Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-10-28
NUMBER 81.


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UNCLE TOM AT HOME. =
FIELD FOR MISSIONARIES
Horrible Condition Of -5ya,rs ~ Afr'ca.
From the Honolulu Rel yious Jou,nal)
Rev. MIR. Beacbnan, member Of the London
Wesleyan Mission" has recently re:urnri from ~
visit TO Africa, and in the sketch II the socs! cnuG
ton of the negroes nhab'ing the Gold coast and s
vicinity, he furnishes truly awful picture, thus:
Scarcely has one OF their barbarous and bloody
customs been abandoned from the earliest period #
which anything is known Of them. They will even
pave their courty palaces, aud The trcos
or market paces Of t!eir villages or towus with tu-
skulls OF those butchered in the wars, !ra.;, iun"
rails, at sacrifices tn Bussam.
Still their wives aud slaves are burned alive with
their deoeased husbands masters. When AdBhan.
Zen died, two hundred and eighty of hs wives wore
butchered before the arrival OF his successor which
put stop to it, only to incrsass the flow OF bloc d
the number of deaths in other ways. The remnln."g
living wives were buried alive, amid dancing, sirgNE
and bewailing, the noise OF nuskets, horns, drum.
yells, groans, and screeches the women marching 6y
headess trunks, bedaubed themselves with mUd hud
blood. Their victims were marching along with
large knives passed through their cheeks. The
cutioners struggle for the bloody office while the
tins look Oh and endure with apathy. They w'rc;""
imagine tha, all not it should be- Their ha"d-
were chopped off, and then their le,~ sawed of. and
then their heads sawed of, to pro!ong the amusement
Even who assisted 10 fill the graves ~er" then
hustled in alive, in order u add to the sport sor
nifty Of the scene. Upon the death OF the king
brother four thousand victims thus sacr'i"rd.
These ceremonies aIe oteh repeated and hundreds
slaughtered at every rehearsal. Upon the death :"
the king OF Ashantee, Eel e.a massacre takej pia =.
in which there can be no computation of the many
victims
At their Yam customs MIR. Bowditqh witnessed
specacles OF the most appalling kind. Every c'oocr
or noble sacrificed slave as he entered the gHt"
| Heads and skulls formed the ornaments in their pos
session. Hundreds were slain the streaming and
teeming blood of the victims mingled in one vast
brass pun, with various vegetable and animal matte
| fresh and putrd, to compose powerful Fetch ~
| these customs the same scenes OF butchery ana
! slaughter occur. The king eXecuoners trhvets"
the city, killing all they The next day de"'
ton reigns over the land. The king during the
| bloody saturnaa, looked eagerly, and danced III
| his chair with delight.
The King of Dahomey paves the approaches 10 his
residence and ornaments the battlemens .. his pan"r
with the skulls OF his victims; aud the grea: Fetch
tree Bodagrs, has its wide spread limbs laden Win
human carcasses and limbs. The want Of chastity
is no disgrace, and the priests are employed ~
| pimps. ..
WILL THEY GO AS MISSIONARIES
THAT they may leave their country FOR their r''rn-
try's good" One Hunir,d Thousand Do!lars IL h"''.
by subscribed 10 head list Of contributions TOO the
purpose of transporting MI the rnntrg ahs''cal 'h"
ltionss to the coast Of Africa as nssionaIi"r ioi
| who cen be better spared end VI what they say "i
their love for their "colored bredder'n may L. be-
liev.d who are better calculated tor the MISSION
Let them go in body, and II few OF then. sh"nh.
hrOugh mniake lose their heads. il vii! be H. ga"
cause Will they go viii Brothers PHlIIir-
aARRIsoN PiRkTR, and BEECHER, headed by EGip
DOUGLAS, take the lead in so good cause'
BIZ a Mr. lOrkFr. g.