New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-23
SLAVERY AND WOMEN.

The Wilmington Commercial replies to our
last article on Slavery, North and South, - but
introduces little that is new and important
except the following on the treatment of Fe-
male Slaves by White libertines at the South
AS 20 the next two items, they form class Of inn
moral,es which Mrs Stowe glosts with. apparent
IT, mercural ~ fondness We are sorry 10 see them
alluded % by The Tr5HRe because the Editor knows,
ought 10 know that their practical operation here s
unirequent as at the North. We never knew Of n
Of compulsory lceutOusness Of this sort and do
not reeolect q hearing of one having happened
among us-all accounts of such doiugs come from
the North"
1T an old proyerb that there are none
SO blind as those who cont see" That the
South is one vast charnel-house of sexual licen-
tiOusness, is perfectly known to all who unite
opportunity With inclination To ascertain the
truth; yet We presume one who tries may
even live for years at the South without know
ing it, Our contemporary, we are bound to be-
lieye, is ignorant Of the denominations that
exist all around him; but ice are not and We
feel bound 10 be guided in our action by our
knowledge rather than by his ignorance. We
travelled through Virginia in 1885 in company
with mississippi oyerseer who openly boasted
of and cLuckled over his triumphs in subject
ing the enslaved girls under his control TO the
tratiOn among many of system which prevails
wherever there is any necessity for resorting to
force. Mrs J E. Swisshelm, Of the Pittsburgh
Saturday VisiteT, in a late letter in reply TO
Mrs Julia Gardiner Tyler, among many facts
Illustrating the denominations Of slavery which
came under her notice during two years res
idence at Louisville, Ky, (where the system
exists in its mider FORM gives the following:
There became scqusinted with lady to the man
ner born, who used 70 tel me her csuses OF sorrow.
One OF these that che had brought her husband
large fortune which he had squandered in common
with his own and reduced her 10 comparative poverty.
second was the loss of waiting maid welding gift
from her grandfather Tbs Girl she described beau
tful tai and straight arrow with hnely moldei
form and decse features, hAir which fell 10 her waist
II natural rngles and large, soft eyes, The mistress
very proud OF her little maid, but once, during
short absence Of the wife the husband and master had
by whipping AMI threatening, compelled the gir, then
ten yesTs old become MS perainOur For four years
she kept the girl 10 her family knowing the relations
sustained 10 her husband, and also knowing they
wholly Involuntary on her part she looked % her mis-
tress for protection from her masters brutality and
corcing 70 thf mistress own account abe bad eUdeay
ored 70 protect her but IN vain. Then 10 her
words I got could not bear her in my sight aEd
she got ssucy, sol cold her 10 90 down South with Ia
dy, and only got hundred dollars for her. Two
years SlfeTwsTd she up here with her usTess snd
she hGd grown tel hardly knew hers ine look.
ing girl a. ever you saw, and they say she easy
worth two thousand dollars.
This Is q very brief history Of number two o. Mrs.
IS great and ncurable sorruWs. Number three was
that sbsoheor uncle had died ntestae. Sic had been
his fsvCTte ni6ee and be had always promised togive
her two bCys-'tSo beautiful bows she assured me
a. ever had set my eye upon They were his Own
sODs-tkeir mother mulAtfo slave whom he hsd CON.
PEELED by Imprisonment starvation and stripes be-
come his mistress She had resisted almost 70 the
desh because she Lowell e low slave whom she wished
70 marry. The masters vigorous eou-.ship prevailed
ard sbe became the mother OF the two beautiful BOYS
who were 10 have been Legacy 70 Ms. -. she died
Of consumttin while her children were quite young
and their faber bad loved them very mlch Il hs
affection fOr them which had prompted bis bsaerolesf
intention 20 give them % bis aTorfe uiece but death
game suddenly, ana they were sold aid divided with
the rec; Of the estsre.
The LADY who told me these part. -alzrs Of her fam
Nv history was 4 regular member u the Methodist
Church-a prsyiDg won4n- Sxd her qUiverIrg up AMI
cleuched hands che spoke Ct these matters len no
room to doubt the Truth Of her story, II bad not
been corroborzisd BY all the circumstances % her life
aKd the testimony Of others yet this woman defended
the institution of.Slayery With much zeal A. Mrs Ja
ha Gardner Tyler and with precisely similar Argu-
msnts She VIVA = native OF keLEucky. Her whole lie
hsd been spent there and abe had conception Of any
other state OF society She te persoray injured bur
quite unable 10 trHcs that injury rp Is
source, While the strange u1bs Of ideas in her mind
about he unprvtected s.ste u female ssyss-her bitter