Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-21
WHOLE No. 67i.


hour after their onviction prepare for death.)
Il icchus.- that %as tho name Of the executoner,
put do~n his food uron projection of the gall
llJws. walked up the ladder, and with the knife
which he had been eating his breakfast, severed
he chords on which the victims on the gallows
hanging, and down they fell. after anoth-
'r,upun the heap Of dead heloT' Then he brought
out Debany and his fellows | knew him at once.
though had never seen him before. by the the, de.
nieanor Of the MANA fine. broad ehes,ed. model
mum yellow skinned negro as they called him
here but there rested upon his counteDance an
angry fruwn. Tho man walked out to meet his
doom rs if ho wcIe walking at the head of q
truup phal procession gentleman stepped up
to him and said Dehany, what is troubling you at
a time like tbisP Mr.. Manders0n" said he, they
wan, to 60 before God with lie in my mouth.
They want me to say that the missionaries put us
up to IT, they know it is lie. Well. never
mind, said The gentleman don't let that trouble
yuu now The frown soon rassed off his face, aud
they marched up 30 the platform and tied
IN; tho signal was given and the rope was cut +
looked, and only iUur hung upon the gallows,
and Debany was not among them. The rope had
, broken. and he bed fallen to the ground. They
picked him up, half strangled and in state Of uns
consciousness for moment or two. went up, ia
the midst of the crowd, TO witness his demes nor
Still sir. with all these horrors abou, him, the man
was undauntcd. | could heav the whisper Of pray
er upon his lips there was nothing about him Of
| bravado, but everything that indicated the manly
courage ut one woo IL cunsclOus ne Is dying IN
honorable cause, (Applause)
| So it was with Samuel Sharp. After the iusur.
rectiun was put down; Sh .rp was taken, and he
was The last man put to death in consequence of
| that instruction. About two thousand were slain
many Of them were either shot or hanged in cold
blood. have myself seen not less toan nineteen
Of these poor creatures led out in one batch 10 be
hanged W like dogs. / have known sixty to be
led out from the same Jail, in the course OF thrce
days. and put 10 death. On one uccasilp | saw
poor fellow brought into town. his hands tied boz
hind him q court martial was Immediately sum!
moned, and with scarcely a show Of evidence that
the man had done anything in connection with the
insurrection, indeed, there nothing found
except that he was in the midst OF a crowd looking
on whilst II building was burning which had been
set on fire by the insurrectionsts he-was cun-
victed ano led out to be shot They were in such
hurry, that they did not take the trouble to
pass sentence upon him and when within an hour
and u half from the ;ime he was brought into town
he stood under the gallows heard him nunirs
what are you going to do to mef' They had NOT
even had the humanity 10 tell him he was going to
die. The officer stepped up to him, took up his
jacket which had been torn off when he was
brought to She spot, threw it is sce and said
You will 6nd out in moment lie stepped back
the word was given, and the man lay there, bul-
let through his brain and another through his
heart ! heard one man say to the crowd of slaves
standing round,-pointing to the hole 10 the slaves
head. You want your freedom, do you, put youf
finger there, That is the kind of freedom, We will
give you you black oevils' This Heard with my
own ears a-.47
! saw hundreds thus slaughtered in cold blood
Sharp was the last brought out to be put to death,
and his end worthy of his character / had
frequent opportunities TO converse with him while
he was in Jail. When saw so many put to death
| wrote communication for one OF the island
newspapers, with the intention of directing the
Governors attention to the wholesale slaughter
that going on. 1t had the afec: intended
The Governor read it, and the next post brought
down an order to the authorities civil and military
that Eo further executions should take place for
crimes committed during the iusurrecton, without
his own warrant. Thus it happened that Samuel
Sharp detained in prison several weeks after
he had been tried, and the sentence Of death prot
nounced upon him and | had frequent opportuni.
ties Of conversing with him lie a man who
had read the New testament and read the pewsps:
pers. and was in all respects u superior man.
asked him whnt:it induced him to take part in
this movement, since he had never suffered, as
many had under the lash. Sir he said, in fead-
ing my Bible, | found the white hadSno more
right to make n slave Of me than had to make q
slave of the white mad plause) and would
rather ga out and die on tnat gallows, then live
slave loud applna>e.) The young ladies of
the family to which he belonged made him
a very handsome suit OF white clothes,
anb | him march to his death. |
heard the remark2 which he made when he
stood on the platform under the gallows atid, sir
| co. Id not but drop tear to a like that
put t. death. whose only crime was that he made
al effort TO recover that liberty which s,lhe right
of every haman being, and of which he, in com
m"n with his brethren, had been wrCngfully and
wickedly deprived.
The lnsurrection was put down, and the inten.
ton which Sharp enterr,ined in connection with
it was frustrated. His design was not TO do yo-
leace tn any person or property, but simply to act
upon the principle of passive resistance. He
goed in this way They will put to death some
uf us, II we sit down and refuse 10 Work after
Christmas and we must be content to do for the
benefit of the rest. |. for one. am ready TO die,
in order that the rest may be free. tApplause.)
They may put some of us to death. but they can
not hang and shoot Us all, and il we ara faithful
one to another, we must obtain our freedom
(Renewed applause.)
Samuel Sharp's plan defeated, p this way:
lie had not calculated sufficiently upon the impul.
sive character of the men Ire undertook to lead in
this moVement,-upon their not being accustomed
to exercise self restraint; consequently, when
some of them broke into the store house Of the
estates, and became intoxicated, and then set fire
to the buildings. that vas regarded az a signal all
over the country, and the works and mills were
destroyed on two hundred or three hundred es.
tates. Sharp said, When THE occurred, + saw
the scheme was defeated. knew that the whites
/uuld slaughter US without mercy, and cur free.
dom be a long while put off, 's
But, sir, although the immediate design Of
Sharp was not accomplished yet it was ultimate.
ly. This very insurrecuon was one of tho events
Nhch FASTENED the abolition of slavery in the
West Indies. dare say my friend Mr.. Garrison
is sufficiently acquainted with the history Of those
times to remember that in the Committee appoint.
ed by the House of Lords 10 investigate the whole
question cf slavery and also ia the Cummitses
a ppointed by the House Of Commons the decision
on the question Of the immediate abolition Of
slavery turned upon this point.--'Wiil it be safe
tD - ha uad TWa