Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-14
e o III II, Ii II
KIDNAPPING IN ILLINOIS.


dies are the wilful work Of man, and cast dark
shadows, dark as midnight over the integrity and
honesty ola whole nation. But acts diabolical
as the human heart can conceive, and the human
hand can execute mast be done, and the tale must
be told again and again, aye rung with clarion
notes in the ears of the people ere they will know
that wrong is done-Or arouse oven if they do
know, to right it.
Last saturday, las rumor goes,) a black man
about forty years Of a%ge-well built, open intelli.
gent countenance, worth from l,S00 to $4,000,
called at q farm house near town, and asked for
work. 1t was in the after part Of the day, and the
man wished something to eat before going to
labor. Immediately the suspicious of the owner
Of the house-Mr. Ezekiel Snyder, one Of the
wealthiest farmers in the neighborhood, and a
staunch Democrat, were arossed. Here was a
chance of ~wirning laerels for his party, an oppor-
tunity 20 glorious for proving his lcyalsy to tire
Constitution and Fugitive Slave Law, that he
squared himself at once, ana enquirod of tke hum.
BILE wonderor if he was a fugitive slave; and he,
supposing that in a free state all men we're his
friends, answered according to the truth, and said
he came from Alabama. Mr.. Snyder immediate
y procured a rope and tied the man or had him
tied-bow many it took to dc this valiant deed,
no one knows, but the fact is known that at half
past eight, when the down train from Centreville
passed, Mr., Snyder was at the station with bis
prize.
My husband and son happening :hero on BUSH
ness saw the sight, and Immediately made enquiry
as to its meaning, but we're told with horsid oalhs
il, was none Of their business. The conductor
f,.,,l ,Lo o,l,.aJ 500, ;rt, ,ho oors aid tlo oop.
fusion and cursing of the crowd, who seemed
almost infatuated enough, to wrelk vengeance
then and there on the poor fellow for having ever
dared to have an aspiration for freedom. Snyder
had left bome in such hot haste that he had moi
laid aside his soiied garments of q weeks wear,
or even put on his coat, and he marched into the
cars behind his victim, clutching the rope in hi,
band with pompeus pIide, as if he was doing &
christian deity, upon which the blessing Of Goo
would fall. The Slave was like a beast led to thC
= slaughter, be opened not his mouth. lie was calm
aud self possessed, while all around him, tht
|" crowd, from mid age down to lille boyhood seem
" ed anxious to prove their adhesion 10 the power
= that be, by telling with sentences well garnisheC
with oetho what they w"nld do If any Of their mig
gers SHOULD attempt to run away. Not one in al
that crowd, except the two above spoken of
made the least demonstration of sympathy; an
many had only time 10 ask by what authority, an
under what control this thing was being done, er
the locomotive gave its furious cry, and the viz
tim of a brutal slave hound and the hound himse
were whirled away. We have made dIiger
enquiry since, and can learn nothing more than
report that the fugitive was lodged in Jones.ow
} all a few miles below. j may be, or it may nc
be. Had he been taken TO Cairo and sold for hi
full market value, to some steam boat-man, hanC
cuffed, aud chained down below, who would has
cared for his fate =? lie may be q free man, an
lay in Jones5urg Jail six months. and then by III
laws of Illinois, be sold tc the highest bidder fc
one year to work out his Jail fees; and Mr.. Sn,
. der may then get a cheap work hand. Or Mr..
" 80 anxious for the pubic veal, may send q note
some slave state and trump up al impromptu owl
40 er and sell him to advantage. What if he do, wi
's any body look after this sin
ct a man, s~taltwarI and strong in mid-age, gull
~ of no crime that we know, except having a SIX
A. not colored like our own, here in this free stat
MS in a community Of christian churches, Saba
GO schools, missionary meetings, and glorious res
walls, has been caught, and without warrant or a
10 ihority tied with his arms behind him, hroug
u into the town Of CarbOndalo, shown publicly upt
~ the platform and allowed by the conductor to
i"- forced in this condition into the cars, and but IL
'e men id d great crowd felt disposed, or dared
1u ask a question, or say to the human hound at Il
d" other end Of the rope behind his piece Of bla
=, y, property, Why do ye this thing p Indeed t
ne only feeling which seems to have been excit
about the matter was that any one should da
II" ask a question Que man was heard to swe
- valiantly that I've have been too easy on these O
III clifton fellows; if one Of them should interft
with me in that way there would be- blood split
need make no comment on all this. No Ia
Wa guage Of mine can darken the color, or make t
pattern more hateful TO all good and true poop
We To the weak and ihoughtless it might deep
IN the picture to tell of a few stripes laid upon
back that brought the gushing blood at eve
blow; human pride and selhshness too would b
: little more appalled, If / were to say the man "
nearly white. But only a black man BLACK
tar as one said, going back into bondage bound
Z toll for another, to 5e robbed daily, weekly, We
lyi fot twenty or thirty years to come-robbed
the avails of his labor, robbed of his manic,
robbed Of The right even to DO good according
AZ our standard, robbed Of all that would make
,ld desirable. Dear reader, 10 you and me what
h ,, itF 1t is nothing, in thu eyes of those who m
sustain tnis glorious Union.
You will hear FROM me from time to time, a:
IL. see aud hear of those things which mus. be t
to the people. Yours
So1 F. D. GAGE
HosE, CARBoNDALE, JACKSON Co., ILL.
crv when you do write again, please Aunt Fan
ort- 'e''
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