Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-08-06
WHOLE NUMBER. 702.
Slavery ana .ass ylsts.as.

si"vsry aud its yfetssns.
weaPRsea telng description Of one ofths
evils Of slavery as given by . soldier Of the
io4th PennsyIyapias Whoever can read Il,
knowing that Il is ooly one Of thousands that
can be written, and stilI deierd and seek the
preservation OF The ipstitution, Is lost as well to
the dictates o'resscn, as 10 those of humanity.
The soldier saw whereof he writes, az well as
all who were with him, and details his impress
sions 10 q styie-of simple and toachine earnest
ness Alter some introductory remarks he
continues: ,aair4sH sHHh4~A,.I III
About four miles north of the Pamun.
key river we were met by deleg alton of
Uncie Toms hardy black Fellows, who want
ed to emigrate to the Yankee land of prom
ise. !, They said they represented one hun
dred aud fifty slaves, the property Of Mr..
Andrew Scott, who owned these cultivated
fields for miles. They wsuted to get their
children carried 10. our transportation wag-
ons 10 White House landing. from which
place they had been assured Uncle Sam
would take them Norh Our wagons
being full we could acaommodntc bat few.
However, any thing was preferable to being
slave; so they determined Il come along
any, way. About O mile further We came
to the mansion of this rich slave lord, Mr..
Scott. a broad avenue lined with broad
spreading magpolias in full bloom, led up to
the house. which was the usual style of
| Soul hern. plantation houses On one side
of his house, 10 the rear, stood very neat
and tidy little slave hut. Everythng was
clean about. ), The little yard neatly trim.
med and swept, the door step scrubbed to
an astonishing degree of w1iteness; every.
thing, intact, denoting the careful aud skill
ful house keeper.
"Around tie door we're three women
and about half dozen children, from the
wee baby to the young girl Of Is or 16.
Two Of the women were about shade
Lighter than the quadroon, while aIl the
children were white. The third woman
was apparently pure white; her eyes were
| blue, and her hair was brown and straight;
her features were entirely Americsn---noth-
ing to denote particle of negro blood.
La her aims she had q beautiful little boy,
about four years old. with fair hair and blue
eyes. This women was crying bitterly
when we rode up. Thinking that she was
member Of the family. we tried to console
her by assuring her that Yankees make war
upon men, and not upon women. Can you
imagine how shocked we were when ws
were told that this white woman aud child
were slaves, and that the degraded mother
was weeping tor shame at her degradationi
Lieutenant Wren, quartermaster Of the
6lst New York, was so excited that he
bolted into the house, and bis sword rat
tied and bis spurs jipgled with bis impet.
uosity as be strode along the halls in search
of the old scoundrel Scott. g
'tI asked one ofthe women " by she did
not bundle up and come along, now that
she had chance, with the rest, She said
she had an idiotie son in the house, who was
sick, and they could not 60 without him.
asked this women if she was the daughter
of the owner of the plantation. She said
she wasl We went into the hut, and upon
clean bed there sat this poor little idiot
boy, white as am, with brown hair.
About this time, Mr.. Scott came in, the
lord and owner of all these sclite people,
whiterth himself. He is an old, shrivell
led-up, niggerf faced, crooked back, little
specimen of Southern chivalry
as a king, and Virginia born by Gawd.n
asked the mother of this boy if Mr.. Scott
was his father You should have seen her
blush as she answered yes, The eincestuous
old beast! This idiot sOn--t4s child of his
o,on dangAter-fatAer and grandfather 10
his cWn child,eai :"