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"The Land Of Blood!"

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Day
4
Month
August
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The numbers and enormity of the muriers and crimes committed daily in tbe Slaveholding States, is most appalling.- We hafe on hand three columns of sucb transactions gatliered from our exchangesofonly thrce weeks. Here is a specimen of a fej exfiibit ing a state of society that would be quite appropriate to the dominions of the Great MoguL Inhuman Murder-Fire Persons Bulchered in Cold Blood.-Be erly Aderock, in company with fiis wife, molher, two smnll children and two negro boys, were moving fram Pontotock, Mississippi, either to Missouri or Illinois, where a brother of Adcock resides. A person of the name of A . 3. M'Cafmon, from Coiumbus, Miss., feil in compony wih them, and trnvelleJ with them some days, until the 15th ült., when, tis the eider of the neig roes soys, he m urde red Adcock, bis wife nd mother, with an axe, while asleep. He then drew bis ftnife, and deUbcraigly cot the of the two childrer, a boy and girl. He then look the two most vaïuable horses,fhe twonegroes, money fïnd otber vaÍRíibíes ot' the murdered family.and lcft, thrcateiïngto murder the negroes rf fíyey áivolged tbe secret, When found, the bodies of two of the ndivlduwte were to-mand-etrlen by ibe bogs He was apprehended by soroe gentlemen of SpriigüreC;fe,about síxteen miles northeast of Jackson Tennv After he was ap prehended, bloed wasfoimd pon bi&knife and pantaloons, which, tbe negro statedy ho hrtd fiTtjueT6!y Kttempted wasb ofty bui coulO not.Anoíter Tragícuí Affaïr.-tróm thtf Ma rengo (Ala.-) Patriot, we )enrn of another Moosty allair whieh occurred in De-' mopolis a few duys Tkt!1 paper siates fhat ns n Mr. Mavfieldr-m company vrith bis wife and dfïiigbreiy vtti relurn-' ing home from charch, be wo arftackeci frtm tehïnd by 'JTticophilus Fisber, who siruck liim gc-emï Mowg and succeecledi iu bringing bim alriTosl lo the ground. - " May villc rccovereJ, hmrever, and a ba arose, stablied Fisber in tbc Hgnt side, the knife penetrating the right lobc ofthc Itings; whereupon FKsher drew a pfto-l', and attempted to fire upon May field, but was prevenled by the crowd which had by this time assembled. Fisher died next evening about sunset, and Mnyfield immedialely surrendered himself into tho custody of the officors of juètioe. Four Persons Killed.- The Cincinnati Commercial of the 30th of Juno gives the following particulars of dreadful deeds of blood committed on tho Wnchitta river, in Louisiana, a few days since. Two planters living on adjoining plantations I ad a difliculty. An unruly horse belonging toone, jumped into a lot belonging to the other, which was shot. Soon afier, a negro belonging to the owner of the horse went over to the said plantation; he, too, was shot. The same evening, the plantor who owned the horse and the slave, took hisgnn and went over to the planter's house who had shot his horse and slave, and, as he stood in his yard, c'eliberately shot him dead. The son of the dead pínníer hearing the report of the gun, carne out of the ho'ise, when he was commanded to stand. Assoon as the gun was re-loaded, the son was shot and immediatcly expired. The daughter of the planter then carne to tho door, when the monster drew his bowio knife, and cut her throat from car to ear, and fled. Tho slaves on the plantation raised the alarm, and the fiend was pursued and taken, and committed to the nearest jail, to await his trial. These awfully terrific details are from a reliable source, and we can vouch for their correctness, says the Commercial, although nonames are given.Lynch Lam. - The last Pensacola Gazette gives nn occount of the apprehension of a man of the name of Avant, and one of his confederates named Powors, near Apalachjcola. They wcre subsequently taken to Marianna, in Jackson ccunty, where thcy were hanged on Friday, the 20th inst., without the form of a trial; and notice was at the same time given to four gentlemen of the blackleg order, that if they were found in the place after the lapse of ten hours, they should share the same fate. The wretch who murdered the Adcock family in Tippah county, Miss., was taken, and a correspondent of tho Worcestcr Palladium writes, tied by the neck to tho top of a bent sapling, and thus sent to his long account. George Hillard of Lawrenceville,Georgi.n, being suspected of robbing M'Roe's store, was taken a few nights since from his dweiling into the woods, and thero benten by three men toextort confession. Failing in this, they put out his eyes, and lelt him senecless. He wns found next morrting, and it is thought may recover." The Moral Reform Society of N. Y. for the suppresion of licentiousness, the last ycar received $6,820. They publish 12,000 copiesof the Advocate semi-monthly. In Blackwells Island are 500 female prisoners per annum, and in the city jail 4,973. These numbers show but a very faint picture ot the extent of the evil -

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