Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-29
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.

We are called upon this week to record one of
most hcsrt-rendiDg tragedies that ever occurred in
this State. On Thursday night, the Both ut, Mr..
VIM. Pearce, residing about five miles from this
place, while he was eating supper, told one of his
negro men, who had been guilty of some misde-
meanor that as soon as he was through he would
give him a ~hosgins. Accordingly, when he got
up from the table, he went out into tho back yard
and called the fellow out of the kitchen, and told
him to como to him. Manifesting a great deal of
submission. ne ebeyed; but so soon as he got with
in striking distance, drew an axe, and split in
twain the head of his Understanding the
brains in every direction. We are not aware he
survived a minute. The negro instantly fled, and
up to this time FRIDAY noon has not been captur-
Cd. Mr., Pesrce was q good citizen, a kind hus-
band, father, and master, and was beloved by all
who knew him; this, his melancholy fate, has cast
a pail of gloom over our whole community. The
negro, beyond doubt, will be captured before many
hours. If he is, although we admire submission
to the course pointed out by the law of the land,
in this case so much of the brute has been mani.
mass and avail themselves of Lynch law, and
hang the rascal without court or Jury.-Madison
( f2oridd) Messenger.
Such is the fate which slavery procures for 'good
masters" 1t procures it l~egitimately, of necessi
ty. Who will tolerate a master 10 inAict hogging
at his pleasure and convenience, even if he is re
ported good" by his fellow despots. Why the
fellow who advises Lynch law for this offence, and
calls the murderer a brute" for this outburst Of
Indignant manhood, would himself have done The
same, or worse, had his person been assailed by
the disgraceful Lash, even without all the provoea
tons Of being claimed and treated as a slave. He
would have done it unless slaveholding guilt ha,
sunk his manhood below the level of the slave
There are thousands in the North who will sympa
thize with this stakeholder in his call for Lynch
law, because like him they look upon the slave a,
q "Grute," and not a man. Let the slave be recog
Missed as a man and this will be deemed an out
burst of manliness against insufferable wrong
1t is precisely because the shareholders see tni
bloody act as an exhibition of manly retribution
and not of brute instinct that they fear it, snC
would visit it with more than ordinary severity o
punishment.
We would in no jot abate tho natural horror o
so bloody a deed though it may be only justice
instigated by outraged manhood, but we would
have it seen and known and felt, that violence anG
blood is the inevitable result of slavery. That thu
proyocation and guilt, to a fearful extent, attacl
to the slave master and his supporters and abet
ters in his intolerable outrages upon human per
sons and human souls. That such shocking scene,
must be multiplied and increased in horror, 81
long as human beings are treated as brutes. TIL,
true and only way to avert such horrors is not t,
hang or burn the slave by Lynch law, but to re
move the cause by the abolition of slavery.