The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-07-06
4 PEN OF SLAVES.
ms Only A FEW HOURS RIDE
II hAiI FROM NEW YORK CITY.

Nave York special to the St. Louis Re
public. oo,,.uo..;,,o 600
when every man is not only as
u &c any other man, but little bet
story of actual and AFFECT slavery
W. lr,os- in heart of the Empire State of
sl;s land of freedom would strike most
soonIe as a fairy story, or at least one
I,rd n believe. the stories of ''nigger
,.;,.ino or barter and sale of human
f,iocs Of families torn asunder and the
:nd;viduals sold to different masters and
driven away like cattle, come to us now
&c traditions of the misty past. The
r,o+ber reads the story of "Uncle TOMS
robin." of the pursuit of Eliza across the
q go bv savage dogs and more savage men
q - 4be children at her knee. The little
! amos listen to the overdrawn tale in fear
i fn silence. but after it is all over they
I conclude that it is simply story of adj
,br+nrp like that of "Alice in Wonder
lind = and the mother does not undeceive
Them. And may their young minds
never know the hideOus truth that sys-
fem of slavery, brutal, heartless and alb
,olute exists right here in this proud and
pnissant State of New York-a slavery
where wife men are the slaves, many of
them used to all creature comforts and
many little luxuries-men of all civilized
nationalalities as well are scores of the
original monarchs of this country, the
Indian.
This slave territory is in the Adiron.
dack Mountains, only a few hours ride
from the metropolis, and the president
Of the colony is DR.. H. Seward Webb,
the representative of the Vanderbilt dy-
nasty and a member of the family.
DEPEW AS A SLAVE MASTER.
Mr.. Chamcey NJ. Depew-the same
genial, whole-souled Chauncey who did
50 much to nominate President Harrison
at the Minneapolis convention, and who
will conduct the campaign-is one of the
owners of this slave enterprise.
He viii find it hard matter to recon
Gle the promises and fiattery of his party
to laboring men with his own course of
indifferent acquiescence to the horrors
that are perpetrated upon the defenceless
human being by his hirelings in the
mountains
AL the world knows that the Wander
bits are building railroad through the
heart Of the wild Adirondack mountain
range, end most of the world is glad to
have a road through territory that will
make accessible land of wonderful
beauty But if they knew that the work
was being prosecuted at the cost of hui
man lives, of human liberty, of suffer
ings indescribable, of starvation: if thew
knew that civilized fellow-creatures were
driven to their work half starved and
half frozen at the point of Wincherter
rifles, Shot-guns and revolvers; if they
Knew the number of nameless graves
graves Of men who have died from the
horrible priyations to which they were
SUBJECTED by their slave-drivers, and if |
tlley knew the number of runaway slaves
who have persisted in the trackless forest
IN vain effort to regain their lost liber-
V-men who were shot down and hang
Ell ike dogs because they tried to escape
they would cry: "Stop this work. for
]ne love OF God and humanity"
IGNORANCE NO EXCUSE.
People may say that it is impossible
tnat DR., Webb and the Vanderbilts can
kno" Of these terrible abuses. Perhaps
not, but if they do not it is because thew
nave been stricken with blindness. The
newspapers have published columns
about the cruelties to which the deludad
'"ooTerS who have been lured into the
mountains by INSCRIPTIONS sub-contrac-
LOIS nave been subjected.
The exposures have been confined to
40 QUE paper, and the Vanderbilts are
N"o"h TO be close readers of the news
papers. The latest journal to take up
."o cuagel against the barter of humanl-
~ colonel Cockrelrs Advertiser One
VI 'ne reporters of that paper, who has
spent some time in the Adirondacks
, ro~u'[y during the winter and spring,
% 1'lioIoS tale to day that is almost past
Deneylng, but which, in my view of sub
'% w, evidence, can not be doubted.
49,, ne work of building the railroad is
t~o-Io' to various contractors, who in
.0fn give their contracts to sub-contrac
WIS., II Is the foreman of these sub-con-