Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-05

more. For three months previous to reaching the
soil of Canada, l have no. spent a day without
some prospect of an arrest. An arrest for obey
ing Gods higher law" and taking the side Of
His outraged poorl Fines and imprisonment pro-
badly yet await US. These things are unpleasant,
bus better men have Jared worse: God has always
carried on great reforms, at the expense of hu'
man suffering. Christians we're burned at a thou.
sand piles, in the FIRST spread Of gospel truth. AT
ter fifteen centuries, Luther found human nature
no better-nor did Lovjoy and John Brown in our
age, find exemption from The common fate of hui
man benefSctors. Why should we be an exceptionl
II would be pleasant, did we know that ours would
be the last necessary for the good of the slave, but
probably it will not. No one knows but darker
days are yet before Us. Till the jubilee of the
slave is sounded, such as follow the golden rule
towards him, will suffer,
Yesterday l visited Anderson, the fugitive from
Missouri-who killed his pursuer in making hit
escape from slavery. He has been demanded as a
murderer-under the Federal Interpretation Of the
Ashburton Treaty, and the Court here manifests q
disposition to deliver him up. An appeal is under
consideration public sympathy is awakened, ono
the hope and probability now lie, that his rendition
will be refused. A very large and deeply interes
ted meeting was held here on his behalf, some ter
days since. Several %clergymen made noble spec
ches, That Of DR.. Willis Whose hospitality l am
now erjOying), was particularly eloquent, and ef
fectiye. He is a warm hearted, and noble Scotch
man, who ably opposed the course Of the Free
Church, 10 her pro-slavery course in 1874, when
she received the aid collected in our slaveholding
CiaIaa Won uvil 6nd on arfiala fron hia nan in
Miss Julia GriHith's Autographs for freedom"
PIP. 1915. The manly deliverances Of these min
listers are a refreshing contrast to the dwellings
Of our D. DIS, generally in the United States
The people of Montreal wero moving in the mat
ter at the last point of information, from them
In fact the hearts of the people seem entirely on
the side of the prisoner. The case is to us one o.
deep interest, yet it really seems a very simple one
Should the act of the man in killing his pursue
be judged by the Missouri slave code, and bran
ded murder; or by the judgment of Canada, anC
indeed Of all chris!endom, outside the slave states
and labeled heFo:sm2 Surely a Canadian cour
should have sufficient self respect to put her owl
estimate on the act charged, and not bow to TIT
dictation of the slave power. If this man be
murderer, so were Wallace and Tell; Washington
anu OdrlDaiuls IN ueIenCe OF lr6euOm tney bWep
of embattled squadrons; whilst this man struck
down a human bloodhound who was baying on bis
track. Should such a man be given up to judicial
murder, or to be perhaps burned by the tender
mefcies Of a Missouri mob?
Hon. Gerrit Smith, With his charactistic mag
nanimity and benevolence, came over to see and
comfort The prisoner and labor for his release
He will probably return when the case will be
again taken up in February, and should it be ap
pealed to England, he may cross the Ocean and
try to aid in his deliverance there. Surely Eng
land will not ignore the noble sentiment of he,
greatest statesman, by a judicial acknowledgment
of 'the guilty phantasy, that man can hold pro
persy in man." Should the angel of freedom b
hunted from the soil of Britain, where will b.
found a resting place?
l hope the South will secede. Were there any
probability of emancipation with a continuance o.
the Union, it would be different.
Yours for truth and freedom,
GEO. GORDON.