Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-02

Ibis weaver. lie does not whip his SER
wants SELLS them down South if they DISC
bey rules. Comment is useless. All argi-
rnent ends at last in what amounts to this
Il like the money and the power, therefore /
will have it,
Whenever the boat stopped at tile banks TO
tako in wood, the woman who owned the
little hoy and the Kentucky "nigger driver"
with many others, must be out on deck cali
ling in sharp tones for "Tom and Billy and
watching, lynx-cycd, lest they should dart Off
into the dense woods, aud so be lost to them.
At my first stopping-placc IA town consist
ing oftwo houses on the river bank on my
way to "Athcns," which lay somewhat in
the interior, was still farther Initiated into
the spirit Of slavery. Capt. p, who kept the
tavern, store and ferry, was in excellent cir
cImstances, as he had the back country pat
ronago without competition. On my ell
trance, little slatternly boys and girls were
ordered in n snarling tone to fly this way and
that, TO open doors aud shut windows, TO car
ry baggage and get out of the way. Even
| the pitcher of fresh water which had been
placed Oh small table between Capt p. and
myself must he poured into tiimbers by
d" Maria" who was called in the lIurshest tone
from the entry to perform ,his friendly office,
which, in any Free State, would not hnyo
been beneath the dignity OF the host. There
was an outdoorislmcss about the people and
the house tlIp, chilled me. AT night was
put to sleep in n chamber usually occupied
| by the heads of the family. There was II
trap door in the WALL communicating with n
dark, comiorlcss hole, in which the servants
lodged and cooked. Not wishngto ovcrhear
the low mono,onous talking | closed the
same, with no very pleasant anticipaiions OF
what this my first night under n slavehold-
ci's roof might augur ] only remember sit
ting up to write express directions that my
| Standard IIarbnger and Tribune should be
sent regularly to me without fail. The large
rooms and handsome furniture were TO off
set TO the ragged slaves and harsh, uriecl-
ing tones in which they were ordered about,
and knew then that could only be So
/ iourner ir land where all that IS beautiful
and excellent in life is destroyed by an all
penetrating sclfshncss.
Even the lonely grandeur of the woods,
through which / must travel many miles,
failed to drive from my memory the unaccus-
toned sound of incessant scoding; and, ar
rived at my boarding place, the same phe-
nomcna presented itself, and after considers
bic observation came TO the conclusion
that from the necessities ofthe case every slave
holders wife was either brawling, viii
ming scod, or n shrewish one. Then sucl
iumbling up of dirt and elegance, such al
entire absence of real home life. Here wal
my host, the owner of fine farm, with two
} strong, healthy daughters, more remarkable
for physical than intellectual life, and three
stout house servants, any two of whom, in II
linois, would have kept house like a pal
ace for neatness and then such an untidl
barn us it was, with its unplaned, uncarpet
f ed floors, ll-ftting doors, broken windows
chimneys receding from the main building
; and-rats; and all this not owing to poverty
or positive ignorance, but more TO shiitless
! ness and an absence of any ambition saw
t that of Sinking labor. 1t was going bacl
, fifty or an hundred years TO see girl pound
! ing apples for cider in hollow log, ouisd
{ the door; the water for washing and all 9th
: or purposes brought from the distance Of tw
: acres, Just for want of well near at hand
9 TO see girl pour pail of water over chan
o ber floor, and then scrub il with gravel an
k corn husxs! Meanwhile the daughters loung
It about in slaticrnly apparel reading novels, {
: dressed in silks aud muslins, figure in con
@ pany and play execrable marches and qnic
= steps on more execrable pianos. The liy'
J. of women who are by position exempi'
4 from labor arc insipid enough in the best
r. ciety anywhere, but where they have 10 a
s sumo the Office of domestic slave-driver al
ut lady all in one, most insipid of all. There
j. no use for, and no possibility OF, wholeson
Or original thought. 1t was impossible to ed
&c cate the children 10 anything noble or bea
= tilul, and the intellect, when not develops
T. through the moral nature or the affection
ut is a nlonstrosity and TO 80 buck TO first pri
nd ciples in morals, as was my custom, makll
as this underlie aud pcrvadO all other teac
"A ings, would bring me ut issue with the |
Id rents to whom they were used to defer
as What could you do with children whose ct
IN lest notions of morality were inheren
If immoral? who had Witnessed from inian
. the most systematic and grinding oppressi
XIV by those who had, in intention at least, i
ell ished kindness OH them; who had seen III
,es and women, by twcntys and fiitys, indiscri