Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1859 — The Horrors of Slavery. [ARTICLE]

The Horrors of Slavery.

The editor of the Brooklyn Star— a Virginian—says, that instances of the sale ol their own children, by slaveholders, is by no ■ means uncommon at the South. He men-' tions a remarkable instance that occurred in his own knowledge. A brother and sister were brought, up together, till the brother w,ent to Cambridge. When he returned he ; found his father insolvent, and that hissister was inventoried among the slaves and about to be sold. He stole her away, and rode with her night and day, until he reached the I underground railroad west of the Ohio river, lie gave her a dagger, with the injuncti.m not to let it from her grasp until she was in Canada, and also his money, and left her to the mercy of the humane. The pursuers 1 got on her track, and it was only by means ) of two fast horses, the property of a member lof Congress from that State, that she was I carried to the lake and escaped in advance )of litem. She taught music in a seminary at Montreal, until she was married to the ) ) son of an English nobleman, and her brother ! now resides with them. About ten years ago, tt wealthy planter of) Alabama died, leaving two daughters, whom ‘ he had educated, partly at a seminary in ) ) Philadelphia, where they had been accus- ‘ . turned to all the refinements oi' life. He left them all his property, his brothers to be j the executors of the will. They, knowing: that the lather's marriage to the mother was ) invalid, site being a quadroon, whom he had purchased in New Orleans, took the property, under the law, aud sold the girls as slaves. The records of this case can now be found in the courts of that State.