Contentment And Happiness

The following items from Soutlicrn papers may give some idea of the menns sed bv Southern gentlemen nnd ladica to secure the aifections of the happy beings imdcr their care, IL.ntuvny, a black womnn, Betsoy- liad an iron bar on hcrrighl leg " John Hcnderson. Washington Co. Mi. in the "Grund Gulf Advcr:iser." Ranarny, nrgross Caroline - hnd or. a collar with one prong tvrned down." T. Engpy, New Orlenns, Gallatin streef, in the "Bee," Üct.27, 1837. ''Rinawny, nepress Fanny - had on er? iron band about her nttk." J. Muooin. Anti stfeèt N. ürJean. ifl the "Bee,'' August ÍÍ, 1333. "Rnnnway, the negro ííowñ-=has a ring of i ron on his lejt foi,t. Also, Grisp, his wife, Imvinjj a ring and clmin on Ihe Irft lcg"-=Charles Curcner, New Orleans, m tlie fi3ee," July 2, 1333. ♦'Commiltcd to jnil, a mnn who cnlls Iiis name John - he lm a clog nf iron on his r:ghl font ichich ivUl tvftfchföur or five povnds." - B. W. llorínes, jailor, P.ke counl.Vi Alahama, in tlie "Muntgoincry Advertiser," Sept. L9, 1837. "Rarmvay, Betsey--wlien pIic left liad on Iicr neck an iron collar" Charles Kernin, Jeflersou pariüh, La. in thc N O "Bee," Aug. 11, 1837. "Defaint'd at tlie oíicc jnil, the négrff wench Myra - has t-tvernl marks of lachivg, and has rons on her feel." P. Bnvü, Captain of Pólice, in the N. O. "Bee," June 9, 1838. "Was committed to jnil a negro boy - had a lar ge neck iron, with a hv ge pair oj homs aml a lar ge. bar or band of iron on the left leg." H . Gridley, Sheriff of Adnms Co. Mi. in the "Memphis Times," Sept. 1834."Ra na war i a ngro boy about txvelvc yoars o)d - hnd round his ncck a chain dog collar witli 'DeYumpcit' engraved on it.'' T. J. De Yntnpert, merchan?, Mobile, Alabotna, in tlic "Mobile Cliroiiic'.e," June 13, 1833. Joii:ï M. NEr-sa, of Highland County, Ohio, a nativo of Virginia says: "In Staunton, Va. nt the house of Mr. Robert MeDowelI, a merchant of tliaf placo, I once saw a colored woman, of intelligent and dignitied nppearance, who appeafed to be attending to [hé business of tíie housp, with an ron collar aronnd lier reek, willi horns of prong?, extending out on either sido, and up, unt ïl they met at somelhing likc a foot above Iier íiead, nt whirh point there was a bell attached. This Yoke, ns tlicy called it, I understood trasto keep her fron running oway, or to punish her for having done so. I hnd freqtientlv scen mm wit li iron collars, but ibis was the first in.tance thnt 1 recollect to have seen a female thus degraded.'' Wilmam Daow.v, a wcll know citizen of Providence, R. I. says; "At New Orleaní?, I iccollcct j=peinr gangs of slaves that were drivcn out every day, the Snbbalh not pxcepted, to n-ork on Uic streets. Those had heavy choins to connect two or more togeiher, nnd some had iron collars and yokes oí?, $'C . Tlie noise ae they wnlked or worked a their chaina was írtily dreadful." Q53 The nnmbcr of Melhodists in the Slave Stiltes is 333,743. About two fifths of this nnnibor are iuale member?, over 21, giving 133,í?97 votes in the Slave States, members of the M. E. Church. Tho whole number of votes given in those Stalps in 1340, was C82,5CÖ. Thus the M. Epi-copal voters of the South hftld one fiftli of the political power of the Slave States. Add to these the legal volers of the Bapliste, Presbytcrians, and EpiscopnJians-, and they might put au end lo Slavery moi ïow. - Fhilanihojrial,