American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-06-02
Volume v.

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:. For Gods sake go in and comfort your wife.
o.. Clair, said he; she is very i'll. am now
my way Tor physician III
~ passed him without speaking word. The
oaits were gone; the furniture aud effects all stood
as had LETT them In The morning. | believed that
was IN dream. / ran up stairs to my wife's
apartment, and found her lying upon sofa in vio-
lent Mysteries. Her maid was attending 10 her as
we'll as she could, bot l desired her to leave the
room, and she did So
- How is this, LucyF' said I, affecting to be
calm. Have done with these airs and tell me how
it comes about that there baifs in the house.
though, an execution had been going on
"s And so it was, cried She struggling to subdue
her emotions: We were indeed ruined but Blake.
good Blake, charged the debt, end we are
still lett in possession oil our huuse.-Oh, Charles,
will never, neve upoard you with the past bu
let US change our mode of living. How happy we
were al Claremont, till,
".Till what exclaimed madly Till took
into my family and to my bosom, wretch thai
has dishono' cd me = blake Blake, eternaly Blake
HE paid the debt, aD' how was he pad =
= Charles replied Lucy rising, and with digni.
", : his is the wors OF all Neglect, tarshness,
cruelty | could bear out to hear you insinna,c
aueh' against my honor, Thar OF my cousin, TO
whom you ave 20 deeply ,ndeb cd
My brain was Gre. | replied not; but
fist She tel--a OF the fender entered her
temple and she never moved agaiu!
" A notion very generally prevails. that insane
persons, at least during the paroxysms of insanity,
are ignorant of all things which pass around them.
lhr notion is not more common than erroneous
have been the inh bitant OF cell tor six long
years mad raving, ourageously mad -and there
occurred no, an event eIiher TO myself or Others
nf which / Dtit ect w he inns
OF which retain not naw the ceatest recollection.
l saw numbrrs OF ~retchss, The slaves indeed of a
hayward fancy, but never saw one who felt not
that his was not where he ought to be, or where
ma ue had designed him TO be. For myself had
no iuncy. My sole desire, it is affirmed, was to de-
stroy all who came within my reach, or to destroy
myself. was this prevented? You shall know.
Having tried every other method in vain--hav-
ing torn my back with the whp--subjected me to
the amt OF straight waiscoat- chained me
down for days together to my crib--and finding, az
il was affirmed that possessed craft enough to be-
calm till ] was released, and only till then, the ty.
rants vented their spleen upon me thus. reeol-
lect the occasion well I had been for some time
fastened by long chain, which, passing through
hole in the partition, enabled the keeper by going
INTO the next CELL to draw close against the wall
at pleasure. This he in the habit OF doing sew
era times day. and then dashed me till the exer~
else weaticd his arm. 1T had been violent beforev
such treatment of course increased my violence.
no tell the chain ightened than roared lik g
wild beast; and when the brute appeared, armed
as he invariably was, with heavy cart whip
CRASHED my teeth upon him in imputent iury.---
But had my revenge. With the straw allowed
me 10 lieu of bed, stuffed The chain, that it
could moi be forced through the aperture. One
orning the wretch strose in vain to draw me up
as usual he failed, and trusting, / suppose, to he
effec, OF habitua terror upon nv mind, ventured 10
,1,. 4, H., -
mens shrunk up as had been wont to do. into the
corner, for the purpose of deceivng him /; he fol-
lowed, brandshing his whip, and prepared 10 strike
One bound brought him within my clutch. had
no weapons but my hands aid feet, but they were
sucffent. l caught him by the hair, dashed him
on his face TO the ground, and then planting my
knees strongly upon his shoulders. tore his bead
back ill the joints of his neck began to give way.
Fortunately tor him. the struggle had been over
heard and assistance arrived just in time to save his
worthless life.
"It was in consequence of that act that a new
mode of restraint was exercised upon me. An iron
collar was riveted round my neck, to which at
tached massive chain, only twelve inches in length
This was again made fast to ring in strong iron
pillar so formed as that it could slide upwards or
downwards; the pillar itself being built into the
WALL and of the height OF six iee,. Round my body
another iron grde Of vast strength was soldered,
about two inches in width, attached to which we're
two circular projections, one on each side, for the
purpose Of pinoning and restraining my arms. To
keep the girde in its place again, other bars
sed my shoulders, and we're rivetted to it both be-
fore and behind; whilst couple of links,
ing the collar with the shoulder-sraps and couple
of chains fastening the back bars to the piar,-all
power of moving head hands, and arms was taken
away from me. Thus was kept Tor four whole
years. I could lie down, it is true, because my
trough placed close to the wall, and the ring in
q p1lIo hpipr do m eli FRI
stoop or sand upright. But when did lie, it wss
only ON nv hack. the sharp points in the pirdle