Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-26

ly be my portion.s With this resolve, she
directed her slow and f%altering steps to the
pear tree. While in tho act Of picking one
up, her cruel master, who had watched her
from the time she left her hut, calling to her,
commanded, in tone that might have made
the check Of darkness pale to march round
to the house of correction. Ina few moments
my ears were greeted with sounds of an un-
earthly kind. | FASTENED to the spot to learn
the cause.
-" Eternal Justice (! Sons
OF God tell me, if you can toll, what then
saw, what then | heard. -
In the centre of the room, upon a low bench,
sat the poor woman. A large, athletic slave
stood over her, engaged in pulling out her
teeth, while her master stood by with up
lifted cane, threatening TO knock him down
if he shrunk from the performance of the
bloody deed. Call it resistance or non-re-
s~istance, christian or anti-christian, | must
confess that my soul burned within me to lay
PROSTATE that Gend Of he'll. But alas I! the
cruelty was sanctioned by law, and long
usage had sanctifed it. He continued to
pull out her teeth many of which were ac-
companied with large fragments of the jaw,
until he had extracted all but two front ones.
The poor woman tainted, and fell upon the
floor. The slave, casting the instrument at
his feet, boldly declared that, rather than
complete the work, his own life should pay
the forfeit.
The master, becoming doubly oniaged and
clearing the clotted blood from her mouth, by
a heavy blow with the big end of his cane
stove the remaining two down her throat, re-
marking, NOW you ID wench, eat ano-
ther pears then quickly ran to another
apartment'of the house, and having obtained
some camphor, returned TO restore her TO life,
but the master stcrnly commanded me not to
touch her. | instantly seized a large iron
poker from the Fireplace, and told him that if
he persisted in his commands, [ would knock
him down; (may God forgive me for such an
unchrisiian act.) He, having invoked the
curse Of Heaven upon my head, turned and
left the room. | proceeded TO remove the
blood from her mouth, and battle her with
camphor. She soon revived. | then, with
the assistance Of the poor slave, who had been
the unwilling instrument in the hand Of his
master, for the Preparation of this hellish
deed, conveyed her 10 her hut. Having done
this, l FASTENED to a little village some two
miles distant, and employed a physician Ga
good Quaker, vino was not entirely destitute
of the milk Of human kindness,) 10 visit her,
and if it were possible, alleviate her suffer
ings. Having carefully dressed her mangled
jaws, and kindly administered such medicine
as her system required, lie left her in "a fair
way TO recover.
Without giving a full detail of all the sub
sequent transactions, or stating by whom her
wants were supplied, &c., unknown to her
MASTER suffice it to say that in three weeks
she had almost entirely recovered her health.
Another week and the place which had known
her, knew her no more. The bitter cup of
oppression, she had slipped to its very dregs.
She knew full well the height and depth and
length and breadth of all the woes of slavery.
There was not a curse in its dark vocabulary
which she had not felt. Yet crushed, out
ragged, dehumanized as she was, there still
fingered, deep in her inmost being, the whis-
Tcrings of that spirit of freedom which lives
and must eger live in the human soul. ODE
dent to its divine mandates, she babe adieu
to slavery with all its blessings, q and
through dangers and tolls which those Of
&c sterner stuff" might quail to meet, she has
tened to a land of freedom.
There, to-day you may find her, happy, dis
CENTRALIZED, cheerod by a kind, afrectionate
husband and, though in a climate uncon-
genial to her nature, it is dearer far to her,
with the free wild music of its storms and
tempests, than the sunny south with It's balmy
breezcs freighted with the walls OF the slave.
AN Eye WITNESS.
= | do not wish it to be understood that
this Eend. tortured the woman thus, be-
cause he considered the loss of the pears she
might cat of any consequence, but because
she dlsobeyed an imperative command, Il thing
which Shareholders by no means do, or even
can tolerate, and hold a slave. Another rea.
son was Gas he afterwards partly confessed TO
me) it would hasten her death, and as he ex-
rected she would not live long, the sooner
she died the less expense he would incur on
her account.
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