Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-13

eonfluere0 Verygood reed. IL was SAID hm0na fne
slatss thAt Caroliaas fiolida and Alabama maslersI
dFd not gtseS 70 much, aud Yet, John AYERS the bkcOn
was always gone in threezdays, and that no slave
can do the work required Of him on that allow
ance.@Somstimss however, the bacon was SO bad
~ cured that there was plenty left at the end of
the wesk,FJ CHH
When John was about thirty. Eve, ho got his
beek partly out of the yoke, on this wise. lie bad
Inherited from his father, a good share Of Anglo
Saxon intelligence mud grit kIIe saysit was pick
and hoe, and cut and whip, all day long, and he
decided thathe would bear it no longer, il he died
Tor it. So he told the ogerseer no would not be
whipped again. The overseer heard such inso-
lcnce with great amazsment, but as John was val
liable, hb referred the Gaze to the owner Of the
plantation. John had, before this, learned 10 read
and to write and become quite intelligent. John
told him he had always tried to do his work fifth
fully and be would do moro for him without whip
ping, than any hand on the plantation did, under
the fear Of the lash. The master finally consent
ed to let John have bis time, on certain conditions.
From this day, John began TO save something, and
in far years, had accumulated ninety dollars With
whichohe reached a free state and he says that, Of
hhGNANuo hC hho" huONh y uNl-b nv W Nv 10 ~
Iooly slave that ever got off from Southern Georgia.
john says tha.h he saw several slaves whipped
to death. Some never saw a well day after their
whipping, but Iise1 to drag out q miserable life
Two died in the field where they were made to
work, when unable from previous whippings.-
k0neidied in q few lhoursl after bong whipped
Bat the case that mode the deepest i'm preston on
bis mind was that Of q free man, but for whose
instruction and counsel, John had never, secured
his own freedom. zIrAs lagz.a5
Il free man from Philadelphia, whipped 10. death !
john Jackson says that in 1858 there was brought
unto the plantation a free man whose MANI was
Edward Davis. lie was born in Philadelphia, and
bad for many years kept an oyster stand, there
lie was kidnapped, taken to Baltimore and sold to
Georgia. lie worked two years by The side Of
john, and was always talking about his freedom,
and resolved to regain it, at any cost, He made
one attempt, was caught, brought back, and terri
6Iy punished. Soon afterwards he got, in the
night, under a rail car, and rode on the trucks
about two hundred miles, until be rencbed a sea-
port (~probably Savannah). There he g~otinto the
wheelhouse of a steamboat, but was finally forced
to make himself known. or be drowned. lie was
taken out nearly dead, landed at, Baltimore (witE-
in a few hours of his free homel and brought back
to Georgia. Once more on the plantation, Edward
was tortured by being worked in chains with
weights attached, and. with collar and prOngs
over his head Finally. he was. laid down and
whipped, until life was nearly extinct. The next
morning, as John went tc his work, he passed neal
Edward, lying on the ground. Edward called, but
John dared not stop tofspeak to him. When she
gang returned. at night, Edward was dead. He
has gone to that world where the servant is free
from his master. Il was said there wasa sui. 10
The court for bis freedom. That suit was taken
up, where iGSSd himssssifs u Judge, dor The Lord tri-
eth the righteous, but the wicked and him that
loveth violence his soul II. tethogF He shall Judge
the fatherless and the oppressed. that the man Of
the earth may. no more oppressP .IcHUpon the
wicked he shall rain snares, FIRE and birthstone,
and a horrible tempssti this shall beIthea portion
of their c~up."7to 81 tai5q ygsya has Wa. W.s
D Enron OF THE PRiNcrfIA: The above was tax
en- down by me from the lips Of the slave who es
tcaped from SOothern Georgia, 80 recently as last
january. 4 have every con6dence In the trathful-
ness of John ] acEson..m sak .toga nagTdl % al
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