Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-24

ks to be closed for two months from bhc nfbt OF
September next, in consequence of its lack OF funds
10 conduct the operations. The last Legislature
failed to make the necessary appropriations for its
expenses. The unfortunate inmates will therefore
we suppose be scattered over the state and lodged
in the county poor.houses and iails, the most un.
at roceptacles imaginable. Very many of the poor.
houses are we have been informed already crowded
with this class of persons, and without any facili.
ties for their accommodation or comfort. The
provision of the State being utterly inadequate to
their numbers even since the erection Of two new
Asylums. The neglect Of the legislature from
whatever cause is therefore II most culpablc act of
inhumanity and deserves the severest reprebation.
The Assembly's Chairman on the benevolent
Institutions" was the mau who s;gnalized him.
self by his efforts for the exclusion Of negroes
and mulattoes from the State, and was foremost in
all the Infamous pro.slavery action of the last
Assembly. 1t is not the refore so much to be won.
dered at that no provision was made for these
unfortunate lunatics.
The last Salem Republican comments upon
this with becoming indignation;
OF oil the outrages committed upon the people
of the State by the Democratic Legislature Of last
winter, this IS the most insufferable. Ten weeks
of the three and q half months of legislation by
that Pdrtizdn Assembly, was spent, at the cost OF
nearly 500 per day, in the endeavor to make ONO
u slave Stately repeating the habeas corpus. act
aud the law refusing the use OF our county JAMS
for the incarceration of fugitives from southern
oppression; but when a Benevolent Institution
which has under its charge the amelioration of the
condition of a class of persons who are the most
un fortunate of all Gods creatures, steps forward
and asks for the paltry sum of IS 900 to enable it
TO continue its humane efforts, this cold hearted,
inhuman, and debauched Legislature of Ohio close
their ears to this request, for no other reason,
doubtless, but that o few favorites oil their God
forsak en- party might be pecuniarily benefited
thereby.
Bot who could expect more than this from an
Assembly who would place on its ommitt OF
Benevolent Institutions. as Chairman, q man pos
sessing a character. morally and politically as dark
MS that of Dr, W. p. Kincaid, who could find time
to in troduce a bill for the exclusion of all negroes
and mulattoes from the State. on account Of their
color, but not a moment could he spare to relieve
Suffering humanity, when that relief depended
alone on his action.
Now here are hundreds Of helpless uufortuuates,
in all stages Of couvalescence, who will have to be
returned to their families, or to county inGrmaries
or jails, at the risk of sustaining injuries thereby
from which they will neuer recorer, for no other
cause than the wilful, preme1itated meanness that
il inherent in locOfoco Legislators. The curse
of God and man will rest upon them, and a deeper
brand of infamy than ever d~is6gurod the brow OF
Cain, for the murder OF his brother, will mark that
of the late Democratic Assembly of Ohio.
EXCITEMENT IN MARYLAND.-It seems the out.
rage committed on the person of Mr.. Bowers OF
Maryland for his antislaveTy opinion is producing
great excitement. A large portion of the commu
nifty resenting the outrage. Mr.. Bowers has ap'
pealed to the law for redress. The Wilmington
Delaware Republican states that =
On the next morning after the outrage, Mr.
Bowers went to ChestertOwn, before Esq. Graves,
and made oath to the following persons, and the
Squire put them under bond of $500 each. for
their appearance at next court George H.. Han
dy, Josiah Ringold, Harris Beck, VIM. p. Fran
els, Isaac Perkins, Samuel Baker, VIM. ri
Baker, Frishby Brown. being eight in number.
Report says that there were about thirty per-
sons present, but MIR. Bowers could not identify
any more. On tho Saturday following the occur
renee. there was q show in Chesiertown, and Mr.
Bowers friends made a rally and commenced to
vindicate him the result was some six or eight
fights. On the 5th, which was last Monday. AT
the celebration, Richard Hynson, Esq, made an
attack on James Mansfield ex.editor of the heRtI
N.1ps, and struck Mansfield with his cane, when
the Bowers meE made another rally. and before
they stopped knocked down twenty five men, ran
Samuel Baker and Isaac Perkins, two of the tar
and feathering MEN, out of town-the ofhcer re
fusing to act. They say the pru.s lavery men COM
menced i. by taking the law in their own hands,
and they may fight it out. Frisby Brown, one ct
the men Mr.. Bowers held to bail, went to Gown
on the Goth ult., to see the show. The Bowers
men found he was in town and got after him. lie
got into DR.. Slppingtou's carriage and went
some Is or 10 miles on Easter Neck Island, and
kept hid for two or three days. lie has no slaves,
and the Bowers'men swear they will fix him yet.
1t is said by men who know, that at least three
quarters of the people are on Bowers side near
all the labnring class, or non shareholders, with
n part of the shareholders themselves, condemn
it.
Since the transactions referred to, a public
meeting has been held at Chestertown in Kent Co.
numerously attended by leading men and slave.
holders 10 that vicinity. Judge Chamber who
presided, said, that in default of statute law to
the purpose, it was necessary for the safety of
slave property that two objects should be kept dis
tinctly in view, first, to cause the enemies OF the
institution of slavery to understand that the own
ers of negroes will maintain their rights, and re-
sist to the last extremity every attack upon them,
Secondly, whenever a defence of these rights be.
came necessary, common cause, without a too
nice regard for indiscretion. ought to be made
against all who undertake to bring the defenders
to punishment. Senator Pierce and the Hon.James
B, Ricaud followed in a similar strain. after
which resolutions were passed, ienouncing all
,ayowed opponents Of slave ry as unfit 50 enjoy
The inequalities of the people or the p%rotec-
lion of the laws, ~pledging united effort to carry
on the warfare against abolitionism and negro
,stsa!ing, and the intention OF the signers to have
mo dealings with any man who should not express
his adherence Of ali tampering with negroes.
Thus United States Senators and others called
Honorable, advocate rufianism and mob law.
AS result of this meeting, Mr.. Bowers has
beNn compelled to leave the state and is now in
the vicinity of Philadelphia. while his wife, 10
a critical condition from the excitement and abuse
of the mob remains in Maryland.-The woman
who was tarsd and ~feathered by the mob is report.
ed to be dead in copseq uence of the injuries
inflicted.