Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-23
WHOLE NO.. 542.
From Frederick Douglass Papes
THE BEAUTIES OF sLAvERY--A SLAVE
CHILD KILLED BY ITS MoTHRR.

We give elsewhere in columns, a full report
oi tho particulars OF the dreadful tragedy in Gin,
cinnati which resulted in the death of slave child
by the hands of its mother. 1t seems that she was
one Of party of eight slaves who had escaped
from Kentusky. The brave fugitiyes weru p1r.
sued soon after their departure and captured after
the most desperate resistance. The frantic mother
hnding that she and her little ones would be CAP.
tured determined they should never return to the
house of bondage, and with a butcher knife COM
menced the work of death. She succeeded in kill.
ing but one of the children, though she states that
1T was her intention to kill them all and then her.
self, 2reierring DEATH to Slavery. And nov,
while in prison she constantly avows that she will
never more be slave, but will take her own life
whenever an opportunity presents ITSELF Her
husband and parents also declare that they would
rather die than he replunGed into the burning hell
Of Slavery.
What a commentary upon the "blessed" realities
OF American Slavery, Republican Despotism Fourth
ol-July democracy a slave mothei on tho soil
OF the Free" States, hunted like the wolf and res,
cuns her little ones from the grasp of her pursuers
py delivering them into the jaws Of Death prefer.
ring to see them weltering in their hearts blood,
rather than to see them slaves ! And this is the
land OF the free, and the home of the bravein
What terrible protest have we here against the
Internal enactment, which allows the hunting. of q
poor ana defenceless mother with her little babes
whom she prefers seeing locked in the arms of
Death. than in the clutches of the tyrants of Free
anu DchoCIdtic AHlerlca Inc act OF tins des-
pairing slave mother, is vastly more expressive
than tongue can tell Of the wrongs, and cruelties.
and mlseres Of Slavery. How perfectly happy
and contented the slaves must be in their'normaiI
"lleavenappointed" condition Where is Rev,
NEHEMIAH ADAMS, of "South Side" notoriety 2
Here is q hne opportunity for gazing upon u North
Side picture Of the "Patriarcha1 Institution.U
Let him gaze upon it, until his eyes are red with
weeping, and heart oer6ows with penitence And
then let him gather every number of his South
SIDE view" and burn them at the base Of RunksS
Hill.
The name of this brave slave mother, the heroic
act which she performed and all the circumstsnees
connected with it, will never be forgotten Uistorv
tells us OF a Roman maiden who was sacrificed by
her father in order to preserve her chastity The
deed has been immoralized in verse; music paint.
ing, history oratory, the drama all ALL have kept
the ashes of the Roman Father, glowing as it were,
in eternal beanty. And so shall the name of this
heroic slave mother never die. The wide, vida
world" will do her homage. The poet will gather
inspiration from this Offering Of blood to tho god
dsss OF Freedom; History will hand down her
name to the latest generation. Yes MARcARI7,
THE SLAVE MOTHER. will furnish inspiring
theme for the painters pencil and the poets sopg
She will not be viewed q muyderess but as
heroine, who loved her little babes too we'll to be,
hold them slaves and therefore, fed for refuge to
the grave aye, to the graye-for "there the serp.
ant rs free from ms master. and the rOice Of tde
oppressor is heard no more" 'Ht
Sloep on, child of the Slave Mother No blood
hound will e'er be upon thy track Thou art freel
Sleep on The cruel ask master cannot reach thee
in thy secure abode. There are no whips or chains
or Shareholders in the place where thy spirit dwell.
eth. The voice Of thy blood crieth unto Heaven
from the ground. Sleep on Retribution is on
the wing.