Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-01-20

Another source Of Information. is afforded
by your 'Fngitives from Injusiic~~' with
many of whom | have converscd freely.
have seen scars of the whip and malk. Of =
tho branding-iron. and [ have listened to
their heart-breaking sobs, while they told
of 'picca' lnnies' torn from heir arms and
soil.
Another source of information Is fur
nished by emancipated shareholders. Sarah
NJ. Grimkc, daughter of the late Judge
Grimke Of the Supreme Court OF SoutI,
Carolina, tcstifes AS follows: AS left
my native State on account Of Slavery. and
deserted the home Of my fathers 10 escape
the sound Of the lash and the shrisks Of the
tortured victims. would gladly bury in
oblivion The recollection Of those scenes with
which l have been familiar. But this cam
not be. They come over my memory Ike
CORY spcctres. and implore me. with resist
less power, In the name Of God for mercy.
in the name Of humanity, for the sake OF
the stakeholder, as well rs the slave, TO bear
witness to the horrors Of the Southern pris-
on-house.' She proceeds to describe dread
ful tragedies, the actors in which she says
we're men and women Of the Arst fami-
lies in South Caaolina and that their cru-
elites did not, in the slightest degree, affect
their standing in society. Her sister, An
gelina Grimke. declared: While live,
and Slavery lives, / must testify agaiust It.
Not merely for the sake Of my poor broth
ers and sisters in bonds even were slave
ry no curse to its victims, the exercise Of
arbitrary power works such fearful ruin
upon the hearts of Shareholders, that
should feel impelled to labor and pray for
its overthrow with my latest BREATH
| Among the horrible barbarities she emu
merates is the case of girl thirteen years
old, who was iogged to death by her mas-
ter. She says: asked prominent
lawyer, who belonged to one -of the first
families in the State, whether the murderer
of this helpless child could not be indicted,
and he coolly replied that the slave was
Mr.. IS property, and ;f he chose to suf-
fer the loss, no one else had anything to do
with it. She proceeds to say: u felt
there could be no rest in the midst Of such
outrages and poIutiens. Yet I saw noih-
ing of slavery in its most vulgar and re-
pulsiye forms. saw it in the city, among
the fashionable and the honorable, where
ii was garnished by refinement and decked
out for show. 1t is my deep, solemn, de-
Iiberate conviction that this is cause worth
dying for. say so from what have seen,
and heard, and known in land Of slavery.
whereon rest the darkness of Egypt and
the sin Of Sodom.' ! once asked Miss An
gelina IL she thought Abolitionists exager-
aied. the horrors Of Slavery. She ro-
piled, with eornest emphasis They can
not be exaggerated. 1t is impossible for i'm
agination to go beyond the facts To la
dy who observed that the time had not yet
come for agitating the subject, she answer
ed: Il apprehend if thou vert a Stare,
toiling in the fields Of Carolina, thou wouldst
think the time had fully come
Mr.. Thorne of Kentucky, In the course
Of his eloquent lectures on this subject.
said: 3 | breathed my first breath in an
atmosphere of Slavery. But though am
heir to slave inheritance, ! am bold to de-
nounce the whole system as an outrage, a
complication of crimes, and wrongs, and
cruelties, that make angels weep
Mr.. Allen of Alabama, in discussion
with the studentsat Lane Seminary, in
1884, told of slave who was tied up and
beaten all day with paddle full Of holes.
At night his flesh was literally pounded to
jelly. The punishment was inflicted
within hearing of the Academy and the
Public Green. But no one took any no.
tice of it. No one thought any wrong was
done. At our house, il is so common to
hear screams from aneighboring plantation,
that we think nothing Of it. Lest any one
should think that the slaves are generally
well treated, and that the cases have mem
toned are exceptions, let me be distinctly
understood that cruelty is the rnie, and kind
ness the exception.
In the same discussion, student from
Virginia, after relating cases of great cru
city. said Such things are common all
. over Virginia at least, so far as / am ac-
quainted. But the planters generally avoid
Furnishing their slaves before strnng,rs.'
. Miss Matte Griffith Of Kentucky, whose
entire property consisted in slaves, eman-
cipated them all. The noble-hearted girl
wrote to me: Il shall 60 forth into the
world penniless but I shall work with a
light heart, and best of all, ] shall live with
an easy conscience Previous to this gem
erous resolution, she had never read any
Abolition document, and entertained tho
f common Southern prejudice against them.
But her own observation SO deeply inn
! pressed her with the encrmitics Of Slavery,
that she was impel.ed to publish book,
called The Autobiography Of Female
Slave read it with thrilling interest :
but some of the scenes made my nerves
quiver so painfully, that / told her hoped
they we're too highly colored. She shcok
her head sadly, and replied am sorry
to say that every incident in the book has
come within my own knowledge
St. George Tucker, Judge and Profss-
sor of Law in Virginia, speaking of the lc-
gaIized murder Of runaways, said: Such
are the cruelties to which a state Of slavery
' gives birth-such the horrors to which the
|. human mind is capable Of being reconciled
by its adoption Abiding . oor stfuggls
in &c, he saids tn " eur
resolution % live ~ = q s - l1l1poed
on our fslIow.ulei u Ii 1<snf complexion,
+ Slavery ten thcusan6 times worse than
the utmost extremity Of the expressions of
f which we complainec,' q
! Gov. Giles, n MeNG E
ture of Virginia, ~ { - ~
selling free coIoret q Is llv9fIs =
, punishment for oII5n>es not capital, said i:
Slavery must be admitted to be a punish
, | Y,e.f af f1s L,,yI.rf or,ye,. and accorJsp,v