Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-01
OUTRAGEOUS CASE OF TYRANEY AMI
IRJUSTICg.

OUTRAGEOUS CASE OF TYRANNY AND
INJUSTICE.
The telegraph some weeks ago in single line
stated that young man named Brewster, who
had been invited to Alabama to teach school,
had been driSen away by mob. Itsppeavs that
some ill-minded person charged him in a letter
from Charleston, South Carolina, with being an
abolitioni8t Thereupon, Judge Campbell, a resi-
dent reverend expounder of the law in Somerville,
where Brewster was teaching called him to account
before public meeting and read the aforesaid
letter. In a communication to the New York
Tribune, Brewster tells the rest of the story as
follows:
When the Judge finished reading the letter,
there arose from !he crowd general yell Of exc
Grafton, with cries of chang him!" "Shoot him!'
AS soon as | could make my voice audible, l
demanded my right as an American citizen to be
heard in solI-defence, and offered ifsopportunity
were given me- to vindicate myself from Ooou-
sation SO utterly false. The honorable Judge re-
piled in the following languages "YOu are God
damned black hearted Abolitonist. You came
from Boston, and that is proof enough against
you can't do it,"
1 requested him to send for Mr.. Giers and in
quire for what purpose l came to the South, and
ask the various negroes with whom l had ridden
hours about the country, if 1 bad spoken to them
of freedom, or tampered with them in any way.
The Judge answered, II know you have done
nothing amiss as yet. You are more sly than
your fellows in Texas You want to nsinuate
yourself into the confidence of our unsuspectiug
citizens, by pretending TO be teacher, and then
| by-and-by giving niggsrs slrychn:rs 10 pvt
into the water of the village"
When the Judge had ended, young lawyer
named Patterson mounted sugar-box, and spoke
substantially as follows:
"Fellow-oitizens, have you not heard Of the hor-
rible outrages in Texas, caused by the damned
Abolitionist teachers? Have you not heard of the
plots in Talledga county, to poison the springs and
murder our fellow citzons, all caused by the
damned Yankees? And now, fellow-citizeus, in
our quiet village comes another Of this damned
black hearted crew to incite our negroes to deeds
of violence The enemy is in our midst-what
shall we do with him?" Cries of "Kill him."
Hang him." "Put him through" Then turning
to me, he said, Go back to them that sout you
here, and tell them We wish no Boptonian among
us. Fellow citizens, all who are iu favor Of this
mans leaving this town in two hours, say aye"
There vote in the negative, l Observed
however, that quite q number abstained from vo
ing Though they may have thought that was
unjustly treated, yet no one dared to lisp word
in my defense.
Much of the two hours given me were spent in
vain endeavors TO procure q conveyance for myself
and trunk to Valhamoso Returning to the vii
age from my fruitless search, l was met by a
mob headed by lawyer Patterson who commanded
me to open my trunk. Refusing to do 60 unless
by legal authority, it was broken open. Its con-
tents were thoroughly examined and tho sides Of
the trunk sounded for concealed drawers. My
books were ransacked to find something of in
condiary character. The newspapers which had
wrapped about my shoes were carefully scrutini-
zed, One of these was copy Of the Boston Her
aid which was first taken for Black Republican
sheet, and when discovered to be a Douglas organ,
was pronounced by the bystanders, "a damned
sight worse than Black Republican paper."-
There was copy Of the Boston Traveller, with
one of Henry Ward Beechor's sermons, which,
however, contained no allusion to Slavery. The
name of Beecher added to the excitement, but the
climax was reached when they found among my
letters, one written by the Hon. Charles Sumner
in 1854, For q few moments l thought my time
had como.
Taking what papers they thought suspicious,
the mob left cursng me with tho foulest Oaths
that ever disgraced human lips.
On collecting my scattered property, d' cover
ed that several articles Of clothing were missing.
What there we're Of an incendary character about
my shirts l cannot imagine. l trust that they
may have been the means of bringing clean linen
into fashion in region where according to my
own observation it is seldom seen.
finally bargaiRed with person to convey my
trunk to Valhamoso on the following morning,
and Immediately set out for that place on foot
Exhausted in body and sick at heart, dragged
my weary limbs, under a burning midday sun,
over rugged mountain road. / had gone about
three milOs, when heard halooing behind me,
and presently tbree men upon horseback rode up
at full speed, ordered me to stop, and dsmounting
approached me. One of them who held in his
hand long leather thong or lasso, with slip
moose at the end, said: I'VE have come to hang
you, SO now prepare yourself" replied, 81 am
ready" and folding my arms, awaited the result.
After the outrage and indignity had already suf-
fered, worn out by anxiety and bodily fatigue, /
felt in the same passive state which man some
times feels on the deck of sinking ship when
the last hope OF escape has died out in his breast
The rufhans were apparently about to put their