Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-11-15


ted with it, and both now make one build
ing, while the slave pen remains unim
paired and entire. The odiousness ant
horror of the institution" are abatet
by the consolidation Of the two edifces
but still, in the ear of the thoughtful ant
imaginative beholder, the ehains stil
rattle, and before his eyes stand human
beings, with downcast looks, fresh from
the coast of Africa while manaclet
hands are marching down to the ship
under the whip Of Pilgrim driver, which
is to take them to Southern Market
1t is painful to stand, and gaze, and re.
member, but one cannot help lingering
and I was obliged to 60 a second time
and spend another hour.
The Pilgrims had their virtues; hon
or to their memories But they also
had their defects, marked and painful, as
the relic testifes; and while it remains,
and as long as it is remembered, their de-
scendants should not be too boastful.-
When any one Of them gets upon the
"highfaIutin" in self-glorifcation, on
some anniversary occasion, or public
gathering, let some one raise before his
eyes fragment of the old slave pen
Barnum might not only make "good
thing out of it." but big thing" and
even " a fat thing" by adding it to his
collection of rarities and wonders; or a
less enterprising genius, by carting it
through the country as show. And
wonders never cease. Col. Isaac Royal
was the owner Of this estate, with which
an extensive farm was once Connected
His father came from the island of An
tigua, where the son was born, who, with
his father, emigrated to this country in
.I738, and settled in Medford, where the
father died, who was also Colonel, and
rich planter and stakeholder in his own
island, and a Tory when he came here
The son was simply a coward, and upon
the outbreak of the Revolution, fed to
Halifax, and thence to England, where
he died in 176l lie was a slave trader
on the coast of Africa and in the South
till he fed the country Ia 1776 he
wrote from Halifax to his agent in Med
ford as follows:
Please sell the following negroes ;
Stephen and George; each cost EGO ster-
ling, and I would take $50 apiece for
them. Hager cost G35 sterling, but I
will take $50 for her. If Mr. Bonja-
man Hale will give 500 for her, which
he offered, he may have her, it being a
good place. AS to Betsey and her dau-
ghter Nancy, the former may tarry, or
take her freedom, as she may choose,
and Nancy you may put out to any good
family by the year"
Again he wrote:
II shall leave North America with
great reluctance, butmy health and bust
ness requires it. and I hope, through the
goodness Of God, if my life is spared, to
be able to return again soon."
Col Royal did not forget the country
he had made his home, even after he had
deserted it, and found another in Eng
land. By his will he bequeathed 1000
acres Of land to lay a foundation for
prolessorship Of law in Harvard Univer-
sity, while the rest Of his estate was con-
fscated. The proceeds of the land were
left to accumulate till they we're sufficient
for the support Of professor The por-
fessorship bears his own name, every an
nual catalogue prOclaiming to the world
that the greatest anti-slavery State in
the Union educates at this very day her
sons by the endowment of a stakeholder
and slayetrader, and the proceeds of the
sale of innocent men, women and child
rem, stolen on the cost Of Africa, penned
in Medford, and sold again in Virginia
and South Carolina. So strangely are
things connected. and so little has even
Massachusetts and New England where
of to glory!