Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-28
Amghey,s mIron Enrnnce.,

Miss, in 1856, and fully ordained in 1861
He continued preaching in northern Missis-
sippi for more than year atterward, as he
had done for several years before when, after
having been for months under violent suspi-
cion of Unionism, and once arrested and ex-
amined on charge of disafeetun toward the
contederacy. he was again arrested on charge
of sedition, on the first of June, 1862, and
after examination, confined in the military
prison at Tupeo, along with several scores of
others, charged with desertion, unIonism,
trading with the Yankees, acting as spies, re-
tuSlng confederate money, etc, etc. There
were also several negroes and mulattoes,
charged with endeavoring to escape to the
1ankees. This company received frequent
accessions, for whom room was made by
shooting or hanging some of those previously
incarcerated. Sometimes, these had a few
hours warning of their fate; at Others no no.
tee was given them. Knowing that death
was their portion, Mr.. Aughey and one Rich
ard Malone planned and effected an escape,
by the aid of some other prisoners; but the
former was the next day arrested by two rebel
soldiers, while on his way to the Union lines,
and, after being swindled out of $240 by one
of his captors, who volunteered to let him es-
cape for Il bride, he was heavily irOned and
taken back to his prison, and there appraised
that his execution traitor and spy was
matter of course, and would not long be de-
layed. This was on the 9th of July last; and
during the night following the 18th he again
escaped, through the hearty cooperation of
many Of his fellow-priSoners, and this time
made his way, through fearful perils, and after
suffering dreadfully from hunger, thirst, and
other hardShipS, to the Union post at Rienzi,
where he was welcomed and duly cared for.
On the I'd of August, he left Rienzi for the
north, having meantime obtained his wife and
child from within the rebel lines by the aid of
a federal escort of cavalry. Mr. Aughey has
since rendered the Union cause good service
by public addresses at various points, and by
the preparation Of most effective narration of
his experience. From that work we adduce
certain facts illustrating the rise, progress,
and character Of the rebellion. Mr.. A. gives
the substance of a Breckenridge speech made
by Col. Drane to the people OF Choctaw coun-
ty, Miss, late in the canvass of 1860, made
up OF the vilest abuse and detraction of the
northern people, and concluding thus:
''Now, my fellow citizens, what shall we do
to resist northern aggression? If Lincoln or
Douglas is elected, Gas to Bell-Everett ticket,
1t stands no sort Of chance,) let us secede.
This remedy will be etfectual. l am in favor
of no more compromises. Letus have Brock
inridge, or immediate, complete, and eternal
separation.
lNS country is diFGduy aware IlldC the pre-
tended elections whereby the cotton states
were made to vote themselves out of the Union
were generally the merest ftrces, few indeed
daring to vote for the Union where secession
had the upper hand. Here is Mr.. Aughey's
experience =
''Approaching the polls, asked for Union
ticket, and was informed that none had been
printed, and that it would be advisable to vote
the secession ticket | thought otherwise,
and, going to desk, wrote out Union tick
ct and voted it, amidst the trowns and sup
pressed murr.urs of the judges and bystand-
ers; and, as the result proved had the hon
or Of depositing the only vote in favor of the
Union which was poled at that precinct |
know many who we're in favor of the Union
who were inundated by threats, and by the
Odium attending it, from voting at ALL
Thus was the most momentOus question
ever submitted to a popular ballot carried
throughout most of the south. Senator
Mason of Virginia gave public notice that
those who voted against secession in that
state must expect to leave her soil in case
they were voted down. And this spirit was
ali but universal. There can be no doubt that
the south, fairly canvassed and fairly polled,
would have given Union majority Sc
cession was usurpation by violence in the
states as well as treason to the nation.
Here is case which was made known to
MIR. A. while escaping from Tupelo
"a short time after daylight, we reached
friend No. 3, who promised to conduct me to
Rienzi. While at his house learned that
Unionist Mr.. N, had been killed under
circumSt ances of the greatest cruelty His
sentiments had become known to the rebels
He was arrested by their cavalry, and refusing
to take the oath, they resolved to put him to
death on the spot He had large family of
small children, who together with his wife,
begged that his life might be spared. He
himself had no tavOrs to ask of the secession
lists. Among his foes the only dispute was
as to the mode of his death. Some favored
shooting, others hanging; but the prevailing
majority were infavor Of scalding him to death.
And there in the presence of his weeping and
helpless family, these fends in human form
deliberately heated Water, lcith wilch they
scalde1 to death their chained and defencelesS
gictin,. Thus persisted a patriot of whom the
state was not worthy. The corpse was then
suspended from a tree with label on the
breast stating that whoever cut him down
and buried him should suffer the same fate.
My companions cut down the body by night,
and buried it in the forest. May God reward
them!"
Mr.. Aughey thus sums up his eleven years
experience as a student and clergyman in the
south with regard to slavery:
HS QuSSuOu is OIJell aSkeu, is slavery
sinful in itsefY My observation has been ex-
tensive, embracing eight slave states, and [
have never yet seen an example Of slavery
that did not deem sinful. If slavery is not
sinful in itself, l must always have seen it out
of itself have observed its workings dur
ing eleven years among professedly Chris
tian people, and cannot do otherwise than Dro-
nounce it an unmitigated curse 1t is a curse
to the white man, it is a curse to the black
man. That God will curse it, and blot it out
of existence ere long, is my firm conviction"
tThe next peculiar abomination of the pc
GUITAR institution which | observed was the
RIGHTEOUSNESS engendered by it. Mr.. ID.
T, of Madison county, Ky, had a white
family of children, and black, or rather mu-
latto family. As his white daghters married,
he gave to each mulattO half-sister as a
wating-girl or body-servant. Mr.. K, of
Winchester, Ky, had mulatto daughter and
he was the father of her child. DIR. c. of
Tishomingo county, Miss, had negro con-
cubine, and white servant to wait on her.
Mr.. -, of Marshall county, Miss, lived
with his white wife till he had grandchildren
some of whom came to school to me, when
he repudiated his wife and attached himself to
very homely old African, who superintends
his household and rules the other slaves with
rigor. Mr.. s., of Iishomingo county,
Miss, has negro concubine and large fam
lily of mulatto children. He once brought