Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-02-11

without his nanny and de
Lord he speak agin in de still
ness and he say wild loud voice,
Sarah do as l tell you and go to
Chicago and so crying l start
ed and somehow got to Chica-
CO." She went part way on the
Underground Railroad. The
woman staid in Chicaho and said
she never was idle day.
Several years after that when
Mrs. Livermore was, during the
war, at and below Vicksburg
nursing the sick and wounded
Union soldiers, she found a man
from Chicago, soldier, who this
black mother has asked to get
her child, came into the camp one
day with the boy, grown some
larger, and said, Mrs. Liver
more here is a coutiland boy l
have stolen, l wish you would
take him back to Chicago and
find his mother who lives there
and restore him to her." and Mrs.
L. did so.
Well tell us if you can WHO
spoke to the unlettered black
woman out of the STIFFNESS.
Sojourner Truth that wonderful
woman, who could not read a
word, but who commanded the
respect and esteem of such emil
neut divines as Henry Ward
Beecher and many other great
men and women, who we're not
ashamed to sit and listen from
the pulpit to the eloquent and
soul stirring words that fell from
the black lips that had been
touched as by live coal from
IF the alter" often spoke of the
many times she had been direct
ID to walk by the finger that
spoke silently to her heart.
1t seems that whenever there
an attempt made to better the
condition of the oppressed by
hose who have the good of
humanity at heart there is i'm
nediately corresponding in
crease on the part of the oppres-
,ors to further Cypress those
under their power. 1t was so
when Moses would have liberated
the Israelites from Egyptian
bondage and so marked was this
that even his bretheren could not
understand what his object was
II coming among them. So it
was all down through the ages
even the Christ could not make
his own brethren understand his
mission but they turned to fasten-
ing more securely the chains that
already were grevious and which
we're shutting off their vision
from seeing the liberty that he
was offering to them and their
oppres sors doubled their griev-
ances. This condition was not
so plain ly visible in the Ameri-
can slave, but the masters be-
coming incensed at every step
taken by humane persons to help
the slaves condition drew tighter
and closer the chains of their
thraldom. The advent of Uncle
Toms Cabin which was perhaps
as fair a determination of the con-
dition as could be written es-
pecially in a dramatic style as
that was seemed to fire up the
southern heart and the result
was as might have been expected
the slaves were more closely
guarded and at the same time
more severly punished if the least
attempt was made to escape.
The army of blood hounds were
increased and the patrol was
strengthened and masters that
before were willing their slaves
might be taught to read the
Bible now took that privilege
away and the teachers were COM
peeled to disist or leave the coun,
try. But the tighter the chains
were drawn the more determined
were the slaves to escape and the
more the abolitionists were re-
solved that the slaves should be
protected if they once crossed the
Ohio river. Moreover there were
very many slave owners who
after reading this book began t.
realize the inhumanity of the
| Institution and either freed theil
slaves at home or emigrated to ;
free state and there emancipateC
them. Well did the martyered
president Abraham Lincoln say
of this book that it did more t.
set men to thinking and mad,
more anti-slavery people than al
other publications ever put befor
the American people.
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