New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-26

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and IN tho eighty year Of the Independence OF the
signed sealed and delivered in the psssnGe Of sTHFBEs
On the back of the bill Of sale were the same
above words, written in ink made of gunpowder
but il not being very distinct ] could not decipher
every part Of 1t. Mrs. Crib, however, assured me
that The language was the same with the exception
of Jas. Presley signing the document and se!iu8
her to her father, instead OF Emanuel CRIB. Mr.
Cribbs witne sses were Saml. Howell, WIN. Hail,
Sol Hepncssey, Caleb Howell, John DAVE ana
Thos. Williams. 1t will be noticed at the close OF
tine above document the woris-in the eighty-iourth
year of the Independence. What ssd commentary
on the immortal words of Jeferson that flesh OF o'lr
flesh bon5 Of our bone, be brought to Tue DOCK
and cold to the highest bidder for cash IN the pun!
miserable, contemplate State Of South Carolina:
The cause OF the sale OF this white lady into slave
ny for lie tthTossh whose VEINS courses inc Airo
Saxon blood and who has no negro faint about her
MAS simply this: About three months before this
foul stale upon the free institutions OF our country
was committed Mira. Crib resided with her tus-
band ard another family by the name of iiarrel III
the same house, at North Inlet, in the district OF
Georgetown. She wac engaged in washing, and had
built fire under pot filed With water III the yard
Mrs. uarrel approached Mrs. Crib and demended
that the fire should be put out, or else 1t would set
fire TO the house. Mrs. Cribb refused To comply
her husband then stepping mp kicked the pot over
She very calmly stood 1t on It's legs, Whoh her nus
band kicked il over agau, and caught her and beat
her 70 very badly that she was confued to her ped
for three weeks with intense suffering. Alter thc
,yos able 10 90 about she LETT her hu5bauds house
end went to live with her father. Her husband
came. demanded and cold her for the palry sum Of
6vs dollare 10 James Presley. This done In II
legal manner, as ] have shown, and the noble,
thrice gaant State OF Solth Carolina,he land Of q
Marion. a Sumter, Hayne-nay boast 81 their
liberal lave whose extreme Eberality puts 20 blush
the wiisdom, the humanity and the beneyolence OF
this enlightened age of the world.
MRS. GIBBS STATEMENT.
She remarked she was ever kind and faithful 10
Ler husband, and never gayc bin cause for such Ill
treatment Iier husband was a lazy, idle brute, and
would not work. She hsd 10 support him ana had
10 do work that was only fitted for men, such as
splitting rails, grubbing The ground, emitting down
trees Sc She SAYS she only wac IN Slavery four
week., and considers she was sold high and that
others have been sold for much less. II the purchns'
err eosires the children they eau be oouRtt&long
with the mother, and they are slaves until twenty
one wears Of age. II he docs not want them, the
mother las to give up the children, even II II DC
bAbs al her breast, and leave 1t behind to tie bus
band or the cold charity ofthe world.
The mother is in every respect slave, with one
execution She il compelled TO do all sorts Of work,
hat the owner cannot make her his concubine; then
tho law steps in TO sheld her from suo an Infamous
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malice, T. hold his slave, no amount OF money can
make bin cell the unfortunate woman back into
freedom. The ceiling OF wives is not uncommon in
S,uih Carolina, especially when their health is
broken down, and they are unable TO do hard work.
Mrs Crib says that seven were sold IN her neigh
borhood dnring the month OF her sale. in one OF
these caser brother purchased his sitter freedom,
and the husband became maniac, having lost his
reasop from consciousness OF having dsgrgced him
self beyond al bounds.
The above statement Of Mrs. Crib give for wha,
II /. egotth Hthero be no law the Statute Bcokf
Of the State Of South Carolina teGslZng the sale OF
wives Of tho Anglo Saxon blood-as It is said by
,omc-and certainly desire to give South Carolina
the benefit the donbt even IN her present treason
able character for the sake OF the credit OF orr coun
try and the free institutions which, respecting the
willie race. have always abounded in every State
and even il Mr.. Crib has overstated the case, OF
one thing | am certain from Other corresponding
witnesses her father being ore, and examined by me
/ 10 Beaufort, 5. c., 100 miles distant from the
dauqhterl that such sales do take place, a, least
among the poorer classes Of this State.
That whether the bills OF sale are legal or not,
they are regularly transferred to another with
certain show Of legality aud regaIA TO the forms OF
law: and that the husbands, Whenever they get
tired of their wives, and desire 10 put them away
and oStain oShers, do 90 through the forms OF the
cagnizancs OF the many cases Of bigamy that are
constantly occurring around item, 10 The great det-
isnt Of the moral. Of the State and the rights OF
tho moor women who have no one OF the opposite
sex 10 rise mp in tie majesty manhood ana defend
them from insult oppression, aud deprivation Of ai
the e. red tics that dear TO won.Gn's heart.
! Dee. q, R05H.--lhe oortrabandG, sixty -four IN
number, comprising men, women and children all
aboard. The small number f. accounted for by The
fact that the planters the seaboard have with
drHwu all their slayef into tho interior At = n a,