servants either to run away, or harbor a run

re right to run away than their horses or mules. The Christian slaveholder orally teaches his slaves, that, by taking this step, they sin in the s

ilar to this, cut from the "American

They have uniformly maintained a good character for honesty, industry, and sobriety,-were obedient and trustworthy servant

·

ed in Surry, and possibly may be

e N.

O. Prince Geor

ore indignant. In the "Macon (Georgia)

ast provocation whatever. I will give a reward of $20 for said negro if taken

t Joh

County,

ire to leave him? They have run away without any provocation! So unnatural, almost impossible, in the eyes of masters, is any spark of manliness in a slave! They cannot conceive it possible for a manly love of liberty to provoke a favored negro to run away. Still, however, even favored servants are continually escaping from their happy state; and, by the methods adopted to retake them, they are most efficiently

o await a favorable opportunity of sending him back to his master,-of course, like Onesimus, as a brother beloved. The jailer gets his legal fees, the finder gets his reward, the master gets his slave, and the slave most generally receives some "moderate correction" from the c

t an apparent owner, and for any cause he cannot legally prove his freedom, even though he does really own himself, he is nevertheless advertised, and sold at auction to the highest bidder, to pay the expenses o

North Carolina, chap. 11

d to be a resident in another State, the jailer is obliged by sec. 15, "by the first opportunity after such commitment, to send a description of such negro or runaway, together with the account of the time of commitment, and the county where such runaway is committed, to the press, to be advertised in the State Gazette."-Sec. 16 provides, that, "whenever any negro-slave shall be taken up in this State as a runaway, and confined in any jail for the space of twelve months, and the apprehension and confinement of said slave have been advertised in the State Gazette at least six months, and the owner does not apply to prove property in said time, then it shall be lawful for the court of pleas and quarter sessions of the

sissippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A similar law has always existed in the District of Columbia, originally enacted, and since supported, by Northern freemen. Our law, however, differs from the others in offering t

presumed to be, and treated as, a runaway slave, until he can establish his freedom. Under laws of this kind, many free negroes are taken; and, if from want of money or friends, or dista

of the "Washington Union," a

is free, and was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and was set free by Mrs. Allen, formerly Mrs. Watson, of said county; and that he lived with Jude & Muir, in Richmond, Virginia; and that he obtained his free papers in R

required to come forward, prove him, and take him away, or he w

all, Ja

ter, M

g.

years of age. Had on, when committed, a slate-colored Merino dress and a brown calico sun-bonnet. She says she is free, and served her time out with a Mr. Benjamin Daltry, of Southampton, Va.; and that Messrs. Gri

y required to come forward, prove her, and take her away, or she

all, Ja

ter, M

g.

ance, which happened

fant child, William.... Says she was set free by John Campbell, of Richmond, Va. in 1818 or 1819. The owner of the above-described woman and child,

nggold,

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published in the District. The following is taken f

, one mulatto-man, named Henry Hale, who says he is free. His owner or owners, if any, having failed to

Magee, S

" The first is the notice of the committal of a ne

at he kept a baker's shop in Columbus, Miss. and that he peddled through the Chickasaw nation to Pontotoc, and came to Memphis, where he sold his horse, took water, a

erett,

24,

way for six months, and having been regularly advertised during this period, I shall proceed to sell said negro-boy at public auction to the highest b

orris,

rg, July

d Freeman; and yet, in the diocese of the former, in the "Fayette

t, of the State of Georgia. She is about 30 years of age, and is a lunatic. The owner is requested to

k Home,

, being arrested as a runaway, may be sold as a slave for life, in virtue of the laws of the Christian State of North Carolina! And no one is entitled to pronounce such act to be wrong, unless he can produce a new revelation from Heaven! If a slave has perform

ous liberty is often preferred to slavish ease. To meet such c

er, has committed no crime. Unlike the apprentice, he has never consented, either by himself or his parents, to be a slave. He is held in slavery against his will, and not as the punishment for any crime; and yet, if he ventures to take his freedom, to assert the highest and holiest of all his rights, he is liable to be hunted with dogs and maimed with shot! In this so-called Christian country, which is spending its millions in regenerating the heathen, whole communities exist which tolerat

ished at Richmond, La. Nov. 26

from Bayou Mason to Lake Providence, is ready with a pack of dogs to hunt runaway negroes at any time. These dogs are w

ht or not. Where a twelve hours' trail is shown, and the negro not taken,

W. H

g" (Alabama) of Nov. 6, 18

he now proposes to catch runaway negroes. His charges will be $3 a day for hunting, and $15 for catchi

am Ga

6, 1

by profession, was murdered by some runaway slaves. Owners sometimes vary the monotony of a plantation life by a private hunt on their own account. But, unless they have considerable practice, they make a bungling piece of work of it.

. H. discharged a gun at his legs, for the purpose of disabling him; but, unfortunately, the slave stumbled, and the shot struck him near the small of the back, of which wound he died in a short time.

lful or lucky. The advertisement is found in the "R

Millner & Keen, of Pittsylvania Court-house. He was purchased by them (M. & K.) in Rickingham, N.C.; and he will in all probability make for that place, as he ran off last April, and was taken upon his way there, at Amelia Court-house. The person that took him on that occasion shot him with small shot on the legs, and the shot-marks are very

Hundley

d, Aug.

nds in running away, and especially because he "robbed God of his own" in breaking the Sabbath! But ho

owing account of a runaway's den, and of the good luck of a "Mr

pile of pine straw, representing a hog-bed, which being removed, discovered a trap-door and steps that led to a room about six feet square, comfortably ceiled with plank, containing a small fireplace, the flue of which was ingeniously conducted above ground and concealed by the straw. The inmates took the alarm, and made their escape; but Mr. Adams and

ay! Many other instances might be given. We adduce only this. The "St. Francisville (La.)

the swamp on Cat Island. He succeeded in arresting two of them; but the third made fight, and, upon being sh

w or public opinion in North Carolina would forbid them? How far otherwise is the fa

issue proclamation against such slave or slaves (reciting his or their names, and the name or names of the owner or owners, if known), thereby requiring him or them, and every of them, forthwith to surrender him or themselves; and also to empower and require the sheriff of the said county to take such power with him as he shall think fit and necessary for going in search and pursuit of, and effectually apprehending, such outlying slave or slaves;

it at the door of the Court-house, and at such other places (if any) as the justices may direct, if the slaves do not immediatelyy return, it is la

hop Ives enjoyed "most unfeigned pleasure" at the thought that slavery existed as it did in North

and Jones, committing acts of felony; these are, in the name of the State, to command the said slaves forthwith to surrender themselves, and turn home to their said master. And we do hereby also require the sheriff of said county of Lenoir to make diligent search and pursuit after the above-mentioned slaves.... And we do hereby, by virtue of an Act of Assembly of this State concerning

ds and seals, this 1

an, J.P.

es, J.P.

ain negro-man, named Ben, commonly known by the name of Ben Fox, also one

to be delivered to me, or confined in the jail of Lenoir or J

D.

12,

ofitable to his oppressors. It is a great wrong-who can conceive a greater?-to deny to a whole race the sacredness of marriage, the blessings of home, the joys of brother and sister, of father and mother, and all the refining, ennobling influences of these relations. It is a great wrong, none can conceive a greater, than to trade in the bodies of men, to higgle in the market-place about the price of our brother, to traffic in our sister's flesh and bones as merchandise. Slaveholding, as it most generally exists, darkens the mind, deadens the soul, and brutalizes the affections, of its victims. It is carefully planned and deliberately executed murder of the soul. No human heart exists, unwarped by self