Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-27
I~nhumanitr Of Shareholders.

FRIEND JoHNsoN Much has been said,
and much more written, of the wrongs infic-
ted on the poor slaves, and it seems, much
more needs to be said, and pressed home to
the hearts of a guilty and temporizing peo-
pie, before they will be constrained to feel for
those in " bonds as bound with them" Two
years since, some of the readers of the Blu
gle will remember, | visited the land of whips
and chains, and gave at the time, in that pa
paper, an accomt of some of the wrongs,
witnessed by myself, which are daily heaped
upon the slave. will give now a sketch of
an incident which occurred q few miles out
in the country from Memphis, Tenn, l have
it from my friend John leighton, now of
Edinburgh, Portage Co., Ohio.
well remember the beautiful christmas
morning, when the slaves were allowed to
bring their. little things to the market, TO buy
some humble present for their absent wives
or their intended companions, whom they.
generally visit during christmas week, unless
they are far removed. While l was observ-
ing these things in Memphis, John leighton
was witness to one of the most shocking out
RACES that was ever perpetrated upon our
race. l am panied while / write. He was
in the employ of Colonel Clifton, of Upton
CO., Tenn. Clifton had been ~admonished by
his Father and Mother, in early life, not TO
become a stakeholder; yet the temptation
was too great; he owned slaves, and among
them Jack a house carpenter, who was
building his master a house. Fortwo months
previous to christmas he had worked night
and dav, in order to finish it on or before that
time so that he could be at liberty TO visit his
wife, who had been sold from him, (by his
master, | Think and whom he had not seen
for two years. !! though he had promised TO
visit her the year before this. His master left
to attend a celebration of the Sons of Tenn
perance, a few miles distant; blasted hope
filed Jacks mind with dispair; it required
one week more of labor to finish the house F.;
he said he could work no longer, and would
leave to see the wife of his youth; he coun-
seled with leighton, and then with his mis-
tress, whose sy%mpathies were moved in his
favor, for that day he did no work nor could
he,' ,cho in the manu- Of God, could? In the
afternoon his master came home, bringing
with him his brother and other friends
Jacks complaint was set before him by
Mrs. Clifton and leighton lie heard it i'll
silence, repaired to the barn, and got a rope,
told Jack to cross his hands, took him a
few steps from the house to a tree, tied him
to it, and gave him THREE HUNDRED
LASHES!!! Such was the power of the
Stakeholder, that his brother, his wife and
daughter, and all, were silent, though she,
stakeholder as she was, she'd many tears
Yet this man was accounted one of the finest
men in the place! Friend Johnson, this is
but a single instance; ones heart fails to
give utterance, and my pen refuses to record
further. TRUMAN CASE.
RANDOLPH, Oct. 8, 1849.
p. s. You wanted | should give some ac-
count of meetings which we hold. This is
my account: John Jackson, a fugitive slave
from KY, and myself, held a glorious meet
ing in Edinburgh on Sunday last, (Oct. T.,
and we intend to continue the work. He
carries on his person the mark of the whip,
and large scars oil his leg, where hounds
have seized him, being set npon him by his
master, James Morris, of Mayslick, Masor
county, KY, a deacon in the Disciple Church
in that place. This man reads the Millennial
Harbinger, published by A. Campbell, which
pleads the cause of the " current reformation
of the nineteeth century,!
Yours. to eXnose yyrOnp. II. C..