The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-10-01
For tie Herald Of F~eiom.
Resu,iful Workings of American Slzvsry.
ST. JosErH, Mo, Sept. 1s, 1859.

Beaunful w orkings OF Auoticdn SAssotJ.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept 18, 1859.
DEAR HERALD;-Would You like q lit
tie gossip served up for your readers
Dainty tit-bits? Nay, 'tis coarse. repulsive,
the dish / shall set before them.
On Friday last the particulars of
fendish murder in this city leaked out
and became ncised around town. These
are the particulars of the painful eircan'-
stance" as the Journal Of this place calls
it,
Several days ago young negro girl,
about 16 years old, Belonging" to Mrs.
Wash, of this city, was missed, and Mrs.
Wash was terribly exercised thereat, and
raised a tremendous excitement, declaring
the said chattel had run of, or been stolen
by the abolitionists; and Immediately
officers were started on the track to find
the said runaway human property. On
Friday she was found, but in place least
thought of by those in pursuit. In fact,
believe she was found by accident by
those not on the "hunt."
1t appears that Mrs. Wash is woman
of not very amiable disposition, and does
not follow the golden rule in the treatment
of her slaves, as the sequel will show.
Instead of the girl fleeing from inhu-
man prosecutions, or being spirited away
by some abolitionist, the ghost of which
forever haunts some people, it appears
that her mistress terminated, several days
ago, series of revolving cruelties which
might almost put to blush the bloody
Spanish inquisition. For month after
month have the people living within hear
ing distance of Mrs. Wash, had their ears
pierced by shrieks and groans proceeding
from her premises, the result of tortures
she was inficting upon this slave. But
they have terminated. The last blow
has been struck; the last shrek penetrated
the gates of heaven; the last prayer of the
poor black girl been registered. Death
put an end to the cruelties. The last beat
ing Mrs. Wash gave her she used sticks Of
,oood, and anything she could lay her hands
on, and called in the aid of hired man,
and the two together freed the spirit from
the tortured body. Then there was
burial-a secret burial-in which the wo-
man monster and her hired man minion
scouped out an uncouth grave, and into it
laid their victim. The earth hiding her
from human gaze, the story was that she
had run off, maybe aided by abolition
hands, and what an excitement was cre-
ated! How eagerly persons started in
pursuit! But the pursuers found her not.
She was found, however, and taken out
of her grave day or two after being
buried, and her head was found to be
bruised almost to jelly. She was hor-
rid sight.
But let her rest. Another victim to
American Slavery has gone to heavens
court as witness.
The female murderer is a sister OF
Wright the negro-trader, who was shot,
, some time since, by slave whom he had
bought and was about taking South.
would make a comparison or two
DR.. Doy was accused of aiding negroes to
their freedom, and what howl went fori b
from slavery's den. Its minions were at
work, its money offered, its hounds let
, loose, thirsting for his blood. Mrs. Wash
3 kills one with sticks Of wood and other
: missiles-she takes a life she cannot re-
: store, and calls in the aid Of hired man
to aid her in her fiendish work-and it is
e treated as painful circumstance"-peo'
pie 'regret" it, but that is all.
A negro is bought by tracfiker in hu.
e man bodies-a man without heart or soul
d who makes a living off from the tears and
| groans of others-to be sold far South, tc
be separated from his family, and he, ago
nized at the thought, kills the white fend
5 does Just as all of US would do under like
circumstances, and people turn out BY
e dozens to catch him, and threats are mad'
e to burn him alive if they catch him.
? Mrs. Wash brutslly kills her servan
J. girl without cause, and people stop a mo
ment, maybe say Htoo bad" and that i
the last of it.
y Look at it rightly. The negro kille'
: his master to keep from being separated
n from his family. Mrs. Wash killed he
ss negro servant in freak Of passion. Th
a a first is guilty Of an offence that calls fc
= tortures dire; the second-what? Tn
first is black; the second white; herei
a lies the difference
be clip the following advertisement fror
or the West:
I'd so NEGROES WANTED!
~ a. WE want to buy Fifty young Ne 4
= eroes between the ages Of ten and
y, .Atwepty.fiye years-men, womeD,-
boys and giris-for which we will pay t.
highest price in cash. .55.
MILTON II. WASH.
l.. WIN. NJ. CARTER.
an The person represented by the irst sil
for nature is the husband Of her who murde
l." ed her negro. Wonder if he wants son
lb- more victims for her thirst for blood?
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