Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-04-18

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not allow her to pass such favorable op
portunity, without showing that slave.
were not much bctter off than women, ant
that nigsers, like females, had no rights which
men were bound to respect.
She was particularly anxious to do some
thing for her sisters in misery not thu
poor squaws, who from her home in st
Cloud she can gee, bending under burthen
and toiling to support their lazy lords ant
masters; no it was not for her red sisters
nor for her white sisters in shame and de-
graduation, but for her dear black sisters tina
the rich treasure Of her sympathics wer,
poured forth. Oh the stories she told ane
the way she told 'em. The fact that the,
were indicate was overlooked. The con
seriousness that they were untrue, not eve,
founded on facts" only rendered them NOR,
interesting, AS works Of imagination. O
lansuishing Octoroons, and faxen haired
rosy checked German girls l.! The vir
tuous slaves Of wicked masters, who EN-
ployed all the means of starvation, stripes
and Irishmen to reduce them to obedience
and all this with the full knowledge of tn,
officers Of the law, and Of the good people o
Louisville, who thought it none Of the
business to interfere. 49,
! sob for the rarity Of Christian Charity,
Down in Kentuckyn
Of ha1d masters who, from her show
ing, seemed to have nothing to do in tn,
world but to whale their men servants ant
wallop their aid-servants. Who de-
capitated their niggers on the slightest pre-
tence, and then played pins with tn,
skulls and shin bones of their Victims
How men were transferred from one bac
master to another, body and soul, biool
and bones, boots and breaches. Powers o
pity! was ever anything so pathetic? wasn'
it worse than the cholera morbus.
eyes then did weep, which never wept before
Aad eyes that had wept, went and wept cnc'
more."
We have sighed over the untimely fate
Of old Grimes-we have incurred that the
virtuous and amiable Peter Gray should
ever have been ::skinned and dressed BY
the cruel 1n-ji-ins," and that his lovely
Lizzy amy should have di-i-ed on that &C.
contour eyes have become q fountain
Of tears,on reading the poic's depletion of the
loves and deaths Of Wilkins and his Dinah;
but never before did We know what il
was to be sad.
Our head was in affection bowed,
Our tears would fill cup,
we beat our breast, and cried aloud:
"Dry up, my soul! Dry up!"
We We're sorrowful from the crown Of our
head to the sole of our foot-every feeling
was excited--every sensibility touched
nature could not bear SO much emotion: SC
we gently sank to sleep. ....-
We slept one long hour and half, and
awoke in time to hear her say, in her per-
GRAFTON, that she was Of the John Brown
blood and she wanted Northern women tc
make their husbands abolish Slavery
Which the said husbands will undoubtedly
do at the first opportunity; as they are
now only waiting for Mrs. SIS directions
las to the manner of proceeding.
Mrs. Swisshe!m, makes good personal
appearance. Her face rather inclines t.
the masculine, with firm, hard set mouth
and fine eyes; rather shrill but pleasan,
voice. She is, in conversation, yer,
pleasant, courteous and lady-like A wo
man Of brilliant parts, ridicule and invective
are weapons always at her command; anc
as her nature is none the sweeter or more
feminine from her marital troubles, she i.
never troubled by scruples in the use o
them. Political opinions. are with he,
mere matters Of taste AMI feeling, and tn,
childish views of State affairs taken by
woman Of her information, is in our opinion
a strong argument against the majority o
her sex ever becoming good politicians.
Mrs. S.,-made an explanation Of tn,
statements in the newspapers in regard t,
obtaining goods on her husbands account
and in our estimation entirely succeeded in
iJustifying herself in that matter She sale
she was urged to do so by the best lawyers
and only consented, when pressed by tn,
ssverest, necessities. We think this las
Statement should be qualified, as we dom
see how she could be SO very hard m
for jewelry. a:tt .a s,-
AS al amusing, though eccentric writer
we can 60 Mrs. S.; but for the soft, lack-a
daisical men, filled with "noble impulses, .
"high imaginings,'' "pinings for the beauti
full" and all that affected kind Of stuff
who admire her style, and believe in he,
teachings, We have q hearty contenpt.
CALIFORNIA NEWS.
News from California confirms the repor
OF the immense richness Of the silver regiol
Of Carson VALLEY. Many men who have
been working in California for years, and NJ
richer for it, now find themselves a, the tor
Of the hill! and immensely wealthy. Man,
will make fortunes in those mines, 9th
ers may toll for wears and make nothing =.