The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-02-01

tulation Of the man-monger, and the threat,
accompanied with oaths, declaring that his
master would " sell him South" If he did
not 20 with him-then this keen retort, "let
him send me TO h---if be can am sure
could not fall into worse hands than yours
possibly, il we had not little children Of our
own, we might describe to you three little
boys, (if we were going into this description
in DETAIL about four, FIVE and half, and
seven years old, brothers, and beautiful, not
wi,hstanding their blaeknes, whom the man
monger wanted to hire out, declaring he
would not sell them, Though several wanted
TO buy the three togcther,) as they would
bring him more money To raise them: and
when some one expostulated with him for
separating such little fellows from their
mother and from each other, and il only
caused him to say ''away with your,blarney, y
I'll have 1880 apiece for them in few
years." we wont attempt to describe the
struggle il cost us to prevent telling him II
he did not repent he would have seat in
the lowest hell ''in few years, )" and COM
pound interest in the mean time.
We might speak of an aged and venerable
woman, probably ninety, who said she could
remember Washington distinctly-that her
! first husband once held his horse-that they
sold him 1.-THE husband not the horso) and
carried him South, " away back yonder -
that they sold her second husband ga little
farther on, land her third ''many years ago,
and they had sold all her thirteen children,
50 that she had not one to lean her dying
head upon-that she had nothing but Massa
Jesus loft.
We might speak Of the living horror and
burning agony with which we heard for the
first land We pray il may be the Tasty time
the grating, hellish sound (no, not htLhsh
for there is no such work in belly Of th,
auctioneer, crying, with the voice ola man
but with the heart of a iiend AMI the con,
'scicncc of an ostrich "Only eight hundred
dollars for this sound, healthy boy, seven
teen years old, warranted sound, and gooe
disposition TO boot-only eight hundred dol
lars, who says nine?"
We might refer to the encounter we had a
we Jeff this .'dcn" with one Of the " lions''-
the impertinence with which he demanded L
know what we were there for and ordered u
to give him upour notes and our reply tina
we had further use for them Ourselt-hi
charge that we were d abolitionist
having come there 10 take notes and repor
lies 10 the NOrth-and cur reply and promise
and his impotence among the rest (which
promise we will fulfil at some future time
IL we do not lose our nOtes)-his blusterin.
assurance that we were "in n dangerou
placc'-and our reply that no doubt tina
poor, sobbing girl, who had just been SOLE
20 one man, and her brother TO another
wonld agree with him that il rds ga dan
geroussplace our assuring him that if h
. expected to triyhtR or sell a JuLl-Jioodec
white man, he had walked the wrong custo
} mer-his inquiry for our name-our reply
giving real name, residence, present business
&c.-his "Ah, indeed''-"Happy toseey you
sir''-"Why had you not gotsome Southern
gentlemen TO have introduced you''-our re
} ply that we were not ACCUSTOMED to follow
the lead of Southern gentlemen-his Begging
us to pardon his inpcrtinence-our repl.
that we would certainly do so-these and I
host of other incidents, we say, five has
time TO develop, and YOU had space, ant
your readers had patience, might fill two o.
three columns of your paper; but as yot
and we are hard up for time and space, (dOn'
know how it is with the patience of YOU
readers,) we will close by saying that W,
were filed unutterlbly full Of indignation
by the scenes we witnessed, and wc thanket
God that there are some men who will stlnC
Iup in the present Congress and give theil
voices and their votes against the extension
of this " sum of all yillanies."
DANIEL"