Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-17
APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC.

WILMINGTON, N. c., Aug. 81, 1859.
We are here in Jail on a charge Of sbducting a
slave, the property Of the Rev. Michael Robbins,
who was found secreted on board the schooner
George Harris, while ON a passage to your city
from this port, which caused US to be brought
back. when an investigation was bad, and we
were committed to Jail, and are 30 5e tried for
our lives iu O,tober. The penalty for the same, by
the laws of this State, is DEATH"
The vessel is owned here, and the loss TO her
owners being great, we cannot expect help. or
even sympathy from them-nor can we obtain a
lawyer without means, and can only appeal to
Northern friends for help in this our "time of
need" Public sentiment is against us. We are
all colored men. The excitement is great, and If
funds can be raised to employ a lawyer, and We
succeed in having our trial removed to an adjoin-
ing county, with the meager testimony bearing on
the case, we will be acquitted. If without coun-
sci, and our case is tried here, with popular feel.
ing against US, we fear the result. The only wit
ness is the slave himself, whose evidence is ad-
missible against his own color, but not against a
white. The other witnesses are gentlemen who
found the slave ON board, but are not aware how
be came there.
We shipped on board tho schooner George Har-
ris, in Boston, as seamen, early in this month.
We have written our friends for help, and appeal
to you for assistance, and all who feel for suffer-
ing, for aid.
Please publish this, if practicable, and get all
papers friendly to US to copy. Your servants,
WILLIAM Tubs, Taunton, Mass, born in Eliza
beth City, N. G. WILLIAM WEAVER, Boston, Mass.
born in Sierra Leone. JOHN WILLIAMS, Boston,
Mass, born in Sandwich Islands. ToM WINS
FIELD, New York, born on the Island St. Kits,
we'll known in St. Thomas as an English subject.
TwENTY-oNE SLAVES MAHuMITTED.-The canal
packet John B. Bortle," lying in the river above
Broad street bridge, has on board twenty-one
slaves. men and women, manumitted by the will
of their late owner, Pleasant Burnet, of Mecklen-
burg county, Virginia. They are likely-looking
men and women. and, with one exception. look
forward with deligt, to the freedom and self
Management in store for them. They are under
the charge of Robert NJ. Hutchinson and Charles
s. Hutchinson. who have selected lands in Hardin
county. near Kenton, for their location, and for
which they will take the train on the @. ?. & Ind
R. r. this morning.
The ~testator, MT. Burnet, did not Tree all his
slaves, only selecting those who had been faith
fol, and were deemed competent to take care oil
t themselves. Good lands have been selected 70,
> the negroes to settle upon, in accordance with The
provisions Of the will, and they will be furnished
with all the necessary tools and implements Il
: commence operations. God grant them success in
their FREQ homes.-O Ohio State Journal.
b WHITE PEOPLE SOLD AS SLAvEs.-The AbbeuiH.
ALA Banner says that Patience Hicks, q young
woman about II years of age, who was held as .
slave by John Guilford, a Citizen Of Henry County
under a bill Of sale made to him by one James G
Wilson, was brought before Judge Williams, undel
a writ of habeas corpus, sued out by Mrs. Casss
J Ann hicks. the mother Of said girl who arrived il
the town Of Abbsvills On tuesday, he 9th inst.-