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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-26
From thu New York Tribune.
RESCUED NEGROES LANDED
IN CANADA.
DETROIT, March II, 1859.

DETROIT, March II, 1859.
The eleven slaves rescued from bondage in Bates
and Vernon Counties, Missouri, on the 2lst of De.
cember last with one natural addition, have at last
reached the lo~ng'soughtfor goal. They arrived in
this city in the 10 a. m. train from Chicago, and
Immediately passed over to the dominions of Queen
Victoria, and are now comfortably provided for in
Windsor, Canada. Two whites only ACCOMPANIED
them from Chicago. They have been brought
openly and guarded, ever since the attempt of
Marshal Wood to arrest Brown and recapture the
~fugitives, at HoltOn, in Northern Kansas.
The fugitives stopped for nearly two weeks at
S~pringdale, a Quaker village, ten miles east of
Iowa City. During the time they remained there
an attempt was made at Iowa City to get IN n
force to capture both Brown and the Blacks Some
thirty men prepared to attempt the thing but
learning that Brown would not run but fight. il
was given up as a too bloody business
Such attempts were also threatened at Dayennort
when they should pass through there, but an ex.
pressed willingness on the part of Browns men to
make all such effort very expensive, they wore al.
lowed to pass unmolested.
The length of the journey which this company
has performed is not less than LOO miles, 600
miles Of which was made in wagons, the remain.
der by railroad.
The fugitives were Of four families. One Of
these consists Of man and wife and three children
Of a widowed mother, her two daughters,
one son end one boy another Of ope young man,
and the lsst Of a woman, whose husband "a SOP Of
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-26


Mr.. SpURosoS, the London revival preacher, is
said to have abandoned. for this year, his contem-
plated trip to the United States. we published.
two weeks since, an article from the London Free.
man, containing statements encouraging us to hope
that he would not, like SO many other clerical Wis,
TORS to the United States from that side of the
water, identify himself here with the pro.slayery
party, or fail to bear an unequivocal testimony
against The great iniquity of which the American
Churches have long been the chief bulwarks. We
learn that there has been considerable nervousness
upon this point among the conservative Baptists OF
this city, who effect to DO concerned lest Mr.. Spur.
geon, by uttering himself against slavery, should
impair his influence as a preacher Of the gospel ()
and hinder the salvation Of soulsl The Rev. Mr..
Corey, of this city, at whose invitation Mr.. Spur
geon was to come, in reply to inquiries of his breth.
rem. says: when Mr.. Spurgeon reaches America
he will preach on any AMI all subjects that may
please him. And when you chain the forked
lightning, and control the current and the roar of
Niagara, then. and not till then can you put n lock
on those youthful lips, or dictate what Sturgeon
shall say to those assembled to herr him." The
Boston Courier, always watchful for the peace and
quittncss Of the Churches threatens Mr.. Sturgeon
with mob violence if he dares to NEEDLE with sia.
very, a matter exclusively American, and which
no foreigner will be allowed 20 touch with his un.
consecratsd hands IA. s. Standard.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-26

the widowed womau) was from home at the tiruo
the others we're rescued -making in oil, three men
i've women and four children, three Of which are
boys. The younger child was born near Osawata,
mic, where Brown had sent them while he should
remain on the line to receive the Missourians, if
they concluded to go over into Kansas after the
lesson he had given them. The parents name is
Daniels. Ut is usual for slaves to take the sur.
name of their first m%osters.) The child has been
christened John Brown. One or the women has
had six masters, and four have had sixteen masters
in all. AS Sam Patch said, "Some things can be
done "a we'll rs others.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-26
PERSONAL LIBERTY BILL IN PENNsYLyASrA.-

PERSONAL LIBERTY BILL IN PENNsYLyASIA.-
Personal liberty bills have become quite an ep'
idemic this winter in the State Legislatures. and
we hope they will have the disease in its worst
form, if not this winter, then next.
Vermont led of in this matter. and Michigan has
followed her example. The subject is now before
the Legislature ofNewYork andMassachusetts, aud
with good prospect Of success, and before that of
Pennsylvania, with, we fear, less hopeful auspices.
1t is something however, for tho old Keystone
state of the Democratic arch to even agitats the
question, and We intended giving this week o very
excellent speech upon the subject by the members
who introduced the bill, Elias IRISH, but a PROSE
Of matter compels us to defer il until our next is.
sue.
In the Legislature of this State there is no On,
couragement for a Personal Liberty Bill. The
Democratic majority are as averso TO m~sddling
with that question, as was our Republican Cover.
nor to say aught in regard to Kansas matters in
his opening message to the present session.
ANTIOCH COLLEGE is advertised to DO sold on .
mortgage of s27, 900. held by the Connecticut Life
Tnsuranca Cnmnanv ". .. ..
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-26

sas-We commend the lecture Of DR.. Brooke, Oh
our first page to the attention Of our readers. II
contains many valuable statistical, as well as other
facts. and shows very clearly ~ho are the slave.
holders.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-26

DEAR BENZ: A walk of four miles, on q pleas.
ant spring afternoon that, from its warmth, made
my overcoat and baggage quite uncomfortable &c,
compartments, took ne from LlOydsvillo to
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-19
THE SECOND OF DECEMBER.

The Resolution of the Executive Committee rec
ommends all the true friends of freedom in the
West, to observe the End of December, in such a
way as they deem will best promote the cause of
human rights.
The American Government and the American
Church condemns Captain Brown. While engaged
in the baptismal deed Of consecrating to Liberty a
battle field more worthy of honor than are the
plains Of Concord or Lexington, the Federal Gov
eminent clutched him by the throat, and handed
him to Virginia to be gibbeted upon a gallows;
and the American Church, raising its hands Grim
soued with the slaves blood, came forward, and
blessed the deed.
Who then, has a right to condemn, on the End
Of December next, the action of the Federal Gov.
eminent? To us, it seems hardly consistent for
the members of that government which handed
John Brown to Virginia that he might be cruel
fed, to tell how sorry, and how indignant they are
that their agents have done the very thing they au-
thorized them to do. What community most
needs at this time, is consistent anti-slavery action.
Denuneiations hurled against slavery, are worth
but little when neutralized by deeds which sus-
tain the system. Doubtless there are many who
on such an occasion as the Que referred to, would
be ready to join in an outward manifestation of
grief, to toll the bells in their s~teeples, to irape
their houses and their streets with the dark en-
blems of woe, and to pass resolutions expressive
of their indignation of the deed. But ask them
to abjure the government that did the deed, and
stands ready to repeat the outrage whenever
another such blow is struck for freedom ask
them to fee from that church which upholds the
hands of the State and sanctifss her infamous
acts, and they will taunt you because of your i'm
practicable notions, and then turn and give new
strength to the government and new vitality to
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Brown" See how the unterri6ed can talk and
bolabor q man, with but few frion Is, now that he
is in prison and cannot harm a hair of their heads.
And net only are the brawling democrats all
full Of abuse towards Brown, but their opponents,
the republicans, are trying to out do them in de-
nunciution and execration. Oh these are glorious
fellows to put down agitation on the slavery qucs-
ton. Every republican paper 1 have seen is
laundering away at Brown, and doing what it can
to make him infamous. And all this is done by
both parties to show their great yeneration for this
gel-orious union. Let them bang away.
Brown exploit, for the present, terminated
like that of Guy Fawkes' powder plot; but the
powder, it cant be denied, is t%here-that is, in the
slave states and if not ignited by the hand Of
some other Brown, il will some day 20 off by
spontaneous combustion, and then We will have
something to clamor about. Nat Turner insur.
%rections, Tennessee Disturbances, and Uarper't
Ferry affairs are but the gentle breezes Of a forth
coming tornado.
The South is terrified out of its wits-there they
see in every bush an officer, and in every muller
stock n %bayonet. And why do they see these
things? Because an incubus of guilt overhang'
them like a nightmare, and they verify the scrip
lures which soy Zone shall chase q thousand ant
two put ten thousand to hight"-or the wicked
flee when nc. man pursueth."
Poor Wise why he is in a worse fix thar
Brown. The latter, would sc)rn to change places
with the governor, even Of all the F.F. VS.
j. +.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-19
OFFICIAL ACTION.

AT q stated meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Western Anti-Slavery Society held in
Salem, Ohio, November 9th, 1859, the following
Preamble and Resolution was unanimously adopt
ed -
Whereas, Captain JOHN Brown, who has been
sentenced by the Government of Virginia TO be
publicly hung on the End of December next, be-
cause of his recent attempt at Harper's Ferry to
practically establish upon Virginia soil the doc
trines of the Declaration Of American Independ-
ence and
Whereas, In that attempt he did only what the
charter of our political rights fully authorized
him to do, observing in his course toward the
foes of humanity, a moderation and a forbearance
as unusual among warriors as it was oommenda-
BILE and although the Western Anti-Slavery So
ycier does not in its organized capacity resort, or
propose to resort, to any measures of physical CO.
ercion for the overthrow of slavery, yet we, its Ex-
%ecutive Committee, recognize in Captain JOHN
Brown, a true friend Of impartial liberty, work
ing out his own convictions of right. by means
which he believed to be justified of God there
fore
Resolred, That in case Virginia shall persist in
executing the sentence of it's court upon Captain
Brown, we to the members of the
Western Ansi-Slavery Society, and to oil tho true
friends of freedom in the West, to observe the End
of December as a day consecrated to q renewal OF
their anti-slavery energies, and to an increase Of
their anti-slavery efforts and that on that occa.
sion they publicly or privately testify, in such
manner as commends itself to their judgment, to
their hatred of slavery, and their opposition to
that government composed of Democrats and Re
publicans, which captured John Brown, and having
shot down his sons by his side, handed the old
wounded soldier to the authorities of Virginia fol
the mockery of a trial, and the ignominy of an
execution.
Signed On behalf and by direction Of Executive
Committee
JOHN GORDEN, Chairman, pro. tenn.
BENZ. S. JONES, Secretary.
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THE CHARLESTON TRIALS.

Virginia has closed the Charleston trials, and is
now resting upon her laurels. Brown, Coppic.
Cook, Copeland, and Green have all been found
guilty. Stephens has been handed over to the U.
s. authorities as their share of tho spoils. Haz.
elitt, who has no. yet been identified as one Of the
conspirators, and against whom it does not appear
any Indictment has yet been found, will not Of
course be tried until the State discovers, or manu-
features some evidence against him.
The Court of Appeals, to which the CAGES already
decided will be carried, meets on the Goth inst.
There is scarcely a shadow of probability that any
stay of proceedings can be obtained.
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degree, a cripple from bis childhood, who would
have as much as he could do to earn a living. lie
was q most dreadful sufferer ia Kansas, and lost
all he had laid up. He has not enough to clothe
himself for The winter comfortably. have no
living son, or son.in-law, who did not suffer terri.
bly, 10 Kansas.
Now Dear friend, would you not as soon con.
tribute city cents now, and a like sum yearly, for
the relief of those very poor and afflicted persons
to enable them to supply themselves and theiI
children with bread and very plain clothing, and
to enable the children to receive a common Eng
!:sh education 7 Will you also devote your OWL
energies to induce others to join you in giving
like amount, or any other amount, to constitute
u little fund for the purpose named
cannot see how your coming here can do mt
the least good and l am quite certain you cor
do me immense good whore you are. am quit,
cheerful under all my afl letting circumstances ant
prospects ; having, as I humbly trust, "the peac,
Of God, which passeth oil understanding, to rul,
in my heart. You may make such use Of this. a
you see fit. God Almighty bless and reward 20,
a thousand fold
Yours in sincerity and truth,
JOHN BROWN.
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Resolved, That as abolitionists we have faith in
the potency Of truth to ~supplant error, that we
would urge all to ''cease to.do evil and learn to do
well' to the slave as the only path toward peace
and safety. That II is our firm conviction that the
only safety for this nation, from q terrible baptism
OF blood, is in becoming in heart and deed aboli-
tionists, without reg ard to what our present laws,
constitutions, or pretended gospels may demand
or teach. That If the people, the rulers, politicians
and clergy will in their blindness and narrowness
Of soul, refuse to act and teach the ideas of radical
anti-slavery, they must expect worse than Har-
per's Ferry tragedies,o or Nat Turner, OF Kansas Dor.
der Ruf6anism, or Cumberland river instructions
and the blood shed in such fearful scenes will bear
witness how dangerous it is to compromise with
crime.
Resolved, That the late effort Of DR.. Cheever
and q few others among the clergy, to form o
"Church Anti-Slavery Society,"" and thus enlist
the active aid of those who profess to love the
slave, but do not wish to work for lis freedom with
those they call understanding as it does with
evil suspicion instead Of candid fellowship from
the large majority Of the churches and clergy, not
sustained even by the New York Independent, with
all its Anti'Slavery professions,-thoir late con.
vention in Boston, attended by but a mere handful
Of clergy and church members, from the thousands
Of protested lovers of the slave, among "Evangeli.
cal Christians;" has clearly shown how empty
and poor is the pretenee Of love for humanity
among the so-called orthodox sects.
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HARPER'S FERRY IN TEXAS.

It is not given to any man to BIO always fortu-
nate. MIR. Buchanan has won for his admiuistra-
tion a big place in the military annals Of mankind
by the vigor with which he marched q large force
Of marines to drive the seventeen insurgents Of
Browns band out f the great National Armory
ct Harper's Ferry, and rescue Virginia from that
fierce Attils and his desperate array. He should,
therefore, accept with fortitude the check sustained
by his arms from the force of Cortinas, the Mex
lean guerrilla, at Brownsville, in Texas. Why,
BY the way, should this ZANE of Brown be sc
mysteriously mixed up with the Presidential
career?
For now nearly a month, C%ortinas, a 'iewd fel
low Of the baser Sort with a handful of reckless
~Sufisns, has held Western Texas and the Rio
Grande in a state of p~ractica. vassalage. lie has
In fact, conquered that portion of the United
States; and a dispatch, which we publish to-day,
announces that be is on the point of extending his
operations over a wider range Of country. The
United States military authorities in Texas have
found themselves unable to cope with Cor,inas
He dashes across the river, levies tribute, demand,
the heads Of obnoxious individuals. and finds hi:
host daily recruited by men Of the same sor. who
docked to King David in the mountains. Browns
vile in despair sends up her cry to New Orleans
and while we are discussing the ~proprie!y Of pro
t%ecting Mexico, our own citizens ere fleeing from
their homes in fear of a knot Of Mexican brigands
The spectacle is not very f~attering TO on
national pride; and if Mr.. Buchanan has recovere
from his delight in the victory won by his marine
st Harper's Ferry we should advise him to dispatc
those valiant pen-at-arms at once to Texas. ii
need not be alarmed about his own person,
safety; for though John Brown be not hung, "
can insure him protection by sending him a fe
Of those gallant New York soldiers Of whom II
Courier q Enquirer, with SO much d~elicacy, sen'
and patriotism declares that a regiment will sufiC
70 whip the entire South into submission to II
Republican President, VIII I'm that journal propos
10 put into Mr.. Buchanan's place. In all seriou
nes', the actual state Of things in Western Tex
is beyond all expression shameful to the Cover
ment which 80 ~supinely permits it TO exist
y. Times.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-19
JOHN BROWN TO MRS. CHILD.

Mrs. Child had her trunk packed, and was all
ready TO 90 to Virginia, when she received the fol-
lowing letter. Captain Brown also discourages
route for Charlestown, but was met by a telegraph
10 despatch TO the above effect.
Mas. L. MARIA CuiLD--My Dear Friend (such
you prove to be, though a s~tranger) Your most
kind letter has reached me. with the kind offer to
come here and take care of me. Allow me to ex.
press my gratitude for your great sympathy, and
ct the same time to propose to you a different
course, together with my reasons for wishing it.
] should certainly be greatly pleased to become
personally acquainted with one SO gifted and 30
kind but ! cannot avoid seeing some objections
10 II. under present circumstances First, | am
in charge Of q very humane gentleman, who, with
his family, have rendered me every possible at
tention I have desired. or that could be OF the leasl
advantage /; and 1 am so Ear recovered from my
wounds g no longer to require nursing. Then
again. 1t would subject you to great personal in
senvsnisnee and heavy expense, withou. doing
mo any good. Allow me to name to you another
uhssnsl. through which you may reach me with
your sym pathiss much more effectually. I have
81 home q wife and three young daughters. the
youassst but little over FIVE years old. the Oldest
sssrly sixteen. l have also two dsngh,ers-in.l law,
whose husbands have both fallen near me here.
There 10 also another widow. Mrs. Thompson,
thoss husband fell here. Whether she 10 a moth.
. o. not. I cannot say. All these. my wife inelud
q. i've In North Elbs, Esssx county, New York.
yisys . middle eyed son, who has been, in some
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-19
ANOTHER CASE OF KIDNAPPING.

Cases of kidnapping are multiplying so rapidly,
that should a weekly paper attempt to give the
details of them all, it would scarcely have room
for other matter.
1t appears that the slave catchers, emboldened
by their late successful foray upon the State Capt..
tai, where they found they could steal negroes
from under the very nose of Gov. Chase, and with
perfect impunity, concluded they would next try
Cleveland; and they have abducted O victim from
that city, who was carried very quietly to Cincin-
natl, where his case was very s~ummarily disposed
of.
Ohio is a capital State, just now, for kidnappers.
Tom Corwin's advocacy of obedience to the Fugi-
tive Slave law is producing its legitimate fruit-a
crop of slave catchers who fear neither God nor
man. Having sold themselves to the devil, why
should they fear God And why should they fear
man !? The Democrats Of Ohio are with them
heart and hand; and the great mass of Republic
cans are, if not with heart, yet with hand. If they
should unfortunately become entangle6 in the
meshes Of some announcement state law, will not
the angel also be with them, who opened tho doors
of the Elyriajail to their brother kidnappers when
confined there7
The ire pressible conflict which cropped out in
the revolutionary movement at Tarper's Ferry,
may, ere long appear by a somewhat similar man.
Hesitation upon soil nearer home than that. Pa.
tent and long suffering as the negro race has
proved itself to be, the time may come when an
unprotected and outraged class of the inhabitants
Of our own State, shall take their defence into
their own hands, and enact q Personal Liberty
bill that shall be written in letters of blood.
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government which refuses to ackuowledge-nay,
ssniss that I can 10 a citizen, or bricg . suit into
is courts Of justice-in a word brands me as on
sstlsw In virtue Of my blood, now processes a
vish to try nj for being n traitor and an outlaw!
To be Q traitor. two conditions are necessary: First
--ons must have a governments; secondly-he must
be found in armed rebellion against that govern
asns. ! am guilty Of neither element of treason,
The American government refuses to shelter the
segro under its protecting wing, md makes him
IN outlaw. The government is therefore quite
unreasonable and inconsistent. Allegiance and
protection are said to 60 together, and depend
spon each other. When Une is withdrawn, the
ether ceases. But | think Mr.. Buchanan is not
emily unreasonable and inconsistent in his design
spon me, bat y little cowardly withal. The plan
sssns ~ he to strike where his Flows are likely to
meet the least resistance. 1t cannot be that ! am
verify Of the extra attention paid me by the gov
srument. The Rochester Union very properly
raises the inquiry as to Why l am especially sin
sled out. Am I more involved than others whose
names have been mentioned in connection With
the name Of dear Old Osawatom'e Brown? The
saeerpess to get hold Of me, while the other and
more popular men. happened to be equally COM
promised, are merely threi,ene1, shows that m
color, as we'll az my alleged crime, enters into the
calculations uf tho government, and that il pro.
fsssss to arrest first those who can he arrested
easiest. Iu this it acts with its usual cowardice.