Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-03

perhaps was hosty, | might have been severe
IT so can only say that my very soul was panied
as reflected upon the condition Of those you had
10 shamcfully deceived in the first place, and then
sold while reposing confidence in you. Yes you
made merchandise of your own spec les thus com.
mitting the most henious crime known ON earth
this you did cody and deliberately and this too
for the paltry dollars mee,ed out to YOU for the
bodies of poor defonceless females.
A short time since | noticed an account of your
having rerurclased and set those girls free
That account made mo hope that your humanity
had received Il spark Mt least of sympathy for
suffering beings; ] was about to address a line to
you rendering my sincere thanks, for an act Of
duty, and should now do 50, but for tho dlsclos'
uro you have voluntarily made ia yours Of tho llth
ult. There find an admission shat you are yet
in league with that most cursed OF all crimes
ever pcrpctratod by nan -American slavery. Tho
Willis you mention is a stranger to me, and no
rolation that ! am aware OF, except our union i'm
sympathy FOR those Of our down truddcn, ~dcspised
and oppressed fellow mUrtals. If as you say
Willis only fault, and for which lie is now incar-
ceratod in o dungeon, was as you call it, for steal.
ing niggcrs in order to give them their God given
rights and not to consigu I'll lem to a still deeper,
degradation as some internal demons do, then /
shall never cease to feel the deepest sympathy for
my poor unfortunate namesake and should feel it
an honor to tax, him by the hand as a brother in
the cause of humanity.
You seem TO think that your old Maryland
style" is of mach importance. lie. mo inform.
you that it was in old Maryland in the city of Bal
timoro that | was first made an abolitionist. Yes
it was in that bone of my childhood and boyhood
that my eyes belield All almost countless number
of poor victims guilty of no crime; torn from pa
rents and kindred and driven on board the slave
r coasters and carried to the rice and cotton swamps
Of the South to drag out q miserable existence com.
pared to which death itself is II boon. 1t was in
that City that my feelings were hundreds if not
thousand Of times shocked in beholdiDg the CORY
backs OF innocent mon, women and young girls as
/, the Internal cat o nine tails, was piled by the
demon in human shape. 1t was in old Maryland
sty le that | witnessed hundreds of poor victims at
work on the streets and public highways with a
heavy iron collar around tho neck, a chain 8 to 10
feet long with n ~fIty-six at the other end and
often times heavy handouts besides they had to
toll necessarily, without even a comfortable meal
or IL bed to rest their weary bodys on.
1t was in old Maryland style that / have witness.
d cd the sucking infant ruthlessly torn from the
mothers breast and driven in the chain gang
, Of SO to 100 through the public streets of old
n Baltimore, to wend her way to the South. Yes
" it was on old Federal Hill where She stars and
+ stripes of the union foated to the breeze proclaim.
ing Liberty Liberty that / saw one of the
noblcst of Gods children tied up and receive 200
m lashes on the bare back this too for simply as
sorting that he was a man and dared to proclaim
n it, but poor creature he had a dark skin and it was
no part or parcel of old Maryland o'suffer' him to
make any higher pretension than the man chat.
m tel. Yes friend Bodman, it was and is in old Mary
land that white infants are nursed and reared by
rs what you call niggers and If you have been raised
If there you certainly ought to feel very grateful
ct towards the ringers for the motberly care and
i, nourishmen: received from their ~despised race.
You suggest that l should advance money for
rs the purchasing Of some that you now hold in Balti-
lis more yes l will pay the sum you propose or twice
gu that amount provided you set them free, not that Il
lie acknowledge the right in you or any other human
m being on earth TO make merchandise of your fellow
ng brother no, far from it, but as the last resort,
ne rather than see my own species consigned to the
- misery's of chattel slavery.
on You are right as to my principles in letting
'er white and colored children go TO school together,
"n and any school that forbids the attendance of the
lat colored children should never have any support OF
ew countenance for one moment. Friend Bodmau
ex' will you please inform me which of the two
Tor is tho most degrading for white child.
tai rem to minglo with colored children in
! school, or for white children to be sucked nursed
OF aud cared by the mother of the black child ? We
a Abolitionists of the North never think of rearing
on our children at the breast of a niggc- as you call
'n' them, not that VIC despise the coLr but we arc con
ON tent with those of orr own cnInr whiln IA iamanI
vas for all mankind their god given rights to liberty
on and an unrestricted pursuit of happiness.
reo AS to my ears | think | would not be wiling 30
'e spare them, but were they nailed to the door oil
A'' a dungeon as you suggest | think they would mol
cause much consolation to those whose charity i
NJ" so limited as yours seems to be. As to the three
'S' cents | certainly can live without them and my
III family not suffer. l can apologize some for the
" letter | wrote you from the fact that ] never have
had the benefit of an education and being litter
G" alto and q poor self'taught man Of course | mus,
'"u feel deeply my want of ability to inditc a letter
on after pcrusing yours where | see the accomplish
cd scholars magnificent production in real ole
i'' Maryland style.
=. AS to your will, | assure you, yCn can do no &C
or make no will that would cause me moro 10,
than for you TO libcrate your Baltimore slaves ant
treat them as human beings, give them that liLer
= ty which nature designed for all. | hope you will
not be offended at my laundering reply to you
very scientific letter. Should you ever visit ou
section of country | would be happy to see you a
my shanty. | will in real old Michigan style Civ,
= a cordial welcome if you favor me with a visit.
For forty years have | been engaged not in steal
ing niggcrs, but in assisting almost hundreds t.
find the land of liberty in Queen Veto
~ toria's Dominions, and had you a dark skin O
iof was you a slave for l have seen slaves at tho soutl
as white as you or ], l would give you all the ait
in my power to gain your liberty and should 70,
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