New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-03

was, " II the boys make moft than two oonSIs
a week epiece, I ge. what 10 over; II they don't
make ,la,, ! have to make 1t good 70 him; 10 ma
got TO have It Saturday night, sure" -
Another case was uai KIDD by an additional ioaturs:
II WAS thst Of a slave woman, apparently ABOUT ID
Years OF are. Coming upon Der without any no'ice
of our Wit found her in a room tidily kept aud
herself doceuty dressed. She hal been hiring her
a. If for eleven years at seyenty-two dollars year
Her husband she told inc of course he could not DO
legally suchj, wac slave and was hired ny hs as'et
a. cook in one Of tho Louisville hotels ior three
hundred dollars a year; oui Of this his Easter, 500
said gave him, once or tvcs yoor, u'coohs'
note-noihing ese There we're in the room Two
bright n:eiiigcui-lookng Children one q boy aDoh'
ten years Old, the other . giIl two OF three yee'e
yculger One migit 90, 1T q venturt, iuto \ nozon
d. ongs Of PERSONS u; the middle class III aIr car
cumstancos and not lind their children clssbo! n
pcrsnn more neatly and suitably clad thSn "eie
these two Young sligcs. expressed to The mother
nv satisfaction at thor appearance Her face sad
danel. and abe said, "The white people have two
OF my children, aud that boy Is about big enough
~ go"
1 INQUIRED how this wns snd she informed mo
thsl her master left her children with nor tilt they
were about cleycn years old, and then took taeb
homo 70 xGrk. Up TO that age she fed aud clothed
thom a. Dor own expense. The last they mac taken
Wis l.'ls gir between eleven AMI twelve years
old -Four months ago the lGother had gone to the
plantation to visit her, not having sosE her toen in'
Ten months she had saved dress tor tho cniid,
ard took it with her. Il knew" sho said, "teat
she vpnld ncs It but never expected 10 fad her
as had a. she was; ] could not help crying
when I saw her; she was not dressed rs hunan
crcaturo should be took of her rags ana washed
her Sho serving iry young master, ana no
he'd whipped the G.. Id so tasI You ennd mol i"y
veur hand anywhere along hsr bach whore lie had
NOT Gu. the blood ont OF her. did all could for
her sId dressed her, hut could not stay. Here
the poor ~ asuros Eyes al d Win tear'. troueh'
back the ragS M child Was covered with rave
I 4 = fsn INIT 4
seemed reluctantly. and brought small bundle OF
II nv tattors, which she Appeared ashamed that i
should SEQ. " II could ONLY have kept the emil
dren" she said, " ] would not have car'd FOR al
Lho rest. liked 50 Inuen 70 have them cioan ana
NICE"
This woman madc her living. as ] ascnrtaned,
81 ly washing and Ironing. She, Ike hcothef,
bad paid her cxpense. Of every kind, The doctors
bill Inclusive.
Truly the tondor mercies Of slavery ere cruel
Under what other srs'sn would men assuming IN
be gcntlumen, COMM; towards poor, hard-vofking
women such fragrant injustice ca this'
In the first ease the W"rAn Charlotte, 10 feeble
health, advancing IN years. wish no means oil lYlrg
except labor IN washing aud ironing, pays TO nef
m.-i,r two huEdred snd sixty doh n year tDr tho
rivilcgs OF snpportins ly such labor herself and
hcr Oh ldrcn. 1hc man who received this human
rental had literally furnished no oquiyGlenA- For
more than fifteen yoars the woman had not received
rom him even l;le aid 10 sickness. he children
iif Nlitul % now QtnfuiltN lftll ply lchb VI
hun drsd dollars o.on had cost him lotblug. For
fifteen years tho moth bad fed and clothed them,
cared flr them in sickness and in health she con-
tinucd, unrequited, ~ feed and cloth tntm stu.
| Who, If not thai mother, was entitled % tier
vrgos Low Who. except one in whom slavery had
tlsnted every PERCEPTION al ke Of justice and deli
tacy would consent to receive and 10 uso money
coming ilom such q source - that
In the seooud csse. three bundrcd and seventy
two dollars annually had baen pnid for elevon
bV tho and him whom Cnlle.
her husband, ia. lHw of the state forbiddina
tia. shs should b. his lawful wife. Posr
thons2nd and niley-iwo dollars tho master had
rceoiycd from thcm ~ that time; for which he
Lad r,ndrod nothing except some ten doll 70 year
in The form of grtuty To the W ~ this tour
thousand dollars considered by the master enough
10 take from these tvo-working peopIo1 The
mother. IN this care in toe fnrmor ono, bad
brought 10 her children Vt her own exJansn, lad
FED them aud had clothed snd kept them any re-
spectacle yeomgn might nave D,en glad 10 sco ms
Children clothed and kept Wore The father and
mother, ,iter the payment ~ this tourthoussnd dol.
lars Rfrr the care ard cost n bringing up these
children, suffered to eaioy the comort OF having
them With them, sni the Gd which, AZ they gres
NJ. they might be- able W aiiOrd' No. While tie
children were burdcn that burden WA thrown on
the mo thcI she too rs III the other ease, earning
q LIVING % sashGrsOman. As roo, a. they were OF
a. ago 70 be Of service, they wcro removed ~ the
plsnution And how treated therei The youEg
gal was llten, neatly aud comfortably clad, nom
Ger mothers care. One would have thought ihat
the most common gard for seoency, 10 say nota-
ing v. justice wogd have suggested that the worse
thsH-oTphngcd enid should have been kept, as the
servant O. rich rsar, a. least 40 rcpGabiy rs she
poor sllre-mother had kept her Yet she was suf- \
f,vod 10 20 about the house, before Der master |
oyer In filthy rags. One would Rave supposed that
the recollection ofthe iour thousand dollars received
from TITO hsrdwoiking parents might Lave rison up
70 saYe--if Christian fe0iing could 10. ssYc--tAis |
poor child, deprived OF natural protectors from bru
ial cruelty. Yet sbo Was treated AZ 10 ulaa WITH
th- losst preterse tS humanity would have treated
dunb boast.
ict 10 ono sly that .hese were eases Of unusual
hardship. TIE parties themselves evidently did Lot
consider them such. There Was no toSe of qucru-
lous complaint the fuct came cut only 10 answer
10 ny direct inquiries and Heiihor OF the women
seemed 10 coH,idor herself especially 10 Do pitled
Charlotte thought l;le bard OF Is thst her Blaf Ter
did not send Lcr Iaesllcipo when Sic vas siek The
hire Of her children did not hoe To have suggested
isoli 10 her ~ any injustice. Even tie other seid
she would 10 willing - PiLt With The chliren u 1
sho only knew .hey wore wei rc%cd. li'h cha
been suffered 70 rvtIsIn them, her srasltade 70 her
master Tor his genefosty you'd, il Was evident,
have bseB unD0gndod. Ono could seo that me four
thousand dollars subtracted rom her own aud her
hlsbGnds earnings loyeI occurred 10 Der except es
usual thing.
Both women expressed the greatest sstsfactoa
that they sere allowed to hire Themselves. II VAS
sufficiently appaIeu; that nothing bhort OF onpui-
sion would cause either Of them 70 T0turu ~ wbat
they still called home. What sort Of home could
ila. be, compared TO which the privilege Of hard
labor at tbs wesh tub purchased by Il weekly pay
ment in money coupled 10 case with similar
payment Tor he children, and in tie other Nth ho
loss Of .Aom-was regarded IS . favor anu a bless-
iBgi
lot ia not imagine tha: the mas;e-s in these Two
rsses, wero sinners ajO7c al men that dSslt ia
kentucky. They may have been iniulgens in
IND a.