New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-23

Rev. j. w. II gginson. in call for funds 10
sc; family Of slaves liberty. gives the following
touching history We and IL In TEE Worcester (Aass)
Spy;
Abou, thirty years since c, rtsn esniyratet
from & town IN this State TO Augusts, Georgia Like
many New England men, he soon eecsnie sisseacider
Ike msly EC tick for his ms " C. one Of ma e,avcs.
he huh house for her, aud visited her frequently sao
Wa a. int III ent woInGn, was wei acqaan ed Win he
business afsir, and hsd good desi OF mineace over
him
TLey had four chillren-tA.ec daughters and son.
He supycsied them and treated lhem as his ehltren;
the educated f1;n>riin, and occainc qase
skhul These fact. were = nerly known IN tie com
nuny who're they lived, and these statements IN iact
came nom that quarter IL commonly supposei,
however ly thOse who knew the iaiher. that ne nad
mace viii emsncipsung his children AM their mother,
ard leaving hs property 10 thon Tae family declared
that he intended coming North very soon, live here
viii them But Ae did ssddsrlv (ke 81 Clair in Uncle
Tony No riN ras JoSsd
80 Ear, ii Is no uncommon series a events.
der the peculiar Institution. But comes the
starting point, The chldr,n and their no,her BE-
CINE course the property OF the hei OF the f<her
-four III mt relatives. idng in Massachusetts, aud
Nes-H. npshire. The southern nj 0ors touched
BY the o the case, and represented them
70 the Northern heir Taechlircn were sttse mercy
VIVA, said those heirs Thy sold As no'hsr asd call
dreH ssydfase " auction, dsa diridsd ne Proceds
L,tne, however, be Ju.t ~ t1clh Tlree " the here
cnce s;sucd PAPER hbc siing The family. Tae fourth,
who held hs share in ri ht OF hi- vile, promlse by his
vies death bed 10 SIGN the paper It's wife died, and
he tlen refused The other heirs yieltet, made no at
tempt redeem se family and took their snare OF the
money
Have seen that man whose avarce thus sentenced TO
bouca. snd wre;cheiness The children Of the Individual
wi oee D. opcrty tel tus strangely into hs hahdS lie
lOle TIE outward aspect of man, bui Col hal wrrn
a terrible rctrauti upon his shameful lips ani down.
c.et eye visited him eighsea months ago, IA company
with that slave mother, AMI never saw anything more
path, tic than the WY q AZ haze covered before inc
ust iudignson that wronyed W man: IL seemed the
forcsh1dowmg OF some trr ble Day OF Jud men, when
the black shall iise up be ore the AngioSaxon aud
point he finger OF eternal refroach, AMI say Taoa art
the MI
Fortunately for tbs wFstshsd family, they were all
bought ~ auction by benevole man; he bought
them In hopes that the heirs might yet reieem them or
rather he bous the woman another man paid u 40
for the son Since then, by the noble efforts Of the
mother snd daughter (eicd Ivy heir, who advanced
5000 the son has bee liberated AMI Is now In Calor
MIA But that mother and those daughters are still in
slavery.
An effort IL last being made for the release OF these
women OF the fous heirs, one Is poor and can pay
nohing: another (the guhies reuses TO do anything
al Other promises 500; the fourth died some years
SINCE leaving s00 in q hands OF trustee who Is now
roor ind utterly unable to pay H-thoagh IL may
possibly be recovered from n bonisman The family
have been all wed by their master to accumulate 500
tow ard their freedom Aud there has been subscribed
in the neg torho0d where the father Of thae children
originated about $500 This leaves $3.50 b. DO raised IN
add top before the whole Of ST. 400 can be pail;
unless (Which Is improbablc) the above bequest be-