The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-12-29

- II make you toe the mark, every soul of you,
of III fog you all, fore and aft from the boy up -
You've got driver over you Yes siave dri0er
"a negro driocr! I'll see who'll tell me no isn't
negro slave = Tr'
WIN tins and the like matter, equally calculated
10 quiet us and to allayany apprehensions of future
trouble, he entertained us for nbont ten minutes,
when he Went below. Soon afer John came an.
with his hare back covered with stripes and whales
IN every direction and drcadfully swollen and ask.
ed the Steward to ask the capt ain TO let him have
some salve or basam, TO put upon it.
mo said The captain, who heard him from ,plow
tell him to put his shirt that's the best thing
FOR hial and pull ne ashore IN the boat Nobody
is going to lay up board this vessel. He then
called TO Mr., Russell to take those two men and
went for The captain called 10 them to give
way, give way! = but finding they did their best he
let them alone. The agont was in the stern sheet
but during the whole pull--a league or more-not
word spoken. We landed The captain, d.
gent and officer wen: up the house, and left the
boat with and the man with me staid near
the boat while John AMI Sam walked slowly away
and snt down Tho rocks. They talked somo
time together but at length separated, each sitting
alone had some fears of John He was a for.
eigner and violently tempered and under suffering,
he had his knife with him and the captain was to
come down alone to the boat But nothing hap
pened, and we went quietly board. The cap
tain probably armed, and if either OF them had
lifted hand against him, they would have nothing
before Them but fight, and starvation in the woods
Of California; capture by the soldiers and Indian
boodhounds, who the offer Of twenty dollars would
have sci upon them.
After tho days work done we went into tha
iorecastle, and nte our plain supper, but not
word was spoken. 1t Saturday might bus
there was no song-no 'swee,hears and wives
a gloom was over every thing. The two men lay
in their berths groanng with pain, and we all turn
ed in but for myself not TO sleep. A sound coming
from the berths OF The two men, showed that they
were awake,n as awake they must have been,a they
could hardly lilo in one posture moment, the dim
swinging lamp OF the forecasle shed its light
the dark hole in which we lived and many and
y1rious reflections and purposes coursed through
my mind thought OF our situation, living under
tyranny Of the character of the country
in of tho length Of the voyage, and of The uncrr.
tainty attending our return to America ; and then
if we should return, of tho prospect of obtaining
Justice and sa tisfaciion for these poor men and
vowed if God should ever give the
means would do spmet,ng to redress tho grievan
ceS anG re leve the SuHernSs OF tndl poor cisS ~
beings, ct whom then wasone.
The delicacy aud feeling of honor which this
event showed the Of the Pilgrim 10 possess,
is comm emoraied in the following paragraph;
On board the Pilgrim, every thing went on resn-
Iary each trying to get on as smoothly as pos
sibe but the comfor, of the voyage evidently
At an end. Chat is long lane which has
turning every dog must have his day, and
mine will come by and and the like proverbs
were occasionally quoted ; but no one SPOKE of any
probable end the VOYAGE, or Of Boston, any
thing of the kind or il he did it was only to draw
out the perpetual surly reply from his shipmate~+
'Boston is it ? You may thank your stars if you
ever see that place.--You had better have youT
back sheathed, and your head coppored and feet
shod and make out your log for California for life!
or else something of this kind Before you get 10
Boston the hides will wear all tho hair off your
head and you II take up all your wages ni clothes
md won't have enough to buy wig with
The logging was seldom ifever alluded 10 by US
in the forecas,o II any one was inclined to talk
about it he others with delicacy hardly expec-
o find among Them always stopped him turned
he subject. But the behavior oi the two men who
we're logged toward one another showed a delicacy
md sense of honor which would have been
nv of admiration in the highest walks of life.
account and in all his mplaints, he SAID tina: IL
ne alone had been logged, it would have been
,o,hing but that he could never SEQ thar map
without thinking what Ind been the means of bring
mr. that disgrace upon him; and John never, hH
vord or deed let any thing escape him to remind
be other that it by interfering to save his
bipmate that he had suffered
The journal afterwards relates, that although
he excitement oocasoned bytho Aogging passed Of
With time, the effect oft npon the crew. especially
pon the two men themselves remained;
John foreigner and high tempered, and
hongh mortified as any one would be at having
he worst of the encounter, yet his chief feeling
acmed to be anger; and he talked much of salts:
action and revenge irhe ever got back TO Boston.
'ut with the other vo,y different. He was an
Imerican, and had some education; and this thing
oming upon him, seemed completely TO break
i'm down He had feeling Of the degradation
ha, had been inflicted upon him which the othos
ran was incapable of. Before that he had good