Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-23

being molested until March, 25th, when he wa
seized by U. S. officials and hurried to Cincinnati
to have an examination as a Fugitive Slave, bofor
Commissioners @. G. Brown. j. Kilgour appeare
as agent and claimant for his father, G. Kilgour
Messrs Jolffe and Caldwell appeared for Early
and contended that be did not owe service or Ia
Dor to G. Kilgour, having been freed by the act o
kilgour. The fact that free paperS did exist an,
were destroyed by fire. was proved by Mr.. Robin
son, and yet the U. S. Commissioner, who gets
bigger fee for returning man to slavery unde
the fugitive act than be does for discharging him
decided that the mans claim to freedom had no
been established, and remanded him to the Mar
shal to be delivered to Kilgour.
| Upon the rendering of this decision, the coun
sci for Early applied to Judge Leavitt for a writ
OF habeaS corpus to issue in behalf of Early
While the Clerk was making out copies of the
writ, requiring only eight minutes time, the clai
mant and his CaSel county friends, and the U. S
Marshal and his Deputy, took Early through the
Hall of the Government Court House, and down
stairs, placed him in carriage which was in wait
lng drove rapidly to the river, and before the writ
could be served got into Kentucky and consequent
ly beyond the jurisdiction of the court.
Mr.. Jolife has instituted suit in behalf of the
kidnapped man against Jas. Kilgour for false i'm
prisonment. The damages ore laid q. $4,000. The
Gazette says
This procedure lie decidedly novel in fugitive
slave cases, and evidently surprised the claimant
and his attorney"
The Pennsylvania outrage has been pretty fully
given by telegraph. free colored citizen of Har
risburgh named Daniel Webster who had resided
there some years, was seized and iroued in th
street by the ruf6an slave catchers, torn from hi
wife and children, who oung 70 him in despair
and hurried before U. S. Commits sioner in Phil
delpha. Able counsel volunteered, and after ,
protracted examination. the pretended owner fail
ed to efficiently identify Webster, and he was die
charged amid the accamations of the multitude.
Such are two specimens of kidnapping within a
few days No person Of "reputed African de.
Scent" is safe for an hour SO long as known men
stealers are tolerated on free soil. The atmos.
phere of our city is polluted by the presence of one
of the most despicable Of the human race a South
ern slave catcher. He testified on Wednesday in
the U. S. District Court under law Just fit to
recognize such human blood hounds as com petept
witnesses against men prompted by right and con
science to literal observance of the Golden Rule,
and produced in Court one of the revolvers he
swore he brought with him in his man and woman
hunts to Ohio, with as much coolness and uncon-
cern he would his tobacco box The testimony
of his Kentucky employee shows that he was
slavehunting on shares. and his very appearance
and manner of testifying bespoke his true charac-
ter. The eye never rested on man. pirate who
would better adorn moose with sudden jerk to
it, and humanity is outraged that the gun which
he testified punched his head through a stove pipe
hole at Wellington, had not had fixed bayonet
on the end of it = Clepcland Leader.