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For Frederick Douglass' Paper.
PASS HIM AROUND LET HIM BE KNOWN.
FRIEND DOUGLASS:—The following Advertisement is taken from the EVANSVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL, published in EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, by A.H. [illegible] Editor and proprietor. It is taken from the, No. 13, June 26, 1856.
$300 REWARD:
RUNAWAY from the subscriber about, the 1st of May Inst, being in Lyon City, near Fredonia, Ky., a negro man, CYRUS, 22 years old, [illegible] per color, weighs 180, near 6 feet high, shrewd and sensible, stout and [illegible]. When last heard from, he was driving for Indiana at Evansville or [illegible], and is no doubt near one of those places.
I will pay the above reward if taken out of this State, so that I can get him, or $100 if taken in this State.
C.F. DARBY, Lyon City, Kentucky.
Jo 10-3&4 3 m.w.
The above named Journal, is a rabid Know Nothing sheet, having Millard Fillmore at its "mast head," as candidate for the Presidency. Two birds of a feather flock together; Fillmore signed the odious and damniable fugitive slave bill. Sanders, a Northern man, residing in a free State, assists in the execution of said bill, by inserting in his paper, a reward to catch a man, who has had the [manliness?] to escape from bondage, and pursue for happiness—Liberty that Sander's fathers of '76 struggled for.
When we see such advertisements in Southern papers, it is no more than can be expected: to find a Northern paper, in a free State, inserting such, is an outrage and should be denounced throughout the length and breadth of the North. I remember some years ago, a paper in this city inserted the like; it was promptly met and denounced. Nothing of the kind has since appeared. What think the citizens of Evansville? to find one of these City papers a PRESS BLOOD HOUND for a Slaveholder. Do they endorse such? or is it the very essence of doughfaceism? Are we to understand, that when the panting fugitive enters Evansville, Ind., he enters a den of "human" blood hounds, that are every [illegible], yelping, and baying upon the fugitive's track? If such be the case, I trust CYRUS steered his course far from the city wherein a Northern paper has an insertion of $300 reward for [illegible]. I hope Mr. Sanders and his pro-slavery vehicle, will be passed about from the centre to the circumference of every tract of territory, consecrated to freedom, until he shall feel himself worse than Judas felt—that the death that Judas died, in too good for him.
Is it too true to be related? No. That Gen. Franklin Pierce has, and is aiding and abetting the slave power—and border ruffianism. Preston S. (scoundrel) Brooks, striking down the FREEDOM of [illegible] in the U.S. Senate, of the person of CHas. Sumner. A.H. Sanders, a Northern Editor of a paper in a free State, "inserting" an advertisement in his paper, for a slaveholding man stealer to obtain his runaway chatted. "Gentlemen," (?) where is your conscience, or have you seared it? I trust the community may be made hotter against you than was the furnace, in which the Hebrew children were cast.
YOURS, H. WILLIAMS.
CINCINNATI, July 14th; 1856.