Anti Slavery Bugle

From the Mystery
Outrage.

Mr. Wm. Daily, one of the most respectable colored citizens of Richmond, who has resided some time in Liberia, but within the last three years returned to America, a short portion of which time he has spent in Richmond, the place of his birth, and residence of his time and care-worn parents, was, a few days since, arrested for no other crime than being found upon the soil on which he breathed his first infant breath, and required to give security within five days, to leave the State in ten, or remain in prison until he was ready to leave. But peradventure he should not be able to pay his jail fees, according to the wisdom and hospitality of Virginia law-makers, he must be sold from the auction block to the 'highest bidder;' and there are not a few cases on record, where like victims have become slaves for life.

What a glorious commentary upon the professedly free institutions of Republican America! One breeze heaves upon its bosom the warm, generous and enthusiastic shout of sympathy in behalf of the comparative freemen of Europe in their struggles for more liberty, whilst the next heralds the arrest of a nominally free citizen for simply being where it pleased his Creator to give him his birth.

If the sun of heaven shines upon a country more redolent with hypocrisy and base inconsistency, to say nothing of cruel oppression, than slave-dealing America, it is only surprising that Jehovah through the lightning's power has not, long ere this, shattered it into ten thousand atoms.—F.