Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-19

mainly from the Church party. So bitter was the
enmity that one Judge Saunders had issued a
number Of warrants for him-no less than four
at one time--but by the providence Of God they
we're not served. Bnt finding warrants out for
him, he delivered himself up at Greensboro, and
was tried "for speaking words calculated to make
colored people uneasy" and the other for circula-
ting q book Of incendiary character. The prelim-
mary examination was held before three judg-
es, one Of whom, when he called his attention to
the fact that the book was made up Of extracts
from the writings Of Thomas jefferson, as we'll as
other Fathers of the Republic, made remarks;
Tom Jefferson said during his life o good many
things, and a good deal of tom-foolery which he
would be ashamed of now" Laughter. These
judges had fixed hiO bail at SIS, 900, and at the
same time q murderer at the Same bar was held
to bail under but $4,000, although his crime
was of the most revolving character.
The laws under which he was condemned provi-
ded tina. for being ir any way instrumental in cir
culating incendiary documents, the tendency of
which is TO make free or slave negroes uneasy,
aud to create instruction, the punishment for the
first offence should be Imprisonment for not less
than one year, and whipping at the pillory, in the
QlScTeUOn OF the OOurV. anu IOT tue beCOnu u
fence, the penalty Of death. And for any comm u.
nication by word with a slave calculated to create
instruction, the penalty was thirty-nine lashes
for the first offence, and death for the second.
lie paid a high compliment to the Judge who
presided at the trial for his fairness in administer
ing the law. Upon conviction, he had sentenced
the speaker to imprisonment for one year on each
charge, suspending the pillory punishment as not,
10 his discretion, advisable. The speaker bad sui
fered much from the horrible condition of the Jail
at Greensboro. and lost fifty pounds of flesh in
two months. The reason why he was enabled to
leave tho State was that his counsel had taken an
} appeal to a higher Court, and he was released uu-
der bonds Of Sc, 000-two Shareholders being his
bondsmen in each of tho counties, [applause, and
he believed he had as good friends in North Caro-.
Q lima as anywhere else. [Applause. lie though,
s that Helper owed him, as we'll as Clark of Nilsson
, ri, for advertising his book, until to-day, when
the debt had been paid in q check Of $50. IAp
plause. Mr.. Buchanan ought to look out for the
. Postmaster of Richmond, who was selling He'll err:
book by the hundred. LLaughter.] He had
been a member Of the Legislature of one Of the
States, and had become widely known and respec
ted. lie had been q magistrate in North Carroll
ma, and be knew that his bondsmen had conf,
deuce in his honor that he would return, if be
:, did not send the amount of his bond. And go e
would return, if his friends did not enable him t
idem Nifty his bOnGsmen. But what would hi
audience think of the laws which ~compe.ld him t
, leave his own State under these circumstance?
As Mr.. Worth resumed his seat temporarily, t
admit Of the taking up of q collection on his behalf
- 4 - nr,ooo h;ooaalf n A Darnt
Sperry, OF North Carolina, amid much confusion
obtained the privilege OF putting n few question
to the speaker. After a number of interruptions
kissing and considerable disorder, the question
we're brought out as follows
~ /. Having been a magistrate, did you not knoy
~ that from the circulation of Helpers book, an
us the preaching of your doctrines, that you were vic
be lating o law of the Statef
be 2. Did not the ci,izeLs of North Carolina trea
&C. you as we'll as they could, unde. the circumstar
OF ces? And is there not, therefore, some kindnes
I'd and love among the Shareholders?
be 8. Whether there is not liberty to discuss 4h
be Slavery question in the South in the presence
all classes except the free blacks and slaves?
IN 4. Why did not Mr.. Worth get somebody b
sides Shareholders to go his bailf
nd 5. How did Mr.. Worth get to the borders of Il
es, State2
Mt Mr.. Sperry accompanied the questions wi
AR quite q speech, in which he stated that he had 81
rth en- a dollar 10 tue oherlu OF ureehsOolo JAN 10 <
Mr.. Worth q warm breakfast. Upon Mr.. Wor
remarking that he wished the dollar had been 81
J, en- to him as he never saw either the dollar or &
ma. breakfast, laughter, Mr.. Sperry corrected hi
or self by saying that hO offered to give it.
Mr.. Worth answered the questions, substanti
f n lily, as follows:
ad. l. Having kept studiously away from the slave
,rs and appealing only to the whites, did not thil
;ny l was violating the law. l was q magistrate SOL
,en thirty.6vo yeare before that.
on 2. The only means 1 had OF judging Of the Sc
cts timents Of tho people of Greensboro was throu
,or- the jailor and others who told me that there wa
un disposition to massacre me, and a strong force v
ted required to prevent it when l was let out.
inc 3. There is not liberty to discuss the Slave
en. question in the South. because of the laws wbi
for 1 have read, providing penalties for the publ
Ibis ton of sentiments having q tendency to mt
far slaves uneasy.
an 4. | had my friends among tho slaveholde
because l had always been moderate. My fam
and myself were well known. The bail was '
uEteered.
,dn- s. The manner in which l reached the bord
md of the State is ~nObody's business but my own
+ber Laughter.
. to Mr.. Sperry, in the course Of his speech, '
asked if a Northerner would be allowed the sa
M freedom in the South, that he had herei He
piled no, for the reason that it was feared 1
but u wv "Ou'u W "'"'u wv 'nf0u'
the whites.
Mr.. HeV' MT rfenon was now caiiea 70 tue pia"e
to speak a few moments, in order to allow
and Worth time to rest. He expressed his abhorei
|, "a of Slavery.
.nti- Mr.. Worth then made a few concluding
,g a marks to show why the Anti-Slavery work
As carried on properly at the North. There wa
,use his opinion no more need Of going down South