Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-03-29

Ia many places The kittee Is bss6S sui rseded by
the more simple plan Of Violently comt feAsing The
hands under Fat board, on whieh asheasy pres
sure is laid, somet.ntss cctsby TIE Poss sundings
upon 1t or Of compelling the sufferer to interiace
his fingers and delivering him to the iron grippe
Of the poems, Tor policsmcn,) who sometimes rub
their hands with sand in order to give them firm
er grippe. In other cases the fingers arc bent back
until the pain becomes uncomfortable.
Occasionally man is held aoft from the ground
by the ears by the hair and even by the mustachio
and the latter torture, in some instances is applied
SO savagely as.to tear away the mustachio by the
roots Sometimes sort of bastinado is intcteai
sometimes violent blows on the shin, the ankles, the
elbows, other highly sensitive points; proionged
immersion in the water tanks or the river forcl6le
compression Of the arms the thighs, and even the
body by tying coli OF coir ropes round thclh anu
then applying cold water, as to cause II 10 con-
tract and sink into the flesh; burning it with not
iron hanging heavy stones round the neck the
stocks; tying two more individuals 'ogetner ~
the hair so that every movement Is attended win
pain.
Will it be credited, fer example, that it is not un-
common to apply TO the most sensitive parts OF the
body enclosed in a cloth or cocoanut SHELL or ON
er similar reccptacle) biting insect or reptile, SUCH
as the pooah, or carpenter oeets, anu 'eate W
gnaw the flesh Of the miserable sufferer THAT by
a further refinement of cruelty, meant to combine
both pain and humiliation, the defaulters are some-
times tied by the hair to the tail of donkey or buff
falo ?-that they occasionally hung up with the
head downwards ?-and that it is an ordinary prac-
tce to put pepper powdered chlies into the eyes
or the nos,ris and to apply these and similar irr-
tatng drugs in other ways too revolving To DC mint
ed att"
There is long and frightfu detail of great va
riety of torures which the reviewer declares show
can amount of hateful ingenuity" which it is diffl'
cult to conceive believe, but that they are given
in the report. After detailing many shocking cases
of the dying of under these various forms OF tor
ture and of " women, by having the kittee aPPhtd
to their breasts" to enforce the collection, some
times, of teao pence onty the commissioners con-
TESS that 1.-THE incton OF such descriptions OF treat
ment as they had described has come, in the course
of centuries to be looked on customary thing
of course-and to be submitted to every day,
unavoidable necessity.
| Though these details have been recently spread
before the British public they seem to have created
no sensation BECAUSE doubtless, the sufferers are
not negroes, but of race regarded as Caucasian,
like the English themselves.
| Such is the condition of all empire whose example
are denounced for failing to initiate, both by the
British press and its abolition allies in this country
Under this system. grinding and monstrous as 1t is,
the whole population is rapidly perishlng III many
of the provinces aud the most fertile lands are be-
coming desert'wastes. These miserable iaborerS arc
mainly engaged in the cultivation of tropical pro-
auctions, to supply the demand Of the markets OF
Great Britain and those of her customers. 1t Was
| soon seen, however, that, owing TO the superior
skill energy Of the planters Of the South, they
were able by OF slave labor to produce cot
ton, sugar, rice, &c. at lower rates. and thus under
sell similar articles grown in India The British
government likewise held certain islands in the
West Indies, cultivated by negro slaves, bat, the
amount Of her interest there was comparatively
SMALL she determined to sacrifice it for what she re-
gardcd a important object She according
y emancipated her negro slaves in the West Indies,
and thereby reduced the islands a state of unpro
ductive barbarisn. She then set in motion system
of operations force the United States to emanci-
pate her slaves in like manner, expecting, if this
were accomplished, to be able to supply the world
at her prices with tropical productions from her
great eastern possessions This, however, was not
the sole motive that influenced her conduct. The
United States was her great commercial rival, aud
it was then seen that, owing to our more rapid In
crease We should soon SurpaSs her, as IN TACT we
have already done in the amount Of our Tonnage
! The prodgious growth Of our commerce arises from
the fact that while the South by its successful aSri-
culture, has furnished the freights, the North has
built the ships to carry them to market; and it was
obvious that We should successfully contest the
mastery Of the seas with her. Her policy, there
fore, was to separate the ships of the North from
the productions Of the South and this would have
been the case if she had succeeded in efectng the
abolition Of slavery, that the South would cease
to have surplus for export; or even had she failed
in this, the result would have been attained by
dissolution of the Union. In this latter event, the
North and the South being foreign countries to each
other, the shipping of the would have derived
advantage from the agriculture Of the other, and
Great Britain would have held the dominion Of the
! ocean. There was another consideration operating
the English government and portion OF her
! people with more force than either Of these.
! The United States is the great republic of the
earth, and the example Of free institutions was
shaking the foundations Of the monarchca and aris-
tocratic governments of Europe This was especial
Britain, owing to common language, literature,
! and extended commercial intercourse. The aristoc-
racy there hold the Of the people in subsection,
and under condition oppressive that large num-
| bcrs of white men Of their own race are liable to
perish mserably by famine in years of scarcity.
knowledge of the successful working Of nstitu-
tons was increasing the discomfort Of the common
people, and fearing the loss of its sway, the arstoc-
racy, which controls the entire power of the govern
ment began a crusade for the abolition Of slavery in
the United States. They expected in the first place.
by affected sympathy for the negroes here to divert
the consideration of their own suferngs, and to Gre
ate the impression that other laborers were much
worse off than their own. And should they succeed
in breaking up our system, they would cxulting'y
have pointed to it as evidence against the durability
of free institutions.
With view, therefore, to effect these objects
more than twenty years ago the British press, and
book makers generally, were stimulated to embark
in systematic war against negro slavery in the
United States. Abolition lecturers were sent over
and money furnished to establish papers and circu
late pamphlets to infame the minds of the citizens
of the northern States Looking far ahead, they
sought to incorporate their doctrines into the schoo
books and publications best calculated to influence
the minds of the young and Ignorant. Their views
were most readily received in Massachusetts,, wher'
there were the remains of old antislavery federal
sm and where the British influence has for the las
half century been greatest. From this State thes