The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-08-26
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BRUTAL OUTRAGES ON SLAVES.


The Rev. Samuel Sawyer, graduate oi
the New York Union Theological Seminary
and for the past nine years pastor OF the sec.
ond Presbyterian church, Rogersville, East
Tennessee, was recently driven from hi.
church in consequence Of his course in re.
gard to the beating OF slave named Antho.
ny BY his master, one Col. Netherland, ~
elder in his church.
disgustingly shown, has been elected . dele.
gate to the secession convention called BY
DR.. Ross and other pro-slavcry ministers OF
the New School Presbyterian church. 10 mee,
at Richmond ON the 9th inst.
Ii appears that slave, formerly belong.
ing to the children OF DR.. Ross, was owned
by Col. Netherland and was sold in 1856. "a
be sent to Mississippi. Rather than ro
"down South," the negro ran Of to t6e
woods, and remained concealed for more
than year, until found and brought bach by
some hunters. lie was then handed over b.
Col. NJ, with his chains on, to the trader Who
bought him, who took him back Of the church.
in field, and there, in the presence OF !
crowd Of spectators, beat him with over
three hundred aud thirty blows, laid on With
leather strap nailed to q board. while the
slave Was tied down on his back. naked and
blind-folded. The trader whipped him TO
make him confess who had harbored him.
and probably would have ssbeaten him till
Saturday night" il such An excitement had
not been caused by the 6rst instalment Of
scourging.
But this Was not tho worst. Col. Neither
land owned an old gray-haired slave. Who
had nurscd him 10 infancy, and suspectinr
that he knew more about the runaway and
who had harbored him than he chose to tell
be handed him over to the same negro tra.
der, to be taken to a neighboring county.
and there beaten, IT discretion, to make him
confess. n
The trader took the old man to q plaoe
called Beans Station, in the next countv.
lGralnger,) and there, ON SUNDAY morning.
IN stable on the public highway. strinnea
and tied him naked ON plank, strspped h;s
feet to post and tied his head forward "a
brace, and then whipped him by striking him
With carpenter's hand saw, Mississippi
way, which raises large blisters and bursrrs
them, cutting the hide in pieces. He vhin-
pod him that Sunday till the neighborhood
closed their doors--whipped him till the
neighbors put down their windows and closed
their curtains--whipped him till the women
driven Wild by hearing tho blows and the ne.
gro.s agoniz.ng cries for mercy, cried out
against it'll one man declared IL he did
not stop he would return him to court-till
tne landlord Of the tavern, after hearing In
silence the intiction Of At least three hundred
olows with the saw, went TO him and told
nim mat no must put stop to it---that he
himself was liable to Indictment for su1rsr.
ing such things on his preniscs, aud that h.
Was unwilling to bear it any longer. The
trader becsmevery angry as this interference
and told the landlord that he had sent ! nov
% gets bundle Of whips 10 scourge the ne
gro's back when the Hesh should Be too
much cut up with the saw; and, finally, ind
ing no could not 30 on, 10 tumbled tie ne-
gro into his wagon, in disgust q the Bean
osaaion people, and went TO Rutledgs.
The slave had two 6ts in consecusnce AZ