The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-03-04

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She is about thirty-five, We should
think, and was cook in gcntleman's"
family in New Orleans, who owned
her of course. On her left arm at the
elbow arc the scars of three cuts
given by ner mistress with raw hide.
One of them is about three inches
long, and third of an inch wide. On
her back are the scars, small and
great, of more than fifty cuts with the
rawhide. They were laid upon her
naked body by her masters own hand.
The crime wrs this: it seems that
these "Southern Gentlemen" have
coffee taken TO their rooms before
they rise in the morning. The usual
time was five o. clock, but Mary over.
selpt herself little: her fire did not
work well, and she was some half an
hour behind time. This she admits;
and for this the skin of her back was
cut into ribbons! Delicate as it may
seem, we asked permission to see the
effects of the terrible scourging, and
therefore, speak of what our own eyes
witnessed. "A the Union army np.!
preached she fed from her brutal
mnster, and has since that time been
serving Col. Hanks for wages as q
cook. She is modest, good dispos-
itioncd and faithful woman, and ns
much entitled to the freedom she
now enjoys, and to pny for her labor
as any white woman in America, ..,,f
8. just in front Of Mary stands
Isaac White, or little "Ikey," rs they
call him. See how strait he stands
his side, and his right tucked into
the breast of his jncLnt Woli, 'IL.y
is about eight years old, and has been
in school six months and three weeks
and we venture TO sny that not one
white boy in fifty, with the same op-s
poltunitics, can read as well as he can.
In public meeting in Prof Mattison's
Church in New York, he read sever
al verses out of q new book which he
had not before seen, to the astonish.i i
ment of all who heard him. They
gave him money to buy him a nice
little overcoat for he had none and
he will go back to New Orleans with
the rest OF the company. If "lkey"
lives, lie will one day make his mark
in the world. W. rr ..u..
g. Next to "1key" stands Rcbec- ,
ca Hugcr, bright little girl of elev-.
cn years. How beautiful her hair
curls! Her mother was favorite
servant in New Orleans, and a slave,
md so Rebccca was slave also. Sho
does not know who was her father
She is in q school in New Orleans,
when Mt home, is n beautiful speller,
can read well, and is studying geog-
rnphy. She writes but poorly vet.
Her master, also, ran away from the
city when the Yankees took possess
ion, and left Rebccca and her mother
to freedom and the Stals aud Stripes.
I. Rosina Downs, who has hold OF
Rebccca's arm, is six years old. Her
mother, too, was house slave, and
so Rosina was slave. She has n
sister rs white as she is, and three
brothers who are darker. Her moth
cr, who cannot read n word, is q re.
spectacle woman, and does oil she
can for her five children, but she lives
N poor hut in New Orleans, and
has hard work to support them. With
n heavy heart, she told Col Hanks,
as he left with Rosina, that IL lie
could find some Christian family who
would take her and bring her up well,
he he. might aiye ri peHc sYaX, Such Il
such her desire that her daughter
should enjoy the advantages which
are so generally enjoyed in respect
able families ut the North.
g. Back of Rcbecca stands Robert
Whitehead, first rate painter, and
an ordained Baptist preacher to the
colorcd people. All colored preach.
ers South have to work like other
blacks. Robert was born i'm Balti-
more, and was taken to Norfolk, Va,
by II DR.. Cook, and sold for 81, ,525.
From Norfolk he was taken TO New
Orleans, and sold for house and
ship painter for Sl,775, to DIR. Les
lie, When lie had earned and paid
over to his master, Sl,775-for he
kept account-hc limited to him that
perhaps he would be pleased to make
him small present, whereupon hc
gave him--25 cents Robert re-
Icsived siXty.two cuts on the naked
back Mt one time, and soon aiterward
wore huge iron gag in his mouth
for forty days, for preaching to his
cololeQ brethren but he is now FREE
and happy man is he He learned
to read and write in Baltimore, and
makes stirring speech.--Freed-
mans 1dp0caie. fa-