Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-03-22
Narrative of John D0Y. Of Law.
renee. KanSlsS

iNAHEdtIVc Oh - O0n DOYs O1 LIZ w
renee, Kansas.
The escape of DR.. Doy from confne.
ment in Missouri prison, where he had
for four months been confined under false
charge of inducing slaves to run away, to,
gether with sketch of his previous histo.
ry in Kansas as one of the pioneer settlers,
is related in pamphlet Of one hundred
and thirty pages. 1t is ga plain, unvar-
nished tals" of the brutalizing effects Of
slavery upon large number of our white
population as well as the negro race. DR..
Doy does not attempt to create any ex-
citement, or appear to write under the in
fuence of feelings that might readily be
pardoned under such circumstances. We
give few extracts illustrative of the in
terstate slave-trade.
"a day or two after, another slave ira
der, of the firm of White, Williams d Co.,
of Weston, quite extensive dealers in hu-
man flesh, but I belive, as kind and hu-
name as men can possibly be in that trade,
brough ht in fine specimen of man, twen-
ty-fve years old, strong, muscular and in
telligent, blacksmith by trade, for whom
eighteen hundred dollars had been paid.
His name was George, and be was from
Newmarket, where be had been working
two years for a man who had never given
him dime for bis services, he having paid
for his clothing during that time by work
ing on Sundays and holidays.
This trader took the handouts from
George when he got him into the Jail, and
reproved him for remark be had made to
his former master, which he said displayed
very improper and unchristian feeling.
1t was, 81 hope to meet you at the bar of
just God, before you are sent to hell"
Very early one morning yellow man
was brought in, who said be had been kid
mapped from Kansas in the night. As he
stood weeping, the picture of despair, with
his wrists handcufed across each other,
he said to the man who brought him, and
who, it seems, bad bought him of the kid
uappers, "T told you I was free; and am,
or ought to be, as free as you are. I've
got my free papers in my pocket"
Without word, the trader put his hand
into the poor mans pocket, and pulled out
tin case five or six inches long, opened it
by removing the lid, took out the papers
which proved thatghe was entitled to his
freedom, read them, tore them up and drew
them into the stove. And that MAN was
driven off south that very night with a
gang of slaves.
Some of the slaves brought in from
the neighboriug plantations told me that
the slaves in Platte county were whittier
than anywhere else, and, consequently,
more sensitive and wretched; that both
men and women were worked harder in
the hempfelds; were WHIPPED oftener and
for less cause; that less regard was paid
to the separation of families, and that they
had the fear of being sold South more
constantly put before their eyes than in
any other State. And this was told me
by old slaves who had been in more States
than one.
In the afternoon, before one of these
gangs was sent of, very dark woman
was brought in with quite light-colored
baby. One of the traders asked the own
er, likewise trader, what he was going to
to do with the brat. "D--d if
know" was the reply. "I'm bothered to
know what to do with it.
"We can't take it in the wagons and
have it squalling all the way"
"Here," said the owner to an inbabitant
of Platte City, who Just then came in with
boy for sale, "don't you want this thing!
You may have it for twenty-five dollars.
D--n it." he continued, snatching
from its mothers arms by the shoulder
and netting it, "it weighs twenty-five
pounds Will you take it?"
"Yes."
"Take it now."
And the child was carried off amid the
heart-rending shrieks and pleadings of the
agonized mother.
When the slaves were brought to the Jail
and learned what was to be their fate, Of
ten entirely unsupported by them, the men
would beg the traders to allow them to see
their wives and Children before leaving
The traders invariably promised to crafty
them; their wives and children should come
to the Jail tomorrow or the next day; but
as invariably that morrow never came to
the poor. despairingy fathers and hus-
bands. They were generally driven off
in the night, and no opportunity was al
lowed them to bid farewell to those whom
they held dear, and whom they might
never hope to see again witnessing such a
scene of suffering and anguish as always
attends the departure Of slave cofle for
the South!
The following is the account given Of
his final escape from Kansas City jail:
About IL o'clock in the midst of storm,
as we were still watching at the grated win
dow, we heard loud knocking at the Jail
door, which we could not see, and after a
while the jailer's voice from the window,
asking, "Who's there what do you want ."
'We're from Andrew county, and we've
got a prisoner we want TO put into Jail fol
safe keeping. Come down quick" was
the answer.
"Who is heY"
"a notorious horse thief"
"Have you got q warrantr'
"No; but it's oil right"
~ can't take man in without autheri-
ty."
"If YOU don't it'll be too bad: for he is