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"The Land Of Blood!"

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wc ent the toilowjng mstance of barbnnly nnd atroeimis crucliy frotn the Emancipator. Tac subitáneo of this statement appeared soine weck-i t-ince n tiio Cincinnati Ilerald over tho sigiwture of G. VV. Clark. The folluwing is on extract from a letter just recfived frotn a lady of hijih standing in Mississippi. IIow mnny stich horrid deeds nèver see Iho li'ht in these parts! - "My 1'eeÜngrs have bftn uinch tried of late. About tluee montliH milico, a fine dwellinfj house WA9 consninccl by fire at Prospect IIill. ncar Port Gibson, bet ween ten and eleven o'clock nt night. Tlie jinpera annoimced the fire without npbigj'.ing it to be the work of inceiidiaries. -Shortly after, the wliole tnith, as was supposivj, carne out. The house waf occnpied by Mr. Wade, nho is gr;md?on ol old Gapt. Isaac Ross, who übernted about 200 of his elnves, at his dfath. to be sent to Liberia. Mr. Wade wns appointed oneof his executors, and promised, of course, to see the wil 1 executed.lHe refused to pnrt wilh the negroes, r.otwitbstanding after a long Inwsuit, t was deci'led tliat they should be sen' . The negrors knew nll this, and hated him, as vvell such ignorant beings might. They knew thcy had a righl to go. They saw no pV.poct of re lenee. Il W8S presumed that liicy were promptcd by revenge to iire the dwelling. Mrs Ricltardsun, a sister of Mr. VVnde, was visiting nt his house, nfter &n absence of several yearp, nnd many of the relations mei to sep her. The house wná full. Mrs. R. was drendfully burnt, und snffercd terribly.althongrl) ehe is rccovering. Her liltle girl, agcd 8 years, ri8 consvmed! All the furnitore was deíUoyed. The negroes were chnrgca wjth ihe crime, and several of them confessed ther gnilt. Soon after, I heard from two Iadie3 who resided near Mr. Wade, thnt fonr of the nnyleadcrs were taken, and that they were talking of burning them! I expres.=ed my horror! I told them the negroes had oertainly been gnevously wronged, and at least, should be legally punished. I observed to them that a negro we burnt to death in Missouri, and anothcrin Louisiana, and that those States were disgraced by such inhuman barbarifies. They admitted that the neerrnc-s had boen wronged, and said that Mr. Wade hnd been so sensible of their feelings towards him that he had said s.nce the fire, not a niglu did he retire to rest without a loaded pislol under his headand a gun wilhin reach, to be rrady for them! Deüghtful state of existence! I told them I honed the neighborhood3 round Mr. Wade would not 6iiffer snch nn nvful act to take place. A fcw days after, ive heard that they liad burnetl two or thre af them, and shot oneor two! I feel wretchedly. My husband felt as if he would leave the country. One of our merchants 6bW, 'They deseved it; they ought to have been sent to heli!' but the most respectable part of the community condrmned the transaction. But bere is the mit fortune. They are af raid to express their opinión. A planter, a very intelligent gentleman, snid to me,one day, f fint he 'did not believe that the negroes ever set fireto the house, but believed it was en accident!' He ?aid he thought so too. He eaid their confesson9 were exiorted frotn ihem by poinling bayontlt at Iheir breasfs, and oidt-d cannon, toith Ihrealt inslanlly to dtslroy them! Of courfe, the law would not admit of such confe86Íns, ond nothey had punhed tt e negroes themselves. Horrible enough if they were guilty; but O! how horrible if they were not! All the nogroes are supposed by th VV udes to be concorned in the firp,but they se 'ccted fotir, thought to be ringlcaders. Fort men could arm themselvee, at a late tría (where, happily,the defendant was found g-uil tv,) to revenge the wrongsof an unprinciplo white girl, by killing the man the moment h should be acquitted. Bui nol a voice dare to be raised publicly to censure the burning oj f our human beings.' I have 6een a notice of the fire in a norlh ern paper, wilh a statement of Mrs. R's. in jury and her child's death, but nothing more How little the publisbor knew the resu't o that fire. Firo, indeed! Our southern pa pors have not, to my knowledge, pnbliíhed th fncts, and thercare two published at Port Gib son."Rkmark. - The above we know, is nn extract of a letler lately received in a neighborng town, from a ino3t respectable laily residing n the Stato of Mbsissippi. We have expunged a part of the particulrirsgiven,solely becanse they might serve to identify the writer, and bring not only herself, bt oihere, into danger in that LAND OF BLOOD- .he mo?r barburoup land ncrv on the face of the earlh, with, pcrhapa, the exception of New Zealand. "Stabbing," 60)3 the New Orleans Pica yune, 'is the order of the day in New OrJeans. Look in the columns of the daily gazettes! - Opm a paper, if yon can, wi hout 'More Stnb bing' staring yon in the face! We have be come tired of recording these things, y et our dtity compels us to notice them. Where i.s it tócense? When are men tobe cíiecked, and told, aye, made to know - that they can not stab with impunity! When will he law pimish its violators and make examples of tl)em? Is the law a farce, and are our Biatules so mnny idle fableT The Vicksburg ConsUntionalist makes con festion of a strange regardlessness for huma life m that city of bloodíhed and violence. - Thnt paper says: 'We have had severa] triald for murdor in the Circuit Cotirt now in session, ond ko indifferent are a large majority of us to the issue, thit it is really d.lficult lo learn the verdict ol ihe jury by enquiring of any outeide of the court rooiii! Several days ofien eJapse before we liear in the etrect whether a human beingins been condemned to denlb, or acquitteiJ, on his tiial for murdr! Bodies nre found dead ouihi nbout añil among us, sonie probnbly muiderc), some suicides, and the coroner ond he jury may liold ilieir inquost in penco, wilh Ut hnlf a dozen others hearing of thn awful facts! Tlicy nrc subjpcts so commoti as rare y lo exciie curiosity. A rlead bidy in the rivcr nttract8 hnrdly as much atlcmion os a captured cntfisli Htrufrglinír lor iberty! VVe will cros llie river 'm inult iiui'cs to witneesa lili., witli nbout the sume feelins and citrio?ity that we attenl a circn?, ora morkey show.' We die or nre killed, buried, nnd fortrolten in a few liours: too many of the li vin? ncver 'hink of the dend or de.ith after Mr. Vanzite [the grove dieper, wo supposc] has performed lus last sad dtities.'

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