Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-10
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

cuhIosslOh READ ~ the Yankee hidnappor, y. D.
lluzzy.
The chairman announced TO the meeting that
Huszy had made a full confession of his connec-
ton with the kidnapping Of himself and fifteen
others, last January, and that he had left the Ter
ritory, but before going had given his trunk con-
tanning a correspondence between some slavehold-
crs in Missouri, and lIuzzy, in reference to the
re-captute of fugitive slaves among his effects
he had also found q bible with the initials of IIuz-
zy's name upon it.
In compliance with q request Of q meeting Doc
tor boy read the recommendation given to IIuzzy
by his pastor, when he was about leaving his ma
tive place in New Hampshire for Kansas. Also
a letter from lIuzzy to a friend, giving an account
of his connection with the Free State Army here,
and announcing his willingness to give up his life it
necessary to prevent the establishment of the hat
cd institution Of slavery upon the soil Of Kansas,
proving conclusively that the Yankee Kidnapper
has not always been willing to go into the bust
ness of betraying the fugitives into the hands of
the spoiler. The recommendation from his pastor
in Rochester,, New Hampshire, gives him q good
moral, intellectual and gentlemanly character.
The confession of liuzzy was then read to the
meeting, exciting great sensation, as the plot and
plans Of the kidnappers became known. Such in
fanny, treachery, inhumanity, and moral turpitude,
90 the part of these men, astonished all.
Their plan of making dupes of the poor oppres-
sed victims Of slavery, by pretendiug friendship,
and under its guise to betray them into the hands
Of the slavehunter, is indeed, the lowest depth Of
crime ever heard Of or read of in history it is
unsurpassed in iniquity, and deserving of the Sc
verest punishment. Our people did not suppose it
possible for men born in New England, to des-
cend to such a depth as these men have gone in
moral pollution. All tho crimes of the Border
Rufians in Kansas, for the five years, is nothing
in com parison to it..
At the request of the meeting, the chairman
read several letters received by lluzzy from slave
holders, Offering rewards for the recovery of run
away slaves.
One Hutchinson offered, first ono, and then two,
hundred dollars to him if he would only point
out the hiding place OF Charles Fisher. Another
agreed to give one-half a negro woman is worth
in Missouri, on condition that he would catch her
and deliver her to him in Jail, so he 'can get her"
The correspondence between the kidnappers, the
efforts made by Iluzzy to obtain the appointment
from Mr.. Buchanan as Postmaster in Lawrence.
But enough of this another scene in the drama
was called for, when the Rev. i. Norte, Jr., Of
this city, appeared on tho stand, and exhibited a
small pocket Bible, with IIuzzy'S initials upon it
which he stated had been left by the owner with
his letters. He had examined the book, and
found that it possessed q new interest as a kidnap-
per's Bible, for he found evidence of its having
been read, several passages marked, and thumb
ed over, as if frequent reference had been had to
them. lie had read the marked passages and
found them all to refer to the awful crime of be-
traying the oppressed the sword Of the Almigh-
ty against the sin, and the terrible sin o. the kid
napper. He thought from q knowledge Of the
early life of Huzzy, away up among the granite
hills of New Ham pshire, he had been educated
in a pious family, that in his youth he had been
taught to love and respect his fellow men, to read
and study the Bible, to go to it as Il safe and sure
guide amid oil the perils and temptations of life.
lie came to Kansas, took On active part in our
troubles in the defence of freedom, was %unfortu-
nate, lost his claim. got lazy-the crying fault Of
our western m~en-would not work, tried teaching
and failed.
Money was offered him If he would become a
kidnapper, to betray him that VANDERBILT. lie
was tempted, lie went to his Bible and read it, to
gain strength to resist temptation.
lie commenced at the beginning, found verseS
denouncing the kidnapper, ~poudeied over them.
resolved them in his mind, stood firm against
temptation for q time, turned often and read the
following two passages which boar unmistakable
evidence Of having been referred to often. They
are in the XIII and XIV chapters of Deuter-
onomy, the 18th and 7th verses Thou shalt
not deliver unto his master the servant which is
escaped from his master unto thee"
"If a man be found stealing any Of the chill
dren of Israel, and maketh merchandise Of him,
or selleth him, then the thief shall! die and thou
shalt put evil away from among you"
The reading of the above made him conscious
of the great crime he was tempted to commit.
And turning to Ephosians, vi chapter, 18th verse,
he read
put on the whole armor Of God, that ye may
be able to stand against the wiles of the devil"
He felt strong, went out to deny the ~tenpters,
but their ridicule or money conquered him, and
he fell ; perpetrated an infamous crime, so deep
in iniquiEy as to excite the bitter contempt Of ev-
en- the slave holders towards him.