Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-19
THE KIND OF STUFF WITH WHICH ABOLITION

THE KIND OF STUFF WITH WHICH ABOLITION |
IsTs BRIGHTEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
The N. Y. Evangelist of Feb 1lth contains
report of the proceedings Of the Massachu-
setts Anti Slavery Society at its fifth anniver
sary, from which We extract the following
speech of "colored gentleman"
Here Mr.. Jhnson, acolored man of Boston,
was introduced, and gave an interesting and
affecting narrative of his being kidnapped.
when boy in Africa, and brought to this
country, and sold into slavery.-IIe manifested
much shrewdness and kept the audience al
ternately excited with laug Inter with his keen
sarcasms, and melted into tears, at the recital
OF the wrongs of the slave. He related fact
which ne had wltnessed-a gentleman from
the north was dining with STAKEHOLDER at St.
Marys-a female slave dropped some gravy
on the dress OF her mistress, and her master
rose from the table, and dragged her out of
DOORS ana cut OH her head with his carving
knife tie then returned, washed his hands,
and sat down to his dinner as if nothing had
happened. The court was in session, and the
northern gentleman immediately left the table,
and went and entered complaint; but he was
not satisfied with southern customs, all he had
to do was to take himself back to the north.
! He SAID lie had seen profcsscd Christian
tie up four slaves and whip them till they were
raw, and then pour beefbrne upon the wounds.
! He once knew eight slaves tied up in barn, in
cold night to be whipped, next morning; next
| morning they were dead!fIe had known masters
f,rs sln, clo haoo
he had been to meeting. 1t was a common
thing for slaves to be whipped for worshipping
their Maker. He knew good man who al
ways got 15O lashcs Monday mcr::ng; bnt after
receiving them he would jump over the fence,
and pray for his perSccutars. But, when they
found they could not stop him, he was shot
1t is common, said he, for the slaves 70 have
s;ents. Ifyou no do them you get whip The
women lash their children on their backs, and
90 to work in the fied-if the children CRY,
they mnst stop and nurse them-and often TIE
men will help out their wives stents, and let
their own 60, in order to take the whipping in
place of their wives; for who could see a wo-
man whipped for taking care of his own child.
(Emoton.) "Slarcry is the craelist ting in th
arorld." Here Mr.. J. expatiated very sensibly
upon the peculiar evils of slavery in this coun-
try, and very suddenly, pointing to Mr. Garri-
son, said, "Dat man is de Moses raised up for
our deliverance." Tremendous applause.)
Here he related the circumstance of gentle
man having proposed to him to decoy Mr..
Garrison from his office, and deliver him into
! the hands of some persons who would take him
/ to Georgia and secure the reward offered for
his head Bat he said he would lose his own
life in defence of that man, sooner than hair
of his head should be hurt.
Some say, said he they would rather be
slaves than frcc-iVhat! if you had horse,
would you give him pint Of corn day! Can
a man be content wild dat! o, how many
children 90 to masters crib every Saturday
night, and draw but two quarts of corn week
"a man and wife, half a bushel, and two or
three herring.
This Mr.. Jnhnson was probably fugitive
slave who was brought from Boston to sto make
speech" and repeat some of the "anecdotes
of slavery with which he used to make s'the
colored ladies and gentlemen" of that "Athens
of America" stare.
The following is part Of the speech made
by white gentleman at the same meeting.
I am told it is common to work slaves 10
DEATH do not mean an every day business
that would be impossiblc-but at certain juno
lures, TO make close calculations, and in time
of good market; for cotton or rice deliberately
to task the slaves beyond their powers of cIdu-
rance, to hurry the crops to market. tits cal
culatcd that they can aforda' Yes the
increased price of cotton will more than re-
: place the loss by death, of few negroes Is
murder .shard word" for slavery! Who would
not rather die by the hand Of the assassin, than
to be worked to death I
The reader will be amused at the following
resolution and speech Of another colored gen.
! tleanan taken from the same report.
Rev. Mr. Easton. colored gentleman, in
troduced the following resolution
That the spirit OF insurrectior and insubor-
dinaton, of the slave population of this coun-
trv, is restrained more by the influence of the
free colored population, than by all the oppres-
sive legislative enactments of the slave hold
ing states.
lie said that the destinics Of these United
State. ere placed under God, in the hands
of the free colored people. They hold an in
termadate position between the slaves and
their oppressors; and they were able to exert
an influence, for veal or for woe, over their
brethren, upon which the destinies of the ma
ton are SUSPENDED. l speak, said he, in be.
half of the intelligent portion OF the colored
population, when say that they understand
this: and that their course is directed with the
prudence and caution becoming so great res
possibility.