Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-16
THE CANADA SLAVE CASE.

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The Shareholders are disposed to try the rrac.
ticc OF their crime everywhere. They are expert
menting to know whether they can carry their
slaves with them TO Canada, as we'll as to Kansas
or Illinois. At least one Of the more enterprising
of their number recently made the attempt, which
resulted we are happy to say, in the emancipation
Of the slave. Last week we noticed the rescue Of
n slave from the cars at Chatham. In the Prorin.
ciot Freeman of October LIST. published at Chat
ham, we find tho following statement of particulars
The people Of Canada are evidently not yet pre-
pared to become a slave holding community. The
Freeman says
On Monday afternoon last, a number Of the 10y.
al, libcrty.loving and law abiding men and women
of Chatham proceeded to the Rnilway Station, in
an orderly and peacable manner, and then and
thore introduced an American slave to the bless
ings of British Freedom.
After the little fellow had gained the outside of
the Car, they gave as in duty bound. and in &C,
cordance with their feelings, three cheers for the
Queen, joined by men and women inside the Cars
who waivedhats and handkerchiefs; the Assem-,
blage then quietly wended their way,to the Free,
man Office, after having taken the little stranger
before Justice McCrae, who delivered him over
to us to be provided for in the future. On arriving
at this office, Jack" gave three cheers for Her
Majesty also, which we're responded to by the
large assemblage with vigor, when all quietly dis
persed. Jack is now going to school, is naturally
as intelligent as one could wish a child to be, and
freely expresses u desire to remain with US.
But TO THE AFTER CHAPS.
The slave is a free boy The majesty OF Brit.
ish law is vindicated-our once polluted free.soil
has been promptly and properly cleansed of the
stain. The people have declared that Canada
cannot be transit ground over which the slave
holder may lead his manacled slave; and SO de
claring, they intend to maintain it. Not so, how,
ever, the servants of the Great Western Railway.
Afraid of the frowns,-of losing the patronage of
their Southern Masters-of injuring the Southern
custom to their numerous Saloon keepers, or no
doubt in harmony with their own sentiments.
with that doughfaceism which is as impressible
by Southern gold as the same article is any where,
they have arrested John Goodyear, John Hooper,
|. ID. Shadd, John Sparks, Edward Boston,
Shelby Smith, w. Street. and others as liable
for riot. The lawyer employed by the slave hul'
der is S. S. Mcdonnell, of Windsor, and he is
also acting for the G. w. RS. servant, the Sta.
ton Master at Chatham, To the credit of Chat
ham, be 1T SAID, no respectable lawyer here will
engage in the work for this seeming combination
between Southern shareholders and Canadian
Railroad servants.
This suit is, however, but a v~exatious pretext;
their real design, we have every reason to believe,
is tirst-that by this action, the British people,
and particularly the colored people, shall be in.
from protesting anew against the new
use to which their cars have been applied-name.
iy, against converting them into international
slave holds, and the Company's servants into
a body guard for the Master, and a Police for the
slave.
For ourself, we have but one word to say-we
glory in the work done, and we shall ever help
to maintain the character of the country, and the
liberty of the slave. Bolts, bars, prisons, nor
fines, can intimidate us--they become honorable
in such a cause. In the meantime, we stand bail.
ed till Tuesday next. when the examination will
be renewed. This is the peoples question, and
we confidently lock to them for sympathy.
a desperate effort is beirg made by the Great
Western Railway servants to place this end Of
their road on n footing with their Michigan Sec.
ton; and southern gold is being also freely piled
by their slave holding confedsrates, for the same
purpose. This is the beginning of a series of
annuyances, which will end in continuing the su.
premacy of British law and dominion over Cana,
ia, or subjecting this fair territory to the control
Of Southern Shareholders through.the instrument.
tality afforded by the servants Of soulless CorpJ.
rations.