Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-01
From the Principal.
LETTER FROM WIN. s. BAILEY.

NEWPORT, KY, NV. 18th, 1850.
Rev. WIN. GooDELL.-MY DEAR FRIEND For
the business and fairness with which you assisted
in drawing the grim vail Of obloquy from between
me and your readers, placed there by one who
should have been my fast friend through life,
please accept my sincere thanks, and the best
wishes Of my family.
And though l am still il q crushed condition,
worried and harased by misguided men, / trust in
God the time is not far distant when | shall send
forth the "Eiee South" 20 the friends and co-werk-
es Of Southern freedom.
Since l returned home, and after the Presiden-
tial election, the Republicans of Newport casting
tpo hundred and Sirty-eigM votes for Mr.. Lincoln,
my securities for my appearance at Court, i'll the
case wherein l was char( ed with issuing an Gin
~cendiary newspaper" being Breckenridge and
Douglas men, and thinking their political skirts
would be sullied by standing security for an anti
slavery man, sent an officer, arrested me in the
character of a felon, and without hesitation, thrust
me into Jail. This is one way for men to gain
favor with the pro-slavery or monied power OF the
South. Only think, that because 1 am in favor of
voting by BALLOT, in the place of the VIVA vocE,
that men may express their real sentiments unaw-
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| am 10 favor of the freedom of our State, I am
thus unfrieDdly treated, and put to ali the cost
they can heap upon me. Inhumauity and oppres-
sion are the natural accompaniment Of the sys-
tenn of slavery, and | thank God that ttUo hundred
and sisty-eigL voes have just been cast by the free
men of Newport, against such unreienting
vexation.*
The object of my tormentors (may God pardon
their wrOngs,) is to put me into the Penitentiary
for daring" to say in the State Of Kentucky, that
L am opposed to slavery, and my trial for these
alleged offences will take place soon after the
fourth Monday in this month but I still hope
there will be humanity sufficient on that occasion
to grant me ry constitutional rights, and discoun-
tenance the m%obbing of my printing Office, and
the attempt to i~Ihprison me for expressing my
honest convictions against the system of slavery.
Soon after l wac put into jail, my wife and fami-
ly were upon the ground, and learning that other
security was needed for my release, one of my
daughters went to a responsible friend, who readi-
ly consented to become my bail; and after a long
time Of AaJea8 corpus LEGALITY" giving the mob
the satisfaction of looking through the iron bars
at me, at eight and e half o'clock, P. NJ, released,
and with my wife, family, and friends, returned
to my home.
You, frien Goodell, may feel glad to know you
can lie down, undisturbed by threatening DULLES
while you sleep, OF fear arrest By day, because you
arc not an enemy 10 frceIom; or the Peni,entiary.
because you advocate the liberties Of men. Alas,
what a "land Of i~ibertyl' May it please Almigh-
.ty God, to let this exciting spirit pass away, and
friends enjoy their homes in quietudo and peace.
| remain your friend, true to freedom, until death.
WIN. SHREyE BAILEY.
*We wish il may prove true tina. the Republi-
can votes in Kentucky, end elsewhere, were in
deed given against such oppression. Time will
determine.-Edior P iacipia.