Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-13
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FALLS, JUNE IS, 1862.
Scenes in Washington.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 26, 1862,
There will be no end to slavery agitation
till slavery itself is at an end When sla-
very was abolished In the District, SOME
sanguine persons imagined that the agitation
of the whole question was set at rest. 1t
was not so. This very day there is more
excitement, more agitation, on the subject
of slavery here, than there was when sla-
very was defended by the statutes of the
District. And there should be agitation
here, for Washington, during the last week,
has been turned into pandemonium.-
There is not a capital in the world in which
such atrocities are committed as those which
lave made honest men blush in our streets
during The last few days. For the first
time since the war broke out, have des-
paired of success in this war against The
rebelliun-it has sometimes during the past
week seemed as if God would not permit
government and people who wink at such
things triumph Eet me particularze.
On Friday evening, while taking lei
surely walk upon our great street, Pennsyl-
vana Avenue, saw a white fiend pounce
upon a young colored man, who, neatly
dressed, was passing up the street with his
young wife. The first act of the officer
was to knock the negro down, or nearly SO,
to prove the white mans superiority. He
then tollared him, every now and then shak-
ing him, as if he were dog, instead of
man. Il am not slave |" cried the victim
"Hoid youf tongue p was the reply. The
poor wife followed crying, beseeching "Do
not take him off--he is not slave. Where
are you taking him to2 Don't strike him
in iha, way. Oh dear Oh dearl Oh
dear!'' Reply from the white brute "Keep
still, now mind, will you? I'll arrest yo1,
if you don'tp' That scene witnessed
while taking little walk after dinner upon
the broadway of the capital, and II was but
one case out of hundred that have made
the last week one of horrors in the capital
Of country protesting to be Christian and
free. The shrieks of wretched slaves have
been heard night and morning, at MONDAY
and at midnight, until il has become too ter
rible for man with ordinary syinpathies to
bear.
A few days since Maryland STAKEHOLDER
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gitive slave. He succeeded in capturing
him, put manacles upon his wrists, and just
at night started off with him for his some
what distant home. In the course of the
evening the poor fellow escaped the seSond
time, and the master being on horseback
failed to capture him. After repeated strug-
giles the captive broke his chains in twain,
but the links still clung to his wrists. When
the next mornings Sunlight fell upon the
marble walls of the Capitol il revealed a
sight to make man ashamed of home,
country, government-almost of his race.
There sat the painting negro on The Capitol
steps, The iron links Of his manacles jingling
against the marble eolumn Upon which be
leaned. Was he guilty Of any crime p
Nothing. He simply desired to own his
own body and soul, and in attempting to as
sert this right he fed to the American Cap
itol. There was no protection for him there,
and the wre,ched man was again recaptured
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If this government win protect such
h, aten-defying atrocities, does it deserve
success in the war it is wagihgs What act
of the Jefferson Davis government is any
more heinous in the sight of God than the
seizure of innocent men and wotnen by the
agents Of the government, that they msy
be returned to siavery7
Congress is mainly responsible for this.
II can repeal the fugitive slave law. If il
does not, then we have the confession before
the world, that under the constitution every
voter in the free states is made directly re-