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Theodore Parker (search for this): chapter 6
rchy should rule the nation. Why, sir, the non-slaveholders are more opposed to abolitionism and Black Republicanism than the slaveholders. And they have cause. Liberate the negroes, and you put them on a level with the white man. This result might not disturb the nerves of a Northern man, because there were so few negroes in their section; but here, where they constituted a great class, it was a different thing. The two races could not live in harmony; one must rule the other. Put Theodore Parker, or any other fanatic, in a society where the two races were nearly equal in numerical force, and you would soon make a good pro-slavery man of him. Where there is freedom, there must be disputes about superiority. There is no dispute between the two races here. I own a nigger. There can be no dispute about our rank. So of the non-slaveholder. He's white, and not owned by any one. He does n't wish that condition disturbed by any intermeddling northerner. There has been a great
Stringfellow (search for this): chapter 6
--I have had a conversation with a prominent politician of the town, on the plan of Eli Thayer, to colonize Virginia by free white laborers. He launched out into an ocean — or perhaps mud-puddle would be the apter phrase — of political invective against the black republicans and abolitionists of the North. He regarded Mr. Thayer as a braggadocio — a fool — or a political trickster — who merely threatened Virginia for effect at home. He couldn't think he was in earnest. I told him that Stringfellow and Atchison had said that had it not been for Mr. Thayer, and his Emigrant Aid scheme, Kansas ere this would have been a slave State. Then, sir, said the politician, sternly, if he comes to Virginia with such a reputation, he will be met as he deserves — expelled instantly or strung up. He did not believe that a single responsible citizen of Virginia would aid or countenance his scheme of colonization. He did not believe that Virginia had contributed $60,000 of stock to the C
Hughes (search for this): chapter 6
ded, and put. It was carried, of course, as a harder punishment would as easily have been, if the major or any other solid citizen had made the suggestion. Mr. Stearns--The meeting has decided that the prisoner be tarred and feathered. Mr. Hughes, a brutal ruffian, added--And lighted. Another hoarse voice exclaimed: Let's hang him; it's too good for him. [Does the reader know what lighted means? The proposition was to set the tar on fire, after it covered the body of the prisonerggested a spectator. No, it's better to put them on in handfuls, said another voice. Four ruffians (all men of social position,) took hold of tile ends of two long poles, of which they made a rude St. Andrew's cross. Sit on there, said Mr. Hughes, pointing to the part where the poles crossed, and addressing the prisoner. Why, they're going to ride him on a rail, said a voice beside me. Serves the d — d scoundrel right, returned his companion. Yes, replied the voice, he ought to
Carter (search for this): chapter 6
. I asked him the price of land. lie said that a neighbor had recently bought a farm, adjoining his place, for $26 an acre. He would n't swap his even, no how, either as buyer or seller. If I wanted to buy, however, lie would sell me his farm, of one hundred and fifty acres of excellent land, for $20 an acre. I asked him if lie was a free man, and why he wanted to sell. He said — Yes, he was a free man. His father was one of nine hundred and ninety-nine slaves, once the property of Mr. Carter, who liberated every one of them, and secured to them the right to remain in the county. Slaves who are freed now, lie added, have to leave the State, or go to Washington and remain there a year to get their papers. His wife was there now. Her year was almost out, and he intended to go after her as soon as it expired. I asked if she was a slave, or had he bought her. lie said she had been a slave, but her master freed her by his will. The master was an old bachelor — never married — <
Daniel C. Digges (search for this): chapter 6
the same as here given. Sale of servants.-- A. H. Chew and R. B. Chew, administrators of the late Leonard H. Chew, sold, on Thursday last, part of the personal estate belonging to the deceased, consisting of several servants. The sales were as follows: One woman and two small girls sold for $1,450, and were purchased by E. G. W. Hall, Esq. Boy, about 15 years of age, sold for $915, and was purchased by Wm. Z. Beall, Esq. Small boy sold for $700, and was purchased by Daniel C. Digges, Esq. Girl, about 14 years of age, sold for $900, and was purchased by John F. Pickrell, Esq., of Baltimore. Two small girls sold, one for $880, and the other for $550, and were purchased by Mrs. A. H. Chew. My room. Tired with the bar-room and the county papers, I asked to be conducted to my room. It is one of a series of ten, contained in the upper part of a wing, one room deep, the lower or ground part of which is either the cooking establishment or the negroes' quarter
Christmas (search for this): chapter 6
on ‘em — in June, and I's afeard I'll fall to one of the Northerners! Next morning he told me his story, in reply to my questions. I took it down in stenographic notes. Here it is: His story. I belong to the estate of W----. I will be twenty-one, I think it is in June. (I have seldom known a slave to know his age positively.) My mother was a light-colored mulatto; she was a house-servant with old Mr W----. His son R----was my father. Old W----died about a month before last Christmas. The estate holds me and my mother too. There are eight heirs — all children of old Mr. W----. W----had twenty-four slaves. We are to be divided this coming June. I do n't know who I am going to. There are two on them I would n't like to go to, ‘kase they would not let me be free. Some of the heirs gave me a note to go round among the heirs, to see if they would not set me free, and not be divided; bekase I was the old man's waiter all my life, and they knowed who my father was.
Lee (search for this): chapter 6
are in full bloom; the cinnamon rose is bursting its buds; gooseberries are as large as a bean, or larger; nearly all the apple trees have cast their blossoms. Every tree, without exception, is covered with foliage; grass is a foot high, and in some places two or three feet. Every grove is vocal with birds. An absentee farm. Further on--three miles and a half from Alexandria — is the farm of Mr. David Barber, of New York, an absentee proprietor, which is rented from year to year, by Mr. Lee.some, a Virginian, who was also the agent, I ascertained, to sell it to the highest or the earliest bidder. After mature reflection, I concluded that it might pay me to buy it, if I could spare the money, and the price was reasonable. I accordingly went up to the house to make the usual preliminary investigations. It is an old, large, once-whitepainted house, which, like the edifice we read of in sacred writ, is set on a hill that it cannot be hid. It is built on what a Yankee would
Montgomery (search for this): chapter 6
culture and a little labor, it might be heavy with tobacco or the cereal grains. There is a great field open here for Northern intelligence and Northern industry. Vi. Richmond. Richmond Christian advertisements a sign of the times the slave auction room the auctioneer a boy sold been examining her how niggers has riz Jones and Slater a mother on the Block a young Spartan maiden a curse on Virginia, Richmond, May 24.--Charleston excepted, and also, perhaps, Montgomery in Alabama, Romehilled Richmond is the most charming in situation or in outside aspect, of all the Southern cities that I have ever visited. It is a city of over 20,000 inhabitants — the political, commercial, and social metropolis of the State--well laid out, beautifully shaded, studded with little gardens — has several factories, good hotels, a multiplicity of churches, a theatre, five daily papers, a great number of aristocratic streets, with large, fashionable, but not sumptuous res
Hoy (search for this): chapter 6
ioned, blue eyed, firmly knit, rather stupid looking man, about twenty-five years of age. He was a ropemaker by trade, and had worked near Parkville for five or six weeks past. It appears that he tried to induce a negro girl, the property of Widow Hoy, to go with him to St. Louis, where he proposed that they should spend the winter, and then go together to a Free State. This programme shows how stupid he must have been, or how totally ignorant of Southern institutions, and the manner in whifinally agreed to take them with him. The day of flight was fixed. The colored trio's clothes, it is said, were already packed up. They intended to have started on Saturday, but the secret came to the knowledge of a negro boy — another slave of Mrs. Hoy's, to whom also the girl's married friends belonged — who instantly divulged the conspiracy to his mistress. Measures were taken, of course, promptly and effectually to prevent the exodus. A committee of investigation was appointed to watch th
Bird (search for this): chapter 6
a fact, chimed a third. By this time the prisoner was entirely naked, from the loins upward. Come out here, said Captain Wallace, we don't want to smear the floor with tar. Silently and carelessly Atkinson followed him. A ruffian named Bird, and the wretch who proposed to burn the prisoner--birds of a feather — then cut two paddles, about a yard long (broad at one end), and proceeded slowly, amid the laughter and jests of the crowd, which Atkinson seemed neither to see nor care for, ordinary activity in chewing and expectorating. Guess you've got enough on — put on the feathers, said an idle member of the executive committee. You're doing it up brown, said a citizen encouragingly to the operators. Yes, sur, chirruped Bird, as he took hold of the bag of feathers, and threw a handful on the prisoner's neck. Pour them on, suggested a spectator. No, it's better to put them on in handfuls, said another voice. Four ruffians (all men of social position,) took hol
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