Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-03

ptcted TO dot. c. beg from door to door to Keep
from starving. lIeury had similar tale to tell,
except that instead of getting verbal he had re-
ceived written promises to pny for his labor,
and looking upon me as his best friend, he i'm
modiatey put in my hands to collect for him the
following notes, which were oil he had received or
could ever get for seventeen months of hard la
Dor; .f.e. b.a u .. .4..'..t.
500. CLIFTON, March IA. 1868.
Six months after date, / promise to pay to the
order of Henry Scott ninety-two dollars; value
received. (Sigued. HENRY d. WALLER.
Also the following
.t f. .'a.'" CLFToN, Feb, IA, 1858
Due Henry Scott, on demand, throe 50-lOO dol
lars. Sgned) HENRY d. WALKER.
! have promised Henry to collect the foregoing
notes. and give him the money, and ] presume
thai Mr.. Walkers sympathy, if not his sense OIL
justice, will induce him to remit to me the above
amounts, which faithfully promise shall be hand
ed to Horny for his own use and benefit II not
my sympathy for, and duty to the poor negro
will force me, however dsagreeable it may be, tc
institute suit against him. | would not be at all
disposed to'press MIR. Walker in this matter were
| not credibly informed that he is wealthy farm.
er, who has always professed great sympathy for
the negro race. ir
Washington's circumstances were no better
than those of Jim and Henry, his pockets empty,
his clothes ragged, reputation buried n the Indi.
ana penitcntiary--he was truly miserable OBJ
ject. . " ,.r...... -.r... - r-rr
After the foregoing statement you will not be at
all surprised, Mr. Editor, that these boys should
have exhibited, as they did, real pleasure in
again meeting with a true friend in their master !;
one who had never laid, or caused to be laid, the
weight Of hand upon them in anger, or ever US
ed harsh expression to them.
After speedy journey by railroad, they were
safely and willingly landed in this city-and risk
nothing in saying that their experience of life in
Chicago has satisfied them, that good home and
kind master in slave State, are altogether pref
erable for them to starvation or the penitentiary
in Free State .rg .,.-...., .t f..,
The tale Of Bloody Island brutality needs no
contradiction here, but as it probably would not
have been told in Chicago, unless some ono could
be found there to believe it, think il proper to
say that it is, false from beginning to end, and
could only have been invented by a brutal negro,
or still more brutalized white man. Instead of
fendish Aogging they reoeiyed by the way and on
their arrival home new Clothes new blankets,
plenty of money to buy their tobacco, &c., &c.
The question will naturally be asked, why did
not bring Governor home also. My reply is, that
found him with new wife and new family.
apparently confning his rowing affections to them
and trying by honest labor to support them. /
knew he would he utterly wort thless, as he always
had been here md although could have taken
him at any time during three weeks lime, yet as
he seemed to be seeking out an honest living
miserable, it is true--so miserable that be could
not, or would not, give his nephow jim, as he is
called,a uouthfu of bread to keep him from starv-
ing (accortng to Jim's own, statement,) l con-
cuded to leave him there so long as he chooses to
behave himself. r .--
In conclusion, l desire ~ justice to innocent
parties in Chicago, to say, that person whatev.
er used any violence of any kind towards the
three negroes in question. 1t is true that en-
ployed professional detectives to perform their
strict professional duty, and no more. showed
them the requisition of the Governor of Missouri
under the greal seal of State ; l showed them the
record of Jail breaking from the Indiana peniten-
tiary, and asked them to bring me face to face
with these convicts. reminded that if it was
whito man was after with such records of crime
neither they nor any other detective in Chicago
would make any difficulty about it. They finally
agreed that should have an interview with them,
and considering that they were negroes) would
do n more. met the negroes, and asked them
if they were willing to 60 home they all replied
that they were, and then, like children, began to
tell me each his story of wrongs and sufferings.
observe from the newspapers of your city that
a Mr.. Charles Noyes has probably been Obliged to
fee from Chicago. to avoid personal harm. With
regard to him can say, and will so testify when
ever called upon, that be did not forcDy steal
take, or arrest either Henry Scott Washington
Anderson OF james Anderson in the State of
Illinois, Tor anywhere else,) nor did he carry or
accompany anybody else in carrying either or all
the aforesaid individuals out Of the State of Hi
nois into any other country, State or territory.
Neither did he, or any one else, forcibly take or
arrest any one, or all the aforesaid individuals,
with design to take him or them out of the State
of Illinois. If there was any forcible arresting
or conveying (Which positively deny) it was
done by myself. They came all the way from
OhicaBo An my cohpahy, anu onroofaiheu ny
irons threats or anything else they freely walk
ed on board the boat at Illinostown, and trans
ferred themselves from the State Of Illinois TO the
State of Missouri. Again, observed that ne
gro called Turner, and another would seem to
have been most cruelty whipped,' and whose name
is not mentioned, are suffering under the imputa-
tion of having assisted in sending their colored
brethren back to their master. The charge against
them is entirely false and they are upjustly, lille
gally. and unrighteously suffering. fu
In concluding this already 100 lengthy commun-
cation, desire to say that did not have recourse
to lawyers and the Fugitive Slave law, because Of
strong objection entertain in common with
many others, to make my private affairs and
losses assume the form of public nuisances l
did not then, nor do I now, consider that had q
moral right to place all the good people of Chiua-
20 in tho dilemma Of either endangering their