Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-10-14
SLAVERY.
"When thirst Of gold enslavcs the mind
And selfish views alone bear sway,
Man turns a savage to his kind,
And blood and rapine marks his way;
Alas! for this poor simple toy
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Man turns a savage to his kind,
And blood and rapine marks his way;
Alas! for this poor simple toy
sold guiltless negro boy!
The Lexington, Kentucky, Reporter contains an
account Of a horrible massacre of five VIII te men,
on board ofo slave gondola, some hundred miles
below Louisville. The slaves owned by
Messrs. HOWARD and EDWARD STONE, of Bourbon
county, who, with Mr.. DANIEL COBB, Of -4exnS-
ton, and Mr.. JAMES GRAY, were carrying them to
the Mississippi country for sale. The ffh victim
a Mr.. DAVIS, who had taken passage on board the
boat at Louisville. The gang of slaves consisted
OF Is in number, males and females and of various
ages; Sc of them have been lodged in the Jail Of
Brecknridge, county Of Henderson. They
taken in Indiana. One Of the unfortunate ind.vidu-
ais it is said who was on deck when this butchery
commenced below, swan from the boat to the shore,
but was pursued and despatched. Some Of the
slaves had been lately purchased in Maryland.
This picture of massacre presents but a slight
view of the horrors that daily presented
to an outraged world by the accursed slave trade,
and although we may lament that five individuals
were thus untimely cut off from the world and
launched into eternity with all their imperfcctons
on their heads who censure the slave for seek
ing for that liberty which is the birhrght of all
men, even at the expense of the existence of those
who apply to him the scourge and bind him in last
ing chans
We are not about TO offer TRADE of abuse, or Of
gross epiihets, to those Of our countrymen, whose
fortune it is to inherit from their ancestors, tribe
ofslaves, nor do we blame them when they accuse
US of the north, of intermeddling with their do
mestic relations for we know full well, that there
are among the slave holders, many who look upon
the evi, of slavery with regret. and would gladly
improve any plan, calculated to relieve them of a
KIND IF population, which il is next to certain will
at no distant period, deuge them with blood.
But we blame them for treating them in the
manner they do, nor should we censure the slave
that raises his arm against his master, to release
himself Of sutforiDgs and abuses at which humuni-
ty revolts, and turns from in disgust. The slave
trade between Kentucky, the western parts Of Vir-
gnia and New-Orleans, has been carried on to a
vast extent for the last ten years, and the horrors
associated with it, can only be compared to those
which presented the ill-fated Island Of
st. Domingo. II has called forth all the subteties
of the kidnapper, the atrocities of the foul fend,
and the cruelties of the remorseless villain.
During our little pilgrimage in life,it has been
our fortune TO visit the Banks Of the Mississippi al
most from its TO its mouth; and it whilst
one of our voyages from Louisville 10 New Or
leans; that we were unwilling spectators to two
acts Of cruelty, which, when recited, will display
some oft the horrors Of domestic slave trade.
II was on one Of those delightful mornings in the
month Of October, when the Mississippi rushes with
unusual impetuosity down its narrow channel, thet
we came in sight ofa slave gondola, laden with on
hunded and CITY human souls, destined foi the mar
kets and pestilential climes Of Louisiana. As we
approached her, the cries, the hollow groan', and
deep lamentations Of mauscled slaves echoed upon