Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-06

comfortable home, and thought that the whole
town did not contain happier family. They had
never felt slavery; and, when it was too late, they
were convinced Of its reality.
When the new master claimed this family as bis
property tho father became furious, aud went to
bis mistress for protection. IL can do nothing
for you now, Harry" said she. ~ no longer
have the power bad week ego. have sue
ceeded In obtaining the freedom Of your wife but
l cannot obtain II for your children" The un-
happy faiher swore that nobody should take his
children from him. He concealed them in the
woods tor some days; bu, they were discovered
and token. The father was put in Jail, and the
oldess two boys sold to Georgia. One little girl.
too youngto be Of service to her master, was left
with she vretched mother. The other three were
carried 70 their masters plantation. The eldest
soon became mother and, when the slavehold-
ers wiielooked at the babe, she wept bitterly
She knew that her own husband had violated the
purity shehad so carefully incucated. She had a
second child by her master, and then he sold her
and her OSspring to his brother. She bore two
children tt the brother and was sold again. The
noxt sisteiwent crazy. The life she was oompell-
ed to leaddrove her mad. The third one became
the mother Of Eve daughters. Before the birth OF
the fourshtbe piOus mistress died. To the last she
rendered sery kindness to the slaves that her un-
fortunate circumstances permitted She passed
away peScdully, glad to close her eyes on life
which hadbeen made SO wretched by the man she
loved.
j This mansquandered the fortune be had receiv-
ed, and sought to retrieve his affairs by second
marriage but, having retired after a night OF
drunken dbauch, be was found dead 10 the morn
ing. He vas called good master; for be fed and
clothed hisslaves better than mopt masters, and
the lash ws not heard on his plantation so fire.
quently as,n many others. Had it not been for
slavery, hewould have been better man; and his
wife HAPPIER woman.
No pen an give an adequate description Of the
all-pervadig corruption produced by slavery
The slave frl is reared in an atmosphere Of IL
censiousnes and fear. The lash and the foul talk
of her mister and his sons are her teachers
WhsneLsis fourteen or fifteen. her owner, or his
sons, tie overseer, or perhaps al Of them. be-
gin TO b$e her with presents.osIf. these fail t
acsomplA their purpose, she is whipped or starv
ed into satnission to their will. She may hav'
lhad relSdhs psineiples ineulcated BY, some piou
mother Il grandmother, or some good mistress
she may Ave lover, whose good opinion or peac'
/. of mind % dear to her heart; or the profiga.;
mon who hsse power over her may be exceedingly
odious to her.s Bot resistance is hopeless.
! p- "The poor worm
Shall prove her contest vain. Lifs'a battle day
Shall pass, and she is gone"
The slayeholder's sons are, Of course, vitiated
even whilsboys, by the unclean influence every
where around them. Nor do the masters's daugh
ters always escape. Severe retributiOns some
times come upon him for the wrongs be doei
to the daughters of the slaves The white
daughters early hear their parents quarrellinl
about some female slave. Their curiosity il
excited. and they soon learn the cause They are
attended by the young slave girls whom their faith
or has corrupted; aud they hear such talk al
should never meet youthful ears. They know tha
the women slaves are subject to their fathers au
tbority in oil things; and in some cases they ex
ercise the same authority over the men slaves.
have myself seen the master of such household
whose head was bowed down in shame; for it wa
known in the neighborhood that his daughter hat
selected ons Of the meanest slaves on his'planta
tion to be the father Of his first graudchid. Sh
did not make her advances to her equals, nor eve
10 her fathers more intelligent servants. She Sc
lected the most brutalized, over whom her author
ity could be exercised with less fear of exposure
Her father, half frantic with rage, sought to re
veuge himself on the offending black man bu
bis daughter, foreseeing the storm that wOul
arise, had given him free papers and sent hir
out Of the State.
In such cases the infan. is smothered, or sen
where 1t is never seen by any who know its histc
~. But If the white parent is the father. instea
Of the mother. the offspring are unblushingl
reared for the market. II they are girls, hav
indicated plainly enough what will be their iney
able destiny.
You may believe what soy; for / write onl
that whereof know, was tventy.one years i
that cage OF obscene birds. can testify, frOI
my own experience and observation, that SLAYER
is curse to the whites as well as to the black
II makes the white fathers cruel and sensual th
sons violent and lieontious; il contaminatss th
daughters, and makes the wives wrstChed. An
as for the colORsd race it needs an abler pen tha
mine to describe the extremity Of their suffering
the depth Of their degradation.
| Yet lew slaveholdeFs seem to be aware OF th
widespread moral ruin occasiOned by this Wicke
system. Their talk Is Of bligh.sd cotton crops
not Of the blight on their children's souls.
If you want 10 be fully convinced Of the abou
nations Of slavery, 60 on Southern plantation
and call yourself negro trader. Then there wi
be no conesalmsntj and you viii see and hsa
things that win ssem TO you impossible among ht
man beings with immortal souls.
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. WHITE LABOR AZ TEE SoUrH.---I. is often ssser
: ed that none bus the eOlorsd race can endure th
0 heat Of the south. To this ID is replied
4 There 10 NOS one single rod Of the SOalhsr
0 States beneath the tropical Gun. Every acre I
: our slave stasss iies within the temperate zon'
, The isOshsrmai line which passss shroagh Sayar
. nah, Georgia. passss through Madrid and ROM