Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-05
Rand ON, WEDNEsD Az, JUNE 5, 1889.

his master visited him, he said the stencil |
was enough to knock man down. The
filth had never been removed from the
apartment since the poor creature had
been immured in it. Although black !
man, such had been the effect of starva-
ton and suffering, that his master declar.
ed he. hardly recognized him-his com
olexion was SO yellow, and his hair, nat
urally thick and black, had become red
and scanty an infallible sign of long
continued living on bad and insufficient
food. Stripes, Imprisonment, and the
cravings of hunger, had broken his lofty
spirit for season; and, to use his mas
ter's own exulting expression. he was as
humble as a dog After time he made
another attempt to escape, and was absent
$50 long, that reward was offered for
him, dead or alice. He eluded every at
tempt to take him, and his master, des-
pairing OF ever getting him again, offered
to pardon him if he would return home.
1t is always understood that such intelli-
gence will reach the runaway; and ac-
cordingly, at the entreaties Of his wife
and mother, the fugitive once more con-
scented 10 return to his bitter bondage. /
believe this was the last effort to obtain
his liberty. His heart became touched
with the power of the. gospel and the
lspitit which no infiction could subdue,
bowed al the cross OF Jesus, and with the
language on his lips the cup that my
Father hath given me, shall | not drink
its submitted TO the yoke of the oppressor.
Iar hscc oh
thence till death released him. The mas
ter who perpetrated these wrongs upon
his slave, was one of the most influential
and honored citizens of South Carolina,
and to his equals was bland and courte-
Gus, and benevolent even to proverb.
! A slave who had been separated from
his wife, because it best suited the con-
venience of his owner, ran away. He
was taken up on the plantation where
his wife, to whom he was tenderly attach
ed, then lived His only object. in run
ming away was to return to her-no 9TH
er fault was attributed to him. For this
offence he was confined in the stocks sac.
, a0eeks, in miserable hovel not weather.
tight. 1e received fifty lashes weekly
: during the time, was allowed food barely
: sufficient to sustain him. and when releas-
ed from confinement, was not permitted
to return to his wife. His master, altho'
t himself husband and father was un-
moved by the touching appeals of the
/ slave, who entreated that he might only
remain with his wife, promising to dis
charge his duties faithfully; his master
continued memorable, and he was torn
3 from his wife and family. The owner OF
t This slave was protesting christian, in
f full membership with the church, and
g this circumstance occurred when he was
: confined to his chamber during his last
IS illness.
e A punishment dreaded more by the
n slaves than whipping, unless it is unusu-
o ally severe, is one which was invented by
g a female acquaintance of mine in Charles
; toI-I heard her say SO with much salts
V faction. 1t is standing on one foot and
r holding the other in the hand After
J. wards it was improved upon, and STRAP
a was contrived to fasten around the ANGLE
r, and pass around the neck; SO that the
t. least weight of the foot resting on the
9 strap would choke the person. The pair
10 occasioned by this unnatural position wa
se great; and when continued, as it some
he times was, for an hour or more, produced
u intense agony. heard this woman say
re that she had the ears of her waiting mai'
n slit for some petty theft. This she tolt
Of me in the presence of the girl, who wa
se standing in the room. She often had th
" helpless victims of her cruelty severed
D. whipped, not scrupling herself TO wiel
n the instrument of torture, and with he
i'd own hand infict severe chastisement.-
n Her husband was less inhuman than hi
r. wife, but he was often goaded On by he
r 10 acts of great severity. In his last i'll
ne ness | was sent for, and watched besid
e, his death couch. The girl on whom h
ed had so often inflicted punishment, haunte
err his diving hours; and when at >length tn
1T king of terrors approached, he shrieke
at, in utter agony of spirit, Oh, the blacl
rs ness OF darkness, the black imps, | ca
see them all around me-take them away
ed and amid such EXPLANATIONS he expired
IS, These persons were one of the first fam
of lies in Charleston.
n A friend of mine, in whose veraclty
ne have entire confidence, told me that abo
, a two years ago, woman in Charieste
ne with whom / was we'll acquainted. M
on starved female slave to death. She wi
raj confined to solitary apartment kept COZ
at stantly tied and condemned to the slo
led and horrible death of starvation. IN
led woman was VIGOROUSLY cruel. To tho
AN who have read the narrative OF Jam
d. Williams need only say. that the chara
it'll ter of young Larrimore's wife IS an exa
per description of this female tyrant' VINO
TX. cocntenance was ever dressed 10 smii