Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-14
WHOLE No. 7O9.

cd sho would cure her and again sent her to the
hell with orders to the overseer to whip her CIV.
cry day, and make her work or kill her." Again
The oyerseer said it was "no use to try, for her
health would not stand it," and she was forthwith
returned
| Now the mistress concluded to sell her.
One Sabbath evening nephew Of hers who re,
sided in New Orleans happened to be on visit to
Ills aunt, when II occu-ed'that she had. better gss
Nancy off if possible Accordingly Nancy was
called in for examination. Being dressed in her
Sunday best" and "before poor candle'light,"
she appeared to good advantage; and the nephew
concluded to start with her the following Ptts-
day morning. However, the next morning bo
happened to see her by the light of the sun, and
in her working garments, which satisfied him that
he had been grossly deceived; that she would dbater
liz live to reach New Orleans: hence he positively
refused to carry out the previous evenings con-
tract thus leaving her in the hands of her miss
tress with the advice that she should doctor heT
up"
! The mistress, not disposed to be defeated, obyi-
aed the difficulty by selecting little boy, made
lot Of TIE two, and thus made it an inducement to
a purchaser to buy the SICK wonat tie boy and
woman brought $780,
About the sale OF her children Cordelia was con-
suited about ds much as if she had been a COW.
II felt wrotohod,7' she said, with emphasis,
when | heard that Nancy had been sold" which
was not until after she bad been removed. "But,"
she continued g, vas uot at liberty to make my
grief known to q single white soul Ment and
couldn't help it9 But remembering that ohe
liable, "on the first insult" to be sold herself she
sought no sympathy from her mistress, whom she
describes as "a woman who shows as little kind,
ness towards her servants as any woman in tbs
states of America. She neither likes to feed or
clothe WELL" = ~ '. =,
With regard to hogging however, in days past,
she had been up to the mark, IA many slap
and blow" had Cordeia received since she arrived
at wcmanhood, directly from the madam's own
hand. Hr.l -. a"'.
One day smarting under cruel .treatment she
appealed to her mistress in the following strain:
Il stood by your mother IN oil her sickness and
nursed her til! she died /" II waited your
niece, light and day for months, till she died"
II waited upon your husband all my life-in his
sickness especially, and shrouded him in DEATH
&c., &c,yet l am treated cruelty" 1t was of no
avail. p"
4 Her mistress at one time the owner Of about
Ave hundred slaves, but within the last few years
shs Las greatiy lesscncd the humber By sates;,-
She stood very high IL siady. and was a mem
, Der Of the Episcopal Church. !.I
). To punish Cordelia, on several occasions she
had been sent TO of the plantations to work
a field hand. Fortunately, however, she found tho
overseers more compass ionate than her mistress.
though she re5eiyed nc particular favors from a-g
Of them.
Asking her to name the overseer, &cn" she did
so. The first was Marks, thin.visaged,. poor.
looking man, great for swearing" The second
was Colbert Brewer, a very rash, porty man."
The third was "Buck Young, stout man and Ve-
ry sharp" The fourth was Lynn POWELL tall
man with red whiskers, very contrary and spite,
full" There also fifth one. but his name |
lost - -e
Thus Cordelias experience, though chiefly
fined to the great house," extended occasionally
over the corn and tobacco fields among the, over.
seers and field hands generally. But under no
circumstances could she find it in her heart to DO
thankful for the privileges of slavery. ,t.h =,
After lcevire her ris;roao che learned, with no
small degree of pleasure that perplexed state of
things existed at the boarding house that her
mistress was seriously puzzled to imagine bow she
would get her shoes aud stockings and off
how she would get her head combed get dressedl
be atten led to in sickness, A., as she tCordeia)
had been compelled to DO all her lifs,N- ..a.r,
Most of the boarders being Shareholders, :natuE
rally sympatbised in her afiliclion and. some Of
them went 90 far as to offer reward to some OF
the colored servants to gaiu knowledge of her
whereabouts. Some charged the servants with
having hand in her leaving, but all agreed that
"she had left very kind and indulg mt mistress"
and had ac:ed very fcolshly in running out Of st.
very into freedom. a'.,'- o.. !
}, A certain Doctor of Divinity, the pastor of an
episcopal church in this city, anda friend of the
, mistress, hearing of her distress, by re6usBt or
Voluntarily undertook to find out Cordelias place
of seclusion. Hailing on the street certain col.
lored man with familiar face, who ho thAYght
knew nearly all the colored people aboi town, hel
related to him the predicament Of his lady friend
from the South, remarked how kindly she had al
ways treated her servants. signi6ed that Cordelia
would rue the change, and DO left to suffer among
tho "miserable 6acks down town." that she would
not be able to take care of herself: quoted Scrip
ture justifying slavery, and finally suggested that
he would be doing duty and kindness to the fu:.
gitive, by using hio influence to find her and pre-
vail upon her to return. -- =, ,v3 ,,i A., .,
However, it SO happened that .he colored, rians
thus addressed had experienced quite number
of years as slave at the South !; had himself
once been pursued as fugitive, and having. by!
his industry in the condition of freedom, acquired.
u handsome estate, he felt entirely qualified to re
fply to the reverend gentlemen, which he did.
though in not very respectful phrases telling him
that Cordelia had good right to her liberty as
he had, or her mistress either :, that il was ALL
false about the slaves being better of than tho
free cOlored people that he would find as many
poor, miserable degradedY),of his ,owa color.
"down town. as he woald among the degraded,
blacks .; and concluded by telling him that be'
i unnld rat her c.i har Lunlrad dL,llara helm