Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-07-05

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have an Index on which are inscribed
all the generous books of the age
There is one book. the marvel of re-
cent literature, Uncle Toms Cabin
which has been treated both by the
church and by the slave masters, so
that it is honOred by the same SUP.
preston at the Vatican and at Char
lesion. Not to dwell n these in
stances. there Is one which has a most
instructive righteousness. \ beautiful
discourse of the late DIR. Claiming on
West India emancipation-the last
effort of his beautiful career-was
offered for sale by book agent at
Charleston. \. prosecution by the
South Carolina Association ensued
and the agent was held to bail in the
sum of one thousand dollars. Shortly
aiterward the same agent received for
sale work by Dickens, freshly pub
/ lished, american Notes." but deter
mined not to expose himself again to
the tyrannical inquisition, he gave no.
tice through the newspapers that the
book would be submitted to highly
intelligent members of the South Car
olina Association fo- inspection. and
if the sale is approved by them it
viii be for sale-ii not, not Listen
also to another recent instance. a re-
counted in Tile Montgomery Mail. a
newspaper of Alabama:
Last Sunday we devoted to the
/ flames large number of copies Of
Surgeons sermons, and the pile was
graced at the top with copy OF
Graves Great Iron Wheel which a
Baptist friend presented for the pur-
pose. We trust that the works of the
greasy Cockney vociferator may re-
ceivc the same treatment throughout
the south. And if the pharisaical au-
thor should ever show himself in these
parts, we trust that stout cord NAV
speedily find its way around his elo-
quent throat. He has proved him
self dirty. lowbred slanderer, and
ought to be treated accordingly"
And very recent v we have read in
journals that trustees of a college in
Alabama have resolved that Dr. Way
lands admirable work on moral sci
ence contains Abolition doctrine OF
the deepest dye" AMI they proceeded
to denOnnce 1.-THE said book, and for
bid its further use in the institute"
All this is natural, for tyranny is
condemned to be consequent with it
self. Proclaim Slavery to be sper-
manent institution. instead Of a tenn
porary barbarism, soon to pass away,
and then, by the unhesitating logic
of self preservation, all things must
yield to it's support. The safetyof Slave
rybecomes the supreme law. And sincC
Slavery is endangered by Liberty in
any form therefore all libert, must L
restrained. Such is the philosophy o
this seeming paradox in republic
And our slave masters show them.
selves apt in this work. Violence and
brutality are their ready instruments,
quickened always by the wakefulness
of suspicion and perhaps often by the
restlessness of uneasy consciences
Everywhere in the Slave States the
lions mouth of Venice, where citizens
were anonymously denounced, is open;
nor are the gloomy prisons and the
Bridge of Signs wanting. This spirit
has recently..shown itself with such in
tensity and activity as to constitute
what has been properly termed a
Reign of Terror. Northern men, un-
less they happen to be Delegates to a
Democratic Convention. are exposed
in their travels, whether of business or
health, to the operation of this system.
They are watched AMI doggei as if in
a land of despotism; they are treated
with the meanness of a disgusting
tyranny, live in peril always of per-
sonal indignity. and often of life and
limb. Complaint has sometimes been
made of the wrongs 10 American citi-
zens in Mexico; bat during the last
year. more outrages on American citi-
zens have been perpetrated in the
+. Slave States than in Mexico. Here
again. have no time for details,
viii h have been already ented in
, other quarters. But the instances are
from all condition OF life. In Nilsson.
ri, Methodist clergyman. suspected
of being an Abolitionist. was taken to
: prison. amid threats of tar and feath-
ers In Arkansas. schoolmasteI
; was driven from the State. In Ken.
tuckv, plain citizen from Indiana. or
visit TO his friends, was threatened
with death by the rope. In Alabama
simple person fromConnecticut. ped.
ding books, was thrust into prison,
amid the cries of "jShoot him hang
HIM" In Virginia. Shaker. from
New York, pediling garden seeds,
was forcibly expelled from the State
In Georgia. a merchants clerk. az
irishman by birth. who simply aske'
the settlement OF just debt. was cas-
into prison, robbed of his picket
book, containing nearly 500, and
ely,escaped with his life. In Soutl
Carolina, stone-cutter, Irishman by
birth, was stripped naked. and thcr
amid cries of "branl him." Burr
himv" Spike him to deathr
scourged so that blood came at every
stroke. while tar was poured upon th'
lacerated flesh. These atrocities, cal
D culatcd, according to the wor,ls of I
poet Of subtle beauty. to make holi
day in hell" were ordained by yigi
lance committees. or by that busics
magistrate. Judge Lynch Inspired b.
y the demon Of Slavery
2 "He let them loose, and cried Halloo.
e How shall we yield him honor duel"
{ In perfect shamelessness. and. as ]
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