Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-28
MORE OF THE FRUITS OF SLAVERY.

A correspondent of New York Tribune writing
from Flemingsburgh, Kentucky, under date of
March 18th, details a horrible tragedy which oc.
Cured in that vicinity, on the 9Th ms. AS well
they might, it is said the events excited intense
interest throughout the region. A Slave avenged
his own wrongs and the outrages upon his wife
by taking the life of the lustful wretch who
claimed him as his property. From the account
it seems that the excitement of the community
was aroused, not SO much from the uncomfortable
outrages of the Stakeholder who provoked the ven-
geance of his victims, as from the fact that a slave
should dare to feel that he had rights OF could
suffer wrong, and especially that he should dare
to avenge those wrorgs. To do SO is to commit
the most henious offence known to a slaveholding
community. The facts of the case are as fol.
lows James Tabor,a stakeholder of some wealth
but of disreputable character in his neighborhood
was murdered on the evening of the 9Th inst.by his
slave, while lying on the floor before the fire in
his own house asleep. His head was split open
by q blow from an axe. The man who committed
the homicide alleges as the cause that he was con-
staDtly subjected to the foulest i'll -treatment per-
sonally, and that time and again he had been
ordered from the house 10y Tabor, for the sole pur-
pose of avoiding interference while the brutal
master compelled the Slaves wife to submit to
his depraved lusts. The poor fellow, goaded be-
yond endurance, watched q favorable moment and
with one blow, avenged all his wrongs upon the
life of his prosecutor.
After the deed was consummated both husband
and wife fed from the house and concealed them
selves in a thicket near by. In the morning they
were pursued by the neighbors, and the woman in
likely TO be found, rushed to a NAL stream at
hand and drowned herself in cater not exceeding
three feet deep, before size could be orertaken. Tho
man, however, was captured, and at once admitted
his guilt, ard wholly exculpated his wretched
wife from any share of the deed, or any knowl-
edge of it until the moment the axe clavo the
head of his master in twain, Such a chapter as
this does not need any comment. IL is easy
enough to conceive how these poor wretches must
have been excited by the outrageous treatment
they received from their guilty master, but while
the laws of the state infict almost summary pun
ishment upon them they take no cognizaace of the
offences against them. and their oppressors 90 of
scot free. Is it a cause Of wonder that such scenes
as this are so frequent in the Slave States? Rath'
er is it not to oe wondered that they are not every
day occurrences ?"
After his capture the slave was put upon trial,
confessed that he had perpetrated the act, and
sentenced to be hung on the 18th Of next month
The correspondent of the Tr buns adds:
While the tragedy was being enacted in tie
cOutry another was transpiring in the Courthouse
in town. A young man was being tried for muir
dering his n~eighbor, having first struck him with
a bludgeon and then stabbed him to the heart, kill
ing him dead, all in broad daylight, and in the
presence of half a dozen witnesses. All this was
proved clearly and beyond any sort of dispute
the first word, the blow, the stab and the death.
And yet this man was declared innocent. Like
young Wood, he was too respectfully connected
and too wealthy to fear conviction. Are jails and
gibbets reserved exclusively for poor white men,
and "niggers !!