Direct Legislation For Slavery By Congress

crossed each other, wero suödenly unmasked and the guns began the tfdrk of exterminaron. To each discharge succeeded deep and terrible groans, mingled with the songs of thóse soldiers who held it a point of honor to die brnvely. During ihfee long hours, these instruments of death sought oiit nnd cut down their victiins, and in the evening', when the execütionsrs of this horrid sentence left the place, they traversed a lake of human gore, strewn with mutilatéd limbs, blackened and unrecognizable. Fivo soldiers alone we fe mïraculously spared. among whoii was GuedenofF. These expired under the knout, the sergeant displaying, even to the last moment, the same unconquerable finnness. Extended andbound upon that fatal board lie feígried riot to feel ihe blows, every stroke of which took a strip of flesh from his back, nor to see the blood which flowed from his wounds; but coolly asked the execuiioner "ff his turn wo'uld not soon come." "It is now finished," replied the other. "So mucli the better1," answered the witl perfect indifl'ereriöe, "Tof I arrf vefy hun ' gry." i