Anti-Slavery Bugle from Lisbon, Ohio • Page 1

"No Union icilh Slaveholders." I. M2VV-OSROX, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1815. NO. 5. PUBLISHED WEEKLY At onp dollar and fifty cents a year in advance, of two dollars if not paid within six months.

From the N. Y. Tribune. Texas Matters. We hope our renders ore thoughtfully considering, or will so consider, the recent advices from 'twas, especially on these piinisi I.

That President Polk is now pouring the troops of the United States into Texas, at a soason when the jowrr pari nf that coun'ry is the most unhealthy end when its Vice President has just died of fever; 2. That these troop are to lake post at the outset hryonil the recognid limns of Texas and in what Mexico regards as a pnrt nf her State nf Coahnlin; That this disposition is exported to compel peco or immediate hostilities on the ut nf Mexico; I. Ttiat the current of Texas conversation at Austin implies that Mexico moy now obtain moncij by consenting to Annexation Uncle Sum of course handing over the foresaid; 5. That Texas is involved in hostilities, not alone with Mexico, but with the great body of Indians in what she claims her territory, who menace her capital and have recently killed tier citizuns very nenr it. (.

That she has no troops nor other defensive preparations, but looks to our Government to provide nnH pav for nil; 1. Thnt her Convention, as her President and Congress hud previously rlnnr, profess to consider the terms of Annexation proffered l.y onr very hard for Texas! hut assent tn them pro forma. expecting to obtain better terms on account ol their niagnanimity ir. so doing; and 8. That the Convention is proceeding to form a Constitution carefully preserved from every mint til iillraism term quite commonly used to designate whatever is favorable to Human Rightsand Liberties.) Of coiirs" the "peculiar i'ls'itu'imj1' will be well fulfilled therein.

These mailers ore worth thinking df. From the Ohio American. The Virginia of Daniel Partridge. Mil On Monday evening, July IS 15, I wj itnroduc-d to Daxiki, hy a Iriend residing at lilyiia, county, Ohio. Diniel, who is now more than sixty years of age, and who has bnen a slave in Virginia since his birth, ws union" ihe six slaves, claimed by John Howard of Wood Co who tried to escape on I lie ult.

Joseph Romaine, a Biplist minister residing nn "Washington Bottom, Woo.l county, in the neighborhood i the slaves of Howard, and who frequently labored viih them by the day for said Howard, begun, (as Daniel -'a year ago IlsI corn planting." in persuade ihem to escape from slnverv and thus nv.ud the al most certain fte of hetngsold down the river. Notwithstanding was in almost daily in Vreourse with the slaves, vol ho could not draw from them declaration that ihev wished to be free till he floored them tha fie had secured for them the 'svmpa thies and assistance vf a number of true An isrs, on the Ohio side of ihe river. Not smi-fiad wiih this even, they did not in the least give in to his measures till they had been plied hy him ur ncary twelve month. Al first he proposed to bring about an interview between the staves and Abolitionists, in soma sequestered sp.it on Howard's planution noa the river; not being utile to persuade any from Ihe Ohio side to como over, hr was obliged to g.vo up Ihe idea trapping the fnenris ol the slaves on the Virginia side of the Ohio. Nt dis couraged by these untoward circumstances, he began pain lo work upon the fears of the slaves of Howard Lvery sale of a slave down the river, was made known to Howard's slaves, with the most mj.

nuleness. After he had alarmed them almost to fren zv, he proposed to Diniel Partridge and Frederick Gay, tne husband ol Hannah Gay. and father of Mary Cny about fourteen years old. of Harriet Gay. about five years old, and of Burnett Gay, about thice ears old, lo cross in a skiff to the Ohio side, to a par t.culai out-of-the-way place, designated by said Ro.

name, where they might bold a conference with the.r bondagT dt3Sifed eSC8fe from After Ihe slaves gave their consent to this move-tnent, Romaine went to the Ohio side and en-aged two o.en to meet ihe.T. between a small creek an old neglected gtone quarry, where the river bank was steep, and screened hy a thick wood beiwixt ihe road end river. The arrangements now made on the Ohio side, 'IIis Reverence" returned to inform Daniel and Frederick where they might sea ihe.r Ohio friends that ev.no As no boats or skiffs are suffered to remain on the side at night without being locked lo same strong post or other fastening, ine engaged to procure" hour. 7 he did, and the two slave, had an in. erview wh their friends unmolested.

The next dy Ko.naim, called on them early to k0w how they iked the Ohio Very well, they said, vet they did not feel will.ng l0 pU, themselves under heir ro IhT'iao hdd 'g 'wP To satisfy the 8les, and lull the men of Ohio into fecuri.y Romaine so arranged matiers on both side, hat another conference w. held at old y. tJ.f. on Omo side, J2 1815, was fixed upon as tie time when the six slaves held by John Howard of Washington Bottom, Wood county, Virginia, would start upon the underground railroad for Queen Victoria's dominions Ro-maino was told of what had been agreed upon at the last interview, and promised that he would provide ihem with a suitable craft to take them all over, with their baggage, at once. In this he failed, baing una able, as he said, "to get the loan" of the boat he had intended.

Tho rnlnrod men hnA roani-t In an ntit pemgue, which had been drawn up into the mouth of ii porno xirenmanrc aiianmwea as useless. Ihe men were bwbv after the old perogue, Romaine came lo the cabin of Frederick, and told his wife to admonish her husband anil Daniel not to leave tho Virginia shore till after midnight, that the people on both sides might all be io bed and asleep. The men were detained so long in gelling ready their old perogue, getting meir iiuiigs on noarfi, anu crossing the river, that Ihey did not reach ihe Ohio side till about two o'clock in the morning of Thursday the 10th ult. They found six friends on the Ohio side of the river, ready to help ihem at their landing. The Ohiunns took the baggago cf the slaves, and directed Daniel and Frederick intake up ihe two small children and follow ihein with ihs wife and daughter, up the bank, to ihoir homes.

One of the white men marched directly up the steep bank with his load, while the oth-ers took diagooal course up the bank toward the road, hich ran along the hill side in a course with the river. When Ihe first man got to the road, Diniel says he heard him exclaim, "Don't stab me shoot me if you Hare." He did not hear a word from tho Virginians Iving in umbuscnde, till the Ohioins who were lending them up the bank, turned about and ran down to ihe river's brink, and then up tho river, in hopes to elude their pursuers in that direction. Upon this movemrnt nl ihe escaping party, Daniel says he soon beird the loud tramp of the Virginians in the road above Ihem, running with al! speed lo head those who were endeavoring to flee from them. They ran in this wb for some distance, when a party of ihe Vir-Cinians poured down a small ravine, and came to tho river ahead of ihem. Here a scuffle took place, in wbh Daniel says two Oliioans were taken, which with the one taken at ihe road, mado three that were captured and taken over the river, and lodged in tho Parkersburgh jail.

When the Virginians camedown lo ihe river, and were endeavoring to secure the Abo litionists. the slaves turned upon their heels, and ran down the river to mako good their escape from their masters They were pursued by George Howard.the son of John Howard, their master, and by Parry Lew-is, a cousin of George; who, loaded as ihe slaves were, gained upon ihom so fust, thai Daniel savs he was forced to drop Harriet, whom he had carried in his arms till then. Soon after he set down the child, he struck a rock with bis foot, he says, which brought him down and Hung his hat from him in Ihe fall. He recovered as soon as possible, seized his hat, and flung himself under ihe root of a large sycamore which had been turned up by tho wind. Just as he foil, a pislol was lired by one of their pursuers, more with tho intent to alarm than lo injure them, he thinks.

Ensconced under the roots of the old sycamore, his pursuers passed him without scents him: and mum -Ml MIC 1.11111- mand ol young Howard, another aa "uomcu nit fleeing slaves. I his brought thorn (o, and ihev were all soon taken back by ihem, in view of his place a' I i .1 passing mm, Howard inquired of his cousin Lewis, if the slaves were all la-ken' which Lewis replied, he believed they wore. At this juncture, D.miel heard a crv from one of the Oh.oans-"Don'lchokemesoj ifl have done any Hung against the laws of my state, I am willing to answer for it; but I am not willing to bo taken over the river to be tried by your bloodv slave laws." At this a voice, the voice of Wyatt Lewis, ho Ihinks, was beard, "Como along, you abolitionist, and eel into the boat, or 1 'II drag you inlo it." up then on I. your lect.jyoti damned rascal, and get into the boat, was the quick reply of Lewis. After this, Daniel says he heard nothing that he could distinctly make out, except oaths and loud talk, nil the marauding party on the Virginia side, when a shout ol victory was sent up bv "the chivalry" of the Ancient Domtnion," attended by the discharge ol four pistols, or nlles; he could not tell which.

Djniel says, that after the shout of victory sent up from lie Virginia side had pnarl iiijiii me chili, jutting out towards the Ohio, from tho north, he Lre, irom ins nioing plnce, and made his way up the bank towards me road above. There he soon fell in with friends, who look him lo a house, and immediate-ly as soon as the steam could be got up, s'artcd him on the rail way lor the North. Diniel says, he is perfectly sure that George How-ard, his younu master, and Pm-ru I i. i j.w ip, a nun 1.CW' is ad yau Lewis, all of the.n cousins lo George i ,7 no sixteen armed Virginians, who boldly dared lo attack six umirmH ble citizens of Ohio, ir. the dead hours of night; while Iheso unoffending citizens were engaged in the dis charge of the high Christian duty enjoined upon eve-ry son nnd daughter of Adam, (viz.) '-Jlemember those uu.i.i, ub uouoo wun mem," and "Whatsoever ye would Dial men should do unto you, do ye even so to ihem; for this is the law and ihe prophets." But ihe decision of the called court of Wood county, Virginia, may well disturb tho equanimity of Ihe as-lute judge, and far seeing editor of the Gazelle.

By that decision, ihe very office from which the alarmed edilor has dared to pen his philippics ogaiusl the proud slate of irgmia; tho city even, in which ho lives, assured as he thinks himself, that his residence is in the great and growing stille of Ohio, is at tins moment, as is it has been for many purposes, now nearly a quarter of a century, a part and parcel of that chivalnc offshoot from "ihe Ancient Dominion," "the gallant state of Kentcuky." The colled court at Parkersburgh, have passod a solemn legal decision, that the jurisdiction of the stale of Virginia extends not merely to high wator mark, hut "to the TOP of the North tce.il bank" of the Ohio river. This decision transfers ihe right to the juris-disiion nf the city of Cincinnati from the state of Ohio to tho state of Kentucky. This, if submitted to, will proi-c a more important extension of slavery, than the Whig dreaded annexation of Texas. 1 be serious, it seems that the slave power hag be come so elated with her triumph over all the legitimate principles of a free government, that constitutions ar.d laws aro more cobwebs in the way of her rough shod march to unmitigated and universal tyranny. Will the Mitliorittes of Ohio inlernose.

to arrest her in her mad career? "A'ou rerrons," as the senior editor of the onion, at Uashington city, has been wont lo dispose of uncertainties heretofore. 'I here needi but little remark upon Iho deceptive and wicked course of conduct pursued by Joseph Romaine, a Baptist minister, For more than a year this unprincipled man, while pretending lo break "the bread of life" to his ignorant, confiding hearers, was hand ant! glove" with the slaveholders of IVbod county, plotting with thorn how to wreak their vengeance upon Ihe Abolition portion of h's hearers in Ohio. His first object was to get them into Virginia and seizs ihem there. Io this he failed. No other plausible schemo retnaiticd but the nefarious one he carried out but too successfully on tho Oth and 10th ult.

"Verily, ho shall have his reward." IVonder if he will give up that portion of his lato charge in Ohio? "Nous VKRROKS." Yours for humanity, Q. F. ATKINS. Cleveland, August 1, 1845. Mob in Indiana.

We have already nnnrised on- render of Ann. tardlv mob in Indianopolis on 4lh of July, in wnicn acoioreJ man was killed Jor his complexion! The Sentinel, the State Democratic paper, represented the colored man murdered, na mnnitu Ini.fT.inoiuo manjjvhp purchased bis freedom many years ago ID IVCOIUL'Ky. Tno Cincinnati Herald has obtained from nn no thentic source, further particulars of this most horrid outrage. The nonr fellow wag murdered hv nnnrr nfdritnb "rS en ruffians, in the presence of wo hundred people multitudinous voices exclaiming at the limo, 'Kill the nigger, kill They beat him after he uas dead. And as h6 lay with the blood bubbling round him, the cry aroso for more blood.

The niggers are pitting tno thick, and they ought to be thinned out' 'I would as lieve kill a nigger as an ox' Damn ihem I wish every one was shot, and the Aboliiionisla too' were the exclamations hich broke from their infuriate lips. No effort was made to stay the mob. though at anv moment them enough of society to arrest the violence. In w. uiutubici, was bcikbu.

Another remained in town 31 hours after Ihe deed, when, a warrant being issued, he slipped off. When the first arrest was made, as the crowd was passing the Post Office, ono of them, a member of the City Council, brutally assaulted De Puy, the amiable edilor of ihe Indiana Freeman, who abandoned his parly last fall, because of its devotion to slavery Other violence was threatened, when a christian professor told him, that he must leave the street or he would be murdered. Da Puy expostulated, but ihe replv of the man was, 'You have no friends De Puy escaped, and it was well he did, as the mob made diligent search for him, for an houf afterwards. The Council man who had assaulted him, in order to forestall all complaint, got a fellow of his own kidney locomplnin of him, and he was fined two dollars'. As the Justice was filling out the docket, he requested him lo make it three dollars, and let him give the Abolitionists another and as he left, be remarked that he knew 'just what it cost lo whipar.

Abolitionist. The brute! Perhaps he may be mistaken! During all this time, it is slated, tho good people of iho city indulged in tho most inflammatory language. On the following Saturday, however, becoming ashamed nf thomselvcs, or recollecting probably the use which might be made cf the outrage against themselves, Ihoy raised a suUcription, and hired two lawyers lo prosecute the murderer. A deputation, consisting of the Rev. Henry Beecher anu a lawyer, waited on Do 1'uy to advise him to say nothing about tho This is so stranne, so mortifying, so gross an offence against justice a minister of Jesus Christ, a professed Ann Slavery man too.

interposing to prevent ihe exposure of an act of infernal alrocity, and ihe denunciation of conduct on the part of respocla-hie cilizens, utlerly disgraceful that we would not believe it, were it not for the character of our informant. 03-Lel De Puy stand his grounJ. He has friends out of Indianopolis, if he has none in it. The lime will yet como, when some of the discreet men there will think even hitn a respectable man. as those now.

who are not fair weather Iriends, deem him a noble spuiied one. "C-mic join i tic Abolitionists Case of Kidnapping. Correspondence of the Boston Atlas. ELKTON, Cecil Md. July 19, 1845.

An incident of recent occurrence in this neighborhood, has just come to my knowledge. I hapten tn relate it to you, as a fair instance of thn scenes and transactions which the Annexation of Texas, and ho consequent extension nf the area op slavery, bring along with them. That most horrid of the awful features of domestic slavery, slave breeding and the domestic slave trade, has received a dreadful stimulus from the rise tn the value of human chattels. In ibis Slate slaves area burthen lo their owners, and could we compel Ihem to be kept within the bounda ries of the State, and only leave it to go into freedom from bondage, it would not be many months before it would be a free State. We are now apprehensive, though Heaven grant our fears may be without foundation, that slave-breeding mav become profitable, in consequence of the increased demand for slaves to be sent to Texas.

Our neighboring little sister Delaware is already almost a free Stale. Her slaves are hardly three per cent, upon her whole population. Hor laws prohibit the exportation of her slaves. Slave brooding is, therefore, almost a thing unknown, and the number of her slaves is very rapidly becoming less and The cause of freedom and regard for human rights is fast gaining ground in that State, and it will not be long before tho las', vestige of the curse is wiped away from her soil. A few days since, a free negro, in a town between Wilmington and this place, was convicted of riotous and disorderly conduct, and was sentenced to servitude for a year.

His purchaser finding him of no value to him, in consequence of his idle and intractable nature, sold him to two worthless fellows belonging to Maryland. Indulging the fellow's love of drink, it was no difficult matter to ply him so well with liquor asto intoxicate him. In that condition ha was persuaded to set out with them for Baltimore, to have, as they told him, a good time. On their way ihrough this town, suspicions were excited that was not right. The Sheriff had the moo stopped and ex.

amincd. They produced the bill of sale for tec dollars, and claimed him as their slave, and insisted upon their right to travel with him through the State. Before the examination was concluded, they contrived to make their escape with the man. Guilt is ever suspicious and No little excitement was caused in consequence. The people have in tho place all turned out and searched the country round.

They were overtaken and brought back, and were fully committed by tho Sheriff to take their trial at the next session of the Court in this place, upon several indictmenis. for kidnapping, There can be no question that it was llieir intention to lake the man to Baltimore, and to sell him into perpetual slavery, violating, in so doing, not only the laws of Maryland, but of Delaware a'so, which prohibit such an exportation, as those of the former forbid the importation of slaves. There is fast springing up in the minds of the people of this section of the Slate, a strong feeling against the institution of domestic slavery. It is felt to be a bitter and abiding curse upon the white population even more so than upon the slaves themselves begetting a general disposition to indolence and idleness, and Ihenca to dissipation, and the whole catalogue of vices and crimes of which idleness is the-fruitful parent. In the parts of this County that lie upon Pennsylvania, slavery is almost unknown, and in the whole, there is not more than one slave in everv twenty of the entire population.

If the North will let us alone, or will only treat the snlject in a kind and forbearing manner, I have great hopes that the spirit now abroad in the Northern portions of this State will extend itself more and more, until the whole State shall be controlled by its influence. Who would have thought, three years ago, when that infamous Convention was holding its sessions in Annapolis, to devise a code of laws for which devilish and diabolical are terms loo mild who wou'd have thought that here, in the slavehoiding State of Marylandhere, too, in Cecil county, this quondam hold of ruffianism and Loco Focoism, the whole community would have turned out in mass to prevent the transportation of a negro to endless slavery No matter how had was the character of Ihe black, he was about to sudor a grievous wrong and, at the call of tho agent of the law, the country is aroused, the man is rescued, ana a blow is struck at Ihp monstor Slavery, that rr.akes him stagger, reel, and tremble here, even in old Maryland. You may think it a trifling matter. Not so do I. Lven if these men escape conviction, for want of direct nrnnf nf il.n: loioouoo, a Demonstration has been given of an awakening among the people that roust hivn lid rvr.nA tT bu cociB.

nor win me matter slop here. Ihe penal code of Delaware, which allows a sale into tomporary slavery, is destined to be soon amended; and the ball of liberty, once put inlo motion, will not, I trust, be stayed. The advocates of slavery have violated all the provisions of the Constitution, to force in 1 exas. Let them not complain if its op. ponents no longer fool bound by that instrument, to participare in the sin of slavery.

03-The Elkton Whigstaiw that the kidnappers in this case were discharged by the magistrate, there not being his opinicn sufficient evidence against them to requ.ro thai ihey should be held to bail loan-psat at Court. Goodness and virtue must bo brc.ilhcd into.h-fJrt BJt bent into ihe head..