Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-01-14

rearages are paid, except at the option of the
Publishers
Mrs. Swisshelm on. Slavery.
SalssHELm, now editfessso Of The
isisor iiyes lAes Ias
~ d llc6 81 III
sssIsI Oh M A i 81 pobaloas sssahern
.Jass oSfssslis fs sW fisasIheln, ,hot ID i
HaIds @h6 was fsFeafsned with a coat Of
tar and feathers in Kentucky. and this. is
hta for delivering q stump speech-at that
tirae We had not written q line for publicaa-
tibn, and as little Thought we ever should,
op:.yhat we should deliver public lecture
on Any subject ftwas for expressing our
opinion IN d parlor, ia presence Of a dozen
Sersons, most ofthem gentlemen, and when
opinion had been asked: but il was not
Souiherner who uttered The chivalrous
thg1dt wss renegade Philadelphian,
~hrosof fpnteered to act Spaniel on the oc.
casiot1, Some Kenfuckians agreed with
Sim, tlfdt He wese 'acff1al IN danger Of
psssoahl sviafe l tE d Missiisssiipp ppian q,
p0s0gk = l6F fRss zafd Sc admitted
to exist, on the ground that there was act
aalsdangef 10 the permanency Of their in.
stitutions, if persons were pefinittedto ex:
press such opinions as we did. We told
hfn, in answer, that if the.r institutions
stood on snch rotten foundation that a
woinaI rs breath could blowihea over they
had better stund from under, lest the fubrc
Should fall and crush them. We made il
APPOINT never 10 force our opinions upon
any one, but whom il was inquired how we
liked the place. as every Kenluckian was
sure 10 do, we told him plainly, and never
but ia one instance, met with rudeness. =
From that short residence in Louisville, We
formed our opinion, and could. never tel
half how much we hate it. Almost every
one admits il TO be an evil, and Southern
legislatures must be very yoor managers
when they cannot devise some way Of re-
tisavitIg it. sss4 -. . = ..'' %. -
- ,xera goi,H 6 when there. in .appsa &
ance not more than eighteen, and had been
brought up ma country village. where we
bud faTcied ourself somewhat of a belle
and beauty. We had run wild in the
woods, with company or without, as suited
our fancy talked philosol by with our benu
n we had one, or give him a bit of sugar
and babe him 60 home, as suited our fancy,
and nobody questioned our right to do SO
We knew nothing about any city but Pitts
Surgh, and we sometimes weri to church.
staid, very deinurely, came home with our
gullan, if we liked him, or slipped off 10
our lodgings alone, OF with some female
friend, wi.ftzlt any reference to day and
night. But when we went 10 the South
we were enslaped, imprisoned, forced up
by d SET Of conventional rules, that they
told us were the resslt Of their peculiar in.
stitu.ionss Wedare not go to the pump
to drink, if we had 10 suffer ever SO much
ior thirst, in waiting until the servants
Our hostess, n Kentucky lady Of the ole
schaol, would have tied as 10 a bed pos
fiFstas We might walk alone in daylight
insany place in the square bounded by
Market and w alaut streets, First and
Eighth; but the suburbs, with its beautiful
walks, groves, and private residences was
forbidden ground When the sun was
tairly down we were forbidden TO go to The
door without protector, or outside the
charmed square with one. We could moi
go out of door without being stared out O
countenance by Kentucky gaIiantry.-
Our hostess said it was because the gen
tlemen had nothing to do, knew we we're {
stranger, and looked like a grown up baby
We dare not go to housekeeping, and dt
our work, for oh lack day, a white wo
man to work! Nobody but the Dutch dit
that. We almost wished 10 be Dutch o.
black, or to be anything that would make
us less of q slave. What q time we put in
like squirrel in. flour barrel, and how
intensely we learned to berate your insti
sutions, Mr. Ploughboy. -....-....
"A few days after our arrival gentle
man came to our boarding house, and tool
rooms for himself and wife. When they
cume, whispers were circulated in all part
oftheh house, as to the probability of thei
being married. We were overwhelmet
with astonishment, but soon got used to sucl
surmises about every stranger, and learned
after while that we had been taken fo
a arunaway school girl, and our bigger hal
a.stray German. ..Baron, Spanish Smuggler
Or Texan Ranger, wha was hiding from
some of his other wives. One could no
eosout Of a window, or stand in door, 70
fear Of some masonic signal to somebody
Every third woman was spoken of as
suspicious character, and as for the mer
aiaey had no character at all. The neigh
Dor over the way, who lived in the han'
some brick house with double parlors, ha
a great big, ugly, black woman' tor h
vile, and was raising family Of his ew
children for sale.
That nabob, little up the street, had
family Of dark brunette daughters, ,aneJ Just
many Of blondes. To each one Of II
blondes he had presented one of the br
netles, gust as he would have presented P
xties. The mother Of the dark girls wi
were by far the handsomer, he had sold
amctaon for eight hundred dollars. A
Irishman two squares off beat his blat
r,an to death, in open day because he W
n 4 :. ~