Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-10
a guarantee against slavery, by the first artl'
Gle amendaiory of the Constitution.
Illustration of American Slavery.

Illustration Of American Slavery.
We copy the following inciden, from a
publication which has lately been placed IN
our hands, entitled a I" Plea for the South :"
1T would be easy to give examples OF the
: tender mprcies' of the shareholders, under
sanction of law but having seen, In too ma
ny Instances, the unwillingness and disgust
with which the free community listen to the
details of the sutlerings of the slaves, ! have
hope OF better success from an appeal TO their
understanding, than from an attack upon their
passions. ct they will allow me In the fol-
Loving little incident, to touch a sympathy,
which, although implanted in youth, reserves
It's tulI frultlOn for the close OF life.
once remained for a few weeks at a hotel
IN the State Of Tennessee. Being in delll-
cate health, my intercourse with the family
came to be on the most familiar terms and
a room was assigned Inc in tie immediate
vicinity OF the nursery, Of which an aged
black woman seemed to be the superlntend-
ant. She was usually sad, and peculiar from
a habit OF eXtempore singing. Late in the
night, | could hear her rocking 10 and fro,
and %utteflng her p%iteous plant. now in the
tone of song, now in the voice of prayer, and
often with signs and sobs.
The nightly repetition of this mournfnl Sc
renade at last induced me TO ask the mistress
the cause of the grief of her aged slave and
| learned that she had belonged to a planter
in Virginia, the father of her present lady,
Early IN life she married, or took, without
ceremony, as her husband, a worthy fellow
slave, with whom she cohabited until the
death of her master when, with the other
property, the slaves were divided among the
heirs OF the estate, she falling to her present
owner, and her husband to another branch of
the family. She had been a valuable and
trusty servant, ard now, Notwithstanding her
age and infrmities, was a faithful nurse
But why does she mourn SOL ] asked. 'Oh,'
said her mistress, it is because she cannot
see her husband. He was old and lame, and
it did not belong TO us TO take care of him,
and so he was left. But she is of no use TO
me, and / indulge her in all her ways; yet
it does seem that she will not try to be hap
py-she is so unreasonable! thought 9th
erwise.
With permission, ! afterwards became a
visitant of the nursery, and sometimes at
tempted TO comfort the poor old negtess,
whom | often found singing, 'Oh! Tazzo,
old man, no see UNI Suk-e-e! All! Tazzo
good man, too old TO work-e-e! Who cont
him woolly head Who wash um iool-e-e
Who cook um nominee? Who mend um
clolhes-e-eF Tell me, aunty,' said !, who
are you singing about?' 'Oh, DEAR said
she, it is my poor ole husband, my poor ole
man y and then she walled and sang, Poor
Ta2zo, oldy man left all alon-e-e" 1 lnquir-
ed if she had left no child rem to console him.
NO. she replied, In a voice so sharp, that l
feared she was about to strike me, Ole mas
sd sole um all, dal's what he raise um Tor,
Crooks and sings, with tears fast ialIlng.) y
Who care for chil'm now? All gon-e-e,
gon-e-e!' This poor woman had given her chill
dren, without knowing the pleasures of a mo-
TIERS love. She had never considered Them as
her own, nor suffered her affections to Irvine
about them. But her poor husband, with
whom she had travelled through ii long life
of servitude, had become the sole object OF
her solicilude; and she declared 10 me, that
she WouH not lice, if they did not let her go
home, and comfort de poor ole man.
There is a mutual kindness and childlike
love between Two aged people under the or
binary circumstances Of husband and wife ;
but with the slaves, in the unusual privileges
Of growing old together, their youthful ten
dernesS rlpens into am all-abSorblng devotion.
Negroes are naturally aflectionate creatures,
and in advanced age kindness predominaleS
over all other feelings, even towards those
who have treated them roughly.
Whenever | think of that poor old negress,
her husband, lame and lonely, is also present
to my view. They will see each other no
more, on earth but may they be united in
that world, where the letters OF bondage are
unknown; where they may realize for their
offspring that regard which the base traffic in
human flesh has denied them here"
We have learned that the poor old negress
died, without having seen again her aged
companion in suffering and sorrow.