title: Why work for the slave?
text: **o* *bv* + /, p oK c <*-•- \ :•• ^ ^ *°-v ^v 1 '<dp^' ^^. ^ * ^ •WHY WORK FOR THE SLAVE? Will you not labor for the perishing ? Surely, woes unutter- able must move your heart. Woes unutterable ! Do you doubt it? Hear a slaveholder. B. Swain, of N. Carolina, in a public address in that State in 1830, speaking of the slaves there, said : "Think of the nakedness of some, the hungry yearnings of others, the flowing tears and heaving si<ihs of parting re)a:ions, the waitings of lamentation and wo, the bloody cut of the keen lash, and the frightful scream that rends the very skies. * * * The worst is not gen- erally known. Were ail the miseries, the horrors of slavery, to burst at once into view, a peal of seven-fold thunder could scarce strike greater alarm." What must be the anguish of those who feel the iron enter their own souls, when a few glances at the process, could extort such language from a slaveholder? Have the free states nothing to do with slavery ? Can you ask this over the fresh grave of Lovejoy, whose murderers Walk the streets at noon-day, defying the law, and laughing it to scorn, and that in a free state; — and while northern men and women go every year to the South, and become slaveholders, and not a few who remain among us, hold slaves, and grow rich on their unrequited toil ? * Do you ask if woman should meddle with slavery? See the widow of Lovejoy, left alone to rear her fatherless child. In a country where slavery thus strews with desolation a woman's hearth-stone it surely becomes woman to seek for the cause, and if possible to apply a remedy. While your brothers, husbands and sons may at any time be T Mv.ny merchants in New-York and elsewhere, possess southern plantations, and pretend to own many human beings. 1 rr a** I A GIRL KIDNAPPED AT WASHINGTON. called, with deadly weapons, to crush, if possible, the liberty-seek- ing slaves, and thus fight against Jehovah,* will not you, in the spirit of love, strive for their peaceful release 7 While woman, at our national slave. market, is robbed of her children, can northern women look on in silence? And when 50 northern Representatives, with ears closed to that mother's wail, vote that your petitions for her shall NOT BE READ, will you not redouble your efforts to save your children from slavery? Can you help working, when you learn the story of Mary Brown ? She was stolen from her free parents in Washington City, held as a slave in Natchez and Vicksburgh, and now lives in Ohio. The committee who prepared the Ohio Report, of which A. Wat- tles was chairman, say they are assured by those who knew Mary at the South, that her statements may be impliciily relied on. Her manner, in telling her story, was artless and simple, bespeaking conscious truth. " She lived with her parents until the death of her mother ; she was then seized and sold. One day, when near the Potomac bridge, Mr. Humphreys the sheriff, overtook her, and told her she must go with him. She inquired of him what for? He made no reply, but told her to come along. He took her immediately to a slave auction. Mary told Mr. Humphreys that Bhe was free, but he contradicted her, and the sale went on. The auctioneer soon found a purchaser, and struck her off for three hundred and fif y dollars, to a Mississippi trader, and she was tuken directly to the jail. After a few hours, she was handcuffed, chained to a man slave, and started in a drove of about forty for New-Orleans. The handcuffs made her wrists swell so that they were obliged to take them off at night, ;>nd put fetters on her ankles. In the morning the handcuffs were again put on. Thus they traveled for two weeks, wading rivers, and whipped up all day, being beaten at night, if they did not set their distance. Mary says that she frequently waded rivers in her chains, with water up to her waist. It was in Oc- tober, and the weatl er cold and frosty. •'After traveling thus twelve or fifteen days, her arms and ankles be- came so swolh-n that she felt she could go no farther. Blisters would form on her feet as large as dollars, which at night she would have to open, while all day the shackles would cut into her lacerated wrists. They had no beds, and usually sle t in barns, or out on the naked f [round — was in such misery when she lay down that she could only le and cry all night. Still they drove them on for another week. Her spirits became so depressed, and she grieved so much about leaving her friends, that she could not eat, and every time the trader caught her crying, he would beat her, accompanying it with dreadful curses. •'Mary at length became so weak, that she could travel no farther. Her frame was exhausted and sunk beneath her sufferings. She was seiz°d with a burning fever, and the trader, fearing he should lose her, carried her the remainder of the way in a wagon. •• When they arrived at Natchez they were all offered for sale, and as Mary was still sick, she begged that she might be sold to a kind master. She sometimes made this request in presence of purchasers — but was always insulted for it, and after they were gone the trader punished her for such presumption in revealing her sickness, and thus preventing her sale. On one occasion he tied her up by her hands so that * "The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us in such a con- test." — Jefferson. A WOMAN ENSLAVED IN ALGIERS. «> she could only touch the end of her toes to the floor. This was soon after breakfast; he kept her thu9 suspended, whipping her at in- tervals through the day — at evening he took her down. She was so much bruised that she could not lie down for more than a week after- wards." The rest of her history while a slave is full of horror. Her case differs little from thousands, except that she escaped to reveal her woes, while they suffer and die unheard. ' 'The cise of Burditt Washington is another among the many proofs that all protection is withheld from our colored brothers and sisters, within sight of our national Capitol, while Congress shout to the slave-trader, " Here's free plunder ?" One of the nine children sold away from him, was a daughter about eighteen. A slavetrader came to the house, seized and car- ried her aboard the steamboat. The aged father followed. " I then went into the hold," said he, " and found my child among the other slaves. She threw her arms about my neck and said, ' Father, I'm gone, can't you do something for me ?' I could'nt stay there any longer. I broke away from her." Here the old man's tears stopped his voice. After sometime, he said : " I have not seen or heard of her since. Oh, it hurts me every time I think of it." I had this from his own lips. He was a member of a Baptist church in Alexandria. Rev. Spencer H. Cone, and Rev. Samuel Cornelius, his pastor, testified to the excellence of his character. If such a crime had been committed upon George Washington, would it have been more wicked ? Would not every voice execrate a Congress which would not hear him, or his friends, asking for relief? God is no respecter of persons. Are we like him ? We may enter into the feelings of a slave by reading the storjr of Maria Martin, an American woman, enslaved in Algiers. In 1800, she embarked for Cadiz, and when almost there, was seized, carried to Algiers, and placed, alone, in a little dirty hut. Here she exclaims, '« Gracious God ! what were my feelings at this mo- ment ! In a fit of despair I seized the knife, and should have killed myself, had I not taken time for a moment's reflection." After several years, the mate of the vessel she sailed in suc- ceeded in getting, with her, on board a ship starting for London. The coast of Algiers was fading from her sight, when the wind changed. The ship was driven back. She says : " I could dis- tinctly hear the yells of the barbarians on shore, and soon heard the motion of oars alongside. I fainted, and recovered, but to find my- self once more in the power of my unfeeling enemies. They bound the mate and myself hand and foot, and carried us on shore." The mate was doomed to a cruel death. She was chained in a dismal cell, where she says : " The little sleep I could have, may be supposed. My body and mind sunk under suffering, and I fell ill of a burning fever. Sickness itself is sufficient to humble the mightiest mind : what then is sickness with this addition of tor- ment ? The fever, the headaches, my neck swelled and inflamed with the irons enraged me almost to madness. The remembrance of my sufferings at that dreadful moment still agitates, still inflames my blood." 4 AMERICAN SLAVERY WORSE THAN ALGERINE. She was confined there two years. Think of her sufferings and then ponder well the testimony of Gen. Eaton. In a letter to his wife, dated April 6, 1799, he speaks thus of the white slaves in the Barbary States : " Many of them have died of grief, and the others linger out a life lees tolerable than death. Alas ! remorse seizes my whole soul, when I re- flect, that this is indeed but a copy of the barbarity which my eyes have seen in my own native country. * * * Indeed, truth and justice demand from me the confession that the Christian slaves among the barbarians of Africa are treated with MORE HUMANITY than tha African slaves among the professing Christians of civilized America." What is American slavery, when he thus speaks of the recollec- tion of it while in sight of his friends and countrymen in chains ! We have a mass of testimony, fresh from the slaveholder's lips, to confirm this assertion, and rouse us to activity. The following is from the Rutherford Gazette, a paper printed in the western part of North Carolina, and copied into the Southern Citizen, of Sept. 23, 1837 : "Suicide. The negro woman, [Lucy] confined in our jail as a run- away, put an end to her existence on the 28th ult. by hanging herself. Her master came to this place the day on which it occurred, and going to the jail, was recognized by the woman as her master. He had left the jail but a short time, when it was discovered that the woman had destroyed herself. We have never known an instance where so much firmness was exhibited by any person, as was by this negro. The place from which she suspended herself was not high enough to prevent her feet from touching the floor, and it was only by drawing her legs up and remaining in that position, that she succeeded in her determined pur- pose." Lucy was, in effect, murdered by slavery. She cannot now de- scribe to us the horrors from which she tried to escape, nor speak of the apprehension and despair which impelled her, thus, to seek the "king of terrors" as a shelter from American slaver/. The following facts, it will be seen, are from recent Southern papers. See what merchandize they offer for sale, with no allusion to complexion. A stranger might think the flesh-merchant was dealing in his own brothers and sisters. OR SALE, A WOMAN, about 24 years of age, with her child, 6 years old. also. Wanted to purchase, a BOY from 17 to 20 vears old. Apply, &c. Augusta {Geo.) Constitutionalist, Oct.. 12, 1837, BY THOMAS N.. GADSDEN. TO-MORROW, the 24th insr. will be sold A prime Young Fellow, named ISAAC, 18 years old, belonging to the Estate of John Carsten, deceased. Conditions cash. Under the head of "Auction Sales," in the Charleston (S. C.) Courier, Nov. 28,1837. What havoc was wrought in Virginia to procure the merchandize offered in the following notice:. The Subscribers, residing in Hamburgh, South Carolina, have just received a new supply of likely Virginia SLAVES, House servants, Cooks, Washers and Ironers, Mechanics and Field Hands. JOSEPH WOODS & CO. [Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, (Geo.) Oct. 12, 183T* F ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY. In the Norfolk (Va.) Beacon, Nov. 18, 1837, is a notice, headed : " Cook and Washerwoman at Auction." She is said to be " 35 to 40 years of age, sold for no fault," and it is added, "the purchaser will be required not to send her away, her OWNER not wishing to separate her from her husband." NASH & CO., Auct'rs. What if the required agreement is broken ? " On the side of the oppressor there is power" and he who can hold a woman as pro- perty can hold his word as property. Within a week she might be taken from her husband, and driven frantic to the slave market. Or, perchance, she might escape from her tormentors, on the way, and be advertised in the style of the following : [From the New Orleans Bee, Oct. 28, 1837.] 810 REWARD. RANAWAY on the 9th of October, CAROLINE, aged about 38 years, had a COLLAR on with one prong turned down, she had a sore on her left shin. T. CUGGY, Gallatin st. between Hospital and Barracks, And we may hear of her husband thus : ggjt ~g X^^^ REWARD.— Ranaway from, &c. a negro man named 3to JL x^^Jr WILEY, about 37 or 38 years of age— one of his fore- fingers has been injured. It is possible that he will make his way to Tennessee, where he says he has a wife. J. C CABINESS. [Alabama State Intelligencer, Tuscaloosa, Oct. 16, 1837, Or thus : WAS committed to Jail, .£ jYEGRO mm jit who says that his name is JMRMtW. Said BOY is about 30 years old, light complexion and bald head ; has a scar on his left Knee ; also, one on his forehead, and one on his right hand ; he is VERY MUCH MARKED WITH THE WHIP. The owner, &c. B. W. HATCH, Jailor. [Port Gibson (Mi.) Correspondent, Sept. 16, 1837,' Here we see a woman driven by slavery to take her three child- ren and run away from her tormentor and their father. R $3© Reward. AN AW AY from the Subscriber my Negro Wo- man, Betsey Merrick, with her three children, Edward, Margaret Ann, and Caroline. Said Betsey is of dark complexion, her children are Mulattoes. — Her youngest is an infant. The above reward will be given on her delivery to me, or being ledged in any jail where I can get her and her children ; and an extra sum of $30 for the conviction of any white person or persons harboring them. W. A. LANGDON. [Wilmington (N. C.) Advertiser, Nov. 10, 1837. Would you know the anguish of this- fugitive? Think of a fe- male slave in Algiers, fleeing with three children to the Atlantic coast, — lurking in thickets by day, and groping westward by night, 1* 6 MEN BEAEIKG. THE MABKS OF SLAVERY. snatching her scanty food from the woods and fields, and avoiding human beings with more care than she does the serpents and tigers. The American slave starts with the certainty that, if taken, his miserv will be greatly increased. The following is from a paper with this motto : " Equal and ex- act justice to all men of whatever state, religion or persuasion." What must be the public feeling where a woman felt no shame in putting it forth with her name at the bottom ?' #4© REWARD. "g~ft ANAWAY from, my residence near .\iobile, two negro men, Isaac JtcL and Tim ; Isaac is from 25 to 30 years old, dark complexion, scar on the right side of the head, and also one on the right side of the body occasioned by BUCK SHOT. Tim is 22 years old, dark complexion, scar on the right cheek, as also another on the back of the neck. Cap- tains and owners of Steamboats, Vessels, and water Crafts of every description, are cautioned against taking them- on board under the pen- alty of the law, and all other persons against hai boring or in any man- ner favoring the escape of said negroes under like penalty. Mobile, Sept. 1. SARAH WALSH. [Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Sept.. 29, 1837. What must be the feeling towards slaves where those who assist these wounded men to escape are punished with pains and penalties! The following are from the same paper.: COMMITTED TO the Jail of Pike county, a man about twenty-three or four years old, who calls his name John ; the said negro has a clog of iron on his right foot which will, weigh 4 or 5 pounds. The owner is request- ed, &c. B. W. HODGES, Jailor. $20 Reward. R ANA WAY from the subscriber, a negro man named Moses, he is of common size, about 28 years old. He formerly belonged to Judge Benson of Montgomery, and it is said has a wife in that county. JOHN GAYLE. A judge selling a man away from his wife ! The Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat, has this motto.: "Unawed by the influence of the rich or the great, THE PEOPLE must be heard and their rights vindicated."' What sweet music to the foreigner seeking refuge from the despotisms of Europe ! Beneath that motto he might read : THE undersigned will, on the first Monday in December next, ex- pose to public sale a likely and valuable blacksmith [a mulatto.] October. 18, 1837. WM. MATKINS, Trustee. [Democrat, Oct. .31, 1837. In the same paper, G. W. Fennel advertises that Jacob had just escaped the third time in 12 months. What longings for liberty I Here, in a Mobile paper, a- man who will give but $10- for a wo- man, offers $200- for the privilege of revenging himself on any one who shows her a kindness.. TEN DOLLARS REWARD. RANAWAY from the subscriber, a negro girl named POLLY. The above reward will be paid for her apprehension and delivery to- the subscriber— or $200 if found harbored by any white man, so thatth^ oot oan be proved. J. B. WALKER, Water, si. THADE IN HUMAN BEINGS. / A few days ago, while you were happy in your quiet families* the following sale took place in Mississippi : GUARDIAN'S SAIiE. WILL be offered at Public Auction, on the premises, one mile from Port Gibson, on Monday, 15th January next, 43 likely SLAVES, mostly between the ages of 16 and 25 t all acclimated — Among them is a good Wagoner and two house Servants; the balance well trained to the planting business, and are first rate Cotton pickers. * * * Will be put up in families, or individually, to suit purchasers. R. H. BAYLY, Guardian of the Sept. 26, 1837. person and estate of Joseph McVoy. [Grand Gulf (Mi.) Advertiser, Oct. 21, 1837. While southern "guardians" thus proclaim the hardness of their hearts, let us feel ourselves the guardians of the slave. The following, from the same paper, shows how laborers are re- garded as things, and robbed of their wages : Eight or ten Bricklayers ARE wanted immediately at Grand Gulf, FOR WHICH $2 50 per day will be given. H. T. PALMER. Oct. 7. Can cruelty be rare, where men put their names to such procla- mations of barbarity, as the following? 4Jh> ftf ^fc REWARD. — Ranaway. from the subscriber, a negro fel- 59^^*^ l° w named DICK, about 21 or 22 years of age, dark mu- latto, has MANY SCARS on his back from being WHIPPED. The boy was purchased by me from Thomas L. Arnold, and absconded about the time the purchase was made. JAMES NOE. [Sentinel and Expositor, Vicksbure, (Mi.) Oct. 10, 1837. Several advertisements describe females with scars in their faces. One mentions a woman who had escaped with 10 children, but I have not room- for more of these horrid details. Each of the slaves advertised in all the southern states may have a history which, if known, wouLd move the hardest heart. Here is a wholesale dealer in misery. I have put other words for "negroes," and printed them in ITALIC CAPITALS. — Though the change makes it sound wovse r it is the same thing in different words. Jf§AN AND WOMAN BROKER.— The subscriber offera ™ *-*■ his services in purchasing and selling HUMAN BEINGS. The facilities of which he is in possession — warrant a belief that he will give general satisfaction in selecting such as are ordered from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to this city, New Orleans and Natchez, having a general acquaintance and regular correspondence with gentlemen in the markets where MEN, WO- MEN and CHILDREN are bought as well as where they are sold- Persons desirous of selling, will please call. A. F. EDVVARDS. Nov. 18, 1836. [Mobile Morning Chronicle, Oct. 12, 1837. The dates show that he had carried on this business nearly a year. Speaking of the internal slave-trade, a Virginian legislator asks, if it is not worse than the foreign slave-trade, and says : " Here, individuals whom the master has known from infancy,whora fee has seen sporting in the innocent gambols of childhood, who havg- 8 A FEW OF THE ADVERTISED FACTS. been accustomed to look to him for protection, he tears from the mother s arms, and SELLS into a strange country, among strange people, subject to CRUEL TASK-MASTERS. In my opinion, sir, it is MUCH WORSE."— Speech of Thomas J. Randolph, of Albemarle, in the Virginia Bouse of Delegates, 1832. If there was but one victim to this trade, it should arouse the nation. The number who suffer can never be known. The Vir- ginia Times, printed at Warrenton, Va., speaks thus of the trade in 1836 : " We have heard intelligent men estimate the number of slaves ex- ported from Virginia, within the last twelve months, at 120,000, Not more than one third have been sold, the others having been car- ried by their owners who have removed." In 72 papers, printed in 1837, I find advertised, 270 persons try- ing to escape from slavery, besides a lot of an unknown number. 48 of these were females, and 18 were children and youth less than 14 years old. 44 of the men, and 7 of the women were described as scarred. 22 had been brought from distant markets, and in 13 cases it is said that families were separated. Four men and two women had IRONS on, or were much marked with irons. The ages of the fugitives vary from 6 months to 60 years. Six men and one woman who said they were free, were imprisoned, and to be sold if they could not prove their freedom.* Two men were marked with shot, and one was BRANDED. One man gave permission to KILL his slave. Think of such a case. God speaks, amid the thunders of Sinai : " Thou shalt not kill." The slaveholder answers, amid bloody whips and rattling chains : " You may kill r/HAT man, because he tries to be free." Eight slaves (6 men and 2 women,) were in the habit of running away T or had escaped more than once. In the same papers, 1525 persons, of whom 179 are said to be females, and 100 children, are mentioned for sale, besides 41 lots jf human beings, number not stated -.559 persons and 40 lots are to ae sold because their masters or mistresses have died. When told low slaves weep around the death beds of their masters, mention he fact that a single paper, [Columbus (Geo.) Enquirer, Nov. 16, 1837,] contains notices for 21 such sales. One man, one woman, md one little girl 6 years old, offered in three sales of this kind, ire said to be sickly, yet they must be sold beneath the hammer to my who would buy. In one such sale a claim to an eighth part of ive slaves is offered. These 72 papers were very far from being the worst I might lave selected. Many of them were from small towns in Maryland, Va., and N. C. Yet think over the amount of wo to which they are in index. More than 500 papers, (including dailies,) are printed in he southern states each week, or 26,000 in a year. These 72 vere therefore less than a three hundredth part of the southern )apers published in 1837. How large a part of the actual adver- ised facts of the year they contain cannot be safely estimated. If *In most of the slave states, any colored persons, not having free papers at hand,, nay be imprisoned, and if, while in prison, they do not prove their freedom, they >re sold to pay the expenses of the unjust imprisonment.. A WOMAN SCAHHED .* — A MAN IN THONS. 3 we multiply these facts by 20, it will evidently be but a small part of the reality, yet it gives the following result : 5400 fugitives, of whom 960 are females, and 360 children. 80 WOMEN With YOUNG CHILDBEN. 880 men scarred. 140 WOMEN SCARRED. 260 separations of families. See 80 men in IRONS. [p. 5. 40 WOMEN IN IRONS. 40 men marked with SHOT. 20 men BRANDED. 20 LICENCES TO KILL. 30500 persons advertised/or sale, &, 820 lots of human beings, do. 3580 mentioned as females. 2000 children. 900 women with young children. 8400 persons sold in estates of de- ceased slaveholders. 800 lots of persons, do. 880 persons sold by the sheriff, & 13400 by auctioneers. If such are a small part of the incidents advertised by slavehold- ers in a year, the inquiry comes home to our hearts, What can we do this year, and every year, for those who are thus bought and sold, torn from the places of their birth, driven from market to market, parted from dearest relatives, mangled with whips, imprisoned, branded, shot, and given up to murderers? Do you ask, if these facts are unusually horrible ? Then read this. TEN DOLLARS REWARD will be given for my negro woman named Liby or Lucy, as she sometimes rails herself. The said Libyis about 30 years old, and VERV Ml CH SCARRED ABOUT THE NECK AND EARS occasioned by WHIPPLNG, had on an old plaid cloak, with a handkerchief tied round her ears, as she commonly wears it to hide the scars. ROBERT NICOLL, Dec. 29, 1835. Dauphin st. between Emanuel and Conception. [Mobile (Ala.) Commercial Advertiser. Is this an extreme case ? James G, Birney, a native of Kentucky, once a slaveholder, now, by the power of anti-slavery truth, an advocate of immediate emancipation, on reading the above, said it was not strange to him. He resided nearly sixteen years in the same state in which Robert Nicoll could put his name and residence to such an advertisement, and then walk the streets of Mobile, glorying in the protection of law and the sanction of public opinion. He says the women who are field hands are nearly all scarred with the whip, — that, in the planting states, about one third of the field hands are females, — that, when sold, their necks and arms are generally examined to see if they have been much whipped. I asked him how such an advertisement would affect the standing of Mr. Nicoll in Mobile. "Not at all," said he, "or he would'nt have published it. It would affect him no more than a man r s adver- tising a barrel of apples for sale in New-York." [From a Tennessee paper.] WAS committed to Jail, a negro boy who calls his name John. Said n p gro is about 22 years old, had on, when brought to Jail, a LARGE NECK IRON, with a HUGE PAIR OF HORNS, and a LARGE BAR OR BAND OF IRON on his lefties. The OWNER of this PROPERTY, is requested to complv with the law and take him out of Jail. H. GRIDLEY, Shff. July 11, 1834. When we are met by the objection that these are single cases, and probably rare, we reply: They are advertised in face of a com- munity, and pass without rebuke. If such thinga were uncommon', 10 CAN SLAVES FEEL? they would excite remark. If they were abhorred by the people, they would enkindle public indignation. Do you ask if there is ne> indignation aroused ? Read the following as one reply : $25 Reward, "gj ANA WAY from the plantation of A. H. SEVIER, in Chicot MM; county, (Arkansas,) BOB a slave, has a scar across his breast, ANOTHER ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS HEAD, — his BACK is much SCAR- RED with the WHIP. E. H. WALDEN, Agent. Lake Port, Sept. 26, 1836. [Vicksburg Register, Oct. 6, 1836. A. II. Sevier, of whose care this "working man" has so many- marks, has been recently chosen to one of the highest offices in the gift of his fellow-citizens. In the United States Senate he helps make laws for the government of northern laborers. The following barbarous announcement appeared in a southern paper about three years ago. Would it not make heathens blush 7 FOR SALE, a valuab'e negro woman, with OR WITHOUT A CHILD SIX MONTHS OLD. But do the slaves feel such separations as keenly as we should ? Let tacts answer. I can quote but few out of the great multitude. A gentleman, who had resided much in slave states, traveled in North Carolina some years ago, when he saw a woman following a drove in which were her two children who had been taken from her. She seemed so .deeply agitated, that he thought she was crazy. She cried out, "They've gone ! they've gone! ! Master would sell thein. I told him I couldn't live without my children. I tried to make him sell me too, but he beat me and drove me off. I go* away and followed after them, and the driver whipped me back: and I never shall see my children again." The poor creature shrieked and tossed her arms around her with maniac wildness, and beat her bosom and cast dust inio the air. "At the last glimpse I had of her," said the eye witness, "she was nearly a quarter of a mile from us, still throwing handfuls of sand around her with the same phrenzied air." The witness of this scene is now in N.York, and he says he never shall forget the horrid spectacle. The Maryville (Tenn.) Intelligencer, of March 12, 1834, says : "Slaves have feeling, intense feeling, and many of those who are sold to slave-traders would prefer death to their present lot." Mothers, who feel for their children more than for themselves, have often killed them to save them from the horrors of slavery. The St. Louis (Mo.) Republican mentions the case of a woman sold Irom her husband near that city, in 1834, and says: "Her husband seemed absolutely stunned by this most unexpected blow. He followed his poor wife to town, to take a last look and bid a last adieu. He said, * I will get my master to sell me to the driver and go with my poor wife. My days will not be long on earth, and this, I hope, will shorten them.' " These heart-rending separations occur daily. Prof. Andrews, of Boston, an opposer of the abolitionists, says he asked a slave-trader, whom he met near Washington City, if he often bought the wife without the husband ? "Yes, very often, and FREQUENTLY, too, they sell me the mother while they keep- SFFECT OP SLAVERY ON SLAVEHOLDERS. II the children. I have OFTEN known them take away the INFANT from the MOTHER'S BREAST, and keep it, while they sold her." — Andrews on Slavery and the Slave Trade, p. 147. In the year 1835, the Synod of Kentucky published an Address to the Presbyterians of that State who hold slaves. They would, of course, be very careful to state no more than the truth. After saying, that the members of a slave family may be forcibly separat- ed, they say the masters often practice what the law allows. — *' Brothers and sisters, parents and children, husbands and wives, are torn asunder and permitted to see each other no more. These acts are DAILY occurring in the midst of us. The shrieks and the agony, often witnessed on such occasions, proclaim, with a trumpet tongue, the iniquity of our system. There is not a neigh- borhood where these heart-rending scenes are not displayed. There is not a village or road that does not behold the sad procession of manacled outcasts, whose mournful countenances tell that they are exiled, by force, from all that their hearts hold dear." How little of the truth we can ever know till the slave is permit, ted to speak, may be judged from the following language of Judge Ruffin, of N.C.: "The slave, to remain a slave, must feel that there is no appeal from his master. No man can anticipate the provocations which the slave would give, nor the consequent wrath of the master, prompting him to BLOODY VENGEANCE on the turbulent traitor, a vengeance generally practiced with impunity by reason of its privacy." — See Wheeler s Law of Slavery, p. 247. While these facts stir you up to labor for the slave, remember that your sympathies should be not less aroused for the masters. They are '• nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny,"* and grow up the victims of violent passions which rob them of peace. The history of Mrs. James M. Nelson, sister of Governor Trim- ble of Ohio, is an impressive illustration of the withering effects of slavery on the heart. She was born in Virginia, but her parents moved to Ohio while she was an infuiit. When she was fifteen years old, as Ohio was then new, she was sent to her uncle's in Virginia to go to school. She then first saw slavery. The slaves in her uncle's family were treated better than most others in the neighbor- hood. Yet, unused as she was to such sights, the constant nameless indignities and insults she saw them suffer, affected her so, that before she had been there two hours, she sought where to weep, and went into her chamber and wept there. For some weeks, she retired of en to weep alone. She wrote to her mother begging the privilege of going home, and telling her it would break her heart to stay where human beings were thus treated. As the mails went slow, it was long before she received the answer, which gave her leave to return directly. As she had then become familiar with slavery, it had almost ceased to affect her, and she concluded to stay. She soon became ashamed of her ten- der feelings, and could even do, without reflection, ihe very things, the sight of which had so affected her. 1 have these facts as she stated them to a friend some years ago. The Kentucky Synod in the address above quoted, speak of the indo- fence, tyranny, and disregard of the rights of others, which are devel- * Jefferson. X2 HOW CAN WE ABOLISH SLAVEHY^ oped, cultivated and matured, in the slaveholders, and say they can al- most adopt the opinion that ;1 slavery is worse for the master than for the slave." In January, 1832, Mr. Samuel M'D. Moore, in the Virginia House of Delegates, spoke zealously of the pernicious effects of slavery on the slavehol lers. He says, "The dissolute habits of a large number of our fellow-ci'izens are too notorious to be denied, and the cause of it is too obvious to be disputed. Many, too proud to till the earth, are wasting their estates, and raising their iamilies in habits of idleness and extrava- gance. Many youn^; men attempt to force themselves into professions already crowded to excess, and many of these resort to intemperance to drown reflection, when want of success has driven them to despair. In that part of the state below tide-water, the whole face of the country wears an appearance of almost utter desolation." The dread of insurrection fills many of the slaveholders with con- stant apprehension and alarm. But often, when men cry, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh. T. R. Gray, of Va., in his preface to Nat Turner's confession, says: "Every thing upon the surface of society wore a calm and peaceful aspect, — not one note of preparation was heard to warn the devoted inhabitants of wo and death." Then, he says, the leader of the insurrection " was revolving schemes of indiscriminate massacre to the whites, — schemes fearfully executed, as his band proceeded on their deso- lating march. Men, women and children, from hoary age to help, less infancy, were involved in the same cruel fate. Many a mother, as she presses her infant darling to her bosom, will shudder at the recollection of Nat Turner." This insurrection took place August 22, 1831, at Southampton county, Virginia. During the following year, the whites in the slave states suffered scarcely less than their lacerated victims. Excitement and alarm prevailed. A Baptist minister, a native of Virginia where he then lived, said that whole counties were often panic-stricken by some one calling hogs in the woods, or by some other equally harmless noise. Alarm being given, mothers snatched their children and ran from their houses, gathering together in public places, surrounded by their husbands and sons. The panic spread from house to house, and lasted for days, and when the truth was known, it could not quiet the fears of women and children. They went home with palpitating hearts. — Rumors of insurrection were frequent in nearly all the slave states. Why does slavery continue to curse the slave and afflict the master, and disgrace and endanger the nation? Because ii is the people's will. How is that will to be changed ? By appeals to the conscience and understanding. We are, first, to do all in our power to diffuse a correct senti- ment in the circles in which we move ; and, secondly, to supply the American A. S. Society with the means of arousing the nation to a sense of our guilt and danger. They are trying to do this, by publications and living agents. — They need money. A COOK.— I have for sale, a first rate Female COOK, with a Child, six or eeven years of age. I can recommend this Woman as one of the best bread makers in Virginia. Call on J. B. ABBOTT, , At J. W. RANDOLPH & CO's Book Store. [Richmond (Va.) Whig, Jan. 4, 1838. Perhaps the woman's color is not mentioned because it is like that described in the following, from the New Orleans Bee of July 4, 1837 : DETAINED in the Jail of the Guard-house of faubourg Washing- ton, the mulatto woman named MARIA, pretending herself FREE, about 22 years old, round face, CLEAR WHITE complexion. Notice is hereby given to the OWNER of said SLAVE, to come and claim her, in conformity to the law. 22d June, 1837. P. BAYHI, Captain of the Watch. PROPERTY AT AUCTION. BY FRANCIS LANCE, this day, Cora, 45, field hand— Margaret, 22, do. — Juliet, 19, do. — Harry, 13, smart boy. Conditions cash. [Charleston Courier, Jan. 11, 1838. A Sheriff's Sale. The following sale is advertised in the Georgia Journal, Jan. 2, 1338. The sale was to take place, Feb. 6, 1838 : WILL be sold, the following PROPERTY, to wit: One CHILD, by the name of James about eight months oW, levied on as the property of Gabriel Gunn. Also, the following property, to wit. one man named Tim, about 40 or 50 years of age levied on as the property of Tubal Corley. ENCOURAGEMENT TO LABOR. Are Anti-Slavery lectures, discussions and publications doing any good? Though our main effort thus far, has been to equip and mar- shal for this moral conflict, yet glorious conquests have already been achieved. I have room for but few out of the many facts, of this kind, In Feb., 1834, a large class of theological students at Lane Seminary, (Ohio,) discussed this question : " Ought the people of the slaveholding states to abolish slaver y immediately?" Eleven of them were bom and had always lived in slave-states, seven of them were sons of slave- holders, ten others had lived in slave states, besides several who had traveled in the midst of slavery, making inquiries, and searching after truth. After a thorough discussion of nine evenings, they were unanimous in favor of immediate emancipation. An Anti-Slavery Society wasforraed, with seven of the officers from slave states. March 19,1835, an Anti-Slavery Society was formed at Danville, Ky. t having J. G. Birney, Esq., Prof. Buchanan, and Dr. Munsell, among its members. Thirty-four slaves were emancipated by the members of this society, or by their influence. In May, 1834, Mr. Thome, of Kentucky, addressed the Annual meet- ing of the A. A, S.. Society, when he said : " That abolition principles do commend themselves to the consciences and interest of slaveholders, I stand before you a living witness. Your principles are grossly misrep- resented and misunderstood. Yet, you have done much already. One of my acquaintance, a young man of growing influence, became a whole hearted abolitionist, in consequence of reading a single number of the \nti-Slavery Reporter, sent to him by some unknown hand. A family >f slaves in Arkansas Territory, another in Tennessee, and a third con- sisting of 88, in Virginia, have been emancipated through the influence )f one abolition periodical. Then do not hesitate as to duty. We have teen lulled to sleep by the guilty apologist. We appeal to you for light. send us kind remonstrance, and manly reasoning. We are perishing or lack of truth." The American Society have materials enough to abolitionize the na- ion if they had funds to ply them vigorously. Lack of means forces hem to refuse daily applications for lecturers and books and tracts, fhey have delayed the publication of many works of great importance, or the same reason. Truth has struggled through many difficulties, nd produced action in the legislatures of Massachusetts, Vermont, New ersey, and Ohio. Her course is onward. We must now decide whether re shall share in her triumph, or perish in a vain attempt to oppose her. Extracts from the Constitution of the Am. A. S. Society. 