,
that we better comprehended the grandeur Of it's
mission and the extent of its influence.
j. T.. j. 90
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18

The MODEL REPUBLIC, contains about four mil.
lions and a half Of native born inhabitants, who,
according to the highest judicial authority of the
country, hare no rights which a chite man is bound
to respect" just think of that. And one half
millions of these are Knocked with tho name Of
free person." What a glorious union How sue
cessful in establishing justice and securing the
bic ssings Of liberty.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18

Resolved, That this State will not allow Slavery
within her borders, in an form, or under any pre-
tence, or for any time, however short, let the con-
sequence be what it may.
Resolved, that the Supreme Court of the United
States, by reason of a majority Of the Judges
thereof having identified it with a sectional and
aggressive party, has lost the confidence and re-.
spect of the people of this State.
Resolved, That the Governor of this State be,
and he hereby is, respectfully requested to trans.
nit a copy Of this report, the law above mentioned
and these resolutions, to the respective Governors
of the States of this Union.
AN ACT TO SECURE FREEDOM TO ALL PERSONS WITHIN
THIS STATE.
Tile People of the State Of Ne,C York, represented
IN Senate and assembly, do enact as JoHOus:
SEC. l. Neither descent, near or remote, from
an African, whether such African is or NAV have
been n slave or not nor color of skin, shall dis
qualify any person from being, or prevent any
person from being, or prevent any person from be-
coming a citizen of this State; nor deprive such
person of the rights and privileges Of a ~citizen
thereof.
SEC. 2. Every slave who shall come, or be brought
or be- in this State with the consent of his or her
master or mistress, or who shall come or he
brought, or be involuntarily in this State shall he
free.
SEC. 3. Every person who shall hold, or attempt
to hold, in this State, in slavery, or as a slave, any
person mentioned as a slave in the second section
of this act, or any free person of color, in any
form, or under any pretence, or for any time. how.
ever short, shall be deemed guilty of felony. and
on conviction thereof, shall be confined in tho State
Prison at hard labor for a term not less than two
nor more than ten years.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18

HE WAY THE HoosIERs DO lT.-There are now
and then to be fouud persons who dissent from
the cutlery against political preaching; and some
times n community is to be found where such
preaching is decidedly popular. Such pulpits, We
are happy to learn, are not likley to be come vacautin
of the Democratic Jealousy of a I'M.
ion of church and state. By q letter from an In
diana correspondent, we learn that there is at.
least one community of Hoosiers, who know how
get n gospel to their liking. Certainly they are
very sensible business men. Our correspondent
1--WE nearly all here, belong to the Methodist
Episcopal Church., and we work anti. slavery in
our own may. We bid a premium for the bsst
sermon. The more radical the moro
pay. We sny:-'One sermon is worth SO much,
another is not worth as much, and the market VAL
ue is stimated by its radical character. This
most decidedly has its influence on the character
of the gospel we are called upon to listen to. For
example one fellow when he came here, laugh.
that slavery was not sinful in its nature; but be--
fore he went away, he preached that it was utter
" out of the question for any man to be a chris
tan who in any way, either aided or apologised
for slavery. That certainly looked like a very
thorough conversion. Lately some of our Metho--
dist christians who belong to the Democratic party.
got their backs and their courage up, and chall-
|enged US to discuss with them the question of the
Divine origin of slavery. They could prove it
from the Bible. Well, we had our discussion. and
a rich time at that. Another meeting was an
pointed, when the Presiding Elder came along and
forbade it else we should doubtless have had
another"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18

The report of the joint committee appointed
by the New York Legislature was presented on
Thursday by Mr., Foot in the Assembly, and MIR.
Madden in the Senate, defining the position of
the.Empire State upon the bred Scott Decision
as touching Freedom in the States. Let the min
ions of Slavery see how glorious New York,
wheels into line! Read it, friends of Freedom,
and rejoicel
The Joint Committe of the Senate and Assembly
appointed to consider and report what measures,
If any, the Legislature Of the State ought to adopt
to protect tho Constitution al rights of her citizens
against the serious and alarming doctrines Of the
Supreme Corrt of the United States in the decis-
ion of the case of bred Scott, respectfully
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
LIFE OF THOMAS MORRIS.

Of oil the pioneers of the anti.slavery movement
in the West, none held a nobler position than
Thomas Morris. lie was carly in the field, when
%obloquy, reproach and loss of popular favor we're
his sure reward. But prompted by humanity and
guided by principle he never hesitated or faltered
in his course. His personal influence was always
in favor of liberty, and in lis public acts he never
forgot the slave. AS a lawyer, a member of the
Ohio Legislature, and of the United States Senate,
he fearlessly, ably and oft times nearly alone, de-
Tended and successfully urged his principles. As
a popular lecturer he also willingly served the
cause, when to DO SO was to encounter SANDER and
mobocratic violence. a most remarkable history
for a politician who had been popular and success.
full for SO many years. But with him Democracy
was a principle to be embodied in individual and
political action, not to shield the grossest enor-
mites.
A son of Mr.. Morris has recently published his
biography, accompanied with liberal selections
from his writings and speeches. And though one
can but feel disappointment at not finding more of
personal history in the volume, yet the book is a
valuable one. Mr.. Morris speeches which are
thus preserved in permanent form would alone
give it a claim to the highest regards of the public.
A LUCKY MAN.-"Jim Breckenridge" (most
likely a kinsman of our Vice President,) a slave
of Louisville Ky. on Tuesday of last week, was
so fortunate as to draw the half of a $50, 900 prize
in a lottery. HIS master, Isaac r. Greene, a law
yer of the city, very m~agnanimously waived his
slaveholding claim to the prize and recommended
his fortunate cbattle to buy himself and family at
such prices as should be designated by some disin-
terested person, mutually agreed upon. The valu-
alton has been fixed, the slaves emancipated and
the remainder of the funds placed in the hands
of a Trustee for the benefit of the eniancipated
family.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
SAMUEL A. FOOT,
NJ. d LEE,
JOHN ii. WOOSTER,
EDWARD NJ. MADDEN,
JOHN L. HOGEBO0M.
HENRY w. BECKWITH.
+, 1857.


ALBANY, April 0, 1857.
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