Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-21
From Frederick Douglass papnr.
A FATHER SOLD BY A MEMBER OF a
SOUTHERN CHURCH.
RoUNDsToNE, KY, Feb. l6, 1857,


FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Dear Sir:-Some of our
Kentucky anti-savery men are anxious TO see a
sample Of your paper, and have requested me to
write for two three specimen numbers. | have
had the pleasure Of reading your Bondage and
Freedom" to several of them and they are Curl
Gus for furtheJ acquaintance.
| do not know how familiar you may De with the
fact but it is doubtless matter of interest to you
that there is a Christian anti.slavery movement
here, which plants itself broadly and fully upon
the ground of the equal brotherhood of the black
man, and, in the name Of God, Of the Bible Of
Christianity, and of all that can legitmately be
called lap, sternly and unfincLingly demands his
immediate and unconditional emancipation. 1t is
ainovement, too which proposes to stop not short
of the total annihilatiOn Of the mean and wicked
prejudces against his colcr. 1t toerates negro
galleries pews in its churches. and where it gets
the power, invites the black mans children, on
equal terms to the same school with their lighter
skinned neighbors. We have, in this country n
house built for school and meeting house, with
the express condition that mo person shall be de-
barred from school or church privileges account
of color" and in this house school is in progress
which both proposes to receive, and actually does
receive colored persons. This movement is un-
questiona5ly working though, of course, gradu-
ally, marked change in the minds of the non
slayeholding class in many sections of Kentucky.
The shareholders, an almost universal rule are,
of course, too deeply interested pOcket-wise to be
Influenced until ut will pay, or until the stern
grasp of la,c shall be laid upon them
A few days since, two slaves living in this vi
cinity we're sold TO the slavetrader, to be taken
down the river" One of them had wife and
children a neighboring plantation, and the 9TH
was torn from his parents, brothers and sisters,
The first brought eleven hundred dollars. His
master, who had been brought up with him from Il
boy, is a member "in good and regular standing
in Southern Church. But the clink of that mon.
ey was more to him than Christ, or conscience
more than the intellect, affections, hopes and i'm
mortal destiny of nothing but nigger;" and sc
the Southern brother" let him go. lie sent the
poor man to town for n sack of hGur. When he
reached the place, the pirate" who had bought
him, stepped up, and slapping him on the should,
or, said, boy, you belong to me-" The poor soul
reeled backwards, and, lifting up his hands in an
agony of CONSERVATION. groaned out, "Oh, Lord !!
what shall do p "What can you d0?" taunted
the heartless monster, with horrid imprecation.
Handcuifed. he drove HIM off. On the way, he
PASSED the plantation where lived his wife and
children, all that lay between his soul and the
desoaton of utter despair. For a few minutes
he was allowed to stop, and bid thom final fare
we'll. 1t is said that their shrieks and iamenta.
tions were perfectly heartrendng. Such is one
of the scenes Of this Internal den Of horrors. where
human hopes and hearts are crushed every hour
as coolly as a man can pocket money.
Yours, truly, U. b. w.