, 1866-03-21
MISS RARToN,s rEsTEa1OHY.

ASS k&AH AVEH'G Il 13S
II any doubt remained In any nlod ofthe
Infinite meanncss Of slavery, 1t Will b re-
moved by reading the amp1e story told BY
Miss Clara Barton betore the ConereAslonai
Committee relative ton freed family In South
western Geory1a. Her story proves, more
over. Tint so far from slavery being In TACT
abolished throughout the South, some Of Its
worst enormiues hare been pcFpetrated since
Ia supposed abolition. Slavery Is not a law,
hut practice, and so long IS such practices
exist slavery Is in full FORCE; The story Is
briefly this: A mulatto woman, half white,
the mother OF child one year, old, ;And
within two montha To become the mother Of
another. fails, owing to the necessary weak
ness OF her condition to perform tho fnll task
Of spinning assigned her by master who
we'll knew that she was free as himself legally
by the authority Of the Federal Government,
Required 10 furnish eight knots Of yarn da7,
and unable to do 20, instead Of showing even
cxcusable sulkiness, she gathered together the
little money she had, aud undertook to buy
the reminder, but still fell short By hall
knot. For this offence she was bucked,
gaggrd, and lashed, a species of combined
torture known only among felons and slaves.
jA1aS oS2 &OA LAub OEs5EIlu{s6 pkVC4S8s
"The peErun IL teated upon THE ground. the knees
drawn up. tho hands put unaer tho knece md The
stick Eun thto9gh ovu the arms and uude. the
knees. the hands bang tied in front. That. nakes
IN The month ard tied at The buck of the head This
W11nau hxd been treE1ed tn that Nny- Then The
oEe1zecI had come behind he1. licked her "a the
In the meantime, for they never whrp the negro
With the clothes en-. She wa. thrown on her face
euu lasben on ber baek, 20 1e.t when her husband
there az she had been len."
The next day the woman; notwithstanding
this addition to The disabilities under which
she laborcd, was ordered to resume her task,
md failing, WIS informed BY her master, that
he chad not whipped her yet, but shonld do
20 next morning" Under this terror the
woman and her husband-as nearly as any
mau could be her Lusband whom slavery had
divorced from lormer w1tc BY whom he had
five children Hvfng-1an away, and aftes
clrcr,itous flight Of fifty miles, reached the
protection OF the aag at Americas twelve
miles from Ahdersonvf1le. Here they we're
employed by some poor whites, and paid for
weeks work nj dollar day in Confed-
crate money, which would not pay their fares
even TO Andersonville. Put od from the cars
on their way to the latter place, for want of
the money Of which they had been thus rob
bed, the husband pushed on to Andersonyillc,
and told bis story to Miss Barton, who caused
thus describes her condition:
arkrf than he, With 1alr, patient face, With noth-
| ing eully IN her 1ook+ iound across her hack
tsslve .ashcs o. gashss, partly healed and partly
have been whipped with Ash half as large as my
little finger; II may hare hesn far:;er. Any ot
1heee Eashes Ems Rom eight to ten inches in length.
1 way. It lad been 4 curling uhip. II bad curled
around her Arms cut out inkide the arm, over the
hack. and The same Oh 1he other side. There were
tweEe Of tho:e long lashes partly healed and parity
NOT. She cnud moi bsar her clothing on her ., ihAt
time, excerpt thrown loosely over her shoulders,
She bad eol strong enough 20 as TO be able to walk
walk before that occurred"
These were the effecte-uot Of whipping
In the Southern sense OF that word, for the
master, ut the time she escaped, declared
that be "had not whipped her yet, bat III
tended 10 do 80 The next morning." What
would have been the result Of castisatio1
sufficiently vigorous 10 be styled In that mas
ter's vocabulary "whlppiug," does not up
pear, hut We may suppose II would comprist
the nse Of sausasgse-chopper for whip Lash
I
vttrio} for ointment. We believe the event,
Of the past four years have fnllY satisfied eve
~ honest and Intelligent man that there Is M
race Of savagcs that could not, with goot
grace, send missionaries arnong the Southers
SHAREHOLDERS to leach them the first princi
pics Of civilization. Certainly thaEe Is n,
people on The face Of the earth that can fur
nish record Of cruelty and meanneas to com
pare with the above
Miss Barton gives touching description O
the faith In Mr. Lincoln personally, whicl
filed the hearts OF the freedmen, and ofthei
doubts whether the death Of their great ben
cfactor might not lead to their rr-enslave
| ment:
.neartng that party OF Yapkees. md especial
afsnsee tndy. xas there, thy Commenced 70 gssf
questions IN their own way Hhich wns 70 the eaec
Il lhey werc fEee. and u Abraham Lincoln we1
hai ke Id been 2ed ST All a. the @ sane ne TN ttme % shs
hau been informed That now thAt hr Was dead. The
uerc no longer ftee- nut wonh he al siares aealn
that be wa nat dead, hui tia, Ii was hoax 10 hol
then in slavery. They would tt1Te' twenty milk
In 1be night niter their days work wa- douc. and
xould ind them standing In frnnt OF tent In 1t
I morning 10 hear NE Say whelher # WA ttue III!
: AbEahan Lincoln vas dead, and that they we'
fret&1
, It ret remains to be seen whether there
} not, after all, more truth In tho simple 1ait
! and instincts of these humble, long -oppresse
S and off-deceived negroes. than In the prete1
e tious proclamation Of Mr.. Seward declarip
! slavery abolished by the votes OF State 20
: crnments, whose very right to cast the vot
e is founded on a continuance Of polite
# slavery. The negro is nearer right thsu II
q statesman. 11r. Lincoln Is dead, and II