Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-05

from a drive with a horse and buggy, and told the
negro to put up :he horse. The negro was going
to a wedding and would not do it-was impeTtinent
when threatened with chastisement he was de-
6snt. Ny young friend said The niger gave
me so much Of his impertinenoe that l whaled
away at him and bit him over the head with my
buggy whip. lie then caught me by the wrists,
and as he was Il very stout man he held me as If
in a vice. l could not move or stir, by George
He had On awful grip. My father heard the dis
turbance and came out when the niger saw
him, he made for the wood as hard as he could
run, and after him. l knew what he wanted.
lie wanted to get me to follow him into the woods,
and then to kill me. So l turned back before he
got that far.
you do not think, said l. that be really would
have killed you if he had got you into the
woods, do you p
Yes do. By George, I know he would have
killed me for he had bell in him as big as a
horse. He would have ~ssrangled me If he could
have got me out Of sight of my father
We'll, how did it turn out p
'Oh, be came along back after while, and moth
ing was said about it. Things went on Two or
three weeks, when be thought be he'd got out OF
that scrape all nice and pretty. But we had him
jerked up and taken of to the ealaboose, where be
was dressed of decently and he has been as bid
able a Niger ever since as you ever saw"
/ admitted that l would by no means wish to be
The owner Of such a piece Of property as that and
inquired Don't you have to watch him yeti
Well, yes. The young man said he did have to
keep an eye upon him. When out alone with him
anywhere he kept q sharp lookout, and If the mig
ger should make any demonstration he would shoot
him in an instant. / asked whether there were
many such niggers, and the reply was that there
was = smart sprinkling Of such chaps. There was
another one on the next farm to bis. This other
niger had sauced him sometimes. He was saucy
as the devil. When be was on his masters land
be felt bigger than anybody else, and would dare
a man who spoke short 20 him to touch him. The
niger thought he was hell as long as be was on
his masters plantation. Get him of of that, and
be was submissive enough. The Southern people
who addressed negroes within my hearing during
the journey TO this point, spoke much more kindly
to them than negroes are in the habit Of being
spoken to in Cincinnati. There was, as a genera
rule, kindness Of demeanor on the part of thu
. whites, and the greatest Difference and perfect sub
r mission on the part of the blacks. That intens
q horror of a niger because he is a niger, whicl
t we see in the North, does not exist here. A boy
they call all the six foot darkies down here, gro,
headed or not, 'bOys'-was very polite to a gentle
e man and lady at one of the South Carolina sta
t tons. The boy was going down to Charleston
t The gentleman said to him.. you're very polit
and thoughtful to-day The boy smiled with il
, tense pleasure, and replied
%, yes, masser, l allus polite, 50, l allus polite
That's right said the gentleman, your q GOO
fello w." And the bow of the boy, if made b
one of our sham negro MINISTRIES, would brin
r down the house. As the lady was turning ava!
= she stopped and said to the boy whose eyes an
n ivory flashed white as ste did so-'William, be
y good boy in Charleston don't let any Of the ba
fellows lead you into temptation there The
are her very words, and the manner in whic
IS they were uttered. made them genuine. william
J. repeated bis bow, and if an Ethiopian statue rel
r~esenting perfect fecility were wanted, he woul
have answered excellent we'll then to stand for
re model.