Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-03

Ambassadors we're sont among the lnsurg 'nts Qua
we're 60 fsvoratly impressed by their reception
as to make up a Subscription Of money for their
hosts, departing only the gallant Colonel
baltimore Jamaica Camillus, gave iron instead
Of gold, 0y throwing some bullets into the contri-
button box. Aud it was probably in accordance
with his view of the subject, that, when the Ma
rooms sent ambassadors in return, they were at
once imprisoned, most inj judicously and uujusuy;
and when OLD Montague himself and thiry-seven
others, following, were seized and i'm prsoned al
20, it is not strange that the Maroons, joiued by
many slaves, were in open insurrecton,
Martial law was instantly proclaimed through
+ out the island. Tho fighting msn among the in
sursents were not, perhaps, than five hun
dred, agaInb. whom the government could bring
f nearly fifteen hundred regulor troops add several
thousand mhida-men. Lord BIlclrros himself
took the command, aud, eageI to crush the affair,
promptly marched large force up to Treldwney
Town, and was glad tO march back again as ex-
pedltiousy as possible la his very first attacG,
he was miseraGly defeated, aud had to Ay for his
) n!e, amid Il perfect panic Of the troops, 10 which
some forty fifty were killed -incIuIIng Colonel
Sanford, comm In!lng tue regulars, ani the bull
let-lovlng COlOne! GIillmJre in cOmmand OF the
mIlitia-while not single Maroon was even
wounded tar could be ascertaned.
Alter this good deal Of bast-h shting took
place. The tr.ups gradually got possession OF
several Maroon villages, tu. I'LL every hut had
D been burnt by its owner. 1t wa4 in the height
OF the rainy season, and between fire and waIc.,
( the dsc0uilvrt OF the soliers was enornIOus.
a Meanwhile the MarOons lowered close aroun ,
La.
off their sentuels, aud, penetrating through their
" lines ut night, buried houses aud destroyed plan
: IauOns, Tar OelO.. The oEly man who could cope
/ with their peculiar tactics was Vi or JAmos, tue
= superintendent just removed by goyerument,-and
Il mis- services were not employed, as he was not
II trusted Ou one OCCASION, however, he led vol
l. unteer party farther into the mountains than any
il Of the assalIants had yet penetrated, guided BY
e tracks known to himself Only, and by the SMELL
r the smoke Of Maroon fires. After very e2haus
r ting march, including climb Of a hundred anC
n ity fee; up the face Of precpee, he brough
them Just within the entrance OF lthries Dehle
8 81 far said he, pointing to the entrance, 'yo
OF may pursue, but no farther; DO force can ene
g. here no white man except myself, or some SO
ir der Of the Maroon establishment, has ever gon
~ UeJOuu tulS W ltu thO B' 'SStSSb uilnSuiVJ
ID penetrated four miles farther, and not ten Maroon
ID nave gone iur as that. There are two otne
u ways Of getting into the deile practicable for th
= Maroons, but nor for any une OF you. In neithe
Of fhem can | ascend or descend with my arms
y which must be handed to me- step by step, a.
Ii practised by the MarOOns themselves. One OF tht
1t ways lies the eastward, and the other to the
r westward; and they will take care to have both
II guarded, II they suspect that L am with you
n which, from the route you have come to-day, they
& will, They now see you, and ii you advance fitJ
e PAGES more, they will convince you OF ~ At thin
u muma aut Maroon horn sOunded the notes lndIed
le ting his name, and, as he made answer, voice
5, was heard, iuqulrlng II he were among them. Il
10 he is SAID the voice, let him 90 back, we do no
is VISA to hurt him for the Of you, come
L ou and Try battle ii you choose. Bat the gentle
ID men d.G not choose.
to In September the House Of Assembly met
Things were looking worse and worse. For fy
ir months handful OF negroes and mulattoes has
~ dehed the whuIe force VI the Island and the,
o were defending their liberty b. precisely the sam
" tactics through which Ihelv ancestors had wen 1t
re Halt a million pounds sterling had been spen
I'd within this Ilme besides the enormous lOss incur
he re-. by the withdrawal OF So many abe;boded mel
rs from their regular employmenss. 'UaluyauoI
al VAS suspended says an eye witness the court
u Ut law had long been shut up; aud the island a
e. large seemed like garrison under the pow
C. er of aw martia tlan cJuntry oil agIio lture al
r. commerce, Of civil judlcature, industry and pro'
perlty.' Hundreds Of the militia had died OF ia
I'd ugue, large numbers had been shot down, til
ld most daring OF the British officers had fallen, whl
N tue insurgents had been invariably successful an
Ad not one OF them was known to have been kiel
,s- Captain Utuskell, the banlshed superintendent
rb gave it to the Assembly as his opiuIOn, that II
us whole slave population Of The island was in syu
II: pathy with tho MarUons, and would SOON be D
lie gond control More alarming stl!l, there were II
e murs OF French emissarles behind the scenes an
u though these were ex xpaiued away, the vague te
ly ror remained. Indeed, the LeuCenant-GvVernc
th aunounce his message that he had saiisiacIor
I'd evidence that the French Convention eUuoerl
u, ed in the revolt a French prisoner named MuI
OF enson had testified that tho French agent at Phi
ut adelphIa (Fauchet) had secretly sent hundre
10 ana h.ty emlssarles 10 the island, and hreatene
to TO land fifteen hundred negroes. Aud Ghoug
D. Murenson took il all back last, yet the Assem-
ID by was moved 10 make u offer Of three hun
Of d. ed dollars or killing or taking Trelawne
lie Maroon. aud hundred and fly dollars tor kllin
A or taking eny fugitive slave who had joined shem
10 They also voted five huhdreL pounds gratuit
& 10 the Accompong tribe of Maroons, who la
Ie thus far kept out Of the insurreciun; aud varou
prizes aud gratuites were also offered by the diff
e erent parishes, with the same oect Of seiiprooC
r. lon.
e. The commandes.in-ohief being among the killed
ID Colonel WalpOle was promoted ia his stead, an
n breverted as General by way of Incentive. IL
(, found people in despair, soldisry thorough
n atimidsted, and treasury, not empty, b.
Ii useless. But the new general Aad not serve
against The MsrOOns for nothing, and was nc
of ashamed TO 60 to school to his opponents. First