Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-29

ABDUCTION AND SALE OF ANOTHER FREE CoLoRED
CITIZEN OF OuIo.-For several years there lived at
Hanover, in this county, a colored family by the
name of MCPHERSON. The father Of the family un,
fortunately adopting one o: the vices of his white
neighbors had like his drunken examplars left
the burden of support and education of the family
on the shoulders Of his wife, an excellent woman,
who by her energy, industry, and general good
character secured the respect and esteem of her
'neighbors. She succeeded in educating and rearing
her children in a manner that would have meIited
and received cordial and hearty approval in any
intelligent and respectable community.
Finally thinking she could more easily support
her family by a change Of residence, she removed
some time since to Steubenville, where she quietly
pursued the laborious calling on which her chill.
dren and herself were dependant.
In March last, Jacob Snowman, q railroad Con,
tractor of Stcubenville, went to Jacksonport, Ar.
Kansas, in the employment Of some railroad COM
'pauy. Having secured the confidence Of Mrs. Nc
Pherson, he persuaded her son, George, a youth Of
about twenty years Of age to accompany him.
Snowman was unsuccessful in Arkansas and final
1y sold George as q slave to his creditors for 81 500.
A short time since this sad news was brought back
to.his mother, but accompanied with no clew to the
present Whereabouts of her son, though the report
says that he had been taken into some part of Kan.
sas, Among her new neighbors the afflicted moth.
'er found few to sympathise and none to aid her,
and came on foot from Steubenville to Hanover du'
ring the terrible roads and weather of this winter
to seek ADVICE and aid of her old neigh5ors, espe
'eially of DR.. Robertson, to whom she had been &C.
customed to look for aid and counsel. The Doctor
-, J.ot-1, ,t n. foI o,ol a,;u; a, .oo.ool
most likely to result in finding the kidnapped
youth, but so far as we know as yet without sue.
cess, and George is still somewhere grinding in
tho prison house of slavery. The Steubenville
Union says:
George is about twenty years of age, stout
built, some FIVE feet four inches high, thick lips,
but a light mulatto, with freckles on his face" =.
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MEETINGS AT Cool SPRING AND New LISBON
From divers characteristic paragraphs scattered
Through the New Lisbon Patriot of last week, we
'loarn that the Holidays have been holding meet.
'ings recently at the Cool Spring meeting house
and in New Lisbon. AS the Patriot editor does
not notice the attendance on either of these occa.
sions of his clients and political friends who dis.
'turbed Miss Watkins meetings, we conclude that
their legal experience or sober reflection has taught
them wisdom and improved their manners.
The following chaste and d~igniied paragraphs
indicate that the Patriots serenity of mind has
been somewhat disturbed, though it finds great
comfort in the great notion" of Sheriff Hoetetter
to shut up the court house. which, hoWevsr, be did
not do, and in what it reports as a "meagre atten.
dance" Here are the witty, classic paragraphs
in which the Patriot defends white people" 're'
ligion and government" against the awful dangers
that menace them.
"There was a meeting of black and white me-
groes at the Cool Springs meeting house on last
Thursday night. Three speakers were present
the two Holidays was enc, Reuben Erwin was
two, and S. Clapsaddle was three. They ali made
wholloping speeches, and knocked democracy high.
er,than the old fellow in Hiawatha threw his grand.
mother"
"Some fraudulent abolitionist procured the court
house from Sheriff Hostetter last Friday for an
antislavery meeting, which turned out to be a mig
ger fandango. When the Sheriff learned that a
niger was going to talk to white people against
religion and the government, he had a great notion
to block the concern. Mr.. Hos;etter is a white
Bepublican-if such a thing be possible"
negro nameu I1ollluay maze d speech IN the
court house on Friday evening, His crowd was
meagre and not much interested in either man or
speech. White men are pretty hard up for some
place to 60 to, when they 60 to q niger lecture"
SLAVE TRADE IN WAsuINGToN.-The capital of
che nation is still used as a mart for slaves. Read
the following paragraph now current in the news
papers
"There was a striking spectacle afforded to the
street public of Washington, near the Baltimore
railroad depot, on Friday. A string of slaves,
with q white man at their head, loaded pistol in
hand, and another in the rear armed in like man.
ner, marched from some private slave pen to the
depot to take the cars for Baltimore, where they a
were to be sold" i
This scene, we dare say, was not particularly C
different from that witnessed on the coast of Afri- c
Ga whom the slaves of tho Wanderer were shipped il
for Georgia, though We have no evidence that the a
African Chiefs had prayers every morning when t.
they met for council in their traffic, like our Amer o
slave trading Legislators. And we have new Ii
or heard. either from DR.. Livingston or the pirate. 81
Townsend, that they have adopted the o.
nice casuistry of our praying Democrats, which il
makes the foreign trade piratical and the home IL
trade Chri7tian. That distinction is one of the a
immortal achievements Of modern Democratic civ' @
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