The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-10-23
WASHINGTON. ID. G.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER %, 1851.
THE REIGN OF BLOOD.

The Richmond (Ya) Dispatch, speaking Of
the persons indicted for treason at Christiana
and syrac6se, says
We hope the extreme penalty of the law,
, so apparent that il cannot be mistaken. will be
put m force aea1irs, the trasJHs; Ifo,hIe ~ ssi,i
guilt can be established The whole South
are awaiting the result with extreme anxiety.
The body Of the Southern people are loyal to
the Union-they deprecate any and every cir
cumstance OF occurrence by which the bonds
which hold it together may be relaxed. But
they will not consent to live under it. if its laws
may be set at defiance with IMMUNITY"
The Washington Republic few weeks sine,
held similar language-it thought it would be
good thing to make an example of some Of
the Abolition agitators. The Journal Of Com.
merce. edited we believe, by men affecting
great pety and philanthropy, dwells with appa-
rent relish upon the penalty of Treason-hang-
ing by the neck until dead-and undertakes to
show that Fries was far less deserving Of pun
ishment than the persons arrested at Syracuse
and Christiana We also learn from private
source that leading Democratic politicians in
Philadelphia calculate with certainty on hang
ing the Chrstiana offenders There is some
prospect too that the vampires in New York
may have their appetite for blood gratifed as
the telegraph announces that twenty of the
prominent respectable citizens of Syracuse
have been arrested for Treason; among them
the Rev Samuel J. May and Charles A
Wheaton
Fifty-seyen cases of Treason The gallOws
will not do the work rapidly enough for our
merciful Government Let us have the gull
lotine at once. In transferring to this land
of piety and humanity the Reign Of Blood
let US import their Internal instrumental
ties Our rulers are all athirst for the blood
Of respectable citizens the more respect
able the victims, the more signal the evil
dence of loyalty to the Slave Power The wor-
shippers of AlolOch caused their own children
to pass through the fire before the bloody god
The whole South are awaiting the result we
are informed "wITH ANXIETY Fifty-seven
American citizens dangling in the air with
broken necks, will relieve their anxiety, and
win the consent of the South to live UNI
der the Union.
Down with the Traitors Mr. President,
while your hand is in. Such another opportu-
nifty may never again occur, for making an
example Of the fanatics, as your tender-hcarted
organ suggests. Drag the editor from the
desk, the preacher from the pulpit the mer-
chant from his cOuntng-house. Giving inform
alton is treason denuncation is treason; refus-
ing to aid kidnappers is treason freedom of the
press, freedom Of speech, is treason. The har-
vest is ripe: thrust in thy sickle :" gather
the offenders cast them into the wine press. let
them be trodden, till blood come out of the
wine press even unto the horses brides g"
Fifty-seyen respectable American Traitors
What terrible rebellion to have yielded such
fruits The Government must have been in
imminent danger But where were the armies
nrrayed for its overthrow Have we all been
asleep When did the President proclaim that
an enemy was in the field Has there been
civil war without the country knowing it
Has the price of stocks gone down Has bust
ness been affected Why, even the telegraph,
with all its passion for wonders, has overlooked
the fact that war has been levied against
the United States and enemies have appeared
in martial array against the Government
Fity-seyen American citizens arrested for
High Treason and yet there has been no lew
ing Of war, no martial array, no attempt TO
overthrow or set at defiance the authority of the
Government!
Flfty-seven American citizens indicted for
High TreasOn-their execution anriOllSlu atrait-
cd by the whole South - some of them min
isters Of the Gospel some QuakerS, their worst
offence, that of loving liberty too well A short
time since IA band of adyenturers consisting of
Americans and Foreign Emigrants, some act
uated by love Of plumber some by passion
for adventure some 10y thirst for glory some
by devotion to liberty, left our shores in viola
ton of the laws OF the country, and in disre-
gard OF Treaty obligations, attempted by force
oil arms to overthrow "A Government with which
we were at peace Forty were arrested, tried
summary found guilty, and executed where
upon the press of our country sent forth IA cry
OF horror, and the mob in New Orleans threat
ened the life Of the Spanish Consul Even the
English journals denounced the act AS inhu.
man and yet there lras n lcyying of war. with
an ayOwed purpose to destroy the Government
and the persons executed We're caught in the
act The Government trembling ON the brink
of ruin, under the desperation of fear, inflicted
the extreme penalty of the law. But fifty
seven American citizens not guilty of leyying
war, not accused of appearing in martial ar
ray, not suspected Of design to overthrow the
Government are indicted for high treason, and
the officials of the Government which would
not be guilty of the outrageous folly of pretend
ing that il has even been in the slightest dan
ger, are proceeding, not under the impulse of
sudden fenr but with cold calculation, slowly
and artfully to secure their conviction the
whole South as we are informed, awaiting