Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-07
Southern Gallantry and Hospi-
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tality. -
The New York Commercial -ddpertisel
gives an aceountof the brutal and disgrace
full manner in; which lady of Brooklyn ha.
lately been driven from Aiken, s. C. Sh,
had sbecn spending the winter at hote
there, with a sick daughter. who required
a mild climate. Some weeks ago wrote &
letter TO q brother in Western New York
in which she spoke of the evils of slavery
This letter was published, and some one
sent copy of the paper to the postmaster
at Aiken. A public meeting was imme
diatly called, and committee appointed
toferet out the writer. A Northern gen
:Ieman who as an invalid, happened also tc
be at the hotel, was suspected, and wa:
threatened with lynch law if he did not
confess. As, of.course, he could only per
sist in denial, he would probably have
suffered accordingly, had not the lady no
bly, came forward to exonerate him by ac
knowledging the letter as her own affirm
ing, at the same time, that she was not
privy to its publication. The citizens then
turned their wrath upon her, and she was
peremptorily ordered 10 leave the place in
forty-eight hours. The lady pleaded fol-
more time on behalf of her sick daughter,
but the citizens of Aiken knew no such
humanity. She asked for liberty to oremain
until ber husband could arrive to escort
her and her sick child. But the citizens OF
Aiken knew nothing of gallantry or courte-
sy. The order was imperative, in spite OF
the earnest pleading of the woman, wife
and mother. Nor was this all. The land
lord of the hotel ordered the mother and
the sick daughter to "leave his premises in
half an hour What further occurred be-
tween the lady and the inhuman citizens of
Aiken, South Carolina, we are not inform
ed. But we learn that on "Wednesday
morning oflast week, her husband received
letter apprising him of her situation, and
on the afternoon of the same day he start
ed for the South, and met his wife and
daughter at Columbia, on their way home.
The following is the letter referred to
and which caused the expulsion of the
Northern woman and sick daughter from
the borders of chivalrous South Carolina
The letter was, imprudentiy, as it has re-
suited, handed to the IN. Y. Times and
there printed: t
.-a- AIKEN, S. c., Feb. ., 1859.
Ny DEAR BRoTHER:-We are in what
is called the Pine Woods District, l2O
miles west of Charlestown. Aiken is
small town of not more than l 900 inhab-
itants, and the dullest place 1 was ever in.
All the work that is done in this country
is done by the slaves, and they do just as
little as they possibly can.
The houses are open and not half made,
with the doors off the hinges, and the win
dows won't shut; you could put your hand
in the cracks all around the sashes. The
whole country has the appearance of lazy,
degenerating decay. The white
people are the most lazy, shiftless, dirty ig-
nolant set of beings it is possible to CON
,eive Of. They go lounging about the
streets and stores all day, moving heap
of rags, dirt and ignorance, looking little
better, and often knowing less, than the
'laves-too proud to work, and too poor to
ive-Mrs. Stewe's description, in Uncle
Toms Cabin, of the poor whites of the
South, is in no way over-drawn, but often
ails of description of there destitution and
ignorance.
The Slaves are of all colors and shades
rom the most sooty black to perfect
White. There was waiter at the Hotel
1t Charleston, who was as white as you or
|, ssith blue eyes and sandy hair, and not
he least appearance OF African blood that
could see. l thought him an Irishinan,
md my husband thought him an Ameri-
an; but from our host, to our surprise,
We found him to be slave, the property
If a planter few miles south of Charles
on. - tt5f 3#17'
Aiken is quite resort for consumptives.
t lies on high ground, and is surrounded
y a yellow pine forest. The climate is
mild and warm, the atmosphere pure and
elightful. We have been out all the
norning without cloaks or shawls. And l |
ught not to complain of country that |
ives my daughter health; but, in spite of |
Il my wishes, the hours hang heavily upon |
ne. We have no company except the two
Dung ladies from New York-the one
ick and the other to take care of her, and |
gent from Ohio, also sick, and testy old
achelor, which is worse than being sick.
This monotonous life is occasionally bro
en- bya negro whipping. The other day,
5 was walking down street, 1 saw quite
crowd of people, and soon beheld in their
lidst a large, tall negro, with bis arms pin
med behind him., who had been driven
Velre miles that morning by a white man;
le man riding on horse and driving him
efore him, using two long ropes as we use
mes to drive our horses. -- t' f-. 1-
The men said that the negro had started
} run away, and be had caught him and
rought him back. The negro said that
e belonged to man few miles south,
I'D bad only lost his way in the woods,
nd if they would let him, he would 60
ght home. They hegged him, put him
the calabocse, (a~negro PRISON., and
hat has become, of him since l do not
now, but feel quite sure that they had
le ropes on the wrong man, for the negro
as much the smartest looking of the two.
Last Sunday, just after morning services,
g heard great noise in the street, and
oking ont we saw black man trying to
It away from two white men. His face
as cut and bleeding profusely, They
ed his hands behind him, stripped. his back
ire, took him into their store which is
'arly opposite to our house, tied him to
e floor, and gave him fifty lashes in the