Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-12-23
warnings that none but mothers heart can

Ittl, were tD Dt SUM anu separated AWAY II
cruel Servitude, never more to know the en-.
dearnentS of maternal love. All The ties oi
consanguniry and friendship were to be-
severed for life, and the miserable objects Ia
he sent from the place here all their hap
py associations had clustered, away Ia the
fever and ague swanps of Mississippi, on
the barbarou> cotton fields of Upper Texas.
| And such an outrage upon hunlaniry was
to he perpetrated in open daNS =. a
Christian city, and witnessed, ye PEI xS.-..ied
| by hundreds of witnesses. Omen caiT. mo
! ~ realize the atrocious fact. ny neceSSN
ireest country on earth, aud ipr nore.4ie-
teenth century, was u scene traps MILLshat
would have disgraced the timtt % or
CaIigula. 1t is no dream of fakNEh And
yet no avenging hand is put frI o'-'<'' al, the
Outrage. The work goes ons
! The next two victims are r., 'e1, Vile
sged man and his wife, who fst.2 :, Merselt
twenty-five. They were not II be sold 10
gether, for they would not hiring so much
money as if sold separately and moreover,
il seems the design of every one who has
anything to do with slaves To discourage and
deatlen all the domestic loves 10 which the
human heart is addicted. The, young wife
was first questioned in this manr n, that she
might perchance recommend herself:
How old are your" j
Twenty-two."
"now long have you been = afried'"
"Three years" ~
"How many children have ysp"
"None."
And rs she made the last reply IN a sad
dened tone, the tears started to her eyes and
she turned beSeechingly To her husband for
protection. Upon this the Iue>tioner, too,
turned ferociously towards him:
"You william, you, have you lived three
years with this young wench without her
having any children!"
Now the true man was seen, although
bound in letters and trampled in the dust.
With form erect aud folded arms, and with
dignity that might have lent lustre to
Othelo himself, he calmly replied:
"We have had one boy, but God took
him."
The fact that the woman had been the
mother of one child, and that was dead, was
the reason for the low price of two hundred
dollars, for which she was knocked down.
She was purchased by n Red River planter,
10 he turned out into the fields Ia hoe and
pick cotton. The husband was afterwards
sold for seven hundred and fifty dollars, To
be sent Into the swanps of Tennessee as IA
wood chopper. The two were separated,
never more to meet in this world. 1t is ex-
pected that husbands aud wives thus parted
will form new connections, rear up new
families, and perhaps he again sold and di-
viied asunder. Thus are the hottest at the
institutions of heaven rendered void 10y the
management of men and thus are pour ig-
lnorant slaves made To commit the si,ls that
are denounced 10y all moral and civil law,
and by the direct command OF God.
| The last spectacle was as much as we
cou!! bear. We thought of our own deep
domestic loves-then three thousand miles
away. The love and the sympathy of the
wife so entwined into our own SOUL that no
fate in time or eternity could separate the
two whose existences had become one life.
The cluging fondness of the little ones,
who will not be content with II separate ex-
istence, but insist upon being part OF the
Parent still We left the tcene, but the an
guish of that separated pair followed Us it
has not ceased to follow US since. There
was the memory of their little log house
upon the river side there was the place of
their early love. as they had been reared up
together on their wealthy owners piauia-
ton; from thence they had entered the pre-
ciucts of the church, and before God, aud
III TIE Upit IpTtllS ID Tue
they promised To take each other 4" for bet
ter or worse, for richer or poorer, in sick
ness, in health, TO love and To cherish, TIL
death should part them, according 10 God's
holy ordinance" There was boru To- them
IA Lttle boy, who had gla llened their hearts
and then died and there, hard i,y, was his
little grave, over which they hal wept to-
geIher, aud only would be contorted M be-
lieving that God had taken him. In that
last long lingering look was crowded the
gathering "reminiscences of all the happines
they had ever known IN lite.
In cloisIg this sketch allow Us to say that
we have seen slavery IN every form. We
have cunyersed with slaves, slave-owners,
sldye-speculators, and those ho would have
mining 10 do with slaves. We have looked
at il politically, morally, aud reiIgIously-
aud perhaps may hereafter give our views
FROM each point of observ We eau
only sa, now that II Is difficult Ia coIupre-
bend the enornity OF the evil, airI that ~
the work OF emancipation Is required much
care and consideration. 1t possible, the
philanthropIsts OF hath North and South,
oi the " hole country aud the " hole civilized
world, should WORK harnoniOusly together,
that the time may he fastened when slavery
shall lie no more.
Distressing Casualty.