Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-08-07
SLAVERY.

hN tOiioNlhS dtiOIlty VIC presume W
be fact; and if fact, how revolving to
the feelings of human nature! The no.
nest and indignant narrator, we presume
by the expressions of =" adopted country,
to which l came with every fond preiu-
dice and predilection,' is stranger, and
perhaps recently arrived in the country.
And yet these are the g rights" that the
citizens of Missouri so GENEROUSLY con-
ted for, and which they dcclaim against
congress for unjustly depriving them of.
Such is the iniatuation and avarice of
man; but, we believe, there is not dis
interested individual (and we might add,
many that are interested) that does not
sincerely deplore the existence fslavcry
in the United States, and wish, if practi-
cable, its speedy termination.
City ct Washington Gazette.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER, JUNE 5.
"The well taught philosophic mind,
"To all compassion gives,
Casts round the world an equal eye,
"And feels for all that livesn
Mrs. Bar5auld
SIR-On my way to this city, from a
short tour through the interior of this
state, a few days ago, 90 miles west of
Columbia, was suddenly attracted to
a spot of earth, over which respecta-
Bile company of citizens were deeply in
tent on witnessing the exhumation of the
body of an animal, costing Sl2oo--but
which its humane owner, Zone Kelly
and three other persons like minded, had
seized and tied to a tree at midnight
and each, in turn, wantonly whipt until
sunrise, when, from incessant flashing,
its bowels gushea out, and it expired,
and was instantly buried in private COR
ner, on Sunday the Esd ut. But on in
quiry, the said animal proved to be of
the Negro, and by some was thought to
be of the human, species: and stood
4" guilty of having a skin not colorcd
like our ow-n"--an offence for which
these arbiters of life and death doomed it
to die To their honor it should be told
that, when fainting, they threw cold wa
ter on its face, and poured whiskey down
its throat, in order to y,roiong the short
it, however, for several minutes before it
was united, became stretches and mo-
tionless as the tree to which it was bound
1t could feel, and writhe, and smart,
under the merciless lash no longer.
Good God! exclaimed I, 7vhere am / :
On the earth which thou hast created
and didst once pronounce blessed or in
the pandemonium of the heather &
Heaven, knew it could not be; for a
cruel task master, his hands embrued in
human blood, had just crossed my path !!
Is it then continued |, free America, and
an asylum for the distressed and oppres-
sed of all other landslide land Of my
adored Washington-the adopted coun-
try of my dearest friends-the only coun.
try on this huge cursed earth where liz
erty finds an ark, or rest for the sole Of
her panied foot--and the country to
which ! came with every fond prejudice
& prediction. What, free, and We offer
up human sacrifice! Monstrous anamo-
ly! Go, fly these hasty lines through the
world. Challenge offended humanity to
produce a spectacle more genuinely
helAsh, or so Purely demoniacai! Did,
sir, ever Sabbath sun dawn on a catas-
trophe so horribly abhorrent to your feel
ings, or those of, sir, your most obedient
servant, w. FAUX.
Planters Hotel, Charleston, June 2, 1919.
FROM THE (cIScIvSAr1) WESTERN sry, grxE &c.