Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-10
A MODERN HERO.

VIM. IL. Harvey, is a general in the U. S. army,
and now in command of the troops who are, as it
would seem. without any just cause of provoca-
ton, slaughtering and dispensing the Indians of
Kansas and Nebraska. The last Congress, as a
fitting sequel to the Nebraska bill, voted two and
a half millions of dollars, to raise and equip this
army of depredators upon the unofending Indians
Unofending they were when the war was resolved
upon, and these army appropriations made as the
concurrent testimony Of all the Federal officers
employed among them, most conclusiyely shows.
But the slavery propogandists it is said, wanted
war. They wanted it according to Col. Benton,
expressly for the purpose of training their myrma-
dons for foreign conquest in behalf of slavery
The war is now, according to the purpose of its
orisinators in bloody progress. And General Ilar-
ncy and his troops are reported by the newspaper
press to have recently won complete and most
gallant victories" Men slaughtered by the score,
and women captured.
The last \. S. Standard has an able article on
the subject. We commend it to all who stand
in need of any additional proof, of the u~nmitiga-
ted, premeditated yilainy of the present Federal
Government. OF General Harvey, the hero of
this war, who is very likely making his way to the
presidency, by his brilliant victories" his battle
ing with unofending men and heroic women, the
writer says:
Twenty-one years ago, he was stationed at st,
Louis, being then, as now, an officer in the United
States Army. lie was the owner of two slaves, a
man and his wife, the wife having been sold to
him from motives of humanity on the part of the
seller, "to keep her from being sent below"
The master or mistress suspected her of hiding
In luncb of kpvs which was missing and IN conn
pei her to confess the offence, tied her up and com
menced a process Of torsures which he continued
for three days, when she died. She was ~lacerated
and mangled in so horrible q manner that the Ju-
ry of Inquest were unable to determine whether
it was done with whips or with hot irons. The
general opinion was, that it was done with both.
The verdict Of the jury was published by the
same paper which now reports llarney's progress
in cruelty, in the following words:
San inquest was held at the Westinghouse Of
Major Harvey, in this city, on the 9th inst, Tune
1891, on the body of Hannah, a slave. The jury;
physicians and several other witnesses, found that
said slave came to her death by wounds inflicted
by William S. Harvey.
Turning to the United States Official Register
we find at p. no, the following entry: William IL
Harvey, Colonel Second Regiment of Dragons
Brig. Gen. Breyet, born in Louisiana.
The woman was the mother of n number Of chill
dren, and bore an excellent character, which, il
fact, had interested her first owner to save hei
from the dreaded fate of being sold down South
OF course she would have told, if she could, where
the keys were, and saved her life. and those days
of unutterable horror of which she had no witness
except God.
The husband of this victim, a man unsurpassed
in tie city for piety and industry, became als(
suspected" of whispering to the neighbours hi
apprehensions of what was going on. Thereupon
the murderer commenced torturing him also, anC
persisted in the accumulated crime and horror Of
the 6endish work until the sufferer broke from hi,
hands, rushed into the Mississippi and drowned
himself. This case appears to have been consid
cred as duplicating Harvey in so very slight a de
gree that no notice whatever was taken of it.
ID, l., C.