The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-02

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and anguish / shall never forget,
.tAre YOU all done2' cried the aue-
tioneer. f0nce. twice, three-l4 1855
S5,S5-s6-and I'm going TO strike this
girl off in one minute. Once, twice,
thrae-tmes and sold
"The hammer fell and the girl was
mine. An instant later she tottered
back into the arms OF Aer aunt in Q deep
swoon,
"'she Is yours, yopng man. said
the auctioneer, and you have got hor
cheap, What are you goiRg to do with
a'Free her, sir, and my answer
awoke a cheer, which, risipgto a KEN
they could be made out, | handed
Eliza the papers which formally act her
SFour days after the sale / took
Eliza to Cincinnati, where she became
q member OF tho family OF Gamaliel
Bailey, Under his care aiet received q
finished education, married well, and
to-day Is where / last heard OF her a
cheerful, charming matron Of 81. Only
the members Of her immed late family
know the history Of her early years. 40
you will understand why / do not give
you her full name.
ES.stAvEs WHO BECAME PROSPEROUS.
'Lewis Hayden, who served as a
member Of the Massachusetts, legIsIa-
ture, and who was long one Of the hon
ored citizens Of Boston, was, when q
young man, a slave, the property OF
Baxter & Grant, owners OF the Brennan
house in Lexington, Hayden's wife,
Harriet, and his son, a lad Of ten years
when | first knew him, were the slaves
Of Patrick Baipe, On a September even
ing 1874, accompanied by Miss d. A.
Webster q young Vermont lady who
was associated with me in teaching, /
left Lexington with the Haydens in q
hack, crossed the Ohio on q ferry at o
the next morning, changed horses and
drove TO an underground depot at Hop.
klns, Ohio, where we left Hayden and
his family, To accomplish this we had
to drive eighty-three miles in twenty
hours, When Miss Webster and | re-
turned to Lexington after two days abb
sence, we we're both arrested, charged
by their master with helping Hayden's
wife and son to escape. We were joint
ly indicted, but Miss Webster was tried
first and sentenced to two years inn
prlsoament in the penitentiaFy ct
Frankfort,
"While my case was still pending l
learned that the governor was inclined
to pardon Miss Webster, but first in
sisted that / should be tried. When
called up for trial, February, 1946, l
plead guilty and received q sentence Of
fifteen years. A little later Miss WEBB
ster received her pardon. / served four
years and eleven months, and then on
August 23, lS40, was released by Gov
ernor John ]. Crittenden, the able and
patriotic man who atterward saved
Kentucky to the union.
"Zeb Ward became warden OF the
prison in 1864. He leased 1t al i$6,000 a
year and made 100000 out OF the lease
In four years. 10 do this he liter ally
killed $50 oit Of 375 prisoners. Ward
was one Of the strangest men / ever
knew, physically handsome, socially
magnetic, but utterly devoid OF heart
or conscience. He was a gambler, liber-
tine and murderer under cover Of the
law. When he took the keys Of. tho
prison he said:
"'Men, Pm a man Of few words and.
prompt action. / came here to make
money, and I'll do it II 1 kill you ALL
"He was as good as his promise,
During his wardenship and that OF ].
w, South, who succeeded him in 1858,
/ received on my bare body $4,000
stripes, laid on with a strap OF half
tanned, leather a foot and q half long,
often dipped in water to increase the
pain. All the tloggings l received un-
dor Ward were for failure to perform
the tasks set for me to do, generally
weaving hemp-20S yards a day being
what | was expected to perform, an
utter imposaihtlity, 1 was whipped,
bowed over q chair, often seve slashes
four times a day. Ihave seen hew men
in the hacking house fall. ut their work,
weak from tlogging, and when.taken to
the hospital die before morning from
pneumonia and the strap. "A remarks
bio constitution and great muscular
strength were the only things that
saved my life. As it was, l was an old
man at forty.