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

head OF his people; by Obenh influence he estau-
hshed thorough freemasonry among both slaves
and insurgents no party could be sent forth by,
the government but he knew it Ia time TO lay an
ambush, or descend With fire and sword on the re-
gion left unprotected lie was thus always sup
piled with arms and auimuniton6 and as his
men wero perfect Warksmen, never wasted a shot
and never rsked battle, his forces naturally in
creased while those of his opponents were deci-
mated. His men were never captured, and never
took a prisoner il was impossible 10 tell when
they were defeated; in dealing @i'h them, as Pels-
sier said Of the Arabs, peace was not purchased
by victory ; and the ony men wao could obtain
the slightest advantage against them were the i'm
ported Mosquito Indians or the Black Shot
a company Of government negroes. For nine full
years this particular war continued unchecked,
General Williamson r0ling Jamaica by day and
Cudjo by night.
The rebels had every Typographical advantage,
for they held possession Of the 'Cochpits Those
highlands are lurrowed through and through as
by an earthquake with series of gaps or ra-
vines, resembling the California canons, or those
similar assures in various parts of the Atlantic
States, known to local fame either pOeIicallS
ice-glens, or symbolically as purgatores. These
chasms vary from two hundred yards to a mile in
length the rocky walls are fifty or a hundred
feet high and often absolutely inaccessible, while
the passes at each end admit but one man a.
time. They thckly wooded, wherever trees
can grow water flows within them and they Of
ten communicate with one another, forming a Sc
ries Of traps for on invading force. Tired and
thirsty with climbing, tile weary soldiers toll on
in single file, without seeing or hearing enemy:
up the steep and winding path they traverse one
cock pitt then enter another. Suddenly a shot is
fred from the dense and sloping forest on the
right, then another and another, each dropping
man the startled troops face hastily in that dl-
rertion, when more murderous volley is poured
from the other side ; the heights above fash with
musketry, while the precipitous path by which
they came seems to close in fire behind them. By
the time the troops have formed in some attempt
at military order, the woods around them emp
| ty aud their agile ard noisess foes have settled
themselves into ambush again, farther up the
defilo ready for n second attack, il needed. But
one is usually sufficient ;-disorderei, exhausted,
bearing their &ouuded with them, the soldiers re-
treat in panic, if permitted to escape at ell, and
carry fresh dismay to the barracks, tho plantations,
and the Government House.
1t is not strange, thel, that high military au-
thoritas at that period should have pronounced
the subiugation of the MaroOns a thing more diff
fcult than to obtain victory over any
army in Europe. Moreover, these people were
shting for their liberty, with which aim no form
of warfare could be uni ustifable and the des-
cription given by Lafayette Of the American Rev
Gution was true of this one,-'the grandest of
causes, won by contests of sentinels and outposs.
The utmost hope Of British officer, ordered
against the Ma.oons, was to lay waste provision
ground or cut them off from water. But there
was little satisfaction in this; the wild pine leaves
and the gravevine withes supplied the rebels with
water and their plantation grounds were the wild
pineapple and the pantain groves, and the fol-
ests, where tho wild bears harbored and the ring
doves were as easily shot as if they were militia
men, Nothing but sheer wcariness of lighting
seems to have brought about a truce at last, ami
then treaty, between those high contracting par
ties Cudjoo and General Williamson.
| But how to execute treaty between these wild
Children of the Mist and respectable diplomatic
Engshmen To establish any official relations
without the medium of preliminary bullet re-
quired some ingenuity of maneVering. Cudjoe
was willing but iuconveniently cautiousJ he would
MT come halfway to meet any cnej nothing would
content him but an interview in his own chosen
cockpit SO he selected one Of the most difficult
passes, posting in the forest q series ot outlying
parties to signal with their horns one by 1.-the
approach of the plenipotentaries, and then TO re-
tire on the main body. Through this line OF per
ilous signals, therefore, Colonel Guthrie and hi:
handful of men brayely advanced horn atteI
horn they heard sounded. but there was no Other
human noise ip tho woods, and they had advanced
TIL they saw the smoke of the Maroon hut'
before they caught glimpse OF human form
| A conversation was at last opened with the in
visible rebels. On their promise OF safety, DR.
Russell advanced alone to treat with them
then several MaroOns appeared, and hnGlly Cud
Joe himself The formidable chief was not high
ly military in appearance, being short tat hump
Il hacked. dressed in tattered blue coat without
4 skirts or sleeves, and an old felt hat without
rim. But if he had blaaed with regmental scar
let he could not have been treated with more dis
tipguished consideration indeed, in that case
{ the exchange of hats with which DR.. Russell hu
ally volunteered, in Maroon fashion, to ranty ne
Cotatons would have been less severe test VI
good fellowship. This fue stroke of diplomacy
had its effect therefOrej the rebel captains agreed
to a formal interview with Colonel Guthrie and
CAPTAIN Sader and treaty was at last executed
with all due soemnity under large colton-'ret
II at the entrence of Guthrie's De6le, This treats
recognized the military rank Of Captain CndJoe
Captain Accompong, and the rest gave assurance
that the Maroons should be forever hereafter in
perfect state Of freedom and liberty ceded tc
them fifteen hundred acres of land aud stiPulat
ed only that they should keep the peaeei should
harbof no fugitive from justice or from slaveryiend
should allow two white commissioners 10 remain
among them, simply to represent the British gov
Il ernment
! During tho following ycar a separate treaty