Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-20
MORE OF THE FRUITS"

Mr.. F. A.. Plants, q member of tho Ohio Legisla-
ture, writing to the Mei9s County Telegraph, Of
which he is editor. gives the folio wing facts relative
to a late kidnapping outrage. Mr.. Plants letter
is dated February 1ltb, 1858. y
when the boat left Point Pleasant a number OF
persons took passage for n point on the Virginia
side, II shori distance above Gailicpolis. When the
boat landed at the point designated, to land the
supposed passengers, and they were about to put
out the plank, behold. our innocent passengers,
proved to be. in fact, NEGRO catchers'! They
instantly bounced upon the steward of the boat,
on the claim that he was a fugitive slave They
prnduced q warrant for his arrest, and in hot haste
hurried him into Virginia, and doubtless, into eter-
nal slavery And what was the pretense that
this man was q SLAYER 1t was. that many years
ago, somebody at Point Pleasant had made a STARE
of his mother! He was well known to several on
the boat, and that he had been a resident of Ohio
for at least tcenty gears that for n large part of
that time he had been Steward on various boats,
stopping almost daily at the Point. This was not
denied by his ca2tors. But this was the conven.
lent but diatolical instrument of the kidnapper-a
warrant under the fugitive slave law and Under
its internal magic, he was torn from his frantic
wife, who was on board at the time, and compelled
in mute despair to see her husband snntched from
her, perhaps forever. making her virtually n widow
and her children orphans, under circumstances a
thousand times worse than death
From what we could learnt it seems that this man
for such be ISIS n very industrious and temper.
ate person has been married and lived in Ohio for
more than twenty years; has purchased n pleas
ant farm, with the design and hope Of making n
happy home in the country, where, humble as he
must be from his connectiun with an oppressed
race, he might, nevertheless, rear his children 10
honest industry, and find n resting place among
them in his old age. lie denied ever having been
a slave, and so did his wife. Bui whether the ac,
was perpetrated bv mere kidnappers, with forged
papers, or whether legal pirates actually used the
law for their cruel purposes, can make no differ.
eNce, as the crime is the same in either case. and
the result to him and his fnnlily is the same. We
cannot trust ourselves to characterize the trans.
action but in sadness we would ask our fellow
citizens, low lung are such scenes to be tolerated 3?
Do we, in fact, believe there is q Proyi-
dence that directs the destinies of nations, as well
as men in such a way that evil must, IN the end.
be its own punisheri Or are we about to vote God
out of the universe--deny his Providence in the
past history of our race, and insanely hope to pros
per by wrong. as If we could defeat His purposes
with impunity, and repeal the immutaLle laws of
the universe by statute! Will you not consider ?"I
Here is q worthy, long-resident citizen of the
State of Ohio. Kidnapped and borne of into
hopeless slavery without resistance, and so far as
we have yet heard, without any effort on the part
of Ohio for his rescue. Indeed so far az we can
see without a prospect of any successful effort to
restore him to freedom or to punish the pirates
who kidnapped him. They were ostensibly acting
under the sanction of lar, and the authority of the
nation, and probably on this acooun. there can be
no redress. Indeed Mr.. Plants, though deeply i'm.
pressed with the enormity of the crime, and one
of the supreme legislators Of the State, does no,
intimate the possibility of a hope, that this victim
of the slave trade, stolen and manacled before his
own eyes has the smallest prospect of redress
Such is the ability and will Of Ohio to protect her
own honest, worthy citizens
The paper from which We copy, heads the nc,
count Of the outrage, "More of the Fruits. A
suggestive heading. This kidnapping, and the liz
nominious helplessness of Ohio under iris the fruit
the legitimate fruit, of bur union with kidnapper,
aud pirates. InCanada,in Austria. or Russia, where
no such wicked Union exists. the victim would be
released, could any one be found with harjihood 10
attempt such n crime. and be brought to sumuinr,
and coniign punishment. But under this union
Of professedly free with piraticas States. such out.
RACES are successful and their perpetrators and
abettors honored with wealth, cfice. aud power.