Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-08-04

to ''kin him." The insulting Language
constantly addressed to him, the hatet
tones Of voice, and insolent and abosivt
manner, to say nothing of the many hor.
rible oaths directed to him, were enough
! to PROSTATE man of his refined and sen.
sitive mind. But all this was as nothing
compared to the horrible whipping inaict,
ed upon his naked person Forced to
lean forward over stool chair or bench
he was made to strip, and then, with a
sole leather strap eighteen inches in
Ilehgth, two inches Wide and about three
leighths OF an inch thick, soaked in water
and fastened to handle about two feet
long, he was Aogged sometimes daily
sometimes four times a day, for not per-
fofn!hg heavier task than it was possi-
BILE for him u do in his state of health.
He was given from two to one hundred
and seven lashes at time
! Sometimes he would escape Hoggins
fora month, and once six months passed
off without his being whipped During
the time Ee was imprisoned he was bru-
tally fogged more thah one thousand
|times becaHae he had not fulfilled, through
weakness and exhaustion, the task impo-
sed upon him On one occasion, during
the last winter, a keeper named White
side, and the only humane man connected
with the prison management, had directed
MIR. Faifbank to cord up lot Of wood.
While doing this, an under-keeper named
Jeffries came along and asked Mr.. Fair
bank roughly what he was doing that for?
Mr.. Fairbank replied that He was doing
it by order of Mr.. Whiteside. Jelfries
ordered him not to cord up any more
wood, and Mr.. Fairbank replied that he
must do as difcrtcd by the officer highest
in authority. JcfFrics in rage seized
stick of wood and struck Mr.. Fairbank
over the temple blow that cut to the
skull, knocking him blind and senselcss,
and which placed him in the prison hos
pital for several weeks, and from which,
lowing to the shock to the brain, as in the
case of the assault upon Senator Sumner
by "Bully" Brooks, he has not yet fully
recovered. 81"
| How many times the heart of the poor
prisoner sunk within him; how many
times he prayed earnestly that death
might end his sufferings; how he was
kept alive, and was permitted to hope on
and live, is known OILY to his God. Yet
it is great wonder how the mind could
have been preserved from utter wreck
and ruin; how it was that insanity did
not deprive him long since Of ail con-
seriousness of the cruel wrongs he was OBJ
Iligea ID stfTet and endure:
But have we not thc expianation in
the knowledge that he surely possessed,
that there was loving and devoted heart,
made all the more loving; devoted and
constant by his civil bondage and the
horrors to which he was subjected? Was
it not that he knew, or had faith to be-
lieve, that her efforts in his behalf would
never cease? And that he owed it to her,
if not to himself, endeavor to bear with
Christian patience and manly fortitude
the greivous Affections which. he was
compelled to experience!
i At the time of the Imprisonment Of
Rev. Mr.. Fairbank, he was engaged to
be married TO Miss Mandona Tileston, of
Williamsburg, Mass, young lady Of
, rare personal attractions and mental en-
dowments. And the qualities both Of
, heart and mind which the estimable lady
possessed, will be best illustrated by sta
! ting that during all the time of his i'm.
? prisonment (frotn November, 1851, tc
5 April, 1861 Mr.. Fairbank was the
one particular object of all her thoughts
and her devoted affections. Her loving
0 cheerful, and hopeful letters, were as the
0 staff of life to him. Though stripped o
all his money, clothing and property
when he was imprisoned, and after hi
other means failed, she sent him money
with which to supply wants-furnishet
: him bed, bedding, towels, linen, ant
funds with which to supply himself will
n suitable food, coffe, tea, &C., and to sup
' ply with such comforts as it was possible
Il to do, and that he might not be obliget
: to cat the miserable prison fare which wa
a supplied by the warden. She visite,
him in person in 1858, 1855, 1859, 1860
:. 1868, making constant efforts to procur
l. his pardon.
d. At length, after twelve years, on
Il month and six days dreadful imprison
N ment in the State Prison at Frankfort
s. beside the four months he was in Jail a
h Louisville, Mr.. Fairbank received
d pardon from Lieutenant Governor Jacobs
= of Kentucky, and was restored to hi
f. liberty. a'ei a aasi ~
le During the last six years Mis- Tilcsto
d has been residing in Oxford, Ohio, as
N teacher, where she might be near Mr.
d Fairbank, and where she could be ena
le bled to furnish him with continued means
E. As soon as he was set at liberty he re
s. paired at once to her place of residence
e where they were married few week
of since. asr fi 1f =,
G., On leaving the prison he was furnishe
On with five dollars from the prison funt
and an old suit of clothes, such as hoe