The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-08-24

ell off without his being whipped. Du-
ring the time he was imprisoned he was
brutally logged more than thousand
times because he had not fulfilled, through
weakness and exhaustion, the task I'M
imposed upon him. On one occasion,
during the winter, q keeper named " hlte-
side, and the only human man connected
vito the prison management. had direct
ed Mr. Fairbanks to cord up 4 lot of wood.
While doing this an under keeper named
Jefries came along and asked Mr. Fair
banks roughly what he was doing that
for Mr.. Fairbanks replied that he was
doing it by order of Mr. Whiteside-
Jeffres ordered him not TO cord up any
more wood, and Mr.. Fairbanks replying
that he must do as directed by the Oil
Ger highest in authority, Jetfrles III
rage relied a stick of wood, and struck
Mr. Fairbanks blow over the temple
that cut to the skull, knocking him blind
and senseless, and placed him In prison
hospital for several weeks, and from
which, owing to the shock to the brain,
az in the case of the assault upon Sena-
tor Summer by Bully Brooks, he has not
fully recovered.
"How many times the heart OF the
poor prisoner sunk within him how
many times he prayed earnestly that
death might end his sutferings; how he
was kept alive, and was permitted to
hope on, and live, is known only TO his
God. Yet it is a great wonder how the
mind could have been preserved from
utter wreck and ruin-how 1t was that
insanity did not deprive him long since
of all consciousness of the cruel wrongs
he was obliged to suffer and endure.
h.. lat,a OF 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 p
Was it not that he knew, or had faith TO
believe that her efforts in his behalf
would never cease: and that he owed it
to her, if not to himself, to endeavor to
bear with christian patience and manly
fortitldc the grievous Affections which
he was compelled to experience?
AT the time of Imprisonment of Rev.
Mr.. Fairbanks, he was engaged to be
married to Miss Mandona Tileston, OF
Williams burg, Massachusetts, n young
lady of rare personal attractions and
mental enaowmcnts. And the qualities
both of heart and mind which this est
mable lady possessed will be best illus
trated by stating that during all the time
OF his imprisonment (from November,
1851, TO April, 1864, Mr.. +. was the
one particular object Of all her thoughts
and all her devotions. Her loving, and
cheerful letters were as the staff Of life
to him, Though stripped of all his
money, clothing and property when he
was imprisoned, and, after his other
means failed, she sent him money to
supply his wants--furnished him bed,
beding, towels, linen, and funds with
which to supply himself with suitable
food, coffee, tea. &c, and to supply him
with such comforts as it was possible TO
do, and that he might not be obliged to
eat the miserable prison fare which was
supplied by the Warden. She visited
him in prison in 1888, 1893, 1889, 1850,
1868, making constant efforts to procure
his pardon.
AT length, after twelve years, one
month and six days dreadful imprison-
mcnt in the State prison ut Frankfort,
besides the four months he was in jail in
Louisville, Mr. Fairbanks received Il par
don from Lieutenant Governor Jacobs,
Of Kentucky, and was restored TO his
liberty.
During the six last years Miss Tiles
ton has been residing in Oxford, Ohio,
as teacher, where she might be near
Mr.. F., and where she could be enabled
to furnish him with continued means.
As soon as he was set at liberty he re
paired at once to her place of residence.
where they were married few weeks
since.
''On leaving the prison he was furnish
ed with five dollars from the prison fund,
and an old suit of clothes, such a. hod
carrier might wear. None Of his personal
property was surrendered to him Seven
tv-tive dollars sent to him was withheld
and kept bv the Warden, Newton Craig
And after almost thirteen years of i'm
prisonment ut hard labor. stripped Of all
his means, he boarding himself during
his incarcertion, he is again free
What a martyr to the benevolent i'm
pulses of the human heart has he not
been, What an illustration of the bar
barism of slavery is his history, What
an example of true womanwood, what
an instance of that constancy, devoted
affection, self sacrificing spirit which is
the true ornament of the gentler sex, the
rare exhibition of which in these degen-
crate days makes this illusttious in
stance stand ont in transcendant beauty
and holiness. ID.