Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-25
From lie LiherGiOr.
Slaughter OF Washington GOOdc,



The terrible deed must be done. Wash
ington Goode dies by the halter. His fell
low-sinners have determined TO kill him. In
a few days more, they are going TO take him
and choke him 10 death. And then his stiff
and ghdstly form, now on fire with life, Will
be given to the surgeons or the worms. Blu!
the end will not be then.
A new trial Of the case has already COM
menced. A den of Aun-siTCet prostitutes
was disgorged into the Court. and deemed
and reputd the : Peace and dignity g The
State Just long enough to blaspheme ava
the life Of a poor culored, yea, coLred, for
lorn, untanght, uncared for and abandoned
sailor, and now the Governor says he shall
be hung. Twenty-Five thousand Of the PEG.
pie interpose, AID petition for his life. The
Governor has full power TO grant their pray
er. There he stands. On the one hand are
The government Witnesses, stepped most, il
not all Of lhem,in The abomlnauon Of the
bfothel on The Other are The twenty five
thousand petitioners, representing, unqnes-
tionably, the great amount Of me public feel
inu of the Commonwealth. Who would not
consider his life secure with such odds =
But with the Governor, humanity. virtue,
purity, avail nothing. lie misM listen 10
their prayer; but he prefers laT other voices.
lie coudenses the loathsome eAhalations Of
the tcqy 10 heir into proofs strong as holy
writ. seals them with the soleinnily Of an
oath, and hangs Washington Goode like a
dog, before the very face Of so many thous-
and, begging for his life.
This case is all 10 be tried anew. Goode
man be a murderer. If he be not, he has
strangely escaped the effects with which the
circumstances of society had surrounded him.
We have done our best, as a people, TO make
him one. With murder and forrors unutter-
able, we stole him or his ancestors from AZ
RIGA, and he knows il well. We have made
it a crime, in many States, for him 10 know
how to read the laws Of God or the land
We have even shut him and all his race
from The BuGhc schools in Boston -! We hlr-
ed him for years 10 Kill innocent human hes
ings in Florida, under Zachary Taylor, and
paid him for il. We have shut him, and all
of his kind, from almos, every lyceum, libra
re-, mnscum, atheEaum, gallery Of the fine
arts, high school, college, learned profession,
and post Of homer or profit, in the land, or
the Gift Of The people. And now we are
horror-smittcn, that he does not respect the
laws. We tried him, not before a jury Of his
peers. hut of those Of a different color and
condition, and who, if they are like most Of
we ,han hi: comnlrxion. however foul his
eous r"iab, he
honn he dav Of the execution will be a
day long to be remembered. 1t should be a
by ,a,Ton shonId ao ro,,b. mt from A nv.
nocIi,ical Governor, 10 a hypocritical church
RI naanio bn, c,n,o tho itrn heart of Inn.
49, rV0r,r f. Ill who have hearts. summonipo
,La,n ~ rhserya tho dav in manner becom,
ino ,be tra0ic scene which is to be enacted
"nan il. Thone F1neuil Han will be pro
"nrl e., srnh mcn,ing on thai dav as Mas
euot"sor,, novor saw All the beIls of IN,
Civ onGLt 70 Toll in the rising of the sun