Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-08-13
INTERESTING INCIDENT.

We find IN the "BdulDtOre .Incrtcdn' the
following extract FROM letter, dated BED
FORD SPRINGS, Aug. 9Th, 1916" which we
with pleasure lay before our readers As
we understand the facts Of the case, they are
very accurately detailed in this letter. The
Aboli,ioniSts it seems will never learn any
thing; experience should have taught them
before this time, that their course, instead Of
benefttine the slave, is daily causing his priv
ileges to be curtailed. If their philanthfophy
is so very extensive, they can certainly find OBJ
iccts enough for its exercise without reSortng
to a meddlesome and illegal interference IN
the rights and property Of other people We
wonder how many poor ,chite children there
are in the neighborhood Of the ''Quakcr Set
tlcmsnt," of Bedford County, who are suffer
ing for the nccessaries of life, and that mental
and moral culture so necessary 10 their useful
ness in life He should Ike these people to
tell US if they would not be much more profit
ably employed in the eyes of God and man IN
exercising and commencing "thelr charity at
home" first, and when out Of material there,
If they could not find abundance of employ
men, in thousand different fields of benevo-
lrnce without meddling with that which does
not concern them OF ask their aid? Let them
this poor colored girl who, seeing the''error Of
her ways" returned 10 those under whose
care and protection she had always found
kindness-let them ego and do ike,cise" and
they will be better employed and more loyal
to honesty. law, order, and the Constitutional
guarantees Of their country. But here is the
letter it will be read with pleasure -
BEDFORD EpRINGs, Pa, Aug. 9Th, lS46.
An incident has Just occurred hele which
DISPLAYS in so strkihg a view the offensive III
termcddling Of fanatcsl Abolitionsm and the
true relation of master and servant IN the
Southern States, that viii take the liberty of
relating it TO YOU. CHlS. JAS. FAULKNER,
Esq, of Virginia, who with his family has
been here about two weeks, brought with him
a very likely female slave, aged about 20 years,
as maid. The girl had not arrived more
than few hours when the fact that she was
a slave became generally known, and the spir-
il of a false philanthropy awakened in her be-
half. From that moment the most unceaslng
efforts, all secretly conducted, were made TO
seduce her from her allegiance to her master,
Notwithstanding her prompt and repeated re-
lection of the liberal offers made to secure her
freedom. For four nights in succession the y
had their horses stationed near the mill, about
a quarter OF mile from the Springs, IN the
expectation that she would yield TO their per-
suasious, butso far without success. Atength
the poor girl, overpowered by their importunl-
ties and by the false and delusiye arguments
and inducements which they held out to her,
on Monday night Welded to the temptation and
suffered herself to be conveyed by them some
ten miles beyond the town of Bedford to
place called "the Quaker Settlement" where
she arrived about one O'Clock in the morning,
and found the family waiting TO receive her,
who hailed her as a redeemed sister and show
cred upon her profusely all the hospilalites OF
their home. She had, however, no sooner re-
tired to rest than the fountains OF her feelings
burs, forth in food of tears, which increased
as memory dwell upon the happy and content
ed life which she had led. under the roof OF
her owner, and when she reflected upon the
dark and uncertain fate 10 which these false
and misguided philan.hropisis were hurying
her. Sas spent night OF the deepest anguish
and distress Of mind Early the next morning