Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-12

rest this little school teaching Student. OF course
u would not have suited the purpose Of these
WORTHLESS to have taken their victim without max.
Ing The act as base as themselves. Accordingly
they waited surl tie teacher had opened BIZ.
school for The afternoon. Here, then, was this
yourg man surrounded by his scholars who had
learned TO love him for his gentle goodness. In
This position Mr.. Deputy Sam Davis nnd his &c
somplices entered the school house and seized the
seacher with ruf6an oaths and torturing violence
amidst the cries of tho frightened children. pro
ceeded to load him with iron manacles. Mr.. Lin
coin neither by word or actor. offered the slight
vst resistance. He told them he would 60 with
chem but asked the permission to take with him
. change Of linnen, which refusing they started
with their prize to this city. But there again this
beauty Of q Marshal showed himself in his true
colors. He so timed it as to arrive in the city af
Ter dark and hurried him into the Jail. lie begged
the privilege Of communicating with his friends,
but II was denied. AT last his keeper promised tc
take q letter to a friend, but instead Of doing sc
kept it until the next day and then dropped it in
the Post office after Lincoln had been taken from
the jai, and was on the cars fer Cleveland. To
add 10 the outrage he was thrust into O cell, with
our supper, along with several Of the most dirty
and desperate OF the convicts therein confined.
On Saturday morning, without being permitted to
see q friend, no was hurried off to Cleveland and
brought before the Court, which promptly dis.
charged him pithout bail, to appear with the 9th.
ere ia April.
This is a simple statement Of the facts in this
ease. INT could not ~heighten the internal
a,rocity of the act. If such an outrage should be
committed in any despotism in Europe the indig
nation Of our democracy would know no bounds.
But we will not trust ourselves to characterize the
act or the actors. The act, itself, is one Of the
legitimate fruits Of the fugitive slave law, and the
actors she fitting instruments Of its execution.
The citizens Of Dublin, without distinction Of
parties, met, and after denouncing the outrage in
fitting terms, passed the following resolutions
WHEREAS. On the 14th inst, W. L. Lincoln,
teacher in District, No. 4, Washington Township,
YVES seized by Sam'l Davis, acting as deputy for
the U. S. Deputy Marshal Lowe Of Columbus,
was taken from the school house, and without any
show Of legal authority, hand cuffed and hurried
away as if a convicted felon, on the charge of hav'
ing resisted a case of kidnapping at Wellington,
Lorain Co.. on the 18th Sept, 1858
Resolved, That IN this outrage, prompted main
ly by personal revenge. we see our own liberties
attacked, and hereby express our unqualified dis
appreciation of this illegal, c~owardly and insulting
use Of official authority.
Resolved. That in the spirit expressed by our
forefathers in their motto, Resistance to tyrants
10 obedience to God, g." we do heartily sympatbize
with said Lincoln and his fellow accused. and
consider the charge laid against them an honor
rather than a disgrace to all true Americans.
Resolved, That we also express our disapproba'
siao Of that law which compels US against the die
tstss Of conscience and humanity, to assist in
sending back a fellow creature to slavery.
Resolved. That re hereby pledge ourselves
hereafter, to oppose any such illegal use OF oficia
authority iu our community by either kidnapping
deputy Harshals or deputy marshal's deputies: