The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-02-11

discussed, whom a horsoman galloped up to
tho enclosure, and announced that tho no.
groes then exposed for sale had beon stolen,
and that tho rghtful owners were in pursuit,
and already in sight of tho place. Blu: u
moment elapsed before a carriage arrived,
containing nm elderly gentleman and lady.
tho latter, as tho sequel proved, bcing tho
true owner of the property in question:
The meeting between that aged mistress and
her devoted servants, was both amusing and
affecting, and can DO bottor imagined than
described. Tho almost frantic delight of
that tnothor, who was about to be separated
forever from n portion of her offspring,
would, in somo Christian lands, DO taken as
conclusive evidence that she was pomdn,
and knew something Of the joys and sorrows
of human mothers heart.
| IIe who doubts tho forvoncy and con-
stancy of the negro character, must havo
boon struck by the enthusiasm and sponta'
ncous outgushngs Of native joy, evinced by
those oppressed and untutorod victims of
that unfortunate edict, "Cursed be Canaan"
However much may be said about their
mental infcriority, close observation must
convince any ono that attachment to each
other and their suporiors, whom kindly
treated, is among tho strongest character.
s,ics of tho negro race. Tho indignation
Of tho trader at being thus foilod in what
no had hoped to accomplish before de-
tocted, and the litigations which followed,
wo mood not relate.
Tho facts OF tho incident thus hastily
presented, arc as follows: Tho old lady re-
ferred to, and the rightfu owner Of tho no
eroos, had permitted friend to take thcm
from tho State whore she resided, to ono OF
tho Western Slave States, for the purpose
of growing cotton in more fertile country
and tho supposed friend, by sort OF Snug
glipz process we'll understood by that class
. of mon, had transferred them to trader
, who had removed them, rs ho supposed, be-
= youd tho danger of detection, and was sepa
rating and disposing Of thom, without rogarc
u IN kindron tics. tho laws Of his country, ol
his Maker, and, but for tho timely HrriVa
( of tho intorposing parties, might have con
signed thom to tho worst relationships ant
y conditions of system of oppression which
in its best phase, has littlo to mitigate tn
sulforings of its victims,
Such is but ono incident of life OF sorv'
y tude at tho South and, whiio tho contom
} plsted wrongs of this instance may hav
boon defeated in q manner almost providen
tial, many parallel casos arc consummatoo
' and tho OWLS eithor directly or Indirect
" growing out Of tho Interstate slave trad
" now going on in our land, arc numerous an
- distressing. Scarcely week passes b.
during tho Fall season of tho year, but sou'
% of tho steamboats, ascending tho soutl
y western rivers, bear to now homes of TO
u' and sorrow, large numbers of oppression
'o victims, whose sufferings, even while bor
=" thus transpartcd, though perhaps but lit
-, when Compared with tho horrors OF Il
~ "middlo passage from foreign countr
y, arc greater than ought to find tolerance AT
protection in Christian land.
Suppress the commerce in slavos betwet
. the uHCTcUJ duu huo bSo'S ~ oNN'S
~ will bo dried from many an oye, and Il
w. anxious fears of hopeless separation and cr'
city, will DO liftod from many dark bosoI
With that event, would como the consciou
-, moss to tho slave mother, that, though h
-. offspring wore doomed to endless servituc
~ thoy might grow up beneath tho samo re
' wboro they wero born, aud might comic
49, her declining years, as sho dragged out
."0 weary existence for the benefit of those
whom hor life and destiny are committed.
'"' Dry up the fountains Of this groat evil, a
" w many merconary and abandoned mon v
-, be thrown out of employment, or forced
'"O resort to honorable ayocations; and tn
"' will 5e reclaimed from condition of hoI
'I' less degradation, large number of fema
-, as immaculate in principle as tho fair
,"o ,' daughters of Garth. wipo out from
'''' proud banner this dark stain, and ono no
''" step will DO taken towards omancipating {
'' country from it's greatest sin. I. W. I
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