Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-16

| dollars, at any time, will briug bereavement
upon botli,--a double bereavement, ho q
widower, and she widow, both still survi-
wing. Their life, at best, is but a life Of con
cubinuge even that concubinogc, which
though not founded upon lawful contract,
has still something like conjugal fidelity in
it, and therefore n scmblance of virtue but
a various aud vagrant concubiungc, trnver-
sing the circle of oyerseer, master, masters
guests aud masters sons. The fate of the
children born to the slave mother, you all
know. Those ohiectsupon which all mater
nal affections meet and glow as in focus,
nre torn from her bosom, like lambs from
the flock when The shamblcs are empty.
And as to those females who are young,
sprghily and handsome -
Charge me not with indelicacy in touching
upon this theme. Ioni soil qui indllp pense.
speak not TO fasiidious cars, but to the pure
in heart, 10 whom all things are pure. ]
speak of eternal vcrites, before whose mas
siye force the heart ircmbles aud bows itself
as reeds before the tempest. 1t is the gros-
scst and most shameless of all indelicacies
to patronize and multiply vice, though pusil-
laniuiiiy IN exposing it,
AS TO those fenales, say, who are young,
sprigltly and handsome, whom God has
damned with beauty OF form and beauty OF
oce, because they only attract tie glouting
eye Of Passion, who can describe the lonth-
someness of their liic ? They arc ripencd
for the New Orleans, or for some other nnr-
ket whence Southern harcms are supplied T;
as, under the Mohanmedan religion, white
Caucasian beauties are sent to the slave-lnarts
ofihe darker-skiuned Turk.
In that company of seyenty-six persons
who attempted, in 1918, to escape from the
District of Columbian in the schooner Pearl,
and whose officers | assisted in defending,
there were several young and healthy girls
WHO Ind those peculiar attractions of form,
of feature and of complexion, which South
crn connoisseurs in scnsualsin so highly
prize. Elizabeth Russell wns one Of them.
She fell Immediately into the sIavc-traders'
iangs, aud was doomed for tho New Orleans
market The hearts of those who saw her
aud lorosaw her fate were touched with pity
They offered eighteen hundred dollars to re-
deem her, and some there were who offered
to give, who woHld not have had much left
uiter the Gilt. But the feiid of a slavc-tra-
der was inexoHblc. He knew how lie could
lransnute her charms into gold through the
fires ofsln. lie demanded tweniy-one hum
drcd dollars, (though for meniul services she
wotfld not have been worth more ihsu four
or five,) and would take nothing less. She
was despatched to New Orlcans but when
about half way there, God had mercy upon
her aud smote her with death. Perhaps,
iorcseeing her fate, she practiced what under
such circumstances, we might call the virtue
of suicide. There were two girls named
Edmundson, in the same company. When
about to be sent 10 the same market, an oldS
cr sister went to the shamblcs to plead with
the wretch who owned them, for the love of
God, to spare his victims. lie bantcred her,
telling her what fine dresses and fine ilrni-
ture they would have. "Ycs," said she,
" that may do well in this life, but what will
become OF them in the neXt?" They, too,
were sent to New Orleans, but they were ai-
forwards redeemed at an enormous ransom,
and brought back. There was one girl, who
after her recapture in the Pearl, was sold six
times in seven weeks, in Maryland and Nir.
ginia, for her bcauty's sake. But she proved
hcroically aud sublimcly intractable. Like
Rebecca, the Jewess, she would have flung
herself from the loliiest buttlement, rather
than yield hcrselfto avillaiu. Nutwithstand-
ing her masters prctcnco that they had
bought her with their money, and owned
her soul, yet she had wealth, which, "though
clrysolyte," it could not buy. She was part
ed with and came TO New York; and have
been informed in the most authentic manner
from the lady of the very respectable family
of which she became an inmate, that, on an
examination other person, after the healing
time of the journey had passed, her body
was found scared and walled with whip
marks, which the villains inflicted upon her
hppntrQn cha ,,O m tl,nir oil
Now, suppose sister Or daughter Of yours,
of this heroic soul and spoiless purity, should
find herself in the way 10 New Orleans; sup
pose, by almost super-humnn power and
udroitness, she should escape, aud should
thread her solitary and darksome path, for
hundreds of mile towards the North Star
should lie down IN cavcrns, with poisonous
reptiles by day, and pursue her lonely jour
ney by night, finding the beasts of the forests
TO be less terrible than man should swim
rivers, aud keep off famine by roots and in
sects, until at last, thanks Le to God, she
sets her manglcd and bleeding feet upon the
soil of freedom. Perhaps some echo of the
fame of the Pilgrim Mothers has reached her
cars. She has heard of Boston aud its noble
women of old, and she hies hther as TO a
city of rcfge,-as 10 sanctuary where vir-
tue has an altar, and where she can lay down
her hunted and weary body, and be at rest.
Fulacious hope The lecher pursues his
prey and he is here. lie goes TO some Clos
sin lawyer who sues out a warrant. lie goes
to some Jack Ketch who serves il. The VIC
tim is seized, at midnight, under some lying
charge, aud she is carried before some Com
missioner, whose conduct, wero he quasi
Judge, as lie pretends 10 be, would he enough
n make every hnir of the iu1icinl prmine
some papers are read of which she never
heard, and then a Judgment is pronounced
that her "labor" is "duo" to her pursuer,
land such labor!) that she "owes service" TO
him, land such service y and then the Com
missioner delivers her INTO his arms, and
pockets fee which common pimps would be