Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1865-03-24
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PARIS. MAINE. MARCH. 20. isss.
How Slavery makes Devils Of Men.

How Slavery makes Devils Of Men.
On ne sth q November ISL. Rev Cal.
win Fairbanks wss seiscd in Indiana. drag
ged into Louisville. Krutscky; after uiosk
trial ~ss found guilty % giving AID snd
couiort 10 slave cudeaVoring O. escape
from one ofthe bells II slavery IN thsf state.
For this oficnse he "a. .entcscei 10 hfteen
YEAR iunprisounsSnt IN the K~nsucky Penn
fsniaAFy. On the 9th 81 MsncA. ls52. he wAs
inc1rccrzird snd there remained until the
l5th Of April. 1854. when he ~as parjonel
out by Lieut. Gov. Jacobs. In letisr in
the Ns- York Independent. Mr. FairbAnks
teis bo~ he Vas treated. lie saws every
kind Of insult va. heaPcd upon him
- They began by cuttsnE his hair - As 70
excite ridioule. Next. ny cell. IN ~hich !
suffered IN common ~Ish others. iron 9th.
veruin. e0lj AM the worst description 81
bedding.
When the thesnomctcr as al ten be ow
zero. vas left ~Iibcut sheet. pillow or
any other .rficls. save a sack Of shAvings
and too Or fbres old blankets. Nv 6rst
work ~ss breaking he-p. in a rooa four
fee below the surface Of the yard. 80
eroud-d and bally vent lated a. 10 prove
f.tAl In a short time % most u a. victims.
have seen san men taken from thirty. ia
al. hOuss in one week and earned TO the
grave. Three times Wa PLACED in that
house hy Craig. s-ifA orders @ kiT NJ We
have neither combs. towels. piilo-s. sheets
or any thing % the kind .
Mr.. ?. ~As over taxed with labour anl
when be failed. be says. II Suffered cruel
torture ~h,ch I viii describe. the 6rst v.ar
three times a dsy. bit the three s8,~ertiinc
years four tiHa-s a day. ard on the Sl5baih
Wa locked up IN nv littie Silly crn -bea
al others had tAe Liberty Of yard.
The Instrument 81 torture. consisted Of a
s,ap o. harness 81 sole leather. l. inches
long. ? u in ~ilth and Is an inch thiek.
Of tie hArdcs; hali-tAnned leather. During
the year 1875. although b. vas SIX frosn
over-work and barbarous trcatmcnt) he
saws. ~ss logged with this strap from t~o
20 hfty or sixty stripes When vas 80
weak oOuid hardly drag myself up a eight
Of stairs. have been aorgcl four times
day With that strap with ali their might. r.
ceiving from 60 @'-p stripes; a. one time
tsr0wtag tie particles - scsL a,,i Mod %
fie diagHoe Of 10 fecf ss,oa -, ~aU All
tbis because I uas too weak and slck 20
complete nv task Of,en lave cadured
these tortsres. until they have Indicted g.
~ stripes without a motioa or = r~oan.
vhie every ten stripes ~ere rore thaa
equai - the pains Of d~sfh. often p-sv-
Ell and oourt-d Death. that he would cad
the torture -
Tbs good nan sufc-sd al this. uaae-
Lor q congass. (Ibe Fu-ifivc slave
Law ior ~hich The people Of fhs North
were responsible No wonder the Al-nirb-
ty - carrying us through seas q blood.
Thank God. that reiic Of barhari-rn has
been rel eAied lie who prsys for the
% uHioH a. 4 rIs. prays far ths ~ enact
M OF just such diaboliCAl Acis as dctaiied
BY Mr. Fairbanks. God beard Paal ana
Siias ben m prison. and BE- heard his ser
want Fairbanks and Thousand Of othcrs -ho
suffered from TIE barbarities % slavery nm
der laws % the american Congrcss uiich
disgraoc the DARK ages. lie is no- puaisb-
ing Us Tor these tLincs.