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Show Mrs. Mafon & Mrs. Child. lash cs each . It can not be sca id that the Anti-Slavery agitation prod ucc d sue1 1 1,.n v<~:: , r110 r they date much farther back; m•an• y I ·c1·e Province . They are the necesstltes of them w ten we " of t 11 c sy t en1 , which , bcinoo- its lf an outrage upon human nature cau b ~ ~ u staincd only by pcrpetu:ll Ot~trag{'H. . 'Tl lC' ncx t rc }1".n. ble ourcc of informntwn 1s the advertl. ·e- ments 1·1 1 u~ ont ·l 1 0 1•11 11e,,r'.': ::• p·lp~rs. In 1'/ie North Gurohna J • (Raleigh) Standard, 1\lr. 1\Iicajnl.l Ricks achcrt tse , " Run- '' away a nCCTJ'O roman ar1d two children. A few days before G C csl 1 e' w' en t ou~, 1 tu- urned her with a hot iron on the left side of her face. I tried to make the letter 1\I." In 1'!1e Natchez vn oun·e r, l\1 r. J · I> · A hford advertises a runaway negro girl, with '' n good many teeth missing, and the l.ettct· A branded on her check and forehead." In The L exw.gton Observer, (Ky .. ) 1\Ir. 'Villiam Overstreet advr~ti cs a .runaway negro, with "his left eye out, scars from a dtrk on Ins 1 •ft arm, and much scarred with the whip." I might quote from hundreds of .. uch advertisements, offering rewards for run a ways, "dead • • I . 1 " t ff. " " . I or alive," and descnbmg t 1cm Wit l card cu o , JU' vs broken," "scarred by rifle ball ~," &c. Another om·ce of information i afforded by your "Fugitives from Inju tice," with many of whom I have conversed freely. I have seen scars of the whip and marks of the brandinn--iron, and I have listened to their heart-breaking b • sobs, while they told of "picaninnics" torn from their armd and solu. Another source of information is furnished by emancipated slaveholders. Sarah l\1. Grimke, daughter of the late Judge Grimkc, of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, tcstific as follow:; : "A I left my native State on account of SlaYcry, and deserted the home of my father.' to C"'capc the ound of the lash and the shrieks of tortured victims, I would gladly bury in oblivion the recollection of those scenes with which I have been familiar. But this cannot be. They come over my merpory like gory spectres, and implore me, with resistless Mrs. lVIafon & ~1rs. Child. 341 power, in the name of a God of mercy, in the name of a crucified Saviour, in the name of humanity, for th' . ake of the slaveholclcr, as well as the slave, to lwar witn c~ to the honors of the outh ern pri ·on-hou e." She proc ·eels to dc:;nibe drcadf'ul trag 'dies, the actors in whieh, sh • sny.s, were ''men and women of' the fir;:;t families in South Carolina;" and that their crueltic did not, in the slightc:;t degree, affect their tanding in society. 1Ier s i~tcr, Angelina G rimkc, declared : " \Vhile I li ve, and Slavery lives, I must tcsti(y against it, not merely for the sake of my poot· brothers and ·i tcr. in bond:;; for cv •n were Slavery no cur. e to its victims, the exercise of arbit rary powct· work~ suC'h f•a rfu l ruin upon the heart' of slav •holder;;;, that I ~ hou ld feel im pcllecl to labor nnd pray for it;:, ov rthrow with my late::;t breath." Amollg the horrible l..>arbaritics she enumerates i the case of a rrirJ, thirteen yea r, old, who wa flogged to deat It by her master. She ~ays : ''I asked a prominent lawyer, who hclonged to one of the fir ·t fam ilies in the State', whc'ther the mu rclen·r of this helplcs~ child could not be inuictccl; and he cooly replied, that the lave wa. 1\Ir. -'s property, nnd if he eho:;c to ~ uffer the loss, no one el;:,c harl any thing to do with it." She proceed~ to say: " I felt there could be for m' no n•st in the mid ·t of sueh outrages and pollution'. Yet I saw nothi11g of Slavery in it: mo 't vulgar and repu lsive forms. I saw it in the city, among tho fas hionable and the honorable, where it was garni:'hed by r efinement and decked out fc>r show. It is my deep, ol<·rnn, deliberate conviction, thnt this i.:-; a cnu e worth dying for. I say o fi·om what I have .~ccn, anc11teard, and known in a land of Slavery, whereon rc~t tl1e darkness of Egypt nnd the . in of odom." I once a ·ked l\li ·s Angelina if he thonght Aboli tionist· exa::z-gr rate<l the horrors of Slavery. She replic1l, with earnest empha:'is : '·T hey cannot be exnggcmtcd. It is impo :-; iblc for im t~ginnt i on to go beyond the filets." To a lady, who observecl that the t imc had not yet come for ngita.ting the subject, he answered: "I apprehend 2fl'i.~ |
