Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-28
Startling Facts.
Sth mo. 18th. 1916.


FRIENDS EDIToRs The narrative in vour
paper, Of the 10Th May of an EYE Witness"
suggested the following incidents Of like a.
t'ocIly' which occurred some years since.
III focklngham, or Augusta county Va, | have
forgotten which, and have not at presen, the
means Of ascertaining. They are from the
IlPs OF a gentleman and his lady. of unim-
peacha5le v%eracity, who lived in the same
neigIborlood in which the occurrence they
relate transpired.
The first incident was that of an old nerro,
oil the neighborhood, who WIS in the habit
OF running off from "happiness and content
ment, and, on one such occasion, being out
when 1t was intensely cold, had both his
feet 50 badly frozen, that on his return, NOR
tihcauon having ensued, amputation was found
necessary. His recovery being thought doubt
iul, either with, or without an operation, TO
save the cost Of calling in a surgeon, the
master himself assumed the responsibility"
and Laying the patients legs across a block,
Severed A%S ,Ee! from them wiH repeated 6o,cs
from an ace. Contrary 10 all expectation,
the poor slave recovered, sockets were a lap,-
cd to his siumps, and from ability to perform
many kinds of labor, and his inability to run
of, soon rose hugely in the estimation of his
considerate master.
Another case is as follows. On certain
occasion of f~estivity, at the house of a slave.
holder, who was addicted to intempcnnce,
he became angry az a female servant in at
tendance, for some real or pretended cause,
led her out, bound and severely hogged her.
10 secure her SO that he might %rejoin his
companions, rest and refresh, by resuming for
a brief period his bacchanalian l%ibations, with
a view of returning and completing the fog
ing, he made a pillory of the fence corner,
and raising up, thrust her neck through and
letting the fence down on il, left her. Over.
staying his time, however, Judge of his gull.
ty astonishment to find her on his return
choked 10 death, her mouth wide open, and
the weather being warm, literally filed wiA
Fy-IIOtcs! \ warrant was soon after got out,
but escaping 10 Kentucky, he remained until
the excitement subsidized, and, as is usual in
this land Of liberty and equal rights, was ever
Afterwards unmolested, for why should a
gentleman hang for killing a Niger!
But the climax Of atrocity must be accor-
ded to the following
A certain lady who boosted of her ability
TO manage negroes, owned a female slave,
who being e%nciente expected to be shortly
confined, and accordingly, when a quilting
was in progress at the house of her mistress,
was. suddenly taken with the pains of par
t]urition. This, as she was chief hand in
the kitchen, was exceedingly i'll timed with
reference to the quilting, and as butter ap-
peared to be in demand, the patient, notwith-
standing her condition, was despatched to
the sprlng-house FOR a chufn of cream, that
she was to bring TO the house and churn be-
treen her pains! The woman proceeded to
the milk'house, took mp the ehurn and star
ted with it, in her arms, on her RETURN
While on her way, she took suddenly bad,
sci down her burden, and there, in the open
air, upon the bare ground, and all alone, gave
birth to her child! 1t happened that a raw
enous old sow ran in the same enclosure,
which the woman was in the habit of feed
ing with slop, which seeing her and actuated
by the ruling instinct Of brutes-tho desire
for food-and for the purpose as is their wei
known custom, OF besetIing with her impor-
tunities her who supplied it, Immediately
ran in pursuit, ami seeing tho infant, seized
~it,tore it in pieces, and devoured it in the pres
ence Of the frantic but helpless mother =