The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-12


copied into the Washington Union of the
25th:
"JIdge Lynch.-The negro, who killed q
Mr.. Russell, in Clay county, Mo-, not long since,
by cutting him to pieces with a corn knife, was
taken from Jail last week, and hung nv the citi,
zens, without judge or jury"
This is all right The negro had killed his
master, or overseer, or some other white man,
under what provocation we do not know. The
laws, to be sure, would have condemned the
negro to death; but the citizens were indignant,
and could not brook the laws delay, and they
accordingly took him from jail, and hung him
without judge or jury.
Let no "Northern fanatic" point to this case
as an instance of outlawry, and claim that it
extenuates any of the horrible atrocities COM
mitted in his section of the country, where
sometimes negro who has been guilty of the
enormity of running away from the bondage
that is so great a blessing to the negro race, is
taken from Jail, and set free by the citizens
without judge or jury. No, no; let not the
just indignation of the Missouri people be COM
pared to this. Who knows, indeed, that the
negro murderer in Missouri was not at heart
runaway, and that the crime of murder was
not consequence of his insane desire for free
dom? And if so, who is to blame but North
ern fanatics? 1t is strange that the patriarch
al institution is still so little understood.
| HE TERRORS OF SLAVERY - The EdStOR
talbot county, Maryland) Gazette of the It'll of
April says:
| There has been considerable feeling in our
town and county the past week. owing to many
rumors in circulation that the blacks of the
county contemplated, during the Easter holy
days, an insurrection similar to that mentioned
a few weeks since, as contemplated in Dorches-
ter county. A large meeting was held in
Easton, on Wednesday night, to take measures
for the effectual suppression of the schools and
meetings illegally held by blacks without the
supervision and authority of whites, as provided
for by law. A resolution was adopted, request
ing the citizens of the county to keep their SER
wants at home during the holydays, as far as
practicable, particularly as the smallpox pre-
walls in two or three sections of the county, and
there is great danger of the loathsome disease
being spread by free intercourse"
The Chicago Journal, commenting on the
result of the New Hampshire election, says,
very truly, that "the Free Soil sentiment is
stronger than any party, and no organization
can live without it."
A committee of the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture lately made an inquisitorial visit to a Ro-
man Catholic female boarding school at Rox-
bury, and to their great surprise found every
| tb;rfr ,,ropor opd IN ordart
The Kansas Herald Of Freedom, stated before
the late election, that there were full hundred
Missourians encamped in tents and wagons on
the Wakarusa, in that election district, waiting
an opportunity to cast their votes, with the
view of securing the Legislature to the pro-
slavery interest. The same pains were being
taken, it added, to supply voters enough in
each election precinct to carry every district
against the advocates of Freedom. We have
seen the result.
A paper before us propounds question in
the rule of three Since, after Senator Douglas
made a speech in Richmond, his party lost the
election of Mayor by shortcoming of l,246
votes, by how many votes would they have lost
it, if he had made two speeches.?
Thursday night, April 9Th, a man, apparently
a Waterman, appeared at the door of Mr.. John
Louden, on Eager street, Baltimore, and stated
that friend, naming him, was in the watch
house, and desired his kind offices in getting
him out. Mr.. l.. thought that it was singular
the friend named should be placed in such a
predicament, and FASTENED to prepare himself
for his relief. Being dressed, he put some
S45 in his pocket, and, not forgetting his watch
started for the watch house, but had not pro-
ceeded far, until he was attacked, gagged, rob,
bed, and tied fast to a gate, while the villains
escaped with their booty.
"Ion," the Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, thinks that the thirty fourth
Congress is to settle the Presidential question
that between a Wing, Democrat, and Know
Nothing candidate, it is doubtful which would
succeed; and adds: "Were the question to turn
merely on the Slavery issue, it would be deter.
mined in favor Of the South, but that is not
likely to be the issue.v The verdict of the
people on the Nebraska swindle certainly does
not confirm this opinion.
The Chicago Journal says that Gen. Shields
was recently at the fremont House, in that
city; and adds, that he intends to make that
city his future home, and will devote himself
entirely to the practice of the law. We doubt
not he will be more faithful to his clients than
he was to his own conscience, at the time he
voted to repeal the Missouri Compromise law,
and more faithful than they for whom he stul-
tilted himself have been to him.
The 81. Louis Democrat of the 9th March
welcomes Colonel Benton to Missouri, and says
that "when Missouri was an outpost, st. Louis
a village, and the whole West satrapy of the
East, Colonel Benton started in public life, and
with him, and through him and his, this same
West has grown up into great empire, and
St. Louis into a metropolis, whose prospects OF
wealth and magni6cence stand unrivaled at
this time
The NeW York Ecen!ag Post alludes to GER
tain teachers who, in order to render the Chris
tan religion acceptable to the Indians repre-
sented Christ a great warrior, who had
taken an incredible number of scalps aud on
the same principle accounts for the singular
zeal of Northern doctors of divinity to make
Slavery appear a Christian institution.
The friends of Mr.. Marcy in New York are
moving in his behalf. He may be elected
President.