Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-16
SLAvE-HUNTING IN NEW YORK.

A DARING attempt, was made On Saturday last,
in this city, 20 carry off into slavery, without any
legal process whatever, a fugitive from Southern
oppression. The name Of the fugitive was John
Bell, who, with his wife and child, left the service
of William Crawford, q tobacco merchant in
Greenbrier County, Va, between six and seven
weeks ago. They all travelled afoot Hntil they
reached this city, on Wednesday, 9th ult. Here
he went about asking for assistance TO "get on i"
Among other places be went into q store up
town, where one of the clerks, after hearing his
story, said he would take him to friends who would
help him to get to Canada. Bell went with the
clerk to a place, a description of which would
very we'll answer for the United States Marshal's
Office. Here the parties were very friendly toward
bio, and finally induced him to go to the Nor
thern Hotel, corner of Cortland and West streets.
1t was then a little after noon of Thursday, and
he sat down at the hotel to what be deemed a
%princely dinner with fine liquor accomplishments
In the course of the afternoon he assisted in
putting rome boards and timber up from the back
yard, through a window. Afterward, one of the
men who had accompanied him to the hotel-A.
large, stout man., with a mustache-now proposed
to hire him at $40 a month, to take care Of four
children, and do other work about the house. lie
said, "You boys down South can generally fiddle
and sing; can you fiddle some?" Il can play two
or three tunes" was the reply. The big man said
be would go and get a fiddle. lie soon returned
and told John they had better go up stairs where
nobody would be disturbed. The negro, accom-
panied by three persons, went up several stories,
and finally stopped in an apartment, where in-
stead of the fiddle were produced a pair of hand.
cuffs, which the men applied to their victim, al
though they used no violence, and pretended to be
his friends. During the night two Irishmen watch
ed him-the porter Joe at first, until relieved by
another servant named Dennis. g..
On Saturday afternoon the handouts were taken
off, and one o: his good friends said he was to 90
with them to Albany. They had made some
changes in his apparel, putting on a glazed cap
and different pants. A little before 8 pm. his
three friends got him into a close carriage, and
accompanied him to Pier No. l3, the wharf of the
steamer Yorktown, for Norfolk, telling him on the
way not to attemp to look out. They arrived at
their destination Just about the time the Yorktown
was to leave. Johns suspicious, however, had
been for some time aroused, and after the uarty
had alighted and had reached the end of the gang
plank, and an attempt was made to force him
aboard, caught hold Of the gang plank, and with
so strong a grasp that the kidnappers could not
unloose him. Then he commenced TO hollow, and
said that they wanted to take him South and sell
him, with other ordinations, which attracted the
attention of bystanders, among whom was officer
Armstrong, Of the steamboat squad. The officer
ran at once to the scene, and asked the parties il
they had any papers to warrant their taking away
that man. Ex-Councilman Cornelius w. Camp.
bell said they had not, but tina. Lorenzo de An-
CELLS, a deputy in the Marshaps Office had the
papers.
The kidnappers finding that they were discov-
cred, took themselves off very quickly. Indeed,
they disappeared before the negro got away,
though he evinced a disposition to leave the scene
as soon as possible. He went off at a back or
side gangway, seeming very much bewildered,
and frightened half to death. The negroes about
the dock showed him along. however, and be got
upon a dray, and was driven of. About ten min
u,es afterward, a large, stout man, with a mus :
tache. appeared on the wharf and asked officer :
Armstrong il he had the niger, and added that if =
he bad been there, no God damned crowd could
got the niger away. The officer asked if he =
mad the papers. The big man said no; but that :
would be there, though not before theboa. left u
The eA-COuncilman Cornelius W. Campbell a.
Dove referred to, We believe is one Of the keepers