Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-09-27
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF TWO MU-
LATTO CHILDREN.

Everybody who has read Uncle Toms
Cabin will remember the character of Legree,
the brutal, unfeeling slave overseer. That
character has found counterpart in the
person Of a resident of Williamson county,
Tenn, whose terrible treatment of two mu-
latto children sounds more like the deeds of
a iiend incarnate than of a man. We obtain
the details of the frightful story from official
sources, which places them beyond doubt.
In the year 1858 a man named Henry
jackson, who lives at Tr,une, Williamson
county, sold one of his slaves--a woman
named Sealy-to man in Mississippi. The
woman was torn from her home and her
children-a little boy and girl still in infancy
and was carried the long, weary journey
she never expected TO retrace.
The war came on and swept the hated
system of slavery away like chat, even as
all evil, no matter how firmly grounded,
must at last disappear in the onward march
of right and truth. The poor woman who
years before had been sold into distant bond
age, relieved by the emancipation proclama-
ton, toiled faithfully, Outlines for mere
pittance, saving her means that she might
return to Tennessee. A few weeks ago she
accomplished her object and her weary feet
trod once more on the soil oil Williamson
county. She sought out her old master, that
cruel, bad man, and asked for her children.
They were shown to her, two wretched little
creatures, fearfully married and deformed by
the constant inhuman treatment they had
sustained at the hands of the brute, Jackson.
| None but mothers heart can tell with
what feelings this poor woman contemplated
her offspring, seen, with the marks of such
frightful abuse upon their bodies, after M
absence of almost ten years.
These children, it seems, have been KEEP
in worse than slavery for years past. Prob
ably incensed by the breaking up of sys
tenn which placed under his entire contro
helpless victims to cruelty, jackson seems t.
have vented all his spleen upon these limo
cent beings. The unfortunate brother ant
sister are now respectively eleven and tel
years OF age. The little girls back show
the scars of fearful decorations, and the boy
head has grown misshapen and OF unnatura
size from the knocks and bruises sustained
at the hands of jackson. The little fellow
has been compelled to work in all sorts 0
weather, with scanty clothing, frightfull.
exposed. On one of the coolest Sundays @
last winter jackson compelled him 10 go gu
and chop wood without any covering to hi
feet. His toes were frozen, and several Q
them rotted off, he receiving no care whal
ever. The man threatening often to drow
him in pond near the premises, and tn
same winter actually threw him into tn
water. The boy succeeded in crawling OF
with his life. At another time, when Jacl
son was butchering hogs, he threatened I
scald the boy in the hot water, but was di'
, suaded by colored man who interceded
, behalf Of the little fellow.
All summer long jackson has compelle
j the boy to work in the corn field, when ii
poor wretch was actually picking tho maj
o COTS from his frost bitten limbs. But VIII
= enumerate further2
The bureau authorities have been informt
It of these inhuman outrages, and Will tai
r. steps for the arrest and punishment OF Il
II perpetrator. He certainly ought to be broug
d to speedy justice. Does any rebel she
r. doubt the truth of our statement We rel
h. them TO Bureau headquarters, from wifi
II thew were ned.-Ndshpile Press al
ID Times.