Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-06-14
NO. 40.
Tyranny and Brutality.
AN EXAMPLE FROM AUSTRIA.

AN EXAMPLE fhOm AtaIhiAs
knppears that an Austrian officer, stationed
in Italy, lately caused boy of thirteen to be
fogged to death. The boy in defending his dog
from the attack of larger one belonging to
the officer, had killed that of the latter, with a
blow from stone. For this he was seized
and ordered to receive twenty-five blows
from the bastinndo. So terrible was the in
Fiction, that he expired, when he had receiv-
ed but seventeen. The enraged father of
the boy afierward took the life of the officer.
The affair." says the Pittsburgh Gazette
'caused a strong excitment, and will form
one item in the terrible reckoning, TO which
the oppressors Of that country will, if we
mistake not soon be brought
But the Austrnns are not alone in their
brutality as will be seen by the following,
EXAMPLE FROM AMERICA.
Which we condense from the National
Era. A slave woman named Nina, was re-
Gently put upon her trial in Raleigh, N. C..
for the murder of her master, VIM. Smith.
She was acquitted. The following is in
substance the history of the occurrence us
detailed upon the trial.
On the forenoon of Friday, 29th Of Novem-
Der last, deceased took prisoner from Raleigh
jail, tied her round the neck and wrist, ropes
were latched to the horses neck he cursed
the prisoner several times, got on his horse,
aud started off, when he got opposite the
Telegraph Office, on Fayetteville street, he
pulled her shoes and stockings Oft cursed her
again, went off in swift trot, the prisoner
running after him, doing apparently all she
could to keep up; passed round 10y Peck's
store prisoner seemed very humble and sub
mssive took down the street east of the
Capitol, going at the rate of five miles an
hour; continued this gait until he passed D.
Rork's corner, about half or three quarters of
q mile from tire Capitol; that he reached
Coopcr's lone ofthe Witnesses thirteen miles
from Raleigh, about 4 o'clock, p. NJ that il
was raining very hard deceased got off his
horse, turned it loose with prisoner tied 10 its
neck; witness went to take deceased's horse
to stable, beard great lamentations at tie
house, hurried back, saw his little daughter
running through the rain from the house,
much frightened got there, deceased was
gouging prisoner in the eyes, and she make
ing outcries; made him stop; became vexed,
and insisted upon leaving ;did leave in a short
time, in the rain, sun about an hour high;
when he left, prisoner was tied us she was
before her arms and fingers were very much
swollen the rope around her wrist was small,
and had sunk deep into the flesh, almost COW
cred with it; that around the neck was large,
and tied in slip knot deceased would jerk
il every now aud then when jcrked it would
choke prisoner; she was barefoot and bleed
ing deceased was met some time after dark,
in about six miles ofhonc, being twenty -four
or twenty-five from Raleigh"
lie reached home about II o'clock ut
nigbt,--reeascd her from the horse, carried
her into the house, jerking the rope around
her neck, and tied her to post; afterwards
beating her OH her bare back with a large
piece Of light-wood, giving her many hard
blows. Subsequently, whilst Smith stepped
out, she was released-and near the door be-
fore his return he was killed. From the re-
port there is no evidence that the outraged
woman was her own avenger.
Doubtless after all this we shall see our
hcartless, brazen-faccd demagogucs, stand
up in our national temple, and hypocritical-
ly thank God they are not like women-whp-
ping Austrin. For nothing shameless, is inn
possible with the perpetrators and abetters
Of such legalized enormities.
The Raleigh Register, after detailing these
events, whose inhumanity, outdo all savage
ism, which occurred in her own city and
within the shadow of her own temples and
her captol-nost complacentIy talks of the
"benigniiy and justice of our laws towards
that class of our population, whose condition
Northern fanaticism has so grossly misrepre-
sented." Benignity and justice" and how
was it exhibited? Why this tortured, outraged
woman, was moi hung; there being no particle
Of evidence she had committed the alledged
crime. Ohno! she was not gibbeted- only
consigned to the heirs of her brutal tormen-
tor as a hopeless slave. To be subject to the
like or other outrages, whenever their CO.
price should dictate. Such is the "benig-
niiy and justice" of this nation. "The ten
der mercies of the wicked are cruelty."-
"Oh my soul, come not thou into their secret"
" To their assembly, mine honor be not thou
nnited.S