Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-24
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Truly Yours.
EUGENE PARDEE.

ScHUYLKILL, Chester Co, Pa, March 10, 1860.
To tie Editor ofMe Anti, Sldrery Bug1e TO
you, II Pennsylvania, doubtless everything touch
ing The present condition of tho anti-slAvery cause
in that dear old Commonwealth possesses an es.
pociul interest. So l venture to give you an item
or two of news which may prove interesting t.
your readers also.
A Republican Convention met recently at the
capital Of the State and recommended the Hon.
Simon Cameron to the Chicago Convention, as n
suitable nominee Tor the Presidency. Here is the
"fang" which was wrapped up in n large number
Of generally excellent resolutions
"Resolved, That to the union Of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in popula-
ton, its surprising development Of material re-
sources. its rapid augmentation of wealth, its hap.
piness at home and its honor abroad, md that,
consequently, we hold in adherence all machina-
tons for disunion, come from whatever source
they may"
Only think of our overwhelming honor abroad. ,
| venture the opinion with diGidenco, knowing that
tho whole affair is n game between political trick
4ters, but l really don't think the kinsnan of Loeb
iel will ever be President Of the United States, not
that he is not su perior to several individuals who
have occupied that Office. and to many more who
are aspiring to it but then there are so many 9th.
err patriots who are willing, nay anxious, to sacti-
fee themselves on the altnr { their country in this
way, and at this very juncture; though | don't
mean to intimate that there is ever any scarcity 10
this sort.
Wretched as is the position of tho Republican
party in this State, the official resolutions of which
| have given you the worst, exhibi! it in a more
favorable light than those of tho same orgoniza.
ton 10 other quarters where greater pretensions
are made. But it is the dreadful curse Of our
whole political system that we can never afford
the luxury Of being sincere. | know men in the
Republican party of Pennsylvania who heartily
desire to give their whole influence to the cause Of
Justice and humanity, but the trammels of party
forbid it the Union stands forever in the way.
A private letter received q few days since gives
the particulars of ali outrageous case of kidnap.
ping which occurred in Lancaster County lutte re,
Gently. A black man, John Brown by name, lv.
ing in one of the tenent houses of Mr.. j. Williams
Thorne, who resides ia this county, near the
county line, was seized under false pre:ences, in
the night time, and hurried off TO Maryland befor,
any efectual pursuit could DO made. Severa'
other coiOred lheu have lately disappeared from til,
same neighborhood mysteriously, who are to.day
probably, laboring under the lash on some South
ern plantation.
Brown was, we now know, taken directly tc
Baltimore, where he was placed in one of tn,
slave pens, but having been removed TO a second
one, probably that all trace Of him might be lost
was there proVidentially seen and recognized by
Mr.. Bond who had known him as a freeman, anC
who prevailed upon the jaiIOr to release him. II,
is now at home again. Several of his kidnapper
have been arrested aad required to give bail on
IF them is running at large under a recognizancu
Of ten thousand dqllarsj another lying in the Ian
cester Jail in default Of the bail demanded, ell
thousand. This affair may be regarded as ano.h
or Of the numerous evidences that we live ia a fire.
country There is certainly no other one profes
sing to be civilized, where people take liberties o
this sort, The amount Of bail required indicate
something like a return to d%eeency, for we aoer
decent once in Pennsylvania,--in the colonia
times, and afterwards, until The Union had eatel
out our conscience.