Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-21
Vbe Antt- 5lauerp Buole.
INGENIOUS CRUELTY.

Every Person at the South in whose ancestry
oan be detected trace, however faint, OF negro
blood, is assumed to be a slave. in all places and
cases where he cannot produce white testimony to
the contrary. 1t is disgraceful enough to us in
Massachusetts IA disgrace which we have merited
by our voluntary union. in Church and State, with
slavehulders but which. we fersently hope, will
be shaken off by the next Legslature) that we
allow the possibility, by evidence, OF proving IA
man slave and that we consent on the testmo'
ny of trumpery documents. which, whether forg'
ed or genuine, alike contrary to justice to re-
.fasten upon human being the oppressor's chain
which his skill or courage has thrown off. Even
this. we say, is a shame to a people who call them
selves civilized and Christian. But in the South,
where tyranny is the rule and justice the excep.
tion practice more Infamous prevails, and every
colorsd person who finds himself among stran'
gers is called upon to rebut. by particular testi.
mony, the general assumption above mentioned,
and to bring evidence, the evidence OF white men,
be it remembered that he is not n slave.
One great security of ala very is the prima facie
oase generally ,de ont against the fugitive Dy
his com plexon. In the slaveholding States, by
every colored person, bui preemlnoutly by every
fugitive slave, the old Roman maxim is realized tu
be true, that the stranger is an enemy. Any
white person is authorized, alike by law and us
age, TO step any unknown c0lored person, and re
quire him to give an account of himself the qnGs
ton being of course, who do you belong to -
OF courss. therefore, the person who bears in his
face the certificate of this sub ugation visible al
most as far as his figure is visible, must fnd the
greatest difficulty in making his way through Ihis
barbarous region To Christian country.
Slavery ITSELF no wever, proSdes for portion
of the enslaved remedy to remove this first diti'
Guilty from their path. The longer slavery lasts,
the more numerous become the cases in which
the children and grandchildren of the Stakeholder
himself (thsse 1yo relationships being sometimes
united in one individually are reckoned among his
slaves. Where for series of generations, the
master. and his sons, and his and their male guests
and she overseer, and any white man who hap
pens or contrives to find any slave girl alone,
have had supreme power the bodies of le-
male slaves, OF cour'c, great numbers OF slaves
will be born and grow up in whom the suspicious
feature of coored skin is scarcely, if at ALL per'l
ceptibls, and who of course, will be less likely
TO be stopped and questioned as slaves Espec.
tally will this immunity exist where a master has
slave.issue BY his own muiatto or rquadroon daugh-
ter, since here the features as well as the com.
piexion will be transmitted. thus giving better
opportunity for the person in question in the COM
mon phraseology of fugitive'slaYe advertlsements)
to be generally mis- AIKEN for white
In the case of these children or grandchildren
Tor both) of the slaveholers, especially those in
whom blue eyes and lght hair. nearly straight,
combine with fair complexion, 1t becomes neces'
sary to take special precautions against the pTima
Jfacie evidence of high CASTE and chance of
their. passage unsuspected. las William CRAFTS
We 6nd in the Charleston Mercury the following
ingenious method-entirely new to us-ol meeting
this diffculty:-
500 REWARD.-Ran away from me. on the
ID Of September 1857, my slave JOHN. He is
II years old feet inches high. slender and
awkward, long narrow face sharp chin. mouth
small. lips thick, and not we'll closed he has blue
eyes, sandy hair, and inclined to curl only his
complexion so fair as to be generally mistaken
for white. He has on side, and We on
the other side of his face, prcked in with India
ink he said he would remove these letters, which
will leave scores of scars his face.
/ will give 800 to have him lodged in any safe
confinement. $50 for delivery to me at Gillison.
ville and $50 for proof to convict any responsible
person for harboring him and any information
respecting him viii be thankfully received.
/. WIN. YOUMANS
Gillisonvlle, S. O., Oct. 8. 1857. ..
The idea Of Mr.. William Youmans OF Gilllson-
vile. (Beaufort Dstrct) 5. O.. seems to have been
10 have the nose of this white young man perform
ne part of the letter A. and thus TO have HIM
bear across his face the conspicuous and IN
deli6le inscription SLAVE. And since the ami
mated clay thus deliberately stamped as a vessel
of dishonor and incautiouslv declared his inren-
tion of destroying the portions OF his skin thus
disfgured, Mr.. YOumans reveals the depth of his
btratsgem, and announces to the kidnapping pub
lie Of his native State. that whenever these letters
are removed, sores or permanent scars will tell,
with equal planness; the story of the original in
scripton.
81 Is Mr.. William Youmans ruore brutal more de
kfsded. than the majority Of his brother slave
holders in South Carolina Is he. ON the other
hand, map Of good reputation, eminent resrec-
liability we'll known piety, good and regular mem
tsrship ID some evangelical church, How can.