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Show ' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. \Vhcn he had been in the prc:s four days and five · 1 L tl ~.}1yc infonncd hi::> lll~L~Ler that the water 111~)'18, lU. l. • bad not been used for four n1ornu1 g. , an<l that a hor. rihlo stench cmnc fron1 the gin hou.'c. '!"'he oYcr .. ccr \vas ·cnt to cxanrinc into it. "\Vhen the prc~s was un~cr well, the dcn.d bo<ly ·was found partly eaten by rats and ycnnin. Per1w.ps the rats 1Jw,t deYonr0<l his Lread ha<.l g1utwcd hin1 lJefor lifo was cx:iinct. Poor Charity! Granlllnothcr and 1 orten a~kell each _other how her affcl'Lionaie heart would l>0tu· the new·, 1f ·he should CYCr h \ar of the lUUrder of her f:on. "\V e had known her bu. band, and knew that J ::uno. \vas like hi1n in nutnlinc ·:s and intelligence. These ·were the qualiti ::) that n1ado it so hard for hin1 to be a planta. tion slave. They put hitn into a rough box, aud buried hin1 with los feeling th::tn \Vonhl ha-re L en ruanifc~tcd for an old house dog. N ohody asked any quo tions. lie wa · a slaYc ; and the feeling wa · that the n1a tor had a rirrht to clo \vhat he plea ·cu ·w·ith his own property. ..A.. n d ·wl1at did lte care for the Yaluo of a slaYo '? lie had hundred · of then1. \Vhou they had finished their daily toil, th y 1nn t hurry to cat their liUle n1orscl ·, and he ready to e'\.tin o·ui ·h their pine knots lJcforc nine o'clock, \rhcn the OY \rsccr went his patrolronnLl: . lie entered CYcry cahin, to soc that 111011 nnc1 their wiYes had gone to L d together, l ~t Lhc n1cn, fro1n OYCr-faLiguo, should fall asleep in tho chimney corner, and r01nain there till the n1oruing horn ca1leu thmn to their daily ta. ·k. \\ o1ncn arc considered of no value, unlcs · they contin ually in -reasc their owner's stock. They arc put on a par \vith auinwls. 'I:'his san1e 1naster shot a \\'OJ nun through the l1ead, who ; . Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders. 77 had run a\v:.ty and be n brought haek to 1titn. No one ealle<l hun to ac ount fur it. lf a sla\'e r ~i:-;tcu being whii_)ped, the bloc~clhouu<ls \\r<\rc nnpaekcd, and set upon hun, to tear Jns flesh fnnn hi · bon ,·. The nHtstcr \vho did these things ¥\ra,· l1ighly cc1 ncated, und styled. a pcrD"et gcnil c1nan. IIc al. o hoasto<l the JHtJnc anu 'Landing of a Clu·j 'tian, though ~aLan llCYer had a truer follower. I could tell of n1orc ·LtYehol cl rs as cruel a. tllOsc I have described. 'They arc not xePptious to the o·cncral rule. I do not say th r arc 110 lllnnano ~l~vcholdcrs. uch characters <lo cxi~t, uot\vith ·Landinotho harucning i11flucuc . around thcn1. ]3ut they ar~ "like augols' vi ·its - few and far between.'' I know a young lady \Yho -vva.- one of those rare spcci1ncn~ . She \Vas an orphan, and j 11hcri te<l as slaYo a ·wo1nan and her six ch ildren. 'fhoir father was a free 1nan. They lw.d. a con1 f'ortal>lc hon1c of their own, parents and children li ,·in? together. 'rho mother and clue t daugh tor · rvoJ their n1jstross during tho day, and at night returned to their dwelling, w~1ich 'vas on the prcn1i c . 'The young lady \Vas very p1ous, and there was 01110 reality in her religion. She taught her slaves to lead pure li \·cs and \vi ·hod thc.1~ to enjoy the fruit of their own inJn.·try. Iler rc~Jg101~ \Vas not a garb put on for ~unday, and laid asHle t1ll • ,nnday returned again. 'l'hc eldest dauo·htcr of the slave 1nothcr -vva. pr01ui.'cd in 1uarriao·c t~ a fr~o tnan ; and the day before tho wcdJi11g tht good. m~ 'trcs. on1an cipatc<l her, in ord r that her 1narriage lnight have the ·auction of lrtto. Report said that this young lady cherished an un .. 7* |