Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-09-02
your door; what your neighbors. say about
your children; what your rivals say about
your business, or your dress
HE NINETEENTH CENTURY CIVILIZATION.
CHRISTIANITY, The LAND OF THE FREE AND
THE HOME OF THE Brave

HE NINETEENTH CENTURY. CIVILIZATION.
CHRISTIANITY, The LAND OF THE FREE AND
THE HOME OF THE BRAVE.
The following is from the Leavenworth
correspondent of the New York Tribune
The system pursued in Missouri in regard
to negro men assumes all the diabolical faa-
tu~es that human tyranny ever assumed. To
be black is a crime. Hunted like wild beasts.
the poor Africans are prey to the miserable,
| petty slave stealers and slave traders who are
ever ready to pounce on their he'll pless victims,
and they pursue their vile trade securely. for
any sympathy for the oppressed is denounced
as ''Abolitionism. During the few months
Of DR.. Dogs incarceration, many such came
under his notice, and they reveal a frightfll
state Of morals. give but another one. A
negro had been caught somewhere and was
brought to the Jail. Negroes are confined in
the lower part, and communication could be
had through a hole for a stove pipe. Through
this, DR.. Doy learned from the captive that
he was a free man, and had been born in the
Stats of Illinois He had-haS-S0 acres Of
land, with some Improvements, near Aurora,
Ill. He had come 70 Kansas to look at
it, expecting to locate there. and, on his re-
turn was seized by the Missouri thieves and
hurried to the county Jail. The day after
his arrival he was taken out, stripped and
tied to a post. The iron whip, with its
sharp kniie-ed.es and dagger points, was
produced. The Sheriff or his Deputy, and
other hgQl parties were present. The unfor-
tunate negro was asked where his master
lived and what that master name was. and
when he ran away. In vain did the poor
fellow tell his story. 1t was received with
oaths and abuse, and he was told that - That F.
kind Of style would not do while the in /
strument Of torture was applied ferociously /
to his naked back. Blood started from the .
wounds, and the victim writhed and shrieked .
in his agony. Al last there was a cessation.
and the question
Well, tell US who's your master, and
when You ran away
- told you | never had a master was
born IN Illinois am free. -
Oh, damn you, We have heard such sto-
ries as that before. Give it to him. Tom. till
ho conlesses."
Again the horrid scene was renewed. 1t
was in the iail-court-In the precincts of
Justice, and the prisoners through the crate,
could witness it. In agony the writing
victim cried for them to tell him what
they wanted.
The questions were repeated, but the i'm
mediate horrors being rcspited a little, the
trembling, bleeding victim hesitated to repeat
words that would cJnsign him to a fate more
horrible than death. Again a torrent Of
profanity was poured on him. H. had fallen
down. aS the cords had been somewhat lo1s-
aned
'' Put him up put him up Wen bring
him t.. vet" and the poor crushed victim
again was made % writhe under the torture
At last, almost TOO faint t., shrek, bleeding
aud weak. the execution was once more stop
ped, and questions asked.
- Who's your master -
e. oh, any body YOU like.
" Well, was it Mr.. Brown ,,
.' Yes. yes
OF CulpepPer County, Virginia ?'
Well. Jus, as you like, l don't know
ny Counties in Virginia, | never was
here 80
O. What
''Y Yes. yes, cried the trembling victim,
3 that was the Countv-Nirginia -
And it is rather more than six months
ince you ran away from him 3''
'' Yes, yes,-oh. yes, and the shrinking d
nan without hope i'm all the world of q -
.otism around him, let bis head fall forward
m bis breast, and his agony broke in tears
nd sobs h
You have all that noted d'wu?' said y
ne of the oHciating villains % the Sheriff.
Yes all right." Z
The victim was uuiast.n'I and led away t
{ was nearly two weeks before his wounds b
7era well enough for him to be fit to trlyel,
nd then he was taken away. Where?
This kind OF work is. suppose, an acces- o