Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-10
From the n. 7. Evvnins Post.
TRR THREE NEGROES AND MARSHAL
RYNpERS,
BEAUTY, PHILANTHROPY AND RuFFIAN.


The following sAdavits, which are abourto be
laid before thseproper court, have been handed us
Ter publication by tho respectable gentlemen
whose osths are subscribed.
AFFIDAVIT or wE. cURrts MOVES.
CITY aud County Of Nep York, IS: William Cur.
as Noyes, Of the said city, Counsellor-at-Law be-
ing duly sworn, saith William Barney, Of said
city. is a law student in this deponent's Office /;
that deponeni having been solicited to take mea'-
ures to get tie three cOlored boys recently found
on board Of an abandoned slave vessel on or near
the coast Of Africa and brought into the port Of
New York. into the Colored Orphan Asylum,
where be was Informed they would be received
and educated without charge, mentioned tho sub
jet to Mr.. Barney on the morning Of Friday, the
l9th OctobeT, 1860. and requested him TO look into
Tho statutes aud decisions and to make inquiries
in regard to the matter with a view to ascertain il
sucb q disposition could not lawfully be made Of
ihem. with the assent Of the authorities Of the
general go' eminent. including the United States
Marshal for the Southern Dis.rict Of New York
tina, deponent referred him to she statutes and to
somo of :he decisions, and requested him also to
speak with his grandfather, Mr.. Lewis Tappar,
whom this deponent did not then know, about the
question, and to take such other steps as to OBJ
tanning Information as he should deem proper
and that Mr.. Barney Immediately commenced at
tending TO deponent's requ est, and left Opponents
ofice for that purpose that dsponent had, Just
before he made such request, an interview
with the United States District Attorney and bis
deputy upon the same subject, and after Mr.. Bar
pey lefs his Office to make such inquiries, went to
his residence up town for the purpose of examin-
ing the legal questions involved more carefully !;
and after being there a few hours, was informed
by Mr.. Barney that he had been to the Office Of
the United States Marshal with his grandfather,
and had been there rudely treated and assaulted,
10 substance 90 described in his affidavit hereto
%snnsTed, and further deponent saith not.
WM. CURTIS MOVES.
AFFIDAVIT OF LEWIS TAPPAN.
City and County of Nep York, SIS Lewis Tap
pan, OF the city of Brooklyn, county Of Kings and
stAte Of New York. being duly affirmed, depOses
and rays, that on the nineteenth day Of October,
1860, he vent to the Office of Isaiah Rynders. Esq,
Marshal Of the United States for The Southern
District Of New York, with his grandson, William
Barney, o law student in the Office Of William c.
Noyes. Esq, who had called upon him at the re-
quest of Mr.. Noyes for Information respecting the
Amistad Africans, as Mr.. Noyes had it in contem-
plation to obtain possession Of the three African
boys who were found on board the captured SLAYER,
W. Il. Kibby. for the purpose Of retaining them
10 this country, 80 be Instructed in useful know
ledge and Industrious ha its, if it could be legally
done.
The deponent furit sr says that he found the
H.,.h.I; ~ liz ;npar o6roa hauin0 haan direnkeC
to the room by q person in the outer. Office, sur
rounded by q considerable number Of men, depu
ty-marsha,s, clerks, or persons having business
With the Marshal, as he the dcponens supposed
and respectfully addressing him, inquired if hi
had in his custody said African boys, on which
the Marshal replied, Eyes, and I have orders
from government TO take them to Baltimore ant
deliver them into the hands of the agent of thu
Colonization Society, to be sent Liberia, and l in
tend to do it tomorrow or next day"
The deponent further says that he then asked
there was no way in which the boys could be re
tanned in this country, as some friends of the col
cred people were willing to relieve government o
the expense and trouble o: taking the boys, an
providing for their support, education, DC. U
which the Marshal, half rising and under consid
cradle excitement, said II have been annoye
enough about these damned internal niggers. EC
ecate them Why do you not ed-e-cate poor whit
boysf You don's care a damn Sor them, but haS
a mighty love for the damned niggers. tits all
pritence. | don't believe o word of it, nor in you
damned philanthropy"
The deponens further says, that perceiving II
Marshal was greatly excited and Infatuated, as a
peared by his loud voice, his violent gesticulatio
- II L.. .l,~koo;no dannaannr ha andaavo
ed to allay his anger and to pecify him, sayiu
Marshal Rynders, sou are the Marshal Of the VI
.riot, the representative Of the Executive of Il
United States in tbis city this is q public otic'
came here on business the boys are in 20,
custody beg you to be calm, as you see I am
but instead of ~alisying the excitement of the Ma
shall, what he said seemed to excite him still NOR
be came around the table toward the d~eponent al
exclaimed, while the persons in the Office applau
cd him by stsmping frequently upon the floor:
xish every damned niger was ~hung-Aung
high that God Almighty could not reach them
wish you we're hung with them l should like
have the hanging Of you I'll be damned if
would not hang you in handsome style"
The deponent further says that he replied: "Ma
shal Rynderr, whenever l an legally convicted
acapitsl crime, and delivered over TO you for OF
c%uIiOn, you may hang me in handsO=.e style b
until then you must not lay your band upon m
ON which the Marshal said he would 4
have de2onent in his Office he should not cor
there again be hated all negro worshipers
wished they we're hung s~ky-high, &c, &c., &c.
The deponent further says that the Marsh
continued to talk in 4 boisterous manner, urged
By the persons in the Office; while he lIhe deponer
tried in various ways to divert their attention al
Allay the excitement, until the Marshal made
him in a menacing manner, on which the gran
son Of the deponens, who stood as a spectator
VIVA. had tranSpired. gently placed himself
,ween the Marshal and the doponent, with b
side TO the Msrshal. saying, you must no: stril
my grandfather !" on which the Marshal seiz'
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