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Communications. TENDER MERCIES OF THE SLAVEHOLDER ARE CRUEL. Friend J. Elizabeth Jones : I received your kind letter of the 8th, requesting mo to prepare a few articles for the Bugle, relative to the treatment of slaves. If hy complying with your request I can suh- servo the cause of humanity, 1 shall foci it a pleasuro to do so. Hut before I proceed to narrato any of the incidents which'came under my observation, it may bo well to make a remark by way of explanation. A friend of mine having a desire to preach to the slaves of South Carolina and Georgia, consented to let me accompany him. In this Journey we visited some hundreds of negro quarters; all of which, witli a very few ex ceptions, we found to be tlio abodes of want, wretchedness and disease. Many and bitter are the cups which the poor slave is com pelled to drink; but none so bitter as those presented in the hours of affliction. Indeed I have often wondered why those who have written and spoken on the subject of negro suffering, should so slightly pass by that oc casioned by sickness, when in fact, that is the greatest trial which they have to endure. When the poor slave is sick, he has no one to administer to his wants, no one to hand liim the nourishing cordial and fan his burn ing brow: hut he goes to his hut, lies down upon a littlo bundle of straw to weep, it may he to die. Should he get woll, no thanks to human aid. The incidents which I shall first notice tran spired in the Slate of Georgia. One evening after my friend had closed his services, and as wo were about to retire, a little girl, appa rently about five years old, came up to me and with tears rolling down her cheeks, and a voice that betrayed the emotions of her heart, asked me to give her a fow pennies that she might buy some bread of her mas ter for her sick and dying mother. 1 in quired of her where her mother was. She then took me by the hand and told mo that if 1 would follow her she would show me. We had not gone many paces before we entered her hut, in one corner of which, upon a bun dle of straw, which barely covered the ground, (for the cold earth forms the floor of most of the huts,) lay the poor woman. Her care-worn brow her sunken eyes her foe hie voice and emaciated form indicated a speedy release from a life of toil and oppres sion. I asked her if she was very sick. She said that sho was, and was soon going to die. I then inquired of her what she had to eat, when she informed me that all she had had for three days was ono ear of corn, which her little daughter had parched and pounded nnd mixed with some cold water. No won der that the poor woman was sick and nigh unto death, with nothing under heaven for nourishment but a morsel of corn no bed hut the damp earth and no one to wait on her but a little child five years old. After I had inquired into her situation I went up to the Great House, and requested her master to let me have some food that she could eat. At first he refused to give mo any ; and re marked that such an act would only prolong her miserable existence ; and that the yearn ings of his tender bowels of mercy told him in words that could not be misunderstood, to do nothing which would cause the minister ing angel of death to linger. But not finding such arguments sufficient ly weighty to stop my entreaties, he ordered ono of the servant girls to get something for her, for the purpose of gratifying that "young disciple," (for so ho called me.) Having obtained the food, I quickly returned to the hut; but the poor victim of tyranny was so far gone that she had neither strength nor appetite to eat. After doing all in my power to render her comfortable, I retired to my place of lodging. In the mjrr.ing, I re quested my friend to accompany me to her hut, that wo might, if it were possible, do something for hor relief. When we were within a few steps of the door, tho voice of that sweet child fell tipon our ears, crying, " Oh my mother ! Oh my mother !" We shoved aside tho board that closed the entrance, and went into the gloomy cell. Before us lay the poor woman a cold and lifcloss corpse no one to " lay her oot," or perform the duties due to the departed. Her head rested upon the lap of her little daughter, who had bathed her icy cheeks with tears. My friend asked her if her mother was dead, when she burst forth into a fresh flood of grief, and it really seem ed as if her little heart would break. He then took her by the hand, and asked hei why she wept so much. " O," said she, "a short time ago, my brother and two little sis ters were sold and taken away from rae. and now mother is dead and I am Ul't alone." In one hour from that time, two large slaves by order of their master went down with a bpx roughly made, and tumbled her in, un- j shrouded as the beasts of the field, and bu ried her in a hole, not exceeding two feet in depth. A few days after this melancholy scene transpired, we witnessed another of a still mo-e aggravated nature. Travelling alongone evening about dark, we met a gang of slaves returning from the cotton field. Among the number was one poor woman weeping end wailing in a most hoart-rending manner. She bore in her arms the corpse of her little child. We learned by inquiry that it had been sick for some time, and that afternoon she had requested her master to excuse her from the cotton field, in order that she might more effectually rolicvo the wants of her suf fering babe. But no ; his adamantine heart refused to grant her request. Finding all entreaty of no avail she carried her child with her to the field, and having laid it in a corner of the fence, she proceeded to engage in the labors of the day, within hearing of its cries, but without daring to go to its assistance. During tho intervals in which the air was not rent by tho crack of the driver's whip, she perceived its cries grow fainter and fainter, until at last all was as stiil as death. In the evening, when she returned for her babe, sho found that its little spirit had departed, and the maggots which the flies had created, wero already beginning to work in its eyes and mouth. You, Christian mothers of the north, who know what it is to have your souls lit up with a pure flame of heavenly love for the dear darlings of your bosom, arc the ones to en gage in tho anti-slavery enterprise. You are the onc3 to sympathize with poor moth ers of the south ; and I entreat you in the name of Justice and Mercy, to give your selves no rest, but labor unceasingly, until the mothers of the south can call their babes their own. But tho most melancholy part of this story remains to be told. We learned that the master had been for many years a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in good and regular standing; and in all probability he was as pious as his neighbors He profes sing to be a follower of the meek and lowly Lamb of God, whilst guilly of deeds, the very mention of which would cause the fiends of the dark prison house to run back and blush ! God forbid that I should speak one word unjustly against the Christianity of that portion of our country which gave mo birth. Were it Christianity I should he silent ; hut when men, practising iniquity and rejoicing in it, wrap themselves in the robes of right eousness, and claim from the bible, pro tection from the holts of truth, then I am bound by my love for humanity and God, to speak unflinchingly and fearlessly. Northern churches and northern men may fellowship and give countenance to southern churches and southern men; and in the pleni tude of their jriaun forbearance, cover over their deeds of damning infamy with the broad mantle of charily, until thpy smother the vic tim they wish to save; but as for me, may " my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue clcavo to the roof of my mouth," when I shall be found uniting with them in favor of oppression, and against humanity. AN EVE WITNESS. MR. LEWIS "NOT AN ABOLITIONIST." "A report has been loosely raised in the up per and eastnrn parts of the State, among the opponents of the Liberty party, that Mr. Lew is is not an Abidilionis', and tli.it lie has dis claimed being one. We know him better than any one who has originated or circulated such a report, and we need scarcely say there in no truth in it. If Mr. Lewis is not an Abolitionist, there is none in the State. If there be any qualities which signalize him, they are earnestness and thuruupfhncsn. Ho not only has not made any such foolish di-claimcr, but we have heard him in crowd ed meetings, glory in the naino of Abolition ist. Mr. Brooke, one of those who have circu lated the report, has been misled, and is too honorable a man not to correct his error." The above was published in the Cincinnati Herald and Philanthropist of March 25th, be ing an editorial of Dr. Bailey's. I suppose the first intimation Dr. Bailey had of this report in reference to Sam!. Lewis, came from myself in a letter to him, stating what 1 had heard said, and what I had re peated, and that shortly after my repeating the report, I met with T. B. Hudson, who raised doubts in my mind as lo whether Saml. Lewis had, at any recent date, made any such declarations without qualifications; and that if I had been led to misrepresent Mr. Lewis, it was my wish to correct the er ror I had thus fallen into. Dr. Bailey did not inform his readers that I had thus written to him, which would have obviated the necessity of any thing farther from me, but gave it to the public in a shape which was equivalent to a call upon me for an explanation. I wrote an article on this ubject, and left it with Dr. Bailey for publi cation, hoping that he would not consider the interests of party pan mount to the require ments of truth and justice. But week after week has passed away without its publication! and I now avail myself of this opportunity to get something on the subject, before a few, at least, of the readers of the Herald, as they seem very generally to bo looking for an ex planation from mo. lam satisfied that Mr. Lewis has not at any recent date, declared himself to be a Liberty man, but not an Abo litionist. Others, I suppose, have taken this position, and the mistake, no doubt, arose by identifying Saml. Lewis with them, and from an impression that is was formerly his po sition ; an impression, I believe, that Dr. Bai ley once had, himself: for if I am not mis taken the Dr. has stated that Mr. Lewis was formerly merely a Liberty man, but had be come un Abolitionist. Words are for the purpose of signifying ideas, and the same words may bo used so dif ferently as to convey a very different mean ing. No one, I presume, ever meant to say that Mr. Lewis was not in favor of tho cn franchiscmentoftheslavc. Certainlyldid not. I But yet his abolitionism, as 1 understand it, amounts to this, and no more. He is willing to say slave-holding is a sin and oneht to bo abandoned; slavery is a degrading nnd ini quitous institution which ought to be abolish ed, and that he will act against it to such an extent as his allegiance tothe pro-slavery gov ernment which creates and sustains it, will permit; and his connection with a pro-slavery ecclesiastical body which manufactures a pro slavery public sentiment that demands the aforesaid pro-slavery government shall he sus tained and continued, will allow. If I mis understand him, no doubt ho will be able to set me right. Abolitionists are not wont to recognize J. R. Giddings, C. M. Clay, nnd Win. Seward, as of their-number. Dr. Baily and Samuel Lewis would proba' ly unite in denying to these tho titlo of Abolitionist, while they would acknowledge that each of them d"cs oppose slavery in some of his acts, whilst he supports it in others. By a criterion of this character, let us examine the claims of Mr. i Lewis to this title. Samuel Lewis has been a member of the Executive Committee cf the Ohio Anti-SIa -ery Society nearly two year--. I have in that time frequently been present at the meetings of that Committee, but never saw Mr. Lewis meet with them or heard of his doing so. As a general thing tuo Anti-Slavory meet ings of tho people which he has attended, within my knowledge, have been at times and places where meetings of tho Liberty party were also convened, and his aim has very evi dently been to use the former to make capital for the latter. An Anti-Slavery meeting con tinuing ten days, was held in Cincinnati last fall, at which Mr. Lewis did not make his appearance, so far as I saw, or believe. That lie believes Liberty party an instrumentality for the overthrow of slavery, I cannot doubt; nnd as little doubt is there that very many Whigs as honestly believe the party with which they co-opcnite, is an instrumentality for the same purpose. Yet, some there aro who will scruple lo believe tho?n acting with either the ono or the other to be abolitionists, nevertheless. If Mr. Lewis had attended and participated in the various meetings alluded to, which he did not do, it would have look ed as if he were not unwilling to be identi fied as an abolitionist. But Dr. Bailey says, "if Mr. Lewis is not an Abolilioniat, there is none in the State." Should it be made to appear that with all his Anti-Slavery feelings, with his acts and declarations before the peo ple, yet continuing as he docs, in a pro-slavery church, ftllowshipping tho Slave-holder as a brother in the Lord, and suppoiting hy his political action and influence, a slave-holding government ; that he cannot consistently be called an Abolitionist, it will be difficult, I think, for him to make it appear there is not ono in tho State, lie may come up to the Doctor's standard of Abolitionism, but is it not possible ho has placed his standard too lowl Too high it is, perhaps, to accept as Abolitionists, J. R, Giddings and many other men, largely controlled by Anti-Slavery feel ing, when measured by it; and yet some Anti-Slavery Whigs probably will say, if" Gid dings is not an Abolitionist there is none in the State." The man who fills the measure of my standard of Abolitionism, must be one who refuses to acknowledge as fellow chris tians, those whose countenance and support is given ecclesiastically to the continuance of slavery, and who refuses, by the political ac tion of himself or agent, to uphold and sup port a slave-holding government. Though Mr. Lewis may not have said on any recent occasion that he is not an aboli tionist, I may be permitted to doubt the cor rectness of the assertion should he ever al ledge that he is one, until his acts cease in any avoidable degree to support slavory. Mr. Lewis says that the Old Organization ists, (Garrisonians as he calls them,) stand directly in the way of the advancement of the Anti-Slavery cause. That New England at least would very soon be abolilionized if it were not for the Garrisonians. 1 am aware that some of tho priests in that part of the country, who, to a great extent, control pub lic opinion, have heretofore promised lo be come abolitionists if the pcplo would run Garrison afT of the track, and put an end lo his faithful rebukes of a pro-slavery chuHi and ministry. Yet, until very recently, 1 had not tho most distant idea tha'. Mr. Lewis placed any confidence i;i their sincerity. Or, perhaps, like his Methodist brethren, w ho manifest on all occasions a violent hos tility to abolitionism and are linked in heart and hand with the slave claimants, notwith standing make some pretensions to abolition ism, when it s ibscrves the purposes of the church to do so, and might, with an anti-slavery cloak on, begin to fancy that they really were abolitionists and thus become so, if we did not tear off that cloak and expose their wickedness. But hero again Mr. Lewis Would he mis taken, as to the fact of the Garrisonians pre venting them from becoming Abolitionists, for it always is with them as it was with tho ass, when he put on the lion's skin, and alarm ed the other beasts, but when he attempted to roar likp the lion, they discovered that it was nothing hut the bray of an ass. So when these Methodists put on the lion skin of Abo litionism, whenever they begin to speak upon the subject, they still show that it is only a borrowed coveiing, as their hitter hostility to Abolitionism is always displayed. Respectfully, SAMUEL. BROOKE. A N T I-SLWKKY H U G L E . "I love agitation when there is cause for it the alarm bell which startles the inhabi tants of a city, saves them fn.m Ikmihj burn ed in their beds." ICJmuntl Hurkc. Of-Pcraons having business connected with the paper, will please call on James Barnaby, comer of Main and Clicsnut, sts. ANNIVERSARY NOTICE. The Ohio Am. A. S. Society will hold its Annual Meeting at New Garden, Col. Co., commencing on ths lTt'.i of June, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Arrangements are being made for the at tendance of prominent advocates of tho op pressed, not only of our own, hut other states; tho result of which, with other particulars, will be made known previous to the meeting. 1'roin the increasing interest in this state we anticiiiate a o-:neiiai, mu.v. We also invite our friends of Westarn IVnnnylv inia, and Eastern Indiana to ho with us on that occasion, nnd aid in devising efficient plans of operation for tho coming year. By order of the Ex. Com. of the O. A. A. S. Society. LOT HOLMES, re. Srrveiary. REV. DR. BRECKENRIDGE. We recently met with a letter written hy Dr. Breckenridge, President of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, which was called forth by the following circumstance A meeting of tho colored citizens of Maryland resolved to present to tho Doctor a gold snuff lor, as a testimony of gratitude for tho servi ces he bad rendered them; which present of course called forth a response on his part, and it is in reference to this we design to make some comments. Tho gift was an evidence of tho gratitude of the colored people, but when wo remem ber that the person to whom it was presented has long been an ardent advocato of the cru el and delusive scheme of African Coloniza tion, we do not think it was any proof of their clear sightedness. But let tii.it pass; and as to the expediency of such a useless in vestment of money, while millions of their own countrymen are ina suffering and de graded condition, wo shall say nothing here. The response contains some very remarka ble passages, the most striking of which is his argument in favor of Colonization. Wc have heard it advocated as a mejes for abol ishing slavery, as a measure that would de stroy the slave trade, as a plan for civilizing and christianizing Africa, as a schemo ta rid the South of her redundant black population, as an expedient hy which the colored man would bo provided with a home; but never huvo we before known such arguments to bs urged in its support as those which the Dr.. uses. Addressing the colored nun, he says: " The dealings of Cod with your rice, as far back as human know ledge reaches, have been very wonderful. Tliey aro so still. And the most wonderful part of all is, that I your raco never did, nor does it yet, compre hend its destiny. Wo must all accomplish our destiny: it, is the invincible decree of God, and there is tic etcapo from it. The first symptom that a people will work out aright their grand and ultimate vocation is, thai they comprehend, even if it bo but dimly, what their vocation is. Tho great problem which human advancement requires to be solved, is the formation of a civilized state wi.nin the Tropics. Until this measure is accomplish ed, It seems to me to bu utterly nb.urd to talk as we do about the progress of mankind and the civilization of the human race. Such a state can npver be established except by means of the black race, and therefore, nnd in that sense, except by means of it, the earth itself can never reach that point of advance ment which (iod has put so palpably within its reach. Two solemn lessons arise out of tleso facts. The one should teach our race how absurd it is to contemn and despise yours; the other should teach your race how fatal it is lo resist nnd obstruct those benefi cent designs by which alone their ultimate freedom and nationality can bo accomplish ed. 1 do not advise any man in particular to emigrate each one must decide lor himself. Still less do I recommend a trenenl emigra tion, or approve of one accomplished by vio lence. But, even at tho risk of forfeiting your confidence, I have always testified, and do still, against that general and conccrte! hostility to African colonization, which, in various parts of the country, whether amongst yourselves or amongst us, has haJ no better effect, than to delude and embitter thf minds of the fiuo blacks, ex operate thoso of tho whites, and embarrass the noblest nnd most fruitful movements of the present century." If we understand tho English of that, it is something like this. It is very wonderful that a nation so enlightened and powerful as yours once was, should now hn so helpless nul degraded that millions of lit r people should bo lorn from their homes and enslav? til in christian land.-!. All this is very won derful, but not so wonderful as tlir fact that you, her descendants do not yet comprehend you destiny. comprehend it, and know that your destiny U to civilizo and christian ize the tropical regions. I'rum this you can not escape, for it is the unchangeable decree of God. It is fatal to your interests to oppose African colonization, and I hereby testify against tho course you have pursued toward that beneficent and noble movement. It is the will of God that you should be coloniz ed, and in vain may you attempt to resist it. By what means tho Doctor has been able to comprehend the destiny of the colored race, while it has been hidden from that people, we aro unable, to conceive. We are confi dent lie has drawn bis information from nei ther reason nor revelation, but gathered it from lint prejudice which pervades the heart of the American nation, and from his desire that tiic scheme of colonization shall succeed. In the next parngragh ho insultingly tells them "I reiterate my firm conviction, that, in general, the condition of rcspertablu free per sons of color, is decidedly belter in tho slave States of" this Union, than in tho free. Nor should wo forget that almost tho entire free black raco in America, owe such liheitv as they enjoy, either immediately cr remotely, to the ms-re benevolence of those who once owned them or their ancestors : and that the absolute and entire hope of freedom for all the blacks now in slavery in this country, re poses simply on the same foundation. Great lesr.ons lie involve J in these truths. Amnnirst the (diief are those : that tho dee black raco are bound by every sentiment of gratilinle, nnd every dictate of prudence and wisdom, to be quid i lu;i at, i'crt:ci.L!cu::J ilocile as regards the u,'i', , i.i-Hlult.in, nnd tu public "enti mm: r the s';;v-: sut'n ,- and that, in the long run, their own best Inprs are con nected with Ihe prosperity of those States." To these sentiments every slaveholder will shout nmrn! When tho frc colored man reads the infamous laws which have been in scribed in letters of blood upon tho statute books of the South, he must repress his rising indignation, he must padlock his lips, n.-r dare to utter a word in condemnation, he must be "quiet, loyal, peaceablu and docile." True, they forbid tho slave learning to read, they prescribe severe punishment for the most trilling offences, they nuthori.o the master to infiictany conceiv able amount of torture, they permit the slave to be shot down as a wild beast, they legalize lb.? selling of his wife to a seraglio, and his daughter to a Louisiana harem; all these things tha Southern laws say may be done to tho 6lave, and south of M ison and Dixon's line the freo colored man is often subjected to imprisonment if he leaves bis own neighbored without carrying with him his free papers, is sold into slavery for his jail fees, and finds his testimony exclud ed fr m Southern courts of justice ; but under all these inflictions the colored man must be "quiet, loyal, peaceable and docile." Ha must nr.t utter a word against that " peculiar institution" under whose reign of terror men and women are forced to uncompensated toil, and whoso very existence depends upon the stunted intellect and crushed spirits of its victims. When he beholds wrongs inflicted upon his race which would make angels weep and move them to utter words of holy indig nation ; when he sees oppression which God in thunder tones rchiilccs, nnd against which he commands his pcoplu to " cry aloud, and spare not," he must be " quiet, loyal, peace able and docile." When they are conscious of tho existence of a public sentiment which sanctions greater tyranny than Pharaoh ever dared to inflict, when they see the religious community standing forth in defence of an institution which m ikes merchandize of the bodies and souls of men, and behold a moral desolation pervade tho land, a desolation far more dreadful than the physical plagues of Egypt, they may not raise the voice of warn ing, they nny not re-echo the command of God "Let my people go!" but most be