, 1860-10-16

that the crowd was 30 excited u to put h's fife
in peril should be appear among them. urder
these circumstances he WAS permitted to depart,
knowing full well that when the hour for bis
execution should arrlve, which was fixed for
eleven O'Clock that night, the rep IT would 20
put In circulation by those IN the secret Of his
escape, that ho tad broken jill, and every e1er'
ton wcu1d then be made for bis recaptufe.
And TO do:the peup{e Of that region justice. u
there is any ono thing III which they excel; i
with hounds trained 10 the business, and kept
In constant practice By chasing one another for
tie riilainf. SO often pefpetrased among them
selves Sometimes the very hounds which an
individual has trained to cliase his ne'ghbors
With, being uaedby his own creditors to Catch
himself
For twenty-eight hours Mr. Marsh walked
steadily forward without food, rest or sleep;
making reAr sixty miles; aud, just before the
staee came up ho secretel himself cear The
ferry, but within ar.shot, 60 as to be able to
overbear any conversation between passengers
and ftrrymsu. When the ataRe came up be
heard his avn name called accompanied with
the very agreeable information that be had been
been in Warren, and Nas known to te on that
ruad, and euded By declaring escape TO bs I'M
possible, a. Q hundred men and dogs were al
ready on his trail.
Leaving the road be made the best Of his way
up The river bank throlgh vines, thosns did
swamp till overcome by, fatiRne, Wary and
worn, be aank down aud slept till near all'ght.
The first sound that greeted his waxing senses
was the bayirg Of hounds; and plunHing into
the Saline he swan TO the northern shore, up
which be wa ked about mile in the edge OF the
water near shore, 50 dato leave neither Track nor
scent, then swimming back 10 tue southern
bark he made t,acks up it tQr some di-tanee;
he crossed again, walking in shallow wafer as
before. and " Continued I'll! having swam the
river fve times, and finding swamp on The
northern shore where the wafer was waist deep,
be left the Saline, taking through the sxampln
the direction Of the Arkansas river; where, at-
ter three days aud nights Of ineessant toll, be
arrived, gong on board steamer at once bound
for 4>spoleon. Bs great good fortane, tae boat
WAS coming down from the direction Of Little
Rock, wbtre he had been put in irons while
prisoner; but he soon learned that she had not
been SO lar up NJ the Capital, consequently 10
one on beard knew hiu, aud be passed uuob.
served through Nspaleou, changing boat ttere,
and finally reaching Memphis onHoiested, made
the best Of his way to St. Louis
Notwithstanding tue Camden "chiva'FJ"
waited FIR hourn around the jail in which they
supposed him to be lying, witt rope ia their
hand>, ready to enact their part OF the bloody
DR. ma, venting curses of disappointment and
rage both loud and deep When they found be
had escaped ,hen, digging bis steps with
horse ind hound ~ they would the trail of
wild beast, he still lves to open the eyes let us
hope, Of those misg ided treemen Of the Free
States who are so deeply in lore with the "pe-
cutsar institution" and i's tnevatable accompxn-
ime1t., punishment without trial, death Without
crime, ths hapgmar's knot for some, and the
sconrge for all
on the I'd Of September last, stopped over
Sunday at Graud Junction, Tenn, md durirg
the day made the acquaintance # young gen.
tleman who resides a. Waco, 'Lelt4n county,
| Te1ae, to whom many of the actors in the late
sanguinRr5 eyepts were we'll known. He WAS
a South Curoliniau BY birth, aud q sisveholder-
! In the COURSE OF conversation, remarked thst
an account which had read but day or two
since gave, as the number thus lar exacu'ed,
Biz white men and two hundred negroes "Six
white men," said he; "why, Fir, within the
| circle Of my acquaintance, oyrr cne hundred
| white men have been hung. besides many in
other counties; as l!as, Smith, Hopkins, and
! the like lie then wen: on to SAY, TINT where
any positive evidence could be found agalEst
suspected irdlvid ais, they mere brought before
| the Committee, after which they were seen no
more till their final pa.s&Ea beyond that
"bourne from whence no Traveller returns"
| Others, md By fur the larger number, men
sgainst whom 20 taint Of Abolitionism existed,
would be eeen pursuing the.r ordinary atoca
tions during the day, apd on the following
morn found swinging IRON the limb Of tree
in sight Of their oTn homes. l, ,quiEe, if
you please, into the circumstances; no one
knew anything in regard to it-alt that could
| be learned wss from 1he bereaved family. TheF
would tell you that, in the dead Of night, en-
armed party Of men. disguised 80 as not to be
recognized, came and :otk tha husband and
| faiber from among them, for what purpose they
knew not, until tne5 saw his blactened. dis
| tnrted features gszing doTn on them, with tho
dali, cold look Of DEATH from that terrible emf
ncnce to which sectional hatred and mispl aced
rage had raise3 him.
Such were tho sights aud scenes Of woe,
daily ira: tpis, in the South, { uri7g the pas.
summer-deeds cf darkt ess y bfch No eye Lave
that Of the perpetrator held; choosing The
gloom Of night for their consummati p-taking
csra that the voice Of the victim should be
hushed in eternal eletce. u NJ IN amait Gus,
noble youth, price OF doating father, or hore
gone Scu to follow the profession Of teacher.
has there met bis fate AZ nnjusily as ever fell
victim by the hand Of Nero or Caiagaa.
"Woy,"l it mpy be asked shaw not these tfr-
| ritle ira: sHctions been made pnbli 7" In reply
i would say that those who would have put
! topgud in the mouth Of every one who has fa!l-
| en- beneath the wheels Of the bloody Jugger.
ant, as Mark Antony proposed, ia ,he wounds
Cesar, have ba, no opportunity 80 t. do.
| - Northern man residing in Texas dRre al
| mpt to 1esys, Tor every tr.v.ler and strauger
| HAs stopped, questioned, a. if ID aDkes It
WIS sure to be tile worse fof him. II ltWasfquatF
| impossible to communicate anything OF the
| kind through the Post Office, many OF the fed
eral employees being chief mca on ths Figi'
lance Committees, and who would risk his life
BY wiring letter that might BE- opened in the
first Office througb~hich it patsed, and then be
produced as prnof potltlve OF Abolitionism
| against the author.
tell you, tellow.citizsns Of the free States,
yo1 little know the TRIBE consequences cf be.
ing suspected, even Of Abolition sentiments in
| tie S;ats OF which | am speaking, 4 single
word Of doubtful meaning Is quite sufficient; !;
| and q Look # oisapprobatlon when foa.e poor
| teach or minister Of the Gospel was being
s.rangled .to preserve the Uaion,' has, ID
in m-re instances than one, cost the life Of him
who gave it. My fathers fought to establish
| the independence of this continent; to secure
the If edom Of perton. press and pen and, in
one half Of H. conf deracy would al what
| kind Of freedom is III Why, the privilege Of
saying what certain gang Of hangmen (the
title is just one) tell you to ray and Of pub
fishing the most intense pro-slsverr sentiments.
| There 1s not IN editor IN the South that dares
do otherwise, under penalty OF the ecourge-
tie Tar barrel and the hapgman'skDo E. ID.
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