Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-01-06

III tllt NHbu OfNOlillh AlNftiOlZul DtuNuufUy
Mr.. Micajab Kicks advertises, Runaway, a
negro woman and two children. A few
days before she went of, burned her with
hot iron on the left side of her face. !
tried TO make the letter NJ" In the Match
ez Courier, Mr.. J. P. Ashford adverLises a
runaway negro girl, with "a good many
teeth missing, and the letter A branded on
her check and forehead" In the Lexing-
ton (Kv) Observer, Mr.. Wlllianm Over
street adyertises n runaway negro with "his
left eye out, scars from dirk on his left
arm, aud much SCARED with the whip" /
might quote from hundreds Of such adver-
tisemcnts, offering rewards for ruuaways,
''dead or alive" and describing them with
'ears cut off" laws broken" SCARED by RI
fle-balls," DC.
Another source of information is afford
cd by your "fugiiivcs from injustice" with
many of whom have conver,cd freely. |
have seen scars of the whip and marks Of
the branding iron, and | have listened to
their heart breaking sobs, while they told
of "picaninnies" torn from their arms and
sold.
Anothcrsource Of information is furnished
| by emancilated Shareholders. Sarah NJ
Grimke daughter of the late Judge Grimke,
of the Supreme Court Of South Carolina,
testi6es as follows: "As | left my native
State on account of slavery, and deserted
the homo of my fathers to escape the sound
Of the lash and the shriekS of tortured vic
Tins, would gladly bury in oblivion the
recollection of those scenes with which
have been familiar But this cannot be-
They come over my memory like CORY spec
tiers, and implore me with resistess power,
in the name of God of mercy, in the
| name of n crucifed Savior, in the name of
humanity, for the sake of the stakeholder,
as well as the slave, to bear witness to the
hn rors If the Southern prison-house." She
proceeds to describe dreadful tragedies, the
actors in which she says were "men and
women of the first families in South Caro-
lina;" and that their cruclties did not in
the slightest degree, affect their standing
in society. Her sister, Angelina Grimke,
declared: "While live, and Slavery lives,
1 must testify against it. Not merely for
the sake Of my poor brothers and sisters in
) bonds; for even were slavery no curse to its
5 victims, the exercise of arbitrary power
= works such fearful ruin in the hearts Of
, Shareholders, that should feel impeled to
labor and pray for its overthrow with my
latest breath" Among the horrible bar
barities she enumerates is the case of n girl
thirteen years old, who was hogged to
death by her master. She says: 81 asked
a prominent lawyer, who belonged to one Of
the first families in the State, whether the
, murderer of this helpless child could not be
t indicted, and he cooly replied that the
slave was Mis- property, and it he
, chose to suffer the Toss, no one else had
anything to do with it." She proceeds to
say: 81 felt there could be for me no rest
! in the midst of such outrages and polu-
! tions, Yet saw nothing of Slavery in its
most vulgar and repulsivo forms. saw it
, in the city, among the fashionable and the
honorable, where it was garnished 10y refine
ment and deckcd ont for show. 1t is my
: deep, solemn, deliberate conviction that
this cause worth dyingfor. | say so from
. what have seen and heard, and known, in
a land of Slavery, whereon rest the dark
c ness of Egypt and the sin of Sodom."
v once asked Miss Angelina if she thought
f Aboitionists exaggerated the horrors o
: Slavery. She replied with earnest empha
: sis /: "They cannot be exaggerated. 1t i,
e impossible for imagination to go boyonC
!. the facts" To lady who observed tba
c the time had not yet come for agtating th'
n subject, she answered: 81 apprchend
Il thou vert slave, toiling in the fields o
n Carolina, thou woudst think the time haC
s. fully come"
IS Mr.. Thorne, of Kentucky, in the cours
If of his eloquent lectures on this subject, said
= 81 brcaihcd my first breath in an atmos
n phere.of slavery. But though l am hei
r. to slave Inheritance, lam bold to dcnounc
C the whole system MS au outrage, n complica
is ton Of crimes, and wrongs, and crueltie,
{, that make angels weep"
1t Mr.. Allen. of Alabama, in a discusssio
d with the students at Lame Seminary, j
" 1884, told of slave who ''was tied up an
Il beaten all day with paddle full of holes
Q. AT night, hisfe was literally pounded to
d Jelly The punishment was inflicted will
is in hearing Of the academy and the publ
d. green. But no one took any notice Of j
r Lest any one should think that slaves n,
!; gener0Hy well treated, and that the cases
10 have mentioned are exceptions, let me ;
c. distinctly understood that cruelty is the rul
and kindness the exception"
ve In the same discussion, student fro
ne Virginia after relating cases of great cruc
C. ty, said: "Such things are common all ov
ar Viginia; at least, so far as am acquainte
a But the planters generally avoid punishir
be their slaves before strangers"
ny Miss Matte Griffith Of Kentucky, who
It entire property consisted in slaves, eman'
ny pated them all. The noble hearted g
wrote to me: 81 shall 60 forth into !
10 world penniless; but shall work with lig
Va heart, and best of all, 1 shall live with
MS easy conscience" Previous to this gem
for Gus resolution, she had never read any A
er- clifton document, and entertained the col
les mon Southern prejudice against them.
ay But her own observation so deeply i
re- pressed her with the enormities Of Slave
lin that she was impelled to publish boz
IN called "The Autobiography Of Femi
Ie, Slave" read it with thrilling interc
but some Of the scenes made my ner
at quiver so painfully, that told her hop
in they were too highly colored. She she
If her head sadly, and replied; n am sol
'ad to say that every incident in tho book
IN come within my own knowledge"