Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-12-29
hem closed; then she refused to work.

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hem closed; then she refused to work.
Her wages, one hundred and seven
ty-tive dollars a year, were paid to
her owner, q woman, and these went
on; so her employer sent for her own
er, and l, as an abolitionist, was sum-
moned to the conference, that might
learn to pity the SORROWS of mistress
es, and understand the deceitfulness
of slaves.
The injured owner sat in the shaded
parlor, in a blue-black satin dress,
that might almost have stood upright
without assistance from the flesh or
bones inside; with the dress was COM
bined a mass of lace and jewelry that
represented large amount of money,
and the mass as it sat there, and as
recall it, has made costly attire
odious.
This bedizzoned martyr, this cos.
tuners advertisement, sat and fan.
ned as she recounted her grievances
Her entire allowance for personal ex-
penses, was the wages of nine women,
and her husband would not give her
another dollar. They, knowing her
necessities, were so ungrateful!-no'
body could think how ungrateful; but
in all her sorrows, Martha was her
GROWING grief. She had had two hus
bands, and had behaved so badly when
the first was sold. Then, every time
one of her thirteen children were dis
posed of, she Ibid take on so;" no
body could imagine "how she took
on!'
Once, the gentle mistress had been
compelled to send her to the work
house and have her whipped by the
constable; and that cost fifty cents
but really, this martyr and her hus
band had grown weary of floggine
Martha. One hated so to send a serv
ant to the public whipDing-post; il
looked like cruelty-did cruelty LAGER
ate the feelings of refined people, an(
it was so ungrateful in Martha, an(
fine lady in this rough way.
AS to Martha's ingratitude, there
could be no doubt; for, to this, oul
hostess testified, and called me to wit
ness, that she had sent her a cup O
tea every day since she had complain
ed of being sick; yes, "a cup Of tie;
with sugar in it," and yet the oil
wretch had not gone to work.
l When they had finished the recita
of their grievances they came dow
to business. The owner would remi
two weeks wages; after that it wa
the business Of the employer to pa.
them, and see that they were earned
If it were necessary now to send Maj
tina to the whipping-post, the lady il
satin would pay the fifty cents; blu
for any future f1ogging, the lady il
lawn must be responsible to the Cit
of Louisville.
| We adjourned to the kitchen wher
old Martha stood before her judge
clutching the table with her har
hands, trembling in every limb, he
eyelids swollen out like puff balls, an
. offensive from neglect, her white curl
making a border to her red turba1
receiving her sentence without a wore
AS a sheep before her shearers sh
was dumb, opening not her mouth
Those wrinkled, old lips, from whic
had heard few sounds, save thos
Of prayer and praise, were closed b
a cruelty perfectly incomprehensibl
! in it's unconscious: debasement. Gu
hostess was a leading member of tn
Fourth St. M. E. church, the othe
feminine fiend a Presbyterian.
I promised the Lord then and there
to bring "deliverance to the captive
and the opening of the prison to Their
that are bound" but all could do TO
Martha, was to give her such medica
, treatment as would restore her sigh
and save her from the whipping-pos1
and this I did.
While l lived on that dark an
bloody ground, man was beaten t
death in an open shed, on the corne
Of two public streets, where the SCUM
of the blows, the curses of his tw
tormentors, and his shrieks and ur
availing prayers for mercy were COZ
tinued whole forenoon, and sent tn
complaining air shuddering to the ear
, of thousands, not one of whom Offere
any help.
A brown-haired girl, Maria, the ed,
Gated, refined daughter of Kentuck
farmer, was dashed by her brutal pu1
, chaser, one, and again and again 70
chastity, where hundreds who hear
the blows and shrieks knew the cause
From that house she was taken to tn
work-house and scourged by the pull
tic executioner, backed by the Who'll
; force of: the United States govern
ment. Oh! God! Can this natio
ever, ever be forgiven for the bloc
Of her innocent children?
Passing crowded church on Sal
bath afternoon, stepped in, when tn