Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-05
SOUTH SIDE vIEws OF SLAYER


There are frequently introduced upon the wit
nose stand, persons who are utterly incompetent
to form a correct judgement of the practice of
slaveholding, and whose opinion Of the extent and
character of the old Bastile is based upon their
examination of o single brick from the structure,
which has been presented for their inspection, and
that very likely cleansed and polished. Ard yet
their testimony is heralded as gospel truth and
the witnesses retire from the stand without an OPP
portunity being offered for cross examination, or
the presentation of rebutting testimony. The
latest specimen of the kind which has fallen un-
der our notice, is contained in the letter of "a
young lady from Boston," whose name is not Civ
en-, which was written to Somebody at Somewhere
neither place nor person being speoifed-and
which bears date of Charleston, April 18th, the
date probably being a mistake Oh the part of the
printer, who should have made it April LIST. The
letter reads thus.
1--WE have been very strongly invited to make
visits to the various fine plantations, but have on
" had time to 60 to that of Mr.. Bull, whose house,
called Ashley Hall, 10 1876 years old, and whose
estate consists Ct some eleven hundred acres
lie was very polite, and took US all through his
fine garden on the banks of the Ashley river,
which runs within ten or fifteen rods OF the back
of the house. Here, great live oaks and magno-
las, red cedars and expresses, tall pine trees and
dogwoOd, which here grows TO the size Of an up
pie tree, and is covered with large white blos-
SONS, are intermingled with the most beautiful
flowers which we can only cultivate in greenhous-
es. We went into the negroes quarters, consis
ting of some twenty white washed cottages, con.
tanning generally one ROOM. but of very good size,
and on the doogsteps Of one Of them sat a negress
l25 years old. Sue looked well, but seemed to
have lost whatever sense she originally had, and
as Mr.. Bull told US, has for so years done nothing
but sit in the sun as we found her.
LAS We came to the childrens' quarters, a con-
fused scrnmbling took place and some IL or IL
little negroes vanished under one Of the houses
which was raised on posts some three feet from
the ground. One of the older ones was cooking
the dinner of rice and vegetables. etc., in the
open air. Everywhere within the high fence, en-
closing a considerable space, and the cottages be-
longed to the negroes. and they can sell the pre-
duce Of their gardens or poultry-yards to any one
they choose. Nowhere have / seen any indication
of that cruel treatment which is charged against
" VI thO wa hhoJ ohOW u uCBECO
Of indulgence towards the idleness ard obstinacy
Of their servants, which our Northern fanatics
could not initiate with the first joint of their little
fingers.
"Not only are the laws severe against the NAL
treatment of negroes, but public opinion which
has here a chivalric warmth unknown 10 our cold
climate, stands ever on the alert, to chastize any
instance of cruelty or wrong in sny shape towards
those simple beings who by nature, as we'll as SO.
.cial relations, are SO peculiarly dependent upon
their care and protection. / always take pains to
correct, whenever l have opportunity, the idea
which exists here of the universally of Abolition
ism at the North, and assure them that it only
Aourishes in a NAL body of ignorant fanatics,
whose corrupt hands are at once The cause and ex-
cuse, if there is any, for tho sour fermentation of
their brains. Not, however, that people can mem
ton politics in social gatherings, or that they ev.
er allow their general opinion of the North to
influence their reception of individuals they are
kind and hospitable to a degree that makes one
feel as il acquainted for years with them ;"
1t was exceedingly verdant in this young lady
to expect to witness the Incidental ~cruelsies Of
slavery when visiting at the home of the platter.
Had she been a guest at the slave quarters. Wis
iting tho occupants withou. the knowledge of their
master, she would probably have had a somewhat
different impression. To affirm in the year 1860,
that the slaveholders Of North Carolina never sal.
low their opinion of the North to influence their
reception of individuals they are kind and hos
pitable to a degree that makes one feel as if &C.
%qu0iuted for years With tbOm," is, If not flying in