The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-08-26

dclpllil Il lew evenings since, IN com
pany with our friend g., formerly Of
Winchester, of We were approached
by II little girl who askedus fora pen
ny to buy her mother some BREAD
We had become quite used to such
appeals, but somehow or other,
we felt more interest than usual in
this little melancholy booking GIRL
We asked her where she lived, and
having told US the number and the
street, we asked her to show us thith'
or. AT first she consented but seeing
we were in earnest. she stopped and
bcsitotod. We requested her TO cX'
plain her reluctance when she told Us
that as yet she not 'golmoney enough.
We asked how much she wanted
Fifty cents" was the reply, and she
only had "thrtccn" We satisfied her
want and sped on our way.
Twas not far 10 her home---not home,
but hell. Winding through host Of
narrow alleys we al length found the lit
tie filthy hole, This poor, unfortunate
Girl called home. IN its was her father,
drunken with an article ,hut is sold in
tie glare of MONDAY, amid enlightened
communities. Great God! what could
he worse than to see little eight year
old girl whipped and sent from post to
post TO lie and beg, in order to get money
Nth mhich 10 JHy whiShey! How our
heart is panied when we contemplate the
future Of this little girl living as she does
in that part to be found in all great CT.
ties where virtue is almost unknown
Oh! what an ornament she might make
to society, if properly cared for, but
alas how dark 'her future now seems
Aud hers is but one Of ten thousand such
in our land, all Of whom can trace their
demorIzalion 10 but one ding. Need
we say what it is? Al! the sound is too
familiar, the effects of drunkenness 100
often seen How many wife now lin
gers on The verge of grave dug for her
by the mtemperance Of the one who
vowed in younger and happier days to
love and cherish her! How many a
daughter has been Jagged down the sleeps
Of pollution and inamy, through the IN
Aucncc of rum? Oh!inlempetance, VIII at
fcnd thou art
We left lhi, Il le girl by the side Of
the lfunkarl she cal led father, trusting
that her future would be brighter thar
we had room 10 hope fer Next Day, "
company with Mr. S. and MIR. D. OF Ala
bama, we VISITED the home Of this HUI,
girl, but she was gone. We did no
seek her, for our Oh Jet was TO looh.
We went down to see "niggerdonl' a:
it is commonly called. We viii no
here bIacken our pages with all we saw
no, It's too horrible. On entering ont
street, the name Of which we forget, GU
eyes witnessed as first sight, woman
lying drunk to perfection, with her eye
ali SCARED and bloody, and her hair dis
sheveled. Further on we met some II
or more in like condition. Negros ant
white Iolks-happly no Americans scarce
Ily-were commingled in mass, fighting
cursing and phoming. The police
man whipping an freshman for miSconduc
then turned and likewise inflicted pun
! ishment on a woman who was ours lnl
beyond her limits. He told us that /
kept him thus busy all the tlmo--tha
twas the only law that would do an!
good. or course this portion OF com
munity is aloo( from the respectable, be
ing composed mostly Of blacks.
But we could but think how utterly
destitute and detcstable negros become
when left to themselves. They are no
endowed with capacity 10 govern them
selves and when left free from the in
nuence of the whites, retrogade the low
est point in corruption. God INTENDED
the negro to have IA master, and TO b'
still more convinced of this fact let
person travel north and compare the con
diton of the negroes when left free to ex
ercise their own wills, with the slaves o
the southern men, And yet, strange 10
tell, these filthy pests Of the North tnt
advocates and sympathizers among
class of people called aboliIionisls.-
But still, our opinion has greatly alter