Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-08-20
From the Martinsburg Gazette.
, INTERESTING INCIDENT.

rom ute iuaIunSDuTg OaZebte.
INTERESTING INCIDENT.
! We find in the tBaltimore .Ameri-
can the following extract from a let
tier, dated BEDFORD SPRINGS, Aug.
| 9th, 1916, : which we with pleasure
|lay before our readers, Asswe under
stand the facts Of the case, they are
VERY accurately detailed in this letter.
! The Abolitiontsts 1t seems. will never
learn anything; experience should have
taught them before this time, that their
course, instead Of bene6tting the slave,
lis daily causing his privileges to be
CENTRALIZED. Iftheir philanthropy is so
very extensive, they can certainly find
objects enough fori exercise without
resorting to meddlesome and illegal
interference in the rights and property
of other people. We wonder how ma
ny poor achite children there are In the
neighborhood of the "Quahcer Settle
ment," Bedford County. who are suf-
fering for the necessaries of life, and
that mental and moral culture so neces-
sary to their usefulness in life? We
should like these people to tell us if
they would not be much more pro6ta-
bly, employed in. the eyes OF God and
man in exercising and commencing
/" their charity at home'' first, and
when out Of material there, if they
could not find abundance of employ
ment in a thousand different fields of
benevolence without meddling with
what does not concern them or ask
their aid? Let them learn wisdom
from the course and action of this poor
colored girl, who, seeing the "error of
her ways" returned to those under
| whose care and protection she had al
ways found klndness-let them ego
and do htewase" and they will be bet
ter employed and more loyal to hon
esty, law, order and the Constitutional
guarantees of their county. But here
is the letter; it will be read with pleas
ure:
BEDFORD SPRINGS, Pa, Aug. 5, '46.
An incident has just occurred here
which displays in so striking view
the offensive intermeodllng Of fanatical
lAbolitionisn and the true relation of
Master and servant in the Southern
States, that l will take the liberty Of
relating it to you. CHARLES JAS,
FAULKNER, Esq, of Virginia, who
with his family has been here about
two weeks, brought with him 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 slave became
! generally known, and the spirit of
a false philanthropy awakened inner be-
/. half. From that moment the most I'M
ceasing efforts, all secretly conducted,
were made to seduce her from her al
Ilegiance to her master, notwithstand-
ling her prompt and repeated rejection
of the liberal offers made to secure her
freedom, For four nights in success
sion they had their horses stationed
near the mill, about quarter Of mile
from the Springs, in the expectation
THAT she would yield to their persua-
sions, but SO far without success AT
length the poor girl, overpowered
Eby their opportunities and BY the false
and delusive arguments and induce
ments which they held ont to her, on
Monday night yielded to the tempta-
ton and suffered herself to be convey
ed by them some ten miles beyond
! the town Of Bedford toeNp Ice called
l"the Quaker Settlems4 where she
arrived about one o'cloE IN the morn
ling, and found the 3amil waiting to
Ireceivesher, who hailed her as re-
/ deemed sister, and showered upon her
! profusely all the Inequalities Of their
4 home. She had, however, no sooner
1retired crest than the fountains ofaher
Feelings burst forth ii 4 food of teas,
(which increased as memory sdwelt ,lps
on the happy and contented life which
lshe had led, hder The roof Of herow
|er, apd when she reflected apon tie
'Edark and uncertain fate to which these
/ false and misguided philanshropists
were ilurrying her s he spent ! night