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A Hard Case

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
July
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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I happened to be at Maysville the other day, which you know lieson the Kentucky side of the Ohio river. The aristocracy there areserved by slaves. They are numerous. The case of o smart young slave was mentioned to me, who himself belonged to one family and his wife to anotlier. The wife was dealt harshly by. Her mistress denied her the time needful to nu:3e and take care of her little children. The poor fáther and mother could endure it no longer. - They,wth their children, a few weeks since, suddenly disappeared. The owner of the young wife, a ric h aristocratie lady, wassurprised. dum foundered, at the perverseness and audacity of her servant. She, in the first moment of 06tonishmcnt and vexation, despatched her boy. Jerry, a firsl-rate coachman, worth from eeven hundred to one thousand dollars, in pursuit. - The first intelligence received from Jerry, was a joint letter from him and tbc fugitives whom he pursued, cordially inviting tbeir Maysville masters and mistresses to a tea-party in Canada! - Could the patienceof saint endure such insolence calmly? - Cor. Bcgt"n ChronicU. O The General Conference of the M. E. Church, bya vote of 115 to 40 - has rescinded the i infamóos resolutions which it adopted in Baltimore, making it 'inexpedient and unjustifiable for any preucher to permit colored persons to give tesiimony against white persons in any State where they are denied that privilege in trials at luw.' It willamount to nothin? practical ly. It is on ly the pretious resotution of the Conference that has been icscindecL The testimony of colored chureb nieinbers will bc excluded the same as be fore. .

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Signal of Liberty
Old News