The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-25 00:00:00

A PUG ITITE SLAVE SN LIVERPOOL.

(Frew the Liverpool Albion.)
On Seturd y after noon a pair fugitive slave, who
arrived three weeks ago at Liverpool, from New
Orleans, stowed away in the hold of a cotton ship,
was brought to this office. The following is his
own plain unvarnished tale, taken down as the ,
narrative fell from his lips.
" My name is Torn Wilson, I arrived here in a
iship called the Metropolis, Captain Foster. lam
slave-horn ; I have been under slave bondage ever
since I was }>o, I be-
n lamreiw 45 years old.
o ged to Mr. Henry F •straan, of New York, cot-
ten-pres-er. I wal tied• r hue for the space of
*even yea's. Before then 1 belonged to Colonel
Barr, ef W- othord, Teere 1 had a
wife and three children, I,esides having had another
child which died. I was stilt' by auction by Major
Beirds, auct:ooeer, f• ir 2,500 dole., and was taken
d,,Wri to New Orl ens, sway from my wife and chil-
dren, and I haven't -e-n them since. Shortly after I
got there Mr. Fast me overseer, Berka, commenced
to ill-us, me. I didn't umletsrand tying the cotton;
it •- as new- to me, and I was awkward, so I was
flo.-41 ed. They used ei tie it e down across a cotton-
bale, and give me 200 iir 300 with a leather strap.
I am marked with the whip from the ankle-bone to
tha crown of my heal. Soule years before I was
sold from Miss', vipt t 1 the over seer there, because I
resisted punishment once, cut my right arm across
the muscle, and then had it stitched up. He did
that, as he said, to weaken me, because I was too
strong in the arm. Anout a year and a half
miter I had been it. New Orletns I ran into the
woods. I was followed by Burks and a pack
of blood-hou is into the Baddenrush Swamp.
The dogs soon caught, me. They tore my
legs and 'body with their teeth. Here are the
marks yet. [As he spoke he turned up his trousers'
legging, and exposed form,deble seams, extending
up the calf and above the knee-joint.] Burks (he
continued) le ido up to me with his gun, and shot me
in the hip with 14 buck-s, ot, which can be seen and
examined at any time. The dogs continued to pin
me wit.) thee teeth. After that I knowed nothing
about what they did to me for about a week.
When I got a little s-rong they burned nay
back with a red-hot iron, and my legs with
spirits of turpentine, to punish me for escap-
ing. They put an iron collar round my neck,
which I wore for eieht months, besides two irons,
one on each leg. After treat I was watched very
closely ; but cne night, about a week after Christ-
mas, I tax away, and hid myself under the sawdust
in a sawmill pit, b-low New Orleans. I was fol-
lowed by Barks, the overseer, and the dogs, but
they did not fin f me. I crept out and ran away,
for more safety, to the Great Salt-water Lake,
behind 0t leans, sec, etiug myself under the bushes
and vines. Thrre a e alligators in the lake, and as
I waleit up to tie knees in the water, the
alligators followed me, grunting and bel-
lowing' and trying to get me. I had several
times to climb up trees to escape them ; but I felt
safer aesong the alligators then among the white
men. In the morning, at 4 -o'clock, I went down
to the wharf. On the road I came actors some of
the men who were cuts watching for me, with
guns ant dogs. It was jiist getting light. I begat
to whistle and sing, and walked close by them, and
they paid no at etition to me. When I go', down to the wharf, sine of the coloured crew I
of the American cot sh p 111-tropoliti took Me °ll
board, an l tint me away among the hales. One
ot the eidollreit well Spa on mo' and there W3s
a seatch for me that day; but they did not
find me, though they cone very near me, and le
trembled to think I should ho taken back and
t inured. I was frig iterate', toe, for the coloured
men who had befriended we. I was kept out of
the sight f the white teen,• and Captain Foster did
not know aiivthii g about it meil atter the men had
been paid if at L:verpeol. I remained hid from
a week after Chi istmas until about three weeks
ago, when the ship came here. During the t 2
I was secreted I was kept alive by the coloured
men who hal been so good to me. Thief
brought rue soieetlene to eat and drink every
night. When I first landed here 7,5
frightened a!: every white mau I passed, and '''t
inyeelf attout where I coul I, and begged at night
fit bread. I was afraid I should he taken into
slavery, fig ,in. I did not know I could not boa
slave here."
With regard to the future, poor " Tom
said he would be giad to take a fireman's place `il
.„
board a coasting steamer. When in slimily'
America, ho had been hired out as a fireman on oneL
of the lake steamers. He said ho could do thet
work very well, and could stand any
heat.
induced tO
"
From inquiries we have made we are th
b-liove that, the foregoing narrative, which reads
like a lost chapter of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Is OD'
k taut ia y true. amount of