Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-17
Prom the pittsburg Dispatch.
OF A LAVE-BARBARITY OF
The SLAVE CODE.
Among the telegrapbic dispatches of the press
IS the following:
louisville, December 2Oth.

/ Among the telegraphlc dispatches OF the press
is the lUowing
/ LOUISVILLE, December 20th.
/ Tho Russellvile Herald Of Wednesday says
an instruction excitement exists in the
EeighborhUod of Volney and GOrdonsvle. A
number Of negroes were arr,sted; negro, II
ldbVrer in one Of the iron works of Tennessee.
SAID he knew all about the plot, but would die
before he would tell. lie gcceiccd ssreH ht,Adrcd
md .fJiy iJShes and died."
In the dark ages. it was customary to make q
muckery of justice in the old world, by torturing
persons suspected OF knowledge or completely in
crime, to exturt confession. The result WAS, as
shown in hundreds Of cases which have become
historical, that wholly innocent persons. unable to
endure the fierce and cruel torturcs confessed
themselves guilty, or pretended 10 know ledge
tending to crlminate and cunviGt others. who were
eqdally innocent of crime. The progress OF Christi
auity and civilization has banished this Internal
system Of cruelty and injustice from every code Of
the civilized portion of the wurll. but here in
hGhtened Americn, in the nooutide OF Christianity.
The slave c'de ut the Southern States inficts the
most huriid torures. n means of exturt.ng con-
iesSiun. Nor is II necessary that there he any
form ot magisterial Investigation legal tr al
every master or overseer Of Tlantation-uay. any
individual or number uf whites who suspect any
slave or aves ct know ledge of or partcipaliun in
amy offence, may intict turtures ON all the slaves
OF plantation or neighborhoul, till one Ut more
ul less physical harGihOOd than the others shall
weld tu the suffering aud make a cnnfessiun-
either tue false. We see this admitted in the
above paragraph. and we have also published the
following from Virginia exchange:
Thirty yeight of the slaves arrested at Aloxan-
dra, Va, ON Sunday morning last, uTUn = charge
of insurrectin, have been fined aud whipped upon
the bare back fifteen la>hes each, for assembling
at bail. Not the slightest testimony has been
found against of them that they intended to
create an nsurrecton."
Now dare any man OF decent humanity defend
tins system? Will any preacher OF Gods word
of justice and Mercy say that the press or the
p""rle North or South should be silent while such
things are done Shall we talk of the OZARK
abudes Of cruelty and oppression" in foreign |
heathen lands, thousands of miles uway-cuilect /
hundreds of thousands of dollars to send mission.
aries to those dark places of cruelty" abroad and
yet be told that press and pen and tongue must be |
dumb-must not 'meddle' with this hurrid system
OF slavery in our own and-cuunjenanred by our
common Chrstianity-fostered, upheld demand. |
lng the aid ard authorivc sanction of our General
Government to its EXTENsIoN and PERPETUATioN ! |
what is heroisn if the conduct Of that ignu-
rant slave was not heroic We are told merely |
that "he said he knew all about the pot'-n0t
that lie was part of it, Of the cons prators
Though probably he was, and p ssibly not; no
proof oi tfls Is gwen, nr even needed, under the
code OF slavery he says he will die hefure be |
Will teii"-tbtt he will not, even at the risk of |
cruel injustice, and slow lingering hurrid death Nv
the lash, expose his fellow slaves to an awful pun.
ishmert which he knows would follow his cen.
'essi"n OF their completely in conspiracy-and
there he iii mly stands till Seren hundicd and fffy
fdshe$ are inflicted upoi his naked fesh-beeding
Qnlverng torn in strips, with the red blood spirit
lnE at every stroke, las have seen again and
again. )-and thus he suliers and des-a martyr
aud "a herO-to save his fellows
Men who have died with greater herosm and
with no mnrc noble impulse, have LETT names that
are immortal. That poor slave had not perhaps
one tear of pity-one plea for mercy in his behalf
and half the Christian people of this land ould
consider him but criminal, justly punished and
slam. His name if ever known may be more
execrated than hUnored