Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-08-10
Clyde Items.
CLYDE, August s, 1860.

OLiDhJ AuSuSI o. AOOO'
Another burglary was committed last
Friday about one and half miles South of
here. While Mr.. Bogart, his wife, and OIL
der children were away from home, his
house was entered by a person dressed in
women's clothes, and property to the a.
mount of $50 to $50 carried away.
Among tho articles missed are a wool
shall, dresses, linen, &c, &c.
A man supposed to be an accomplice was
followed next morning and arrested, but
discharged for want of evidence. Tho wo-
man could not be found.
Among the items of interest that have
transpired during the past week, may be
mentioned visit from Anthony Burns, no.
torious as fugitive at Boston some six
years since-from what? JusticeG No.
From service due ! How happened it that
he owed service to any man9 He had al
ready worked until he was over twenty
without pay. And what evidence had his
pretended owner to show that he owed him
service for the remainder of his days2
But United States officials were satisfied
from the evidence that he was in debt to
his assumed master to the amount of all the
service of body and mind that he was ca
pable OF performing during his natural life,
and so he was handed over to the tender
mercies of the slave-catcher, and ship of
war was furnished by Uncle Sam to escort
him back to "Old Virginy," and thus vindi-
cato that beautiful doctrine that black
man has no rights whito man is bound to
respect. By what lawful authority Uni
ted States Ship of War was thus entailed
on this important mission, have not yet
learned.
A man guilty of having dark skin, is
doomed to bondage for life to fellow man.
He desires freedom and the "inalienable
rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness," and endeavors to obtain them. For
this crime he is arrested, thrown into pris-
on, tried before Court appointed by this
pattern "land of Liberty" and thus found
guilty. What spectacle for the Worlds
eyes
Arrived at Richmond he was locked up
iu cell six feet square, his wrists manacled
across each other, his feet shackled with
only one link between, in both cases so
tightly as to cause frightful wounds, the
scars from which he will carry to his grave.
Tho furniture of his room was simple
bench; his food coarse and some of it very
unsaVory. Water was furnished him in a
painted pail, and when he had drank all
including slime and scum in warm weather,
the pail was refilled.
In this way he lived for five months
including the summer manufacturing
which time his cell was never cleaned and
we may judge of its awful state when we
arc told that it was literally alive with
crawling creatures.
At length he was taken from the cell Ia
the auction block, amid the curses and
threats ofa mob, and finally sold to North
Carolina planter-after which he Jared We
ry we'll, and was finally redeemed by north
ern friends.
Burns escaped by slowing himself away
among goods in the forecastle of vessel
where he was visited and fed by the stew
ard as he could find opportunity-some-
times two or three days elapsing. The
steward and two men only knew Of his be-
ing aboard. Arriving at Boston he sought
and obtained employment, and after few
months betrayed himself by writing to &
friend.
Mr.. Burns is large, fne looking blacl
man, has a rich, mellow voice of great vol
ume, and is naturally graceful speaker