Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-04
THE CAPTURED SLAVES.

to effect the enamel patton Of ten Of their former
fellow slnves, have met q sad fate, at tho hands
of Cincinnati kidnappers. How disgraceful and
revolving tho forms of law under which they were
seized aud hurried at the dead hour of night to a
Kentucky Jail and slavery. So outrageous was the
proposition to try and condemn them at so unsea-
sonablc an hour, without counsel, defence or
friends, that even the Kidnapping commissioner
demonstrated. But slave drivers are imperative
and slave commissioners are affect and submiss.
i've and commissioner Newhall yielded his feeble
~scruples, dictated by the remains of dccency.-
The mock trial went on, and two short hours suf
feed to seek out the commissioner, mme and
conclude the trial, make out tho nccessar, rendi,
ton papers, and send the poor fellows manacled
across the river to the Kentucky Jail. Such is
the power of slavery on Ohio soil. To seek the
overthrow of this power in our state is q fanati-
cisn and ultraism which the "party Of freedom"
in this land is not guilty of seeking if We may
believe its newspapers, and against the bare sus.
picion of such seeking it guards ito reputation
with jealous care.
And here is another account which exhibits n
like craven spirit on tho part of citizens of Hi.
nois. A free man q citizen OF Indiana, is kidnap-
ped, ensll we'd and murdered, and this short news,
paper paragraph is all the notice that will be tax,
en- of the event. Such is the regard for liberty
and life in q state that boasts itself as free. No
need of wonder that it is so, when you read the
debate between Douglas and Lincoln and see that
both substantially agree in debasing and outlaw
ing men for their complexion and their origin
Douglas repudiatcs with boastfui self'complacency
the idea of human equality taught by the decla.
ration CT Independence, and Lincoln, the profess,
ed champion of freedom, follows with an effort to
prove that he is as much like him as possible-"is
in favor of a fugitive slave law, and an enemy to
the political and social equality of the negro-that
he is no abolitionist and respects the rights Of
lavery in the states. These men are both good
representatives of the s~piritless citizens of Shaw.
town described below who could calmly see a
~"likely" young man thus carried off to slavery
and finally prefer and actually meet death rather
than submit to this doom.
The facts of the following statement are from
the Skawneetown Illinoissian
On Sunday Aug, 18th a likely negro boy,
some eighteen or twenty years of age, was ar.
rested ss q fugitive slave, q few miles back of
Sbawneetown, by two or three Kentuckians and
brought into town. The boy sta ted that he vas
free, that he was born and raised in Vigo county,
Indiana. lie named several gentlemen, residents
of Terre Ilaute, with whom many Of our citizens
were well acquainted. lie also showed by his
statements that he was we'll acquainted in the town
Greencastle, and the cities of Indianapolis and
New Albany, Indiana. lie stated that he was n
barber by trade. had been running on the river,
and left the steamer J. w. McClay at n coal yard
a short distance below town, on the same day tina,
he was arrested, and in consequence Of a difficulty
Il that ha had with rho mortar f fhn Innt n ol,r,1
man.
From the apparent truth of his statements, there
seemed to be no doubt upon the minds IF the
large mass of the citizens of Shawncetown that
the boy was free, and his captors were admonish.
ed to loosen his shackles and let him 90. As they
had no legal process to hold tho boy they were
also advised that, before they could proceed fur
Their, they must take him before a magistrate, or
the commissioner, under the fugitive law, al
this place, and investigate the fact of his being q
fugitive.
The people OF Shawncetown, however, had moi
the spirit to back their advice by any thing buI
talk, to which, OF course, the niger oatchers
turned a deaf ear and with the assistance of a few
others, forced him across the river into the State
of Kentucky, in the face of the assembled crowd
On the next day the parties returned and reported
that the boy had escaped from them, and they
pursued him into the river and lost sight of him
The unfortunate negro was found dead on the
20 NY H'a ~ ~ "a ~ iitIb VI tHlel ~
ing on the Kentucky beach opposite this town
where he was dritted by the waves. AS he is Out
Of the jurisdiction Of this State, no means have
yet been taken to ascertain the mode of hs
death.
The people of Shawneetown will, of course, no
think OF endangering the union by attcmp ting t
arrest the kidnappers.
The Colored people of Cincinnati, have more
spirit than their white ~neighbors in this state OIL
the craven souls that call themselves white mer
in Illinois. They seized a colored man suspected
of betraying the two slaves referred to above, int,
the hands of the kidnappers, and locked him ~
in a room to await further developments, intend
ing if proved guilty to punish him under the
code of Judge Lynch.
A late number of the Gazette gives the follow
ing additional particulars:
The SLAVE CAsE-TmE BErRAYEK OF THE Ne
GRoEs BEATEN AND ROBBED OF HIS "BLooD."-
We gave an account last week of the arrest in
this city of two slaves who took the Under Ground
some months ago from Kentucky to Canada, and
returned last week with the intention of running
off n gang of chattles from their old home. Facts
have since come to light which show conclusively
that the negroes we're betrayed by one of their
ouh number, who accompanied them from Cana
da, and exposed their whereabouts and operations
in this city to their former master and Uncle
Sam's official g~rabbers. 1t was understood on
Sunday that the colored population had secured
the person OF the negro and designed to admins,
a coat OF tar and feathers should they become sat
isied that he was indeed guilty. The facts, how.
ever, show that The colored people themselves, as
a body, had nothing to do with an outrage COM
mitted upon the supposed betrayer on Sunday
night, but that tho principal operator was a white
man, whose object was robbery.
1t was pretty clearly ascertained that the price
paid she betrayer of the slaves to their master
was $3.50. and all expenses paid, and that the
money was given to the negro in THE city. A
man with n white skin determined to possess him
self of this sum, and making the acquaintance Of
the %betraycr, represented to him that he was an
officer, and excited his fears for his personal
safety by warning him against his colored breth-
rem, who he said were ~thirsting for his blood, or
at any rate for personal chastisement. The negro
fairly trembled in his shoes at the saDguinary
scene which was presented to his mind, and fan.
cied ''every bush an officer" and every negro an
ayenger Of the wrongs of his race.
lie therefore put himself under the guidance of