Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-01-27
Tho Accumulation Of Slavery.

The following inhuman transactions Of
slavery are copied from the Washington
correspondent of the N. Y. Independent
We envy not the head nor the !.eart of any
who can read them and yet feel unmoved
on the subject of slavery in the nation:
The intense agitation OF the slavery ques-
ton in Congress-in introduced as usual and
kept up by Southern Democrats-tans the
fame Of excitement out Of Congress. The
Southern States are in terrible panic, and
completely lost TO all sense of reason or JUS
tice. A fresh illustration Of this cowardly
panic was furnished by Virginia the other
day. A gentleman by the name of Crux,
an Englishman, who has by hard labor on a
farm in Fairfax county during the past few
years amassed competence, lent to two or
three Of his slaveholding neighbors copies of
the Helper book. Mr.. Crux is modest,
innocent, inoffensive man, and had no idea
of either offending any law or any citizen
Of Virginia, but he was seized, thrown in
Jail, and only got out by giving bail in the
amount Of $1,000 to appear and take his
trial before Virginia jury for circulating
incendiary books. Knowing too well the
character of Virginia Justice, aud the ferocity
of temper among the Shareholders at the
present time, he forfeited his ba;l-bond. and
fled to free State. So his loan of a Help
per book or two TO few OF his old neigh
bors cost him his old home, and the round
sum of twenty-five hundred dollarsl
Another sincidentn of the s.pecniar in
stituion' has just come TO my knowledge.
A foreign stone-cutter in the employ of this
Government, not hundred yards from the
Capitol, some months ago fell in love and
seduced pretty quadroon slave, whose
owner also lives here aud has for two CT
three years been in the habit Of renting to
the slave her time. The qnadroon and sto e.
cutter lived together here for some time
when the latter proposed to the slave thai
she should accompany him north, where he
would free her. Implicitly trusting hel
lover, the girl ayowed herself at the depo
rs the slave of the s,one-cutter, and passet
days in New York, they Travelled westward
the avowed purpose Of the white man be
ing TO settle in the far West. where they
would be unno.ieed. The slave girl follow
ed him with trusting heart, and he took
her TO Cincinnati, then over TO Louisville
md into the interior OF Kentucky, when ht
deliberately sold her FOR fourteen hundred
dollars, pocketed the money, and sailed fol
Europe, where the human fend now is
= The slave-sira has not been found as yet
though she was traced into Kentucky, anc
her owner declares his willingness TO fire,
her II he can recover her. Even the de
ter,lers of slavery here are loud in thei
condemnation Of this horrible act, and free
iy express their sympathy for the slave
girl. But Why should they? This yer,
act is repeated hundred times daily in tn
slave States, and the guilty parties are re
spectacle Shareholders. Wives are sepa
rated from husbands. lovers from each oiliel
and parents from children. and all in siic
aceordaoee with Southern law.
II is this institution which is strugeln
for the supremacy in the House. and whic
clamors for disunion and universal ruin
rather than witness the triumph of the prir
cip!es of human freedom.