The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-25

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done for veal orswe IN one y felt ia AL The
virtues of the Five Points are not the les
the property of the Fifth avenue, than the
viers Of ihs Fifth aseAne arc the property of
the Five Points. Eaah II knit to each BY the
laws Of contiguity and -consociatlon. Sc
with the Statss. The mercics Of Alabama
are, too, The emanation Of Massachusetts and
the meannees of Massachusetts ID equally IN
outpouring Of Alabama. The American i
the American, whether he come from Maine
or Arizona, Florida or Oregon. Distance j.
nothing-politically less than materially
in separating the States They arc one con-,
federation, with one destiny. When murders
are committed BY the gross ia Kansas, blood
is split equally ID Broadway; and il incarn-
adines the very door Of each fashionable
brown stone front When dishonest swind-
ling becomes the Recommendation for the
Mayoralty Of New York, each Of the ten
thousand cities and towns in the Union was
Immediately dishonored.
We have written consolidation homily.
And why To illustrate it, in : passing way,
the beauties Of our national system. There
10 in the Union Spring Gazette, . journal Of
Alsbama, Of the 23d ult., an account Of two
national and constitutional and civilized
burnings Of two human beings at the stake,
from which We subjoin an extratct:
The deceased had the reputation Of hav-
ing, even to fault ever been kind and
humane master On the day before the
murder, Mr.. j. had whipped this boy Mir
ford, or had him whipped, for some misde-
meanor, and had him chained or locked
till Monday morning, when he went to him,
took of his chain, and tod him to go to the
mill and 60 to work The boy made som
impudent reply, when Mr.. J. told him if he
did not stop his lnsolence he would knock
him down with lock, and turned to walk
away. The boy then took an AK that was "
ing near and struck him on the head and
knocked him down, dropped the ak and walk
ed away few steps, then turned and went
back, took the ak and struck him three times
more on the head, and retired short dis
lance and sat down, making no attempt to
escape.
A public meeting Of the citizens, indis
criminately, was called on Wednesday, to
determine what should DO done with the
negro, when the proposition was made to
burn him alive, every one, to the number OF
200 or 300, voting for it That evening, at
3 o'clock, in the presence Of 800 persons, be
was chained to a tree and burned.
just before the fire was set, he confirmed
the above statement in every particular. =
He stated also that he had determined to
kill his master some time before-that his
having whipped him the day before had not
instigated him to the brutal deed-that be
had his knife open in his pocket to do the
deed when his master should come to un-
fasten him, but his heart failed him but
when he told him if he did not stop his in
science he would knock him down, he pro.
eeeded to execute his full purpose II
The culprit ceased to show any signs Of
life two and half minutes from the time the
torch was applied
"On the oath ult., Mr. Simon b. Thorn
hill, who resided near Troy, Mo-, punished
one of his negroes for misconduct. The ne
knife and stabbed him, which caused his
death in two days The negro was taken to
Troy and confined in Jail The affair caused
much excitement in the county. and on sat
urday very large number Of persons collec.
ted at Troy, repaired to the jail, took the
murderer out, end lynehed him by burn
ing"
1t is we'll for Americans in general and
the Subscribers to the Mount Vernon fund in
particular, to look the truth in the face
Whittier are we tending? Where will we
land eventually 1t is not what will the
world say. Oh no: that is the last part of
it: but what will we-what can we-say of
ourselves2 1t is what God will say to MS
We do not use words merely. 1t is well for
all men to remember that, some how or 9th.
er, there is a God. There are moral laws.
The terrible scales ofjustice will be balanced
in the national account They cannot be set
aside. They cannot be wheedled or bullied
into nothingness. lmperishables as the
spheres, they will held their own. Right
eousness exalteth a nation. But where is
the righteousness of this nation in unfolding
a system which brutities man-which even
puts him down below the level of an ass or
a hog, and calls him chattel? which denies
him all the sacred beauty of marriage, and
makes each woman a prostitute and each
child bastard? which refuses him all ed
ucation? which clutches him with the cruel
grasp OF ignorant avarice and insane ambi-
ton, and dooms him to a life of unrewarded
labor, to dogs fare and a pauper's obse-
quiesI which grinds with an lXion-like
wheel all his noble aspiration from his soul
and which then holds him amenable to all
the laws, the comprehension OF which be
longs to the civilized and instructed man p
Such Is our spstem as applied to Four Mil
lions OF human beings. We make no especial
complaint of the Internal horrors of roasting
II human being at the stake-a supreme cru.
city, outlawed by all the civilizations of the
world-a feroeious barbarism Of ancient and
medieval times, long since dead in every
Christian country but our own We merely
include this burning of men alive as natur.
al part OF Slavery, as much as the circula
ton OF the blood is of the human body 1t is
not surprising The seryile race must be 50
checked. Society. demands it. Such is the
residuum of our exalted Constitution and Of
the Union as the second half Of the nine
teenth century begins to wane Such is the
commentary on eighty years experience since
the Declaration OF Independence.
Why ere the journalists who originally
denied that men were roasted by the gallant
South silent under the frequent occurrences
OF the kind2 They were once bold in the
negation, but where are they now? viii
they dare publish the truth, or seek to keep
the public in ignorance of the terrible shames
which compass the land ri Y. Tribune