Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-04

CALVIN FAIRBANKS IN PRISoN.-A letter to
Frederick Douglas Paper gives some informa-
ton relating to Calvin Fairbanks, now in
Kentucky prison. The facts are derived from
his room mate from the time he entered the
prison, in November last.
s'Calvin's brother applied to the Governor
of Kentucky for pardon, by paying whatever
might be required for Tanner, CIhe aided
slave,) but was repulsed by the unrelenting
reply, 'Mr Fairbanks, you may as well under
stand first as last, that all the wealth of Ken
lucky would not make me pardon your broth
er he cannot be pardoned.' Upon which, he
begged the privilege of Craig the (warden of
the PRISON. to permit his brother to receive
small sums of money, as other prisoners did?
but this favor was also denied. After which,
Mr.. Craig asked Calvin il he would have Ia
mer brought back, if, upon her rendition, the
authorities would pardon him. The reply
was i cannot conscientiously consent to such
proposition. AS hard as it is, to he forever
in this world separated from all that life holds
dear, must yield to my hard fate and die with
in these prison walls. He was then placed I'M
der still more severe discipline When news
reached the prison that Craig was shot at Mad
ison, and III the Della Webster affair, (the
circumstances of which are familiar to all the
readers of the public journals of the North
Calvin made the inadyertant remark, that it
was good enought for him, as he had no bust
ness at Madison. Whereupon fellow pris-
oner informed against him, and he was ar.
raigned before his cruel prosecutor (Craig)
and received, by his order, fifty nine lashes
on the bare back, ten more than the extent
of the prison law, leaving from the neck to
the back one gore of mangled flesh: then
placed him in a dungeon for specified time,
,v,th orGo fo ba tok nn from fhoOpo (if o1iyal
and put in the hackle. house, Ito hackle hemp,
exceedingly laborious, most used for punish
ing prisoners to be kept there until he should
die, not permitting him TO speak to any one,
and if he did, it was to be reported to him
(Craig). AS friend passed that dismal dun
geon, and heard his piteous groans, after the
s9auroing, ne went to the prison hospital and
OBTAINED oil, Nth which t-I
the quivering flesh of the sufferer. AS Ben
nett (the toreman) took from the dungeon the
trembling and already enfeebled victim of
Craig's demoniac fury, he said, 81 suppose, Mr..
Fairbanks, we have got to obey orders, and kill
you'll This being uttered in trembling I'M
dertone bespoke the deep hoavings OF stihed
sympathy which seems to have been discov-
cred by Craig, by the threats that Bennett,
too, should receive the lash to the extent of
the law, if he did not carry out his orders
strictly But Calvin failed so fast that his
physician said he could mol long survive in the
hacIle- house, and ordered she foreman to re-
move him, and place him again in the loom.
which was done.
TWAS deeply affecting to listen to the nara
ton of the cruelties inflicted upon one who
was taken by force from Indiana shore, viev
thrown into Louisville Jail, permitted only
mock trial; upon whom was practised almost
every form of fraud, deceit and villainy, that
fiends in human form could devise and then
to drag out a miserable existence in Ken.
lucky penitentary-a living martyr being
sacrificed upon the deeply-dyed altar of sla-
very's bloody moloch