The Liberator

SHAME!
The V. President of the U. S.'s Young Slave.-It will be remembered by most of our readers, that Col. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, some time ago, held a mulatto slave who attempted to gain her liberty by escaping to Canada, in company with a young Choctaw attending the Indian Academy at his farm. They were hotly pursued, and after considerable difficulty, she was retaken and carried back (in chains we believe,) to Kentucky. She was, shortly afterwards, sold to a slaver.

The senior editor was in Port William at the mouth of Kentucky river. the other day, where he was informed by an innkeeper of the village, that he saw this same young woman at that place on her way down the river. He described her as eminently beautiful—young, delicate, tender and greatly dejected. This poor forlorn creature, torn from her parents and friends, was actually hand-cuffed and chained to an ill favored negro man, as if to show her beauty in winning contrast. The miserable being (a young man) who had them in charge, assured our informant that he had no doubt he would get twenty-five hundred dollars for her. From the fact of his having these two, we think it by no means improbable, that the slaver was only the factor of Col. Johnson, for whose benefit she was to be sold.

This young woman was reduced to her forlorn and desolate condition for attempting to escape from the worst bondage that defiles God and crushes his poor—for attempting to gain that liberty to which our revolutionary fathers said before the world she was entitled: '-the 'blessings' of which the Constitution of the United States—that very constitution which Col. Johnson has sworn to support,—declares it was made to 'secure;'-and this too, by a man who since has been elected by the people to the second office in their gift—by the husband of a colored wife and by the father of children, who, in all probability, were her playmates.

Shame, where is thy blush?

Philanthropist.