Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-21
From the n. V Tribune.
THINGS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Friday, June Is, 1856.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Friday, June Is, 1856.
Please present my compliments to the gentle
man of the Mississippi Free Trader, and also my
sympathes on account of the very unpleasant
and unpalatabe fact, that somebody" in the midst
of that de iectaSe community will tell the truth,
and have it read too by the million readers of the
monster" papers Of the country. A pleasant
time may we have, in this "search after truth"--a
novel cruise to some people.
There is one thing you Northern men quite over
looked in your reasoning upon the vexed questions
Of the day. You really seem to think that the
new-fanged notion of the earth's revolution is
true, when every man can see for himself and know
that he isn't turning summersots every day. Reas-
Oning on just such false promises you would try
to show that South Carolina is not *hc centre
of the globe, and that New York and all the rest
of creation must not, by inexorable law, perform
their mazy dance around it. The sooner that
crotchet is got out of your heads the better.
Would you like jotting or two from the chval-
ric State? Perhaps the conductor of the Mercury
will huter like his Mississippi brother.
In my travels about the State have picked up
some facts with reference to the working of the
peculiar institution" which ii may do we'll to keep
before the people,
Some few weeks ago, in the town of Chester,
York District, slave took it into his head to ab-
sent himself few days from the scene of his in
cessant and unrequtted tol-perhaps to his
mily-perhaps to recruit his exhausted strength.
BE that as it may, on his return Ia voluntary re-
turn am told) his brutal overscer seized upon
the poor wretch, and beat him till lie died ON the
spot The murderer left for parts unknown (per-
haps) and the miserable farce was enacted of get
ting out rewurd for his apprehension. Whoever
expects that it will amount to ANYTHING more,
probably reckons without his host. The chvalrc
South Caroliniah must let the world know that he
doesn't tolerate such abuses, but then you know
1t is rather delicate business to punish an over
seer for over-zcal in doing his duty or for happen
ing to misjudse in regard to the size of his cudgel
or the force OF his blow. Chester is on the rail
road from Columbia to Kings Mount where there
is to be grand celebration in October in commemo-
ration of the battle fought there in Revolutionary
t;mes-and to which celebration President Pierce
and his Cabinet are to be invited hear. Wouldn't
it be in keeping to send for Boston D. ID. to
oficate as chaplin on the occasion ? Perhaps the
company, by making diligent inquiries in Chester
might learn something further wherewith to add
10 new edition of the Southern Side" the
argument for "Squatter Sovereignty" as illustated
in Kansas.
One more case An old gentleman in Spartan
burg District; few days ago tied up servant
. girl for the purpose of fogging her, when her
mother who seemed to have some OF mother s
instincts at least, intertered; theroupon the en-
ragged master ordered slave to hold the mother,
and sezing bar of iron he aimed n blow at her
which had not the slave released his hold, thu;
allowing the woman to avoid the blow, must have
killed her outright. Renewing his attack with
the same wee pom, sho seized an axe to defend her
self, and her son coming to her assistance she
killed her master on the spot Mother and soI
are both to DC hung next month for not controlling
their maternal and tlia instincts in the first place
and then Tor saving their own lives, even at tht