Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1860 — A New Test. [ARTICLE]

A New Test.

An lonost. En-*ii.4ini«ui of tills city hus ju.-t. rcmriiol run-. M: i-si: ;ii. -,h •!:* r.velve • miifs in.ui N.ttcii'-z. wliurt? i e lie! ijutiii work itt his traiie i hut .of 1 a brickfiiyer. .•ind intensely .-u-ifiic;- -t;.s of people ironi (lie Nortli, lie. cofic.lml >(l tli it tlie course'o otu-' .!• nee w-.s to k -ep a close in.iulh on tin- tn.it- ! ter o; siavi-ry, whicli he (’ill. Tilings went | iilono- very well under this rule lor a B ln rt ! lime, when a new itii.i u r.ex ,oe ted f-t was ; applied to-his sympathies. One rainy day when the hands were d*.-t'aine’d in the house, a slave havino (ailed to buiid as eood a fire troth greenwood as the overseer wanted, the slave was ordered to be thro-a n down, by the 1 it'er, to recei and fifty lashes as a punishment. there was hut one room for shelter, our .triend was compelled go stand by and see tlie inhuman cruelly iti- | tlicted or go out and stand in the rain, lie j promptly 'chose the latter, and at the end of | half or three-quarters of an hour e rne in j drenching wet. Ho was met by a i nigh, s and a remark from the overseer, th t he did ■ “not like to see such Inn.” His only reply ! was. that he did not, and nothing more v. as said on the subject. The next day a saddled j horse was brought up to the door, and he j was informed that he could leave that part jof the country. He was informed, that he : could ride into Natchez and leave the horse i and s: ddle at a particular livery stable. | W ith true British pluck, he refused the services of the animal, walked to Natchez on loot, and soon made his way back to Galena. ; Galena Gazelle.