Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-06

My aStonishment only ~equalled my indignation
on reading this absurd letter. II tho State seal
had not been engraved on the paperI should have
pronounced tie forgery. / could not believe a
Mayor Of New York could stop to insult q help
less woman and uphold such villainous acts.
The weather was now getting colder, and the
prison grew more and more dreary. There was
to be an execution in tho ~jail-yard, and the gnl-
lows was built and a negro hung just before my
window. The sights and sounds around the place
| cannot describe. ii
] asked my counsel ard the sheriff what they
pretended :hey were keeping mo for their fool
shbebargss were of no Consequence whatever moth
lng could be construed into q crime except tam
psring with slaves was there any one they could
name that had eyer seen or heard me talking TO
%sIlyesf No, they could not say that they had
heard Of any that would hold themselves RESPONSE
Die for such a statement. Before long | received
a letter saying that l had permission TO leave in
the next steamer bound for Now York, aud that
1t L was willing TO leave, a carriage would be sent
for me, and my passage paid. OF course was
not sorry to leave Charleston q close carriage
vas sent TO the Jail, aud a Vigilant policeman to
take care OF me there was a great %commotion
around the steamer they were sending back 90
poor Irish labOrcrs that had come out in the stea-
mer and had not been allowed to land they had
no provisions for their return voyage the Minute
Men, with terrible osths, we're threatening to cut
their throats, if they dared put a foot on shore.
My attendant helped me aboard the ship, gave
me NY ticket, and turned away, as ifin haste tt
leave. Al q glance / sawI was booked for The
deck passage with the sixty Irishmen. The May
or was so kind as TO pay for US all 50 a head.
ran afer the man. '~"lIere, Sir" said take
this ticket. back | am not going on the deck.
He said l should not leave the ship I would be
obliged to 90 as the Mayor ordered. / called fol
the captain, who came sound and civilly heard
what l had to say. lie said he would send a mes.
songer and propose some arrangement with the
Mayor. | sail I should never reach New York
alive Icould not endure the cold and exposure
and hoped he would refuse to take me. IL will
30 back to Jail again and wait until my friends
send for me-" Soon the man returned consulted a
moment with the ciptaiu, and said to me, 'you
must go as you ateiotdered the Mayer win not
pay your passage in the cabin. | Indignantly an
swered, / have not asked him to pay for my pas
or for anything else. 81 want no iavors from
him | shall g1 on shore my friends will come
for me. l was making my way of The steamer,
when the captain stopped me and offered mo COM
Portable hccomrno dations in the cabin if | was will
ling to leave Charleston, which offer | very gladly
acc pied. II is to Capt. Berry of the steamer
Columbia, that l am indebtedifor my safe arrival
in New York the llastof November, ls7lsls- L
L trust | shall be able to cancel the debt of
gratitude Fowe to Mayor Macbeth and bis worthy
colleagues. | was safely PROCEEDED in jail, for as
long as they dared to keep me, although l wac
the most ''audacious and dcfan. criminal" the,
had ever dealt with. iOthershad been tarred and
feathered, whipped and hung, while they asserted
tbeir entire innocence Of all Abeitionism et /
was released, asnf .swas snE So was ,paidie r my
passage. AZ E5asss -@lt rauFsed Jfsrmsl thsnks
,foFslf these favsssg BansyoIbs 40 means foskotteh
them. hgea A4ssssss ~ CATHERINE BorrsroRp.
No. 1877 Hudson street, New York.