Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-10-26

THE HAPPY SLAYE...A few Facts.
IL Mas. SAI.aH Il. HAYES.

IL Ms. SAl,.U II. HAYES.
Dprilg an a5senco from nome few
years since, the writer vas frequently IN
the company of gentleman who belonged
% the so-cal!ei Democratic party, a2d wao
is at present, ai;aorgh Northern maa,
au ardent friend Of Brecl.iD.i32e. The
gentleman in question had lust returned
with his family from a pgotrao:ei visit in
virginia, ard, as ias,.er Of cOur-e, L.
yery, pro and con, was frequently discuss
cd. Go net .:aov ,ha: the gentleman
went cutie so far as a recent speaker, in
c.liioy slavery :.eelomiziDs iUs,i,u-
:iou," br; he dwe.t at great length CT It's
delights. Among offers, te many times
spoke 0: co!ored cool. hired BY icr mas
ter to the Northern gentleman, Nr. L,
with whom Lo WAS visiting. This cook
vas a model Of neatness, ard good hrmOr.
She hal two children, one aged six
or seven years, the other 5s5e = few
months c!d and these children were a.
ways so clean AID smiling, it was enough
to 90 cne's heart -ood TO see them. All :.
it was fine thing 70. co.o.ed person to
be slaye-no Que nsei tem or Demo
cras anything to the contrary.
"And where We a,Led, "Uas this wo-
mans husband? ia your friend Aiga
him also :"
"No,' he replied, "Ler husband belong
ed to man Cu another plantation, four or
FIVE miles distant, aai was i'll with in
GaumatOry fever q: the time we wee
there"
Would you have thought i, pleasant
situation to be in, to b. sick, perhaps DigL
unto 'lsath, and have you- wife toa: c.
five niles Distant We asked.
Tls was di.'erea, v;e7 CT the uijcc:,
and Ou. friend declined answering,
After tine, however, tae Northern
gentleman, (waoia we hare already called
Nr. t. sho had purchased q plantation
in Virginia, being disappointed in the
country, sod out, and Iemoved Vest,
During recent absence fron home, i;
was OF. coed fortune 20 meet With N.s.
I, the intelligent aud accomplished wife
Of TIE above nanel gentleman. SLe is at
present resiliay w..A heC husband and
family il oae Of tie TeETitOries-has bad
tie honor All pleasure ot entertaining
"Cssaws;onie Brown aud p-.ies herself
on being thorough EepEo.iean fror;ie.
woman. Our cOnyer-at.on turned upon
the exciting topics Of the day, AMI We
asked many questions in relation 20 the
"peculiar institution" from one whose
residence in, and travels throughout, the
Slave States, rendered her fully competent
to answer. She tod us cf visits to some
of the sugar plantations 0: Louisiana and
where they work hundreds CT
and it is here, she says, one sees
slavery in its most repu!s:ve form. A.
tie plantations she visited, the slaves had
10 houses OF their own-there were three
or four long pens, built Of logs, with
square holes for ventilation, crossed by
thick bars Of iron into these the negroes
<<an allotted number to each one, are driv-
en- every night, men, women and children,
hud9Ied together indiscrimiustely, and
locked in, to sleep on the ground, without
a particle even of straw in the shape OF
beds. They rush into these deus like cat /
lie to the crack Of the whip, the last being
sure to ge, cut, aud, as some one must !
necessarily be last, this seems rather a
hard case Mrs. T. remarked that the I
'ight of human beings, gifted with immor-
al souls, treated in this manner after toll
ug all day, had the most saddeniug effect
lpOn her spirits of anything she had wit
,essed in the South.
Afterwards, We epquired as to the e1-
essive happiness of Susan, her former
ook, SO often quoted by our Democratic
riend. "Susan," said Mrs. T., "was one
# the best aud mos. faithful beings on
ar,h-a light mulatto, and remarkably
andsome. My husband hired her. Her
aas.er, however, drew all her wages, bare
: sllosipg her few clothes, Of the simp-