New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-22


o,,.s Of deDuueiatoos before tie COMMITTEE OF safety
ard reaction took place. But the 'angu'nN! 'l'i''
Rad beea SO wLe.ej, as Il would seem, that trln1iy
could not be restored until blood bad been sPflnAio1
mon he consciences OF the community
4 poor miserable ha'fwi.ted and degraded w's''h'
WIN corsor.eG with the negroes because he found No
otbar wiling associates. and what Is most sngiaf'
p,tve.born citizen OF the very Pllce ~e write about
crested and tried for using ilflmns;ory e1ores'
,,,s beo,e tbe negroes The poor creature coai not
.,,-..,elepd bis situation; born and raised IN fac
,Ise ie Lad no iiea that any harm VAS Intended hm
ar3te listened to the charges on the trial with silly
- ana bssrd himself condemned to be hung as II
il we're joke
The moment that sentence was pronounced mere
vent m clamor for the execution and from the tn
br,l the prisoner was hurried to tbe fatal tree Ia
f,y moments limb was selected rope adjusted and
+te c,r+ w. driven beneath it. So far al had been
action. consequently there was want OF tune 10, re-
s.,,,r. hat the moment az executioner was needed,
the rrorept that tie fearful responsibility OF taking
Il e could rot be distributed out among the mau'ule'
tlere ives holding hack an irre'olution fear '0a'
tie act was Lot right.
In the mean willie the victim sat on the edge oil the
cart lis hands tied behind bis back almost sole to see
the miserable cabin in which he was born, silent
sreechless with terror His life was trembling N the
balsrce. 4 moment more and there would have gone
u in tie crowd CRY, d" Let him 60 Let hun 60
but az tits criticsl moment person unknown TO tae
crowd Mas seen 10 move toward The cart. s2rilg1s
upon il and rudely ezrg the dangling rope he tufacI
round to tie ss.oIished spectators aud sad tnone Oh
Dyou W III act as Lansaan, will Damn the Aoohtioa-
"stsr IN another nsant the fia cord was a1JusteI'
tie cart driven OIL and there seen suspended be-
tye,uLceven and Garth the trem0lns-the dead form OF
al innocent man The body in due time VAS cat down
and hastily buried ben,ah TIE fatal tree, aud the
crowd ds5ersed with horror depic.ed On their faces
dark End before uoL4ogp. passions Of destruction
awakened in their ieaIts.
Now who was this hsogua an Who was this fierce
defender Of the peculiar institution Was lie South
erp man No Wss he q citizen identified with the
South No It was on the contrary Northern man.
from free State-n fact one who had been but two
DAYS in tie place. Il seemed as II, susPecung his
own principles revolving in bis hear, at Sllyery AMI
afraid hat in tie excitement Of the hour be nigh next
he arrcred he took this e Ttul and terrible Office Of
executiouer in order to place use as he supposed
ION high Southern ground" Thus By one giaring act
wLcrein he violated his conscence-his early education
every law, in fact, Of God and mamie thought to
identify himself as defender Of Slavery, and have
bis souudress placed above suspicion
and here is to be seen reelected the true picture of
Nj Douglass turp,ute. Southern men may have ia
tie uaGu, OF the hour conceived such iuluity IS
embedded in the Nebraska BILL They may have pre-
pared the hater for the meek Of the Missouri COnpro
uisc-tu; the Last ia.al act would never haze been
undertaken had not the Senator from Illinois yolun-
eered to act as ezecutcner. been wiling TO mount the
scsG,lJ, and cell down tie nuy Of numbering liberty
uTon his cUn head.
Thus il has ever been in Congress whenever the
rights Of man have been yOia ed. Southeruers from
tie recess'y OF defending their local interests are
compelled to advocate principles repugn2nt 70 their
console ces but they would never press them upon
tie people of tie North ii there had not always been
volunteers Ike Douglas willing 70 do the fou work
la. Southern men themselves revolt es While feeling
toward ihesc ready tools Of tyranny contempt thas is
erer extended toward the traitor, whatever may be
he advantages hey reap rom The treason enacted