Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-05

service imposed upon me. You may imagine
therefore, how glad wasiwhen about dozen fam
lilies of liberated negroes came and settled in oui
vicinity. They became my favorte resorts in cases
of emergency"
"If anybody wants to have a black face look
handsome, let them be left as | have benin
feeble health, in oppressive hot weather, with a
sick baby in arms, and two or three little ones in
the nursery, and not single servant in the whole
house to do single turn. And them if they
should see any good aunt frankie coming in, her
chest as big and stout as a barrel and her hilar
Gus, hearty laugh--perfectly delighted to take
ones washing and do it ut fair price, they ,coud
appreciate tie beauty Of black people,"
"My cook, poor Eliza, was regular epitome Of
slave life in herself fat, easy, gentle loving and
lovoable; always calling my modest house The
Place as if it had been q plantation with seven
hundred hands on it. Her way of arranging her
kitchen was at first like Dinah's, though she i'm
bbed our ideas more rapidly, and seemed more
ready to listen to my suggestions than did that
dignitary. She had lived through the whole sad
story Of Virginia-raised slaves life. She must
have been in her youth very handsome NIulatto
girl. Her voice was sweet her manners refined
and agreeable. She was raised in good family,
as nurse and sempstress. When the family be-
came embarrassed, she was suddenly scld to be
sent to plantation in louisiana She had often
told me how, without any warning she was forced
into a carriage, and her little mistress
dow towards her she driven away. She
has told me of scenes on the Louisiana plantations,
and how she has often been out in the night by
stealth, ministering to poor slaves who had been
mangled or lacerated by the whip. From Louis
lana she was sold into Kentucky, and her last
master was the father of all her children. On
this point she always maintained a delicacy and
reserve which, though it is not at all uncommon
among slave women, appeared to me remarkable.
She always called her master her husband, and
spoke OF him with the same apparent feeling with
which any woman regards her husband; and it
was not till after she had lived with me some years
that discovered accidentally the real nature OF
the relation. | shall never forget how sorry felt
for her, nor my feelings at her humble apology
You know, Mrs. Stowe, sldve.Won,eh can't help
themselves She had two very pretty quadroon
daughters, with beautiful hair and eyes-=ihterest-
ing children, whom had instructed IN she family
school with my children"
"Time would fail to tell you all learnt incden-
tally of the slave system, in the history of various
slaves who came into my family, and of the work
ings of the underground railroad, which | may
say ran through my barn.
Speaking of her labors in the complication Of
the 'Key to Uncle Toms Cabin" Mrs: Stowe
SAYS
II must confess, that until commenced the ex-
animation necessary to enable me to prepare this
work, much, as [ thought l knew before, l
had not begun TO measure t1e defdA Of TIE d6ysS.
Th g Laws Records of Courts, and Judicial
Proceedings, are so incredible, as actually to make
me doubt the evidence of my own eyesight, and
fill me still with amazement whenever think of
them. | suffer extremely while writing these
things. 1t may truly be said, write with heart S
blood l am pressed above meas sure, and beyond
strength. This horror-this nghtmare--th abom-
ination Can it be in my country? 1t lies like
lead ON my heart, it shadows my life with sor-
row The more so, as / feel as for my own broth
ers of the South, and am panied by every horror
I write as one who is forced by, an awful oath to
disclose in 4 court of justice some family dis
grace"