Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-10-20
FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
HENRY BIBR,
w. l.. DAY,
d.. Fl. JENKINS,
a. II. FRANCIS.
From The DeG,oare .7JoliiOnisi.
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Respected Friends:
A few days ago happened in company
with a sorihern lady who had much to say
against sbolitionists foD putting mischief in
the slaves heads. She said slavery was not
hall as bad as the abolitionists said il was
they believe every bad thing they hear about
Shareholders they ought TO colne down and
see for themselves. l replied to her that |
wanted no better proofs of the c~ruelties of
slavery than such as | could see in Southern
papers and gather from people whom ! had
seen from the South, herself among the mum.
Der, as she had a few minutes before related
TO me a most heart-rending scene she had
witnessed in --, in Virginia. II appear
ed to surprise her to think she had been say
Ing anything that an abolitionist should con-
slider evidence against slavery. | told her |
had no doubt of the truth of the story she re-
lated, and should tell my friends at home,
but not half of them would believe me as
they thought just as she did, that they must
not believe these abolition stories. When |
spoke of telling my friends, she thought |
meant to publish it. "Oh my |" she said,
"don't publish it. | would not have il pub
lished with my name for all the world
The case she related was as follows +" Ear
ly one First day morning | was awakened
by the most terrible crying and screaming ]
ever heard. | thought somebody was being
murdered. 1 ran to the window and looked
out and there saw what made my hear
ache; some men were taking a young girI
down to the vessel TO send her of South, ne.
yer to return. She was crying 'Oh my mo-
Their, my mother, my poor dear mother, | ne.
yer shall see her againt Oh my mother,
my mother: Fhis appeared to be her great.
est distress. TO see the poor girl thus drag
ged of was more than | could bear; | had
to 90 back into the house where | could not
hear her cries." In the place where it hap
pened she said the traders always took the
slaves from the Jail TO the vessel on FIRST day
mornings, for fear the people would rescue
them. Fhe citizens were too religious to do
anything on that day, SO that the traders felt
safe in their wicked and inhuman business.
a Methodist preacher came there from New
York who was a lille tinctured with aboll-
tionism. but he had to pack up and go of,
although he was called there. They even
searched strangers if they suspected them Of
being abolitionists. This lady was like
Southerners generally, she knew all abou.
the aboliionists, although she had never beer
among them, had never read any OF their pa
pers, ard would not touch one of them. How
she got her information | cannot tell, bui i
Is a secret way pro-slavery people have o
getting ii, perhaps they obtain it by the un
derground railroad. Abolilionists are no
so much prejudicsd agains, slsyeholders az
that; on the contrary, we like TO see then
among US, like to read their papers and g
among them as much as they will allow US
and sometimes more still with all this dill
ference Of the means of obtaining information
they think they know all about us and thu
We know nothing about them. Ii they knew
hall as much about US as We do about ,her