New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-10
SLAVERY IN BALTIMORE.

We are often told Of the comparatively mild
form in which Slavery exists in the case of do
nestle servants. We lately published a state
ment from Kentucky, showing in what diaboll-
cal manner this class of slaves-and those fe-
males-are treated by persons of the greatest
wealth and enjoying the highest social distinc
ton.
That story has ELECTED another of a similar
character in its general features, exhibiting
ease of barbarity of treatment at Baltimore,
where if ANYWHERE one would suppose such
occurrences as we are about to relate to be inn
possible. But our information leads to the
belief that instead of being so they are by
no means unusual among the slsvehclding aris-
tOcracy.
A few weeks ago a slave, belonging TO lady
long residing in Baltimore and moving in the
first circles died at the Hospital in that city.
He was her coachman. During the severest
weather he used to be kept sitting on his
carriage-box opposite the lady's window half
clad and, as was well understood to be the case
with this womsn's servants, half-stsrved In
this condition the man suffered and eventually
froze. The servant becoming thus disabled and
wholly unfit for service, physician was sent
for, who after examining him declared that
the man was frost-bitten from head to foot
and must die. He was sent to the lnhrmary,
where both feet were amputated and he shortly
died
A few wears ago this same mans wife, who
also belonged to his mistress was so badly
Il ,bat h. and nraxaiaI
Slater the great slave dealer, to buy her out of
her MISTRESS clutches. He did so; and she was
ever after prohibited all intercourse with her
husband, who was kept from his wife TO be treat
ed in the manner we have described. This wo-
man, on hearing a short time ago that her hus-
band was at the Infrmary, went to inquire after
him. She was informed that he was dead. She
fell to the floor in fit and died in six hours.
Another female servant belonging 10 this wo-
man also ran away. Her son, young man, was
sent in search of the fugitive. She was found
at the town of Cockeysville. He seized her,
tied her to his buggy with rope, and in that
way drove her into Baltimore DC miles) al rapid
rate with the woman running by the side of the
vehicle 1t has been stated by some who wit
messed the scene that il was hard 20 tell which
was horsewhipped most on the road, the horse
or the woman.
Another female belonging TO the same woman
fell from the third story of her mistresss house
to the ground, while engaged in washing the
windows, and was taken up cripple for life.
1t turned out that her mistress, by way of pun
ishment, had deprived the servant Of sleep by
compelling her to pass the night standing BY her
side, and that thus she fell asleep over her
work, which circumstance caused the fall.
These are facts of recent occurrence and are
well known in Baltimore.
Reader, such is our Slavery in its best aspects;
as il exists in the heart of our cities. Such is
the system as administered by the rich, the fash
ionable and the aristocratic Does it not strike
you as a system ordained ofGod which ought to
be allowed to go straight into Kansas and all the
rest of our Territories and be in no way OPP
posed or disturbed, according to the doctrine Of
the National Know-Nothingsl And, reader, "
1t not fit system for the widely circulating
newspaper, and the godly commercial journal, of
this free City of New-York to defend, uphold
and aim to extend Ay, more than this sys-
TEN which is insOlenty advocated among US as