Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-12
ONE OF THE KIND MASTERS.

themselves, we copy a part oil Mr. fhihP > Gun
munication. We should be glad to accompany Mr.
Philips statement with that of some OF his human
chattels. They might differ with their kind mas
ter, both with regard to what is good for them, as
well as with reference to their supplies. The mod
del master sends his slaves to meeting but not to
school.
Can our readers guess any reasons for such sim
gular discrimination They have bacon and dane
ing with their preaching, but how many ~foggings
per annum, by way of relish, the master does not
tell us, perhaps, he would have us infer that like
milk, (" they are prohibited, especially to chill
dren." If so, Mr.. Philips is a singular as well as
"a kind master. Most of his class think that fog
ging gives not only variety, but a relish to "pot
liquor and bread"
Mr.. Philips says:
We now have in this estate, les acres of land
on this place are &C negroes, 90 work-horses and
mules, 5 yoke of choice oxen.
We plant go or $50 acres in cotton, and lbs in
corn.
We send to the field 81 negroes, old and young,
rating them at 80 hands have | carpenter a
woman who cooks for the above with all children
in charge.
There arc women, l boy of II, a girl of Z, and
. small boys of 3 and 4, (which have been rather
puny to endure ordinary trcatment) about the
nOuSp, AnDlutE NDlluh anu hoiiNo WI
oyerseer, belonging to him). Thus 10 are deduct
ed from the sc, leaving SO, who get, weighed ont
daily, % to "a pounds of fat bacon. OF these, 3
are children from . months to 6 years old. In ad-
dition, they have unlimited access to vegetables
and meal. No cooking %pcrmittcd in negro-houses
all cooked by the cook at her house, 81 by IL,
with large brick chimney and brick oven. | do
not know what meat each one gets, only that all
are satisfied. prefer that children should have at
dinner he ~D0t-1iguor and bread, with not much meat,
GrJ;,, on, ol;I1ron o-a bo,1tLior Wn nhurn frI
butter every day, negroes getting all sourmilk but
excluding from children. .
We have an overseer at 5000; we furnish meat
and bread for himself, wife and three children, a
house with two rooms and passage, a kitchen, store
room and hOrse-bed. Our rule is, to eat breakfast
before going to work from middle of October to
march, then an hour for dinner in the summer
they take breakfast out with them and eat from =
to I, come to dinner at -. About LIST of May all
hands stop from II till 3 o'clock, at which time no
thing is done unless to wash babes by mothers, this
is incoming.
We give two summer suitg and a straw hat, two
winter suits, a wool hat and two pair Of shoes a
blanket worth 50 every two years.
All wood is hauled for fires in winter and for
cooking washing done every Saturday afternoon
by all the females; all clothing made by house wo-
man. Cistern water used entirely.
We lost one of our best fellows II year ago. His
death was caused by q mule, though he lived for
months after the injury, not having his mind, or
able to 60 about and three children born at Il birth,
not living an hour. This comprises all deaths for
some five to ten years. Our children arc as hearty
and as saucy boys and girls as can be shown any
where.
We require all negroes to attend family worship
every Sabbath morn an eve-at the latter time an
hour is spent in instruction by myself, or frequent
ly by some visiting preacher. They all are requirr-
cd to attend preaching one Sabbath in each month
q miles of, and can go farther another Sabbath
if they desire it. We permit no wives or husbands
off the place, require marriages with a proper cere-
mony, always providing partners.
Our women with young children come to the
cook-hOuse to nurse their children at breakfast ut
%, IL, and in the afternoon, Incoming of course
excepted. rs they are then in, but always three
times a day, besides the noon.) Each family has Il
house l6xlS, brick chimney, and house two to three
feet above earth.
Many negroes here have as comfortable quarters
as any man would need, even to sleeping between
sheets. My carpenter is employed at home. We
make corn and meat usually. For twenty-three
years | have sold more of each than l have bought
by a fair margin.
We might make more money by Il different treat
mcnt, and we might spend more money on our ne
groes, if we would listen to questionable friends of
neither negroes or ourselves. We act from princi-
pie, and never cared to shape our course to please
man. have examined much into the treatment
OF slaves, having some twenty years ago practiccd
medicine, with an opportunity to see how different
diet and treatment affected health. Half pound of
sound bacon, with vegetables and bread in plenty,
and cistern-water, is, in my opinion, a certain pre-
ventive to disease but the cook must be watched,
and water carriers noticed. Negroes fed on three
quarters of a pound of bacon and bread are more
prone to disease, than if with less meat, but with
vegetables. Negroes never become above children;
they will expose themselves to rain and cold night
air, and to anything that children will. ] have
known anegro to eat n pound of meat at a meal,
eating scarcely any bread and others 10 eat
scarcely any meat in the summer but to use milk.
Milk diet | find to be unhealthy here, and have for
some ten or fifteen years forbid it to children par
ticularly.
We do not permit negroes to stir out before day,
nor to get wet, if possible. nor do any night work,
save feeding horses and Smelling corn. We allow
no swearing, calling harsh names, wrangling, nor
aEy encroachment on each others rights. We
give a day, OR a halliday holiday occasionally dur
ing the summer, two to four days at Christmas,
and n dance when the young ones desire it. No
work done yesterday or to-day, having had to work
very hard to get out of the grass, and working so
faithfully without trouble, We gave two days holt
day. Although very hard work this year, owing
to so much rain, no grown negro has required
more than calling his name, and telling him to
hurry. Our present manager has been here three
years, and in the vicinity another year.
| have written thus freely to let many of your
readers see that all negroes arenot treated here as
many would make out. | believe | could show
families treated much better than my cwn is; but
my own know all the circumstances, and are as
well content as any labOrers are on this broad
earth. | have seen negroes and white laborers
there in New York and in Pennsylvania, and know
that these negroes are as well clad, rs well housed,
rs well fed and happier than those in New-YOrk
and Pennsylvania, taking them as they come,
whom | saw. l write not to please, having moth
ing to gain by it, nor with any expectation of adj
ding one mite to the happiness Of many of your
readers who make themselves miserable by trying
to attend to other peoples affairs. | belong to the
southern wing of the Democracy and have nothing
to ask for. Yet | would desire that all my fellow
citizens of this republic would work for the com
mon good, so that we may fulfil the great object Of
our mission-serve God with fidelity,
saw more restitution in Philadelphia in the
winter Of 1898 than | have seen in the South in
forty years. have seen a negro in Philadelphia
buy one cents worth of wood. / never saw negroes