The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-11-09

he was, deem it lest not to tempt him
to put his threat into execution. lie,
therefore, thew the piece Of wood he had
taken up, to the floor, aud turned his at
tcntion to Saxton, who was now in the
hands of the other apprentices of the
shop and tue journeymen.
! Served him right muttered one Of the
latter. i would have done the same
Flesh and blood couldn't endure forever
the insults and expressions of that fellow
/ Frederick heard this, and cast CRATE
full look towards the journeyman, which
the latter saw, and returned with glance
of encouragement.
/ The blow which had told with suclr eff
feet upon the head ofSazton, was severe
one His sholder was severely bruised,
and his head badly cut, 1t was ten min
utes before he was restored to animation,
and then lie was not able to stand. In
about half an hour he was well enough
to walk home, but it was ten days before
he was able to 90 to work. Many and
cruel were the threats given forth both IN
and out Of the hearing Of young Marshall,
to none Of which the latter made any re-
ply. These threats were never put into
execution, however. Saxton had reused
the lion once, and had no wish again to
feel the weight Of his armed paw. Nor
was he the only one who was reluctant to
kindle up the fire that slumbered IN the
young mans bosom. Bellrose himself,
hard-fsted, brutal tyrant as be was, felt
that there was in Frederick the courage
to resist to an extent that he had 20 wish
to encounter and he had sense enough to
know that, having once been driven to
use the power within him, he would not
shrink from doing so again, if pressed to
extremity. John Lamb, or Jack Lamb,
as he was called, the other apprentice,
who had oppressed most shamefully the
lad, while he felt that he was too weak to
resist, did not again venture to encroaeh
upon the rights of Frederick, although he
talked very largely Of what he would do
if he were in the place Of Bill Saxton.
From that time the condition of Fred
erick Marshall was no longer one OF ac-
tual suffering from the crueties Of those
around him; and yet it had in it much to
fret his mind. Bellrose bad never cloth
ed him we'll. This had always been a
source of modification to him, as it pre-
vented him from going into such com
panv as he liked, on Sundays. lie would
not associate with a class whose garb was
too sad anindex of their depraved char
acters-he preferred rather to stay at
~. 10 n yrn
attended church regularly, but his mother
could not persuade him to 60 in his
coarse, ill-ftting garments. She would
have bought him Sunday suit herself,
, had it been in her power to 90 so, but 1t
was not. At eighteen, Frederick felt
still more keenly the want of such cloth
, ing as would enable him to 60 into respec-
| table society. But, in his slopmade
, roundabout, coarse, blue cassinet panta-
| looms, and rough shoes, be could only
f venture forth early on Sunday morning
t to 90 to his mothers house, and return to-
: wards ten o'clock atnight to the dwelling o
his master. The food which was spread
before him and his fellow apprentices wa
: of the coarsest kind, badly cooked, and
n often uopalatable, even where hard worb
t made hunger a sweetness. In the shop
. or at the building, he was overworked
o and at home, when work was done, ther,
e was no place where he could sit down Il
quiet, except the kitchen or garret.
c Notwithstanding ali these dlsagreeabl,
/ things, and the absence of all chances fol
o improving and elcvating himself, Frcder
0 ick looked upward instead of downward
His brutal associates in the shop and gar
D. ret could not brutalize him. There va
power. within him, power like that re
a siding in a compressed spiral spring, an'
the moment pressure was removed h
ii must rise. Daring the last three years o
d the young mans apprenticeship, he ar
d piled himself, at every leisure moment, t
1T the requirement of all the information
architecture within his reach. He stud
t. ed drawing at night, in the gaTret, Will
h the other boys were in the street, an
sketched plans of buildings that surPrr
lg ed his fellow-apprentices, by their correct
" ness of proportion and beauty OF deslsi
W At last Frederick Marshall was IRE
ID from the slavery to which be had bee
of subjected for more than eight years. I
r slig ght misunderstanding occurred bet"ee
him and Mr.. Bellrose two weeks befor
nc bis twenty-frst birthday, which was mad
s the ground of refusal by his master
as give him the freedom suit of clothes
which be was entitled by his indcnture
Some advised him to sue for them, bt
Y he said
a "No: ar done with him; aud wi:
il never again to cross his path. This
* but small wrong to the many | have +
X ceiyed from his hands. 1t has bee
th wrong and oppression from the first
On 1t never seems to occur to persons III
r. Bellroso that boys in the course of te
- years, become men, take their places
he men in the world, aud have to be me
nd dealt with, and treated as men, III ever
lie way equal and often their suPeiiof'
nd such thoughts do ever cross their n'no
IN. they appear to forget that boys have mer
~ = ories, and that the wrongs suffered III DO
:, ~ hood arc remembe wildly in mar