Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-02
SLAVERY UNDER ITS "MILDEsT FORM

The friends of slavery have been accustomed to
refer u. to Kentucky and Maryland, as presenting
slavery in an unexceptionable form, so far as its
more revolving atrocities are concerned. But the
following shows us that slavery can cultivate and
a slaveholding community tolerate the extremes of
inhumanity, even in Baltimore. The terrible edu-
cational influences of the system are also exhibit
ed in the fact that in this case as well as in that
which recently occurred in Kentucky, the iahuman
criminal, was q woman,-a woman moving ''in the
first circles" We copy the account from the
New York Tribune. 1t says:
A few weeks ago a slave, belonging to n lady
long residing in Baltimore and moving in the first
circles, died at the Hospital in that city. lie was
her coachman. During the severest weather he
used to be kept sitting on his carriage box oppo-
site the ladv's window half clad and, rs was we'll
understood to be the case with this woman's SER
wants, half-starved. In this condition the man
suffered and eventually froze. The servant becom-
ing thus disabled and wholly unfit for service, a
physician was sent for, who after examining him
declared that the man was frost-bitten from head
10 foot and must die. lie was sent to the Infrma-
4ry, where both feet were amputated and he shortly
died.
A few years ago this same mans wife, who also
belonged to his mistress, was so badly treated that
she ran away and prevailed upon Slater, the great
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clutches. lie did so; and she was ever after pro-
hibited all intercourse with her husband, who was
kept from his wife t be treated in the manner we
have described. This woman, on hearing a short
time ago that her husband was at the lnfirmary,
went to inquire after him. She was informed that
he was dead. She fell to the floor in a fit and died
in six hours.
Another female servant belonging to this wo-
man also ran away. Her son, a young man, was
sent in search of the fugitive. She was found at
the town of Cockeysville. lie seized her, tied her
to his buggy with a rope, and in that way drove
her into Baltimore (l6 miles)at a rapid rate, with
the woman running ~ the side of the vehicle. 1t
has been stated by some who witnessed the scene
that it was hard to tell which was horsewhipped
most on the road, the horse or tho woman.
Another female belonging to tho same woman
fell from the third story of her mistress's house to
the ground, while engaged in washing the windows
and was taken up a cripple for life. 1t turned out
that her mistress, by way Of punishment, had de-
prived the servant of sleep by compelling her to
pass the night standing by her side, and thus she
fell asleep over her work, which circumstance
caused the fall.
These are facts of recent occurrence and are well
known III Baltimore.
Reader, such is our Slavery in its best aspects /;
as it exists in the heart Of our cities. Such is the
system rs administered by the rich, the fashiona.
Bile and the aristocratic. Does it not strike you as
a system ordained of God, which ought to be al.
lowed to 60 straight into Kansas and all the rest of
our Territories and be in no way opposed or dis
turbed, according to the doctrine of the National
know-Nothings And, reader, is it not a fit sys.
tenn for the widely-circulating newspaper, and the
ss22S.yy commercial journal, of this free City of New
York to defend, uphold and aim to extend? Ay,
more than this. A system which is insolently ad,
Focated among us as being better for tho laboring
classes, better for our free Territories, than one of
universal liberty. Mon and women of the free
States. working men everywhere, what have you
to say to these things? The hour is upon you
when you are to act.--Tfibune,