Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-07-28

py. Now there is powerful memory
asking for utterance, and
Your question has put me to think
ing she exclaimed, as she drew her
delicately slippered feet up on the sofa,
and clasped her arms about her knees.
in an attitude Of easy confidence. Il
was born and brought up in Vermont.
At fifteen years of age. l grew dissat-
isfed with what seemed the dull rou-
tine of housework, and went to Lowell
and entered a factory. Being a quick,
ingenious hand, ] made good wages,
and at eighteen had laid up enough
on interest to help me to 60 to Mount
Holyoke to school. Father was not
rich. but he did what he could for me,
and at twenty-five left the institu-
ton with a good name and pretty
good education. / soon got a situa-
tion as teacher in my native State.
taught two years, and then went to
Brattleboro' to spend a vacation
There / met Mr.. Warder, who was,
as you may guess, captivated. be-
came his wife, and have spent four
years in tine South, enjoying every
luxury that wealth can procure. and
the highest degree Of happiness that
the most devoted affection can bestow
My husband is kind to his slaves TO a
fault; but he can not deprive them OF
any thing that they wish, because he
feels that all they demand is not an
equivalent for their labor. Still, he
does not see how he can better their
condition, and / try to think they are
better of than if free. You see how il
is: we don't see how we can help our
selves. But all this is irrelevant to
the question under discussion.
Your question sent me back into
the past, and l do not remember any
thing worse that ever happened in the
neighborhood where | lived than the
severe whipping of hired girl. My
father was justice of the peace. and
the woman who committed this offens,
against the peace and majesty of tn,
good State of Vermont was brough
before him, and was present at tn
examination. The little sufferer
dress was removed, and, though bu
one night had passed. only few re,
marks were found upon the little body
The child was taken from the inhu
man wretch, and fine imposed whicl
was heavy to bear, for the woman wa
poor. do not recollect now that
single person in the town took side
with the woman; even her own broth
ers censured her severely. and said n
child ought to be bound to her. for
was sure to come out bad.
Now said she, let me tell you
tale of horror. Hannah, put dow
those curtains, and shut out this beau
tiful spring sunlight. feel as thong
| could not talk with the glare of ligh
in my face, when such black deeds ar
I to be told.] Just after l came Soutl
[you may so to the kitchen. Hannah,
> one of the daughters Of Colonel Stros,
/; who lived in splendid mansion ju.
outside of our city, and was countc
the richest man in town, lost a dit
mond ring. The ring was Of gre,
e value, and of course its loss create
great excitement in the household
Miss Julia remembered distinctly
having laid it in her casket on a ce
e tain evening, after ball, and no OF
/. knew where she kept those things b,
$ her mother and sisters, and her mai
Myra, a pretty mulatto girl of abo'
! sixteen. Myra was very fond of dres
and had often spoken her praises,
most lavish terms, OF the sparklir
gem on Miss Julia's finger. After a
due search had been made, she WI
;, called up and questioned. but deni,
any knowledge of the affair. Colon
5 Stress, who was called hard maste
>; told her, in the most peremptory ma
:, ner. that if she did not find it, s
should be punished for her carelessne
- in allowing her mistress's things to
stolen, as she had nothing else to
= but take care of them. This so frigf
ened the poor girl, and her langua
was so incoherent, that the convict
at once settled on their minds that S
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