Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-01
vas shameIessly exhibited to the view Of


vas shamelessly exhibited to the view of
he spectators.
Turn round 7 said the body-seller.
The negro obeyed, and his uncovered
body from the shoulders to the calves of
his legs was laid bare to criticism.
Not word, not look of disgust con-
iemned this degrading, demoralizing and
cowardly exhibition.
You see, gentlemen, said the auction
eer, he's perfectly sound and very
finely formed nigger.'
He was sold for S700-about two
thirds ouly of the price he would have
brought, if his masters could have given
him that certificate of soulless manhood
which the Southron style, when they re-
fer to the existence Of the passive-obe- |
dience spirit in slave, a good charac- |
ter
A good name is a very unfortunate
thing for a negro to possess. Idetermin-
ed, then and there, in my future inter
course with slaves, to urge them to cult
vate as religious duty all the habits
which would speedily brand them as men
of bad morals.
These scenes occurred on the 30th of
March, 1854.
We next find Mr. Redpath in North
Carolina, and writing as follows =
The next slave with whom 1 talked
was also a mulatto-one third white blood
The mulattoes are invariably the most
discontented of the colored population.
SLAVERY OR MATRIMONIAL
COLORED CALCULATION.
I've FIVE children, be said, but my
wife is free woman, and they are free,
although l am a slave
OF course the reader knows that by
American law the child follows the con-
dition of its mother. Mother free, chill
dren free; mother slave, slave children.
Perhaps the speediest method of peacea-
bly, abolishing slavery would be to change
/ (by reversing } this law. Under its be-
neicent operations the chivalry would be
transformed into manifold lberators
How old are you ?
I am thirty-seven.
| How do the colored people feel about
slavery?'
Al the eOLOred people Of nsy acquaint
ance (and know them all here) aoould
gladly be free IF they could get their Iib
erty. Say about third have good mas
tiers, and they are not so discontinued, 0
course, as the rest, but ask them at tht
ballot, or some other way, so that they
could express their sentiments withoU
fear, and then you would hear such I
shout for liberty as never was raised be
fore.'
l will omit my questions.
My owner hires me ont to hotels H
, gets twenty dollars a month for me.
clear besides that about two hundred dol
: lars for myself. About ten years since
e took up with this woman
He is speaking Of the wife Of his bc
f som!
e Were you married ?
: 'Oh yes, he continued, I was regular
;. ly married by a minister. They alway
: do it here. The slaves will be marie,
i and their owners make fine wedding {
Il it, but it doesn't amount to anything, b,
i cause they are liable to be separated fc
life at any moment and often is. w
d often thought this subject over
i What subject
About marrying, he said.
u Most men do
- We'll, but mean different. l see,
I hadn't married, / would have been fri
- now; bekaseI would have had a tho
sand dollars by this time to have boug
:, myself with. But it took all I cou
make to get along with my family. We
they're all free my sons ar and I'm gi
ing them as good an education as v
dare give them; SO that, if the time com
at when I'm going to be sold, they may b.
I me-
Mt He sighed, and added
When lam an old man.
E. I asked if he did not think of escapir
m before that time ?
be No. he said, I wouldn't run the ri
,s. now of trying to escape. Its hardly
to much an object, sir, when a mans turn
the hill. Besides, my family. 1 mig
IS be sold away from them, which won't
- if l don't try to run away-leastways /
ng I'm DID,
ne Are the whites very hard on y