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A Southern Scene

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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Extract óf ft letter receiveo from Nathan j Uinshaw, of Randolph cuunty, Indiana, Trom a correspondent in the South: "The crying injiistice and cueity of slavery haa frcquenlly engagea niy attention (tirinr the course of" my jonrney; but never more ihaVj whife I was in tliis place, wherelhis oppreísod r;ice are vcry nutnerouá and frequenty sold at aisctiofi lifed cattle. At one of these SftieFj I was miich affect ed in hearing a young colored man plending his cause. His ajied father ond mother, and his wife nnd chüd, were all mounted upon the slage, sü tliat thoy iniglít be seen by the bidtlert; tliey were about to be sold. The younjr man stepped iorwurd and stood by them, but was soon ordcred down. He said he wanted to be sld willi tht-rn; but was told that he cóuíd not, as it was a saleto sntisfy a mortgajje up on the others, in wliinh he was not nclmJed. IJe plead with very nndmoviig lan roago, to show how hard it was to separate from his fumÜy; bul it was all to no pnrpnse. When he sv timt his prayer was unhe-jded, and that the otdors would besold without liim, ho buret info a flood of tcars, and in the angnish of his feeüngF, 5ésrtÖ!it them ratlier tb kïll him, 'for,' Faid he, 'I wonld rather die than be separated from niy frmily.1 Upon whicli lie was (Jr5ffge3 i ff the scaffold, and drivcn nvay. Thecompany went on biddtny, apparcntly as iinconcerned as though the auctioueer had been selüng a sheep; wliüe the crèamsand praers of theafred parenis, and of the bereaved wife with the iufant in her arms, went up to hcaven in behalf of tliemselvee, and csprcially for the poor young man, who had been so infmmriiily torn ir.vay Aon) them. Bcs".dc3 the.-e vicliqis of cruel and unchiistion avarice, there was a lurge number .more confined in a cellar, who were bronght uut aiul sold to diiferent purcha.ers. TIius K i, that ni'iu relativea 'irc violcnlly eopuiat-i. uever moie to see cach oiher in ihis world!"Messrs. Pninter & Mead have just estublished a woolen factory olí Chrisüan river, Cnss couritv, .Michigan. We rnjoice to sce stich ostablishments sprining up ín our state, uhder the Ijciiíficent

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News