Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-02-27
A MOilerr, POrtia.
SIS this dagger which see before me,
The handle toward INV hand ?"

The handle toward my hand 2"
| Lucy SToNE-whose husband is named BLACK
| wELL-has been making speech in Court at
| Cincinnati. During the argument Of Col CHAM
BEERS, counsel for the Kentucky negro catchers,
| he commented upon Lucy STONES singular re-
quest to the Mars al, that he would permit her
Lucy-to give the slave mother knife that she
might destroy herself in case she was remanded
| back to slavery. Just at the conclusion of Col.
C's argument, Lucy came in and permission was
| given her to reply. She preferred not to speak
at the bar, and thereupon, when Court adjourned
which it did very soon-the meeting was
called to order, and Lucy STONE took the plat
form, and, as reported by the Gazette, spoke as
follows:
am only sorry that was not in when Col.
Chambers said what he did say about me, and
about my giving knife to the poor woman who
has just gone out returned to town only yester-
day or should have been here during every day
of this trial. When l came her and saw that
poor fugitive, took her toil-hardened hand, and
read in her face deep suffering and an ardent
/ longing for freedom. | could not help bid her be
of good cheer told her that thousand hearts
were aching for her. and they were glad one
child of hers was safe with the angels. Her on
ly reply was look of deep despair-of anguish
such as no word can speak.
Thought then that the spirit she manifested
was the same with that of our ancestors to
whom we had erected the monument at Bun
ker Hill-thc spirit that would rather let us all
go back to God than back to slavery.
The faded faces of the negro children tell too
plainly to what degradation female slaves sub
nit. Rather than give her daughter to that life,
she killed it. If in her deep maternal love she
felt the impulse to send her child back to God,
to save it from coming woe, who shall say she
had no right to do SOP That desire had its root
in the deepest and hottest feelings Of nature
implanted alike in white and black by our
common Father. With my own teeth would tear
open my viens, and let the earth drink my blood,
rather than wear the chains of slavery. How
then could blame her for wishing her child to
find freedom with God and the angels where no
chains are
know not whether this Commissioner has
little children, else l would appeal to him to
know how he would like to have them torn from
him; but I feel that he will not disregard the
book which says: "Thou shalt not deliver unto
his master the servant which has escaped from
his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee
even among you, in that place which he shall
choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him
best"
After talking with the slave woman, l talked
with her master, (no, 1 cannot say her master,
for one is our master even Christi l told him
that these were heroic times and that this he
roic action of his slave might send his name to
posterity as her oppressor-or if he choose-as
the generous giver of her freedom. He said aft
l get her back to Kentucky, mean to make her
free"
After she had concluded Col. Chambers rose
and said that he was authorized by his client to
deny the statement made by Mrs. Blackwell that
he would free Margaret. He said when he got
back to Kentucky, he would consider whether he
would free her or not.
Mrs. Blackwell repeated that he had promised
her to free Margaret and said this was an eva
sion. He had told her just what she stated.
The meeting then dispersed.
Mr. BLAcKwELL's Lucy STONE has got the
Macbeth grit in her, for readers of Shake
speare are familiar with the spirit of that re-
nowned character. who, although she knew
chow tender tits to love the babe, yet, under GER
tain circumstances, would snatch the bread-and-
butter from its "boncless gums, and dash its
brains OUT Cleveland Herald.