Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-11
CAPTAIN CROwELL.

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''Allow one more word in regard to the present
condition Of things in the Common wealth. | have
the pleasure to say, to any one who has not alrca-
dy heard IL, that those two men-at least thew have
that resemblance to humanity, that temptation
them rascals, and ium makes them drunk,
ttaughter) Il mean that captain and mate WIN
sent a negro back to Norfolk on the Sth day OF
May, were to-day brooght before Judge Russell,
and Sut under bonds of $4,000, to appear before
the majesty Of Massachusetts, law, to show why
they kidnapped a man in the blue waters Of Mass
achusetts Bay. loud applause.) We shall see
how good Massachusetts, law is in showing such
men tina, ~rascality costs more than good conduct.
Thas captain might have had to pay a thousaud
dollars in Norfolk. Virginia, il he had not carried
back that nan. Let US cast up the account on
~ tbs man back. If he ever gets into the clutches
OF a Massachusetts, jury, he will pay $1,000 fine.
Before be reaches that end, however. he must 60
through the gauntlet of two or three bunker attor-
neys-I believe the London phrase is-sharksl
(Laughter.) They will make him pay some $1,000
or $500 more. If be does not pay the fine, he
has got to go into the Jail Of NJ issachusetts for q
year. We must not put that down as a loss ; he
will get into quite respectable company when he
gets there daughter and applause) and if he does
not 60 there, he will 60 into the State prison any
time short OF ten years. la that case, you will
hear our friend, John A. Andrew, moving for a
hdbeas corpus before Judge Shaw, at tho instance
of some murderer confined in the prison, on the
ground that cruel and unusual punisbments are
not constitutional, and be has been put into n cell
next to that OF q brutal kidnapper from Cape Cod.
loud cheering) At any rate, we will try what
sigor there is in Massachusetts, law to appeal to
that only muscle which a Cape Cod captain of this
stripe has, bis money,-and show him that is
would have been a paying business il be had saved
that man, instead of sacrificing him. Until we get
. Church and a moral sense to create hearts that
respond to humanity, we must make this base and
lower appeal to the selEinterest of certain parties
in the Commonwealth, l would rather see that
Capt. Crowell, Of the brig Robertson, in the State
Prison for seven years, for the crime OF having
sent back a negro from the blue waters Of the
Bay that laves Cape Cod on the southern side,
than forty Wilson's In the Senate, or o hundred
summers in the Presidential chair for when Mas
sachusetts shall do that, South Carolina will hush
her babies with the name Of Massachusetts. |
want a better triumph than q Massachusetts Sena-
tor; l want a Massachusetts, sinner in our State
Prison. (AppIause.) Yes, I stood here this after
noon, and if 1 had not been unwilling to interrupt
the speaker. | should have moved three cheers for
Old England, when that colored man Jones told
US that. as he was padding his craft from, the pur-
suing b~oatmen, he caught sight Of the English
jack. 4 knew it, he said. OF course he knew
it; he knew nothing else. lie had not learned
anything but the shape of the cross. Is it not
worth living and dying for. worth all the Hamp-
dens and Sydntys, Vanes and Millions for a thou
sand years, to build up a beamiug flag that, when
ever the eye Of the oppressed sees it, in any quar-
ter Of the globe, he clasps it as binding him to the
throne Of God, and feels safe under it's folds
loud applause want the Massachusetts fla,
to be just such an one; that every bondman in tn
Carolinas, il be knew nothing more, shall know
the mailed arm of the State and when he sees it
no matter where, no matter what power there j
about it, no matter how threatening the storm OF
mems faces, be will feel that if a man but place
his foot under tie broad banner of the old infde
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,, be is certain tt
be safe. prolonged cheering.) That will be
country for another Cowper to sing, 10 n noble
strain even than he did, the praises of England
herself.
Take these men, and teach them the Gospe
through the State Prison; and l will make a ban
-ner of the red aad blue trousers of Capt. Crowel
when he comes out. after seven years in the work
shop Of that Prison, for the crime Of having for
gotten that a negro was a man, and it will be a no
bier banner than Massachusetts would bear, if sh'
carried the motto Of Sydney through the battle
and the breeze for a thousand years. We have 60
the matter into the courts. 1t is possible we mo,
find q Massachusetts jury who will be able t.
know its duty in this emergency it lie possible W
may find on the bench worthy descendants of tn
IIolts on the other side of the water. We will tr,
what plusk there is in law, as we have found non
in the Christianity IF this Commonwealth, Cap
Cod Shovel her off into the ocean, rather tina
have her the scene Of such outrages ns thes'
Why. had that fugitive looked across the sand
Cane, he might have heard the echo of the wave
that break on the SAD grave of Webster! Wits
Of Massachusetts,, prove now the claim you max
for his memory! lie might almost have caught
glimpse of the risiog monument at Plymout
Make it a shelter for ~iugitives from direr oppre
SIGN than the pilgrim ever defed.
--a have not time to say more. loud calls of I
on go on.') But l think it is a glorious hou
Ten years ago, or mere, the same scene was ena
ted in Boston harbor. You remember that BIO
lie swan half way 10 South Boston, then W
caught, and John III. Parsons captain shut hi
up in the cabin and took him back to his mastt
Pearson told it in State street. We had a meeti
in Faneuil Hall. John Quincy Adams preside
Stephen G. Phillips made the opening speech. a
said this conduct Of the Long wharf mercha
was q libel on the merchants of Boston. The ne
day, Pearson met him on State street, a
said, Take a vote at high change, and | will ha
ten merchants to cay l did right, to one man IL
xou can get in State street to call it disgracefu
Charles Francis Adlms said then, we will ha
"A grand jury indict these men before the Super
n.Cou:t, and show Carolina the Christianity of NJ
sachusetts.' they called ma to the platform