Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-25
Mis1filaneons
FRANCES WRIGHT.
uEs EFFORT 70 DEMONSTRATE 1uR iMroLIcT OF
SLAVERY.
From o Memoir BY Amos entert

mistaken in this, Tut she knew Of no facts to sus.
tain her position. She believed that the slave
might become a free man without loss to the own,
or, and be Il gain to society, Ill as much as IL Wouiu
add another man.
After collaborating a year she resolved to make
an experiment for this purpose. She purchased a
large tract Of wild land in western tennessee
and thirty slaves, male and female. with their
own consent) She drew up q constitution CT sys
TEN of regulations. By this article, every slave
was charged with his price ii the bill Of sale; then
with boarding and whatever articles OF clothing
he required. and credited with his labor. Auy
over york or extra care and management was care
fully accredited; labor was rated at usual prices,
and articles Of consumption at cost. a portion OF
each ddy was appropriated to the giving and re-
ceiving Of instruction. When the credit balanced
the debt account in the case of any slave, he was
free. There were other regulations, but these may
suffice.
Having thus arranged matters, she conveyed the
real estate, the slaves, and the personal property
by a deei Of trust to herself, her sister; Robert
OSen, r. L. Jennings and Lafayette, with the an
rexed condition. that as fast as the slaves becrnne
free they should be trustees and owners with the
rest. Having completed tho arrangement they
went to work.
Il was not to be anticipated that ole born and
bred in the lap Of wealthy aristocracJ who prooa-
bly, had never kneaded bread, churned butter, or
perchance put a stitch in a garment, should, with
out the pressure OF necessity, voluntarily turn
woodman; or that an enlightened, refined female
thocld forcgo the pleasure OF intelligent inter
course, and conGne herself TO the society of uncut
,:yatod, undeveloped minds. But she did it, aud
might have been seen with her swarthy .oonnpan'
ions, piling brush. rolling logs, &c, &c, from ear
~ dawn 10 du.ky eve ASS specimen OF her ap-
~plication to business she has left in the morning
twilight in search of their COWS, and returned in
the evening twilight, having trayersed the forest q
whole day without a mouthful OF food. Several
times' she went alone on horseback from Nashoba,
Tenn, to New Harmony, Ind through a wilder
ness country, with several rivers Of sw
depth. Once she fol Il in with two men who had a
blatk man in custody. After some eltercation,
she took the black man behind her and repaired to
the Office Of q magistrate to ascertain II he were
legally held. The risks she ran on these excur-
.iOns were less than might he supposed Tor she
was o first rate swimmer and equestrian.
Her physical frame though strong, was not equal
10 the duties imposed upon it, and she broke down.
Her physician ommen u sea voyage as the
only restorative. She made the voyage, and in a
few months returned sufficiently recruited to re-
sanc her ayocations. Admonished by returning
symptoms and the counsel Of her physician, she
abandoned the enterprise and went to New Hai-
mony, Ind, the location of Robert Ovens Comm
nifty.
Ii would be desirable TO say more Of the Nasho-
ba experiment, but there are no satisfactory data.
1t is believed that it worked as well as the most
eanguine could have anticipated; and it is further
believed that if the founders physical strength had
enabled her to prosecute her plan, il would have
been successful. She was neither a practical ag-
riculturist or housekeeper, but she supplied the
place of both by her zeal in the cause; and her en-
ergy in acting for its promotion. When she LETT
for New Harmony, she placed the concern in the
care Of Mr.. Whitby, her sister Camilla's husband.
lie was NOT deficient in interest, but he was not
animated. Great force of character was needed
for the prosecution of such an enterprise.
Though that was not accomplished which was
contemplated by the founder, it proved the sinceri-
ty Of her advocacy of human liberty. 1t also
proved her consistency. Many talk well of hui
man rights as set forth IN the Declaration of Amer
lean Independence, and rest content with the mere
advocacy of the doctrines; she was not a plender
Of abstract rights; she thought tho liberty breath
ing words of that world-renowned document were
not meant as a rhetorical flourish, "'that it was
not SO intended by those who uttered them in 10,
and ought not to be so now; that they announce a
verify, and ought to be acted out irrespective Of
sect, sex or color, or any incidental circumstances
over which the individual could exercise no con-
troll. She did not free her slaves because they
were black; but because thcy were aen and tcomem.
What other lover Of freedom. even if an abolition
Isl, has made such sacrifices?
DISTORTION OF her NEGRO. COLONY.
Having lectured and written until her views
were pretty fairly before the public, her srmpa-
tli5s were excited for her poor dependents
at Nashoba. She went to them, and after stating
that she had bought them that they might be free,
(,ud still determined that they should not return
" NANF ! cav '4HASt ANA w 'A 80 N0'fS ANstssO''
regarding what was best to be done. She told
them the grounds of her objection to the COLOMBIA.
ton seheme, adding that in the prejudice Of color
there was an insuperable obstruction to their ele-
walton in this lard, bat that in Hayti they would
BE with equals, and have their share in the govern,
mcnt. They we're pleased with the proposition,
and she negotiated with the authorities of the is
land for their settlement. She applied to B.. Lun-
dy to my them, but having suffered q sad
domestic bereavement recently, on a like occasion
ln A.olfna1 S1a Iparr N Otbar ~, n N in tla m
try in whom she could conGde, and SO decided tC
e. herself. There were earnest remonstrance
against her going, such rs that those seas were
dangerous, &c, &c, and that she could do a worl
here that others who could go to Hayti as we'll al
eLe could, could not perform. Frances admitteC
the truth Of the positions, and force of the argu
,nents, but she felt il was right and would there
fore go.
She chartered a vessel for $1,000, and told tn
captain that he was at liberty to take any amour
Of freight that would leave comfortable accommo
dations for herself and family. lie did so.
The ~Ilaytians showed her due respect, settle'
her people handsomely, and made a consignment
Of COTE to New Orleans, which was intended t.
cover the expenses Of the voyage. 1t would hay
done il, had not the New Orleans c~onsignee cheat
ed her ont Of the whole. After seeing her free
men and women comfortably settled and pleaset
with their new home, she sailed for New York
A few days after her landing, Colonel Stone pub
lished n slanderous report of the whole proceeding
~ Hfs hlhs I. ~ Sldtel lDNl sue nlu ono slave AM
bad iaiuced twenty.nine free persons TO profess ;
10 slaves fnI effect; the voyage was q fine specula
tion, the hagtians having RENTED the dutie
amounting to $4,000, topped out with an insi lua
ton that IL purse Of 100 doubloons had been han
dei over as an equivalent Tor her familiarity witt
the president and other dignitaries. 1t so happier
cd that the bills of sale were not destroyed, an
tic custom house receipt in the captains nam
MAS also in her possession, With these and othe
unacceptable documents she waited on the colon,
next morning. requesting their publication. II
could not refuse, but he never again ran bimse
into n similar difieulty. This was the only /,
atante in which Frances repealed a elander, n,
would she then but COX othor than personal re
sans.
eg1AlE LAwYERs.-The Lily states that Nj
Emma Il Gee has entered upon the regular pra
tice Of Law in Philadelphia. Elizabeth You
has engassdm the same profession. at Lowe
Mass. and q. young lady in Pittsburgh, an c
change sta'ess IA vigorously prosecuting legal stu