American Freeman (Newspaper) - March 24, 1847, Prairieville, Wisconsin VOL 3 DEVOTED TO LIBERTY POLITICS TEMPERANCE EDUCATION AGRICULTURE MECHANIC GENERAL INTELLIGENCE PRAIRIEVILLE WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY MARCH 24 1847 NO 21 AMERICAN FREEMAN IIY m BACON It THIRD TERMS ff Two per year if in or within otherwise in addition Tor every month's delay will be required mJ Hent through the Office mini be to Ons k c C OLIN I I POET from the Give me three uf corn wire the last of an lad tu mother dying Irani She found three grains in a corner of ragged and them to him It wu all the the whole were from Y A M WB Give me ot corn mother Only three grains of corn It will keep the lile 1 have Till coining of Die morn I dying of hunger and cold mother Dying ot hunger and cold And half agony of such a death My lipi have toM It my heart mother A wolf lhat is fierce for blood All livelong day ami the night Inutile Gnawing for lack of fowl 1 dreamed ol bread in my deep mother Ami the was heaven lo see I woke witli an eager famishing But you had no broad lor inc How could I look to you mother How I lo yun For lo give your boy When you won starving loo Kor 1 read the famine in your cheek n your eye so wild And I felt il in bony hand As you laid it on child The Queen hni and troM mother The baa gold While you are forced to j our empty breast A skeleton babe to A babe that is of want mother As I am dying now Wilh a ghastly look i sunken eye And famine upon brow has poor What poor Ireland That world looks on sees us starve Perishing one by one Do the of rare nut mother The great men anil the For he sons I IsK Whether they live or die f There is many a brave heart here mother Dying ol want und While only across the mother Are many lhat roll in gold ary rich ami men thore mother With wondrous wealth tu view bread they to tings to-night me lifu you Cotno nearer to my side Come lo my t And bold me Aly father In- i fur I breath Mother dear mother Give three grainy ol to hia bosom and crouched towards the lire for ague oa him for the tie had upon the cold floor of house What plea what an appeal from laws of his coon from the unanimous verdict millions offals country men which bad him an by blood and him and all bis posterity to the uf brute The Bible God's Mayna of liberty liad been wound around with tha lash to keep its divine revolutions the But there was io all the lhat him a ny of lhat light which ery nan Dial into the world and it full faintly and dimly upon his oppressed conscience until he taw and full that bit color not the complexion of crime determined to encounter the odds and seek a jury in the wide world who should listen to h'm appeal and tbu verdict that bad made him a He could not read for it is a breach of the laws which fix his condition to teach a slave lo read Hi could not read the names and of the ships that alighted in thu harbor like currier Whence they they went wits a mystery beyond his means uf tion Ho daily taw spread their great whitu wings and soar away through the blue ocean firmament and wondered much what kind of Kin J they would alight kind of would bail their And among these querulous thoughts Ibis las vr juld steal er color crime on that distant shore It was hu knew of the location of countries The North star was the sum and of all his geographical facts And was directly under North all who reached thai of freedom from Southern bondage stole vain Twenty bit bad been out upon Ibe lea of The lust cracker warn gone Three days and nights he bad lived without a morsel of food and liberty Id re- and he at them in a cry belp might be in heart out upon that ocean and he cried louder Save J He Was dragged from hiding place trembling he told and for a volley uf and threats thai he should be sent back to slavery by the first bey met bound to America He mercy with all the of last hope of then the strength of but in vain He was ordered to and to be kept upon bread and water until some should heave in sight by which tha caplain and crew tion of humanity by the back to bondage But was descried though sought in the with the telescope and the slave hoped on in bin He was on deck with hands manacled together when a green land loamed up like a of new world Life and liberty came back to his heart with all the impulse of their strong yearnings arjil he essayed to wring the iron his limbs Now the towers and and the dim outlines of a distant city arise before his eyes and the ship entered the waters of Rhine and that city was Rotterdam and soon they were way thro a fleet of vessels of every flag The ment had come and Liberty or Death was tabu the issue of the leap The sailors were busy in taking the sails and jetting jo the anchor Now or the American slave sprang from the deck into the river His hands were closely ironed together but hu enter They did so but for pur POM suppose yori reader To talk of work to be done by those who are glad sik leave to or utter ness of death ere the morning sun should light up the of tha storm She sat down for a moment by the rose and paced the floor with her of No Par pressed oil her burning forehead the errand on which One of a moment at the window and them claimed her at and harf drew back curtain hen kneeling dered her to fan seized as his slave It iras done she was conveyed with her oldest tu the county jail no me six miles the highest bidder fur the blood and bones of his 1 fact of being sold to gia that caused those unearthly you ask Is that not thing in 1 ft is far too I answer with shame bot it was not that which caused such intense The cause far than that J in lhat mother's bo- som through that sadly terminated hud lain a babe but a few weeks old a babe which colored though it was and doomed to become as as its ble molner was her baby with all thu tender and helpless ways of a an attempted to cast her burden upon tha Lord A slight of the sleeper disturbed her She arose and trending over him to his Id her ear rapidly shortening breath Again she repaired to the farther corner of the room saying to herself as she knelt If prayer fails to relieve me what shall I do Long did she kneel there and calmer and calmer grew the of her bosom aud when she arose sbe felt that sha was She proceeded to preparation for the remainder of night and wen calmly sought and arranged articles which might be needed when the should She then sat down by the The sleep of the patient was deep and long con- As she sat beside him she re- membered all the way which the Lord bad brought from the commencement uf mother loved it as fondly as the her the present sad arid solitary mother of this land could love hour She reviewed days hor own But it was an io its mother in the So I hey tore il from her bosom It was that caused the shriek of speechless of a bereaved and tortured Yea they tors that tender child from its by night and traveled through struggled manfully with the current for nnd over mountains for weeks und life and liberty flu was descried by This he knew by tradition but I crew of a Dutch boat passing near who rescued him jus I as he was sinking for the last time and conducted him to ship to which they belonged He before captain who recognized jewels of when finished their course and dropped their anchors which he daily saw in the distance was a question fov conjecture They could not bu bound for ho was sure of lhat But did shivery all the but not one in ten of ocean ships anchor by somo walk a and faith that thought into a living I his mind by night and day i condition could not be He i could bu but a slave wherever hu might I be cast of about a large merchantman indicated that it was about to weigh for u foreign deck und were covered with busy num wrestling with bales und ljut like hulf resl whu carried 11 bag by not entered upon ship's invoice U was tilled with the savings many With this he found his way into thu fore part Hie sKip where Uu espied a space which bale or would close sight While the weru busy in slowing the into thu narrow nock bag ami thu next minute aperture was closed nnd to his great was left in utter darkness Thu hurried upon dec I waxed louder und louder fugitive held hm to listen at became the inmate of a and she gloomy For what the woman committed any crime Not the possible crime was she guilty of except it really be a crime to wear a black skin But sha was a slave at least she was claimed as such Besides you sea they only transferred her from one prison to what is slavery but imprisonment In fact it is generally im- prisonment of life What became of the babe some mother impatiently asks answer further than that it was u republic and saw lhat he poor man was left wilh a colored woman who promised an American stave and in bonds for its mother to take care ot it This it is probable she was allowed to do until it was old enough for thu Southern Mothers of the who have borne color of bis skin His iron bracelets were wrung by strong hands fiom bis nnd he was conducted lo consul and by the next steamer lo in a few hours he trod a soil upon which no slave can breathe When 1 saw him he was still wel with his leap into Hhine A reaction had come over him The of the escape had been encountered ture had exhausted all bur latent energies in the struggle for The sustaining when her glad voice mingled with those of brothers and sitters who rejoiced in the richest treasures of parental her first acquaintance wilh thu future band of her and ibe delightful hours when the current of her to flow out towards him met by a returning stream not pure deep and hour when united to him in holy bonds she left her home und dred for tha full possession of a heart which sympathised with every feeling from the lightest to the deepest that her soul years uf prosperity so abundant in the means uf contributing to the enjoyment of those lacking sympathy and days when wealth und the friends made by it were scattered and the hospitable mansion was exchanged for the lonely separation of who had been one in heart and life thu ther to a foreign land the son for which his delicate frame was to sustain the daughter to lo to listlessness and imbecility those menial and physical accomplishments which had so often elicited the admiration of the most cultivated return children and felt the feeble pulsations of j of son to die as it seemed wilh her soon fall asleep For several the mother watched the lumbers of tier dren The day began to dawn aud the hoarse voice of the storm to die away As the first rays of the morning sun glanced in at the window nature was calm most at that moment the spirit departed from its tenement There was no struggle he simply ceased to So sudden and quiet was bis Mary was not called to witness it She was to sleep on and take her rest While the mother was thus silling be- tween the living and dead were beard approaching und a low rap at the door She opened it und Mr man a rude dweller on the mountain a mile or two distant stood before her Good said he as he entered the ports of be Black Sea wr theie is in abundance of corn Just lowing harvest ha been in foi wants of the Wheat Indian Cora Barley 1 ilk of with such MorU uf duce within the uf twenty days And the surplus uf all grain pouring like into the Atlantic ports wailing tie tu convey ii he ocean UB lhal and see if not a fair allowance in as mild a lone as his habitually harsh voice would allow Vou are all alive I and Frunce will put down yet I hope after this Bui population uf thu United Stairs al Heeing her shako her he and we will allow lo nun and then Is he gonti I child of or free 10 said she pointing to the f this grain for from nnd then with gesture deprecating noise f January or until another couch on which Mary At of allowance population of ing At lhat moment she suddenly j country would 11 1 dreamed he was she j bushels to live unlit harvest to the O why did you I From this balance not call me weeping lowed a of the closed eye Her mother led her to ad- joining apartment and after a short absence returned ill deduct 100 to be added cuinptuMient to hny and ruol ted lo the horses and of the fur the period wbich would be a liberal allowance their little respond your know you not how to that cruelly bereft mother I trust that you do Then plead earnestly for the cause of the slave Strengthen the hands of your husbands and fathers and brothers amid stern conflict with the giant Wrong of tear and hope was gone aud j and 1 heir sufferings he hung his head and crouched toward lire as if them were nothing left loask for but lo die a freeman Nor did he ask aloud for this or fur any thing but sat quaking with the ague anil hot a complaint nor a murmur of pain except when left alone far a momenta the room i was a fellow countryman appealing lo thit world in the silent remonstrance of his suffering against a imprisonment i lor color iti ths American house of bondage plead guilty for rny country with a sense I cun not describe It was the first time 1 believe that 1 ever had two overcoats at once and thus was able tu comply literally with the gospel precept and share them with a being And its his was Ilia time I A T L A V K 11 Y AN AMERICAN j I The leap for liberty that sweetest bonu i of heaven had been adventured Thu was over boon was bin to die with apparently for he seemed to be troubling tin the extremist verge of There was in great London w herein dwell shapes phases and of almost infinite in number and ty an American slave wilh the ever that luxury I put the of last fell upon his ears the voice of vation amt hu closely hugged the floor lo his bosom to still the noise uf his heating I the upon warm und thick Ue felt new comfort in the one 1 hoy r Tha ship is sidling i wore The hnt I hnd worn for two years ee the The voices on deck are pressed nnd is heard alone comes down in response from tho spars and ihc canvass has already spread wings of hope in the of the ican slave The ship moves but it moves A splash mm It is the and ha sailors are pulling it in Now there is n gurgling sound against ship's tuda It moves it moves The hind of the free nnd the home of the the face of private malice and public Woman cun do much if faithful io her much that wilh co-operation of the wives and mothers and daughters of land the erty Bell would soon cease lo send forth such heart-rending tones as the shrieks of lie Childless Mother filled him well and 1 left him with a feeling of gratitude that 1 could give even so pour a freedom suit to an American slave in London him and his muster it will he doubled In tun minutes mure Still another sail falls a or their red murks j recedes inch hy inch Another sail is un his feet and aa unique a out to the and the gurgling wonder as il a beggar had never I furrow of the keel is deepened There the city Slavery disguise as it may can never Inde under rags of poverty nor merge mark wilh the lineaments of common wretchedness And there was this poor man trembling in the midst of the bold with a sense of tho guilt of his skin that sin of his constitution for which he had dona penance i in a Christian land for thirty years on mill of slavery It no sight to an American stave any where either al home or abroad while panting with his run for lifu Ol nil human nona a e goaded by day and night by such a conscience as lhat which afflicts him his guilt like the mark of Command every while man ha meets is a species avenger of his rican Had the laws nnd the been concentrated in the Thou shall o white akin nail have about with him more painful sense of donable thai which he hangs in the of his fellow beings Having suffered for thirty or forty years a more degrading punishment for the crime of color than ever sin against God on man by human authority haw can he dives himself of the conscience lhat with a from the driver's hand through every THE CHILDLESS MOTHER Written for tlin Liberty lor 1817 UV J Afler practising my profession for a year or two in Virginia amid the scenes of my home I re- moved tu a quiet little lage on the Maryland side of the romantic During tny residence in the a spuce which can not be swum between ialter an incident occurred the lion of which will perhaps serve a useful put furnishing as 1 have twen requested to do a page for tha Liberty Belt At the dawn of a day in early spring I was slumbers rendered haps profound by the labor of the previous day was a scream which violently cleft the cold air with its piercing agony 1 instantly sprang to my to have my ears saluted by shrieks still startling So loud had voice now become thai il seemed to startle from the bosom of the quiet river echoes such as had perhaps never been heard since the days when its glassy tide used to reflect of Indian and the of panther The voice could readily be ed as lhat of a female coarse and harsh in Us tones It soon craned booming from yard and the ship creaks beneath the canvass The last lound from land of slavery dies away upon his ear and he is drifting far out the ocean Rubicon lie breathes freer but not a freeman and the thought of the unknown land lo which he is bound displaces tho painful idea of thu one he hail left The ship on its course but whither he knows not Is it northward or southward or eastward Ho can not tell it is not westward nnd that his of dom fears the light lest he should bo discovered but he longs for one look from deck lo see if the fearful vision of hind of bondage has Now it is night although the are both alike to him as fur us light is concerned Nature knows comes even to one burn blind j as by the very intensity of And nights came to the American slave j h expressed On subsequent and days and dreams and lights and shades j inquiry of a servant I obtained the ing solution of the mystery ID a hut a square or two distant had lived for some time colored the of hopt and despair which be could not His story was short nod simple He writhing wilh Ilia ague and there was a rheumatic fever in every joint He painfully and with an that shook the chair in the corner He bad an THE STORY THE LONE WATCHER BV j jo u He will not be here Mrs Brainard with a deep sigh as she let fall the curtain which had lifted from the small and solitary window of her ble baying vainly endeavored to pierce the darkness which reigned without A fierce storm was raging The dread roar of tho wind which swept through the valley overlooked by the site of ing was incessant save when drowned for a moment by violent beating of rain against the window Occasionally the crash of a forest tree was heard as il was hurled from its place on mountain that rose abruptly in rear lie will not be here ed Mrs Brainard in a tone of deeper ness as crossed the floor seemingly wilh 110 definite purpose A slight sigh an of one awaking ftom slumber caught her ear despite the noise of the elements without She moved quickly aud gently drew aside the curtain of a bed lhat stood in a rude recess of the apartment and ex- these scenes passed in review before her and in all she could distinctly trace the hand of Almighty goodness and wisdom even in this last closing scene so fast darkening whose shades around her She rose from her seat and kneeling by the bedside of her dying son gave thanks to God fur all his dealings with her anil hers and nuked in full assurance that she should be heard for strength to sustain her in the trial that seemed to be near even at the door As she resumed her sent she fancied she heard on attempt to lift the lalch and it i was not till a violent gust of the storm had passed thai she was able to ment which told that some one was at the door She sprang and opened it and hurl daughter stood before her drenched to the skin and deadly pule A exclamation burst from the mother and they were locked in such an embrace us is known only to who have hearts as warm ai those that beat in the bosoms of the mother and her daughter and meet after long separation in the chamber of death or beside the grave of love B led her daughter to the bedside and allowed her to imprint a kiss on the of the withdrew her to niuke the necessary changes in her dress j She had effected this aud was sitting by the lire endeavoring lo lo I her chilled and exhausted frame leaning on the bosom of her too feeble and too full of heart to speak when her brother awoke and made an effort at Her was to rise and rush to his bedside but her strength failed her and sha sank to the floor in a swoon Her brother's wild look of inquiry was ed hy his mother while she was placing a pillow beneath the head and using means uf restoring her suspended animation Sbe found the old man silling hy HIM commences in coldest parts bedside wilh his chin supported by j ul the Union the first of awl hands which rested on iho lop of j harvest hy the of July His cheeks were wet wilh tears own j WB have over and above flowed copiously at the for of grain fur was the last man to be seen in such J England anil France and giving evidence of lander for An fueling He was one of those j annual who fear not God nor regard man by the population of from whom a display of human feeling was laud nnd Scotland al no more to be expected than from u Kow suppose ou of i said the old man in a ary grown bushel of corn broken voice yesterday j should lie consumed and lhat the Itut your son had come home sick I was same production from then on my way from home and did not kingdom of France at the time jet back till after dark As soon as I gol could people of either uy that home 1 set out to come here but when Irvine hnd made famine 1 got to the bridge I found il gone j in heir borders ut Ad- I was obliged lo give it up was I milling fin extreme thure was nobody to take earn of j have we against thv him This morning 1 started as eoon as it havii left hand u was light and had to go round to the i of tin Black Head of tlie stream j Sea which and iho I Bin greatly obliged to replied j is no of icr to interrupt Mrs for so much j On the right hund we have ble locome lo j ports fast lilting wilh a 1 didn't mention it lo show how much i of of trouble it cost as if 1 that al j i Slarve uli w hat's ilie thing but to show the reason why 1 was j England will nol have H of not here sooner on ul 1 You are very kind to come at all we nothing of had no claims upon you j will make her children unlit Yes you have or he had and you for Indued his sake Bui when did your daughter Brother you nf nu of About midnight if you il provided On foot nnd alone i w sucku nnd to it is she started on foot when j in for most mine are in she left the stage at the opening of llu j in tin ley i tone What time was thai Bui Very Just before sunset And it took her lilt twelve o'clock lo get here It was a little past twelve I believe She came in thoroughly with the rain and exhausted I have ed the particulars I only know thai she set as soon as she was informed of the i danger of her brother and arrived hert lusl will sure to linve I BJI are your sucks man It ian wonder she did not perish But are your wagons I I talk but I you to sny thai there are of mouths in your family and lhat want of to keep you in M Male of till vc.-sl lime Kalher a close neighbor for so many growing You had say of what is now to he done T I had heller go to and John Hull What do you and get some of neighbors to come und tx'lf of your ships an full nf lay him out Any thing you want done in first f war lo do for I should like to have you send to the the use of your navy wilh iu posed to the dim rays of the flickering lamp Your sister came half an hour ago wel of and with the j old calico coat on him when he bid himself i rounding she so regarded by baying of blood and the tread away in the ship but little of that now r countenance of a young man whose ghastly paleness and deeply sunken eye be- tokened a speedy departure to the land Has he comer said tho invalid in a feeble hollow voice V No my son It would bo impossible for any one to come up the valley on such a night as this It would be almost tain death to attempt it The fall of a Venerable hemlock which stood the very door of dwelling added a fearful commentary to her remarks ou the dangers of the night An expression of crossed his countenance as sound aud shock of this fall was heard and felt We ara said the mother ing the expression Fear not lam with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God The very hairs of our head are all ed Out best and most powerful friend is with us if your father is not A slight groan was uttered by the er The hand of the mother was gently laid on his forehead while on her nance there rested an expression of grief to IVI 1 I lil mother of two children whose wants she which copious tears would have made no I addition -Are you in much pain asked she in a tone which exhibited all the depths of a post office for me and make inquiry if cny thing has been heard of Mr He wrote me he should be hern last evening 1 wish lhat I hnd known il before 1 lefl home then I could have sent Hen I don't know though as il much for it is ten to one if he had gone n slop after tny hack was My children don't be- have na yours do or did I know about him who is gone and the girl would come through such a storm must be of the same make Well I will go and send help here as soon as 1 can and go myself to the office and then I shall know it if done He laid his hard hand for a moment on the temples of the sleeper saying What a loss to lose such a son and what a com- fort to havo such a He lefl the house and proceeded to execute the plan proposed next week WHAT IS THE USK OK THE NAVY nv and exhausted She has not lold me whence and how the She is ning to recover slowly opened her eyes but the wild light bat gleamed from them and the nervous agitation of her frame ltd her iher to fear that she might suffer a double For a moment she felt an unalterable pang For the death of her son she was prepared to that she could bow murmur Could she be resigned lo living death of her ter A moment relieved her from this dis- tressing fear Speculation appeared in the full dark eye of Mary Reason resumed her sway Supported by her mother she sal liy ths bedside and took her brother's hand in hers while a smile so angelic lit up her wan features that it the fear that she might be on the eve of her ture to the belter land Dear said ibe dying I am thankful to see you once more you are pale we shall not be separated long j the sickly moans of destitution nre ascending day and night in one great and bitter cry for bread bread which as it lasses cannon and powder when jour is starving Will KIM limits gul bread for your Hut continental will n brogue neighbor how is it with in liltle Belgium Nothing lo in yuu come foro How many you home lo loed Four nothing Vou have n luko a for ery one of your hungry And now us sets wo have any in for mny a Lalch or Iwo of bread vesl Join Bull takes you J you as as your ol mouths run before nnd 1 have If life or turf-covered cabin of a Millions of gruin left for gle Irishman were endangered hy a foreign j your neighbors arc foe the gigantic of England would low fur bread fly lo the rescue Suppose some foreign armada were producing the very misery that is now sweeping over the sister would not a cloud of canvass In against winds from the naval depots and sound of preparation be heard day and night at all the of the A CASK OF find in the Sun H able thai must interest of every family in the Wf it further Why then should that canvass be I A gentleman living in the furled and the anchors of lhal huge marine lie rustling in the mud of English harbors had supplied with labor of her own hands She had regarded herself as a free as the air of the of his Ho can he in a day a i his It was the last moot h or year re a and of and he could say but little tude of innocency the world and up erect and look the world in the face and My Gracious heavejuT! then of the of m who made you grind age for thirty American ir bt said ad bt bent head Not what a charge ment you enter those a the haute of said of his perilous the ocean He had done all nature could do to inaka bin crackers Inat uo til the ship should or at some foreign port He knew he had nothing to hope of the caplain or his men and ha put himself on the closest ance that could sustain life But it in gard into the presence of who demanded in a voice of angry surprise whence lie came In a few broken words all who knew her But she had no free having omitted la secure was said through in tha source from which sbe had received a bal pledge of freedom omission too frequently made by virtually freed did that woman quiet darkness which her frame in unconsciousness that a still harder bow bard a so near iU Sbe was aroused at dawn by a rap at her door Sbe responded to the and bade the mother's tenderness No I wish to see him once more This effort at utterance caused a fit of coughing which seemed to threaten im- mediate dissolution How earnestly did the eye of the mother glance around the apartment as she supported her son while she vainly strove to suppress the trembling lhat shook her frame passed away and his eye closed as if in slumber Gently she laid him down upon bis pillow and gazed with tearless and glassy eye upon the face lhat she doubted not would assume the fixed- it will be a joy to me to welcome you home But our dear could she do without us both The thought disturbed him but was by of the ther Your sister is exhausted as she may well be by her efforts losee us She will soon recover but if God calls her I can spare her These words were spoken in a firm calm and cheerful tone A change soon look place in hit ing Your confidence is firm said Mary rightly divining that the end was near Firm as the everlasting hills was He into a lethargic slumber Mrs IJ constrained her daughter to lie down upon a coach and seek some repose She of became suddenly and edly hero of a lie had retired In hour his wife bring tick and as il under Inking small near were is barricading the of medicine luting the i ready to all the ships matchbox Aic wi lhat England can send to convey it lo her shores It ia not because harvests world have put its on short lowance that bread in Ireland is at a price and scarcity The of world have been whitened wilh as heavy a harvest of grain as ever covered them wilh its sheaves Il is for want of wagons to bring home these sheaves from distant fields that food for in in and beast at such a famine rate cither in Great Britain or France Nor it be- cause navigation tun closed surplus of grain growing At At two o'clock his wile lhal lite lamp out ami medicine awoke him lu reach In tin Land il He wusi il h and lim lace cordingly hand for tile buttle lie il html of a man Ukc Wutt presence uf mind hu lightened Ilis anil lino v holding on ut called out it mun in His wife und cried for upon in haunt
