St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-05-01

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them. The paddle il a'greAt dca!b tier
! thsn the lash, sir;, you see it'gets Well in
Two or three. .days,f anil is, devilnh sore ilI
the meantime" Al rak paddle r.: mo:
sir. always bine; used to have an Ok
paddle Wit" holes bored ia it but pine !,
the! Best II stin.s like the devil, aud is
over in = few days." He'e did not add,
what ! was tqrick to infer. that it left no
> marks t' inpair the sale ability of.hs chat.
Somewhere about thi. stage of the con-
versati''. a young girl came to fhe' d"or
a.l said something tc the keeper which,
from my p"slti"n. could not understand.
''1ell Ter, said he, :'she can't get in now"
Then turning to me he said: "lhe wife
ofthat fellow from Maryland ~ at the door
now and wants to see her man; but she
can't come in; there's too many down
there now"
Af'er the specimen he had given me
# the despcr"te ones Chat being much
! used and well applied word Of his, he re-
) irrr.d to:one whom no! said | had seen in
! the cellar. bu, whom, did mt remember,
add pg That's good fellow. But he
is, one OF the unfor,unatest nig5ers
lever saw. lie got IF from his master three
"r'tour years ago. and vas livirg in New
Jersey. is had married wife, aud got a:
snug h,use, ami lot Of GROUND, aud ducks,
aud geese, and pigs, aud everything snug
abou; him. But his master found him
out. Poor fellow he was caught to
! nice" 49,, s!.> 1t. !. H*'., =
Ny talksttve companion further inform
! I'd n'e that they were makiny4 up cargo
for the .Spn2h, and expected to-. 't.lap"
them in tew days. They were daily *
pecting tnc in6une, a vessel they had pur.
chased from Frankli, & Aruii.ld,* to ar.
! rive at the port of Alsxsnaria.s On TIL.
he spike ii the horror these poor creatures
t1aI of oei"s taken cut at night. aud re-
lated Sc, eral facts showing the dread they
tclt at the idea Of being ~aked up ut";qAt
t. start ou their Southern journey. lie
spike If this il A. ''carious'' fact which he
could 'aot' explain. '':s ::':' Z" r ''''
; Il telieve,' said I, "the dread Of going
Sm'h is very fe"eiul among the blacks: !"
Yes. sir; but they treat them very we'll
down there. The Mary landrrs treat their
nigg, rs worse than they do ut the South.
Why, there was Mr. - bought family
aud brought thom hers some time a,o
hand the Children never had hat, or ham
dkcrchief, or pair Of shoes 1.-The Mary
landers are said, with us, to be. very kind
to their slaves, and to treat them we'll y
"Well, they may treat them we'll enongh,
but they don't clothe them we'll Why,
there was u gill came here the ether day.
about Il years old, and all she had en- her
back was thin, trock and shift. Cold as
the weather was, she hadn't shoe to her
feet -" .'... .''. i T1'' - =. A@s
When had got as much of this sort
Of information as my memory coud hold
till | could; con'uit it. to- PAPER, l changed
the DRIFT "i our conversation. Il must tell
yon,' said I, "that am u" friend Of slave
ry; hate it; l never could be slave
shulder": IN" more could T." prompl ly
i; replied the keeper: I .coul,1n't like to BE-
"mo g M::ne. If / C 'uld have good
plantation with set OF god, kind uigyers.
| wouldnn't ca ,c tut y"u cant alwa>. get
that kind; you will have TO have some
wicked fellows and Il should be afraid of
them o"!a pl,.ntatin' where they have 80
much liberty, would hate, too, to, have
slaves about me on a plantation. OH account
"f its effect on mgset'.;; q" my Ten per, ,cu
know. ''' i"u have al~ ays to hook cross and
Angry. and wouldn't want always ito be
that way" -. IT,: . - .,..;. -.
expressed a desire. to zee these two
men in the cellar he had spoken Of. lie
threw upthe window looking ont on The pen,
anil had them called up, They answered
: very we'll t. the description hc had given:
! ! he one; was = stunt, we'll made man, with
!, y high Joreh>ad as he ha'l described, and
:? i very Intelligent face, The other was a
mild, easy loyki"y fellow with good deal
Of shrewdhess. too. depicted ins his cdd,untc-
4 uance.l 10 the former I put a number of
j questions, aud while lw4s doing 80 he trsm.
ticd ut every, JOINT >uppe>i.y. of course,
that was purchaser, aud that lli- time
had come lie told me where he was +, ,om on
and how long he had been there that he
belonged to the Baptist Church, etc etc.
i. ;;.''Would you ike t" go and live. with
ne p :; don't know, SIR: hc replied
hrs;tatingly. II don't look Us though I
! would be@vcry hard on you, do TIP" Il
don't know, sir; YOU cant always tell by
d the louk+.''''i a"4Ah,"', said the New Jersey
man, i":Ihem that looks the easiest arc
.sou,etimcs the worst" .Wculd you
rather stay in Maryland ta Than : 60 !: 10 Is the