New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-19


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Con5d anything be more urscFupuIotn5y fsaiig-
naIit than the following inventions for the Purposes
of the Black Republican party:
A MAN BURNED AT THE STAKE 5H TEXAS
Correspondence IF The w. Ys Tr5smn&l
BEcnAaas, Texas, April rs. 1850
Allow me place in your columns fer the fol-
Of which this section Of oar country il the fheater
but which for obvions reasons are kept out of the
public prints; and especially out Of those honest
and patriotic sheets which would hold them up in
their true coors to the detestation Of an enIfght
ened people. yonng man, whose name and re-
sidence shall suppress for fear OF narrowing the
feelings Of fond mother and sisters to whom ig-
norance ia bliss, came into this eountry as col
porteur; he had valuable stock Of books, maps,
| etc., consisting mainly OF Bibles and religious
works. the standards Of the Christian world histo-
res, sprescotts and others) school books and at
iases and, unfortunately for him. few copies OF
the Impending Crisis y and some tracts favorino
the cause Of freedom. M "A ,ssgTg-7 :, :,
These were accidentally seen BY some intense
nrosiayerylte, VINO raised the huesand-cry against
mob soon had him in their clutches, and he was
at once numerically logged and robbad az iii
wagon and its contents. Here, perhaps, the affair
would nave ended, but just at this juncture 4 me-
gro man was brought upon the ground, purporsing
to have been caught running away from his master
with forged free pass in his pocket; he the me-
gro was henceforth dashed I'd q tree, and after a
must UdEbdTous ucdbtti2, ne Wa8 I0lQ 10 say who
had given him the pass; the half dead and terrified
negro, glad of chance to save himself, and well
knowing who his captors wished him to accuse,
pointed out the colporteur, adding also, In answer
to artful questions, that be had received knife
from the peddler, with the advice to take it and
cut his way to freedom, and to burn his masters
house over his head In revenge for the barbarous
treatment he had received. Now, of all this there
was no proof but the word Of the negro, who
would have told anything to procure his own re-
lease; and yet ii was enough for the infuriated
mob, now numbering about one hundred and fifty
owners of slaves, their oyerseers and sons
After short consultation the poor man was de-
livered into the hands of six Of the most furious
of the crowd.
These rolled the wagon under tree, covered IL
over with dry faggots, and over the whole of it
poured barrel of tar: having first stripped their
victim and immersed him in the same, they passed
a rope around his neck and over a limb. Then
raising him that his toes barely touched the top
of the combustible pile, the negro was made TO
apply the flaming torch, and thus the fearful ira
gedy closed in the flames of the hellishly con-
cocted funeral pile and the shrieks of the agonized
victim.
In Justice to outraged humanity, I must say that
this was witnessed by those who would have had
otherwise, but too few to avail against the in
furiated mass.
The editor who would concoct such calumny
as the above, and the sheet that would publish 1t
are alike unworthy more than sneer Of honest
contempt.