New-York daily tribune., 1857-09-26

their Right of Suffrage acknowledged and estab-
lished
Deacon. Colonel Jchn Netherlard Of Tennessee,
who figured more conspicuously than creditably in
the AngeIlatory events which have given much fame
to the before obscure town of Rogersville in that
State, has publitbed long statement of the affair,
in which the fact most cOnspicuously apparent is
that Col. John Netberland is in a very bad hunOr.
He permits his angry passions TO rise to the hgd Of
calling US ga gracees scOundrel who, if he had
"the opportunity, would sell his Savior for less
ethan Judas did," Not being man-s.esling dea-
con or baby-vending church member, We do not
know what wickedness we might be betrayed into;
but if Neherland will only promise not to pray for
US, we may hope to escape any crying iniquity
And if the Great Teacher to whom Netherland so
irreverenty alludes should again appear in the
flesh, We think that he would be much safer from
sale or even from scoureipg in New-York than in
Roeersyille.
The knob of Netherlands statement is that the
Rev. Samuel Sawyer is liar. We have a success
sion Of point.blsnk contradictions, For instance,
the boy Abe was not hogged at all severely, his
blows in the opinion Of Deacon John, being abso
luh6V o1ectonste caresses in comparison with those
which should have been administered. Now we
must tell Netherlsnd very plainly that We do not
believe him and we do believe Sawyer not as the
Deacon may think because we are preudlced, but
simply because il is not reasonable to suppose that
a clergyman who had been com Ortably settled fora
period Of years over a church. and who must
have known that falsebood would be followed by in
slant exposure, would gratuitOusly have gone to
work and invented such tale. The presumptions
are all the other way. He would be more likely in
,tesd of exsgeerating to extenuate the crueltes
He was writing of events of which all bis neigh
bors were ccgnizant and must indeed hsye been
mad to have devised rOorback which so many
people were in q position to refue. Then, on the
other hand, Netherlsnd says distinctly that he was
not present either at the Abe or the Anthony fog
eipg, SO that by Lis own showing he is not COM
petent witness. But by his own confession it ap-
DC ears that he did deliver up his own slave to be tor
tured by bruiser BcyiDs and that he did ncite that
merct art OF men to cbastise Abe.
The Deacon jus!ifes the foggiug by saying that
Incorporate, that he was this, that and the other.
What seems to have been his great crime-greater
in the opinion of Netherland than even the rape
which this Abe is charged with committing upon
the pertOn of bis own wife-is that once having
run away, he refused to come back again. He
even had the audoc,y to take shelter IN female
college. SO successful was he in eyadng pursuit
that for about two years all search for him was
vain. Now We do not know that it makes any diff.
ference as to the proprety or improperly of tor
turing man whether he be sober or drunken,
smart or lazy, chaste or incontnent. Ad.
nitting this slave 10 baye been as bad as
possible-snd we certainly should not expect
TO find all the virtues in a chsttel-we
must ssy that the fact is more di:creditable to
bis former MASTER, the Reverend Dr. Ross than
TO the boy himself. That eminent divine should
have given him better training. But, after all
is Abe the monster which be is represented to be
by NetheIlsnd We have only the Deacous word
for il. On The other bsnd, We find that for long
lime this cepIssed wretch uas fed, sheltered and
conceaed by the neig 5bcrs, white and black, which
affords pretty good evidence that be was popular
among them. The Deacon AYERS tina. he sold Abe
to Bleyins because bis character was bad. Bad
for wbatl For running awsyl For being sullep
under the Lash Abe cannot speak for himself
and we certainly shall nst take Netherlands word
as to his character.
Concerning the foggDg administered to Anthony
for refusing to disclose Abe's place of conceal
ment, we have the distinct admission of Neither
lard himself, that be did surrender Anthony to
Bleyps, the slave trader, in order that the secret
of Abe's conceslnent might be foeged out of him
He also sdds that Anthony was hoeged at Beans
Station "yery severely" These are Netherlsnds
own words. He admits that Anthony IT rtceived two
distinct cf sipes, one ct the station and the other
at the jail. This coirc,des with Sawyer's state
uent Indeed, the genera eject Of Netherlands
uer is 10 strengthen our belief in the truth of all
tfst vss important in the first narration. We
bsse tie fact e both Aogsings sdmitted sat also
he fact that Netterland sssented to the ere end
styissd The other Qas Of these castigstiops. lie