Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-08

American citizens have been perpGtrtttu
! in the slave States than in Mexico. here,
again. have no time for details, which
have been already presented in other quar-
ters. But the instances are from all con-
dtions in life. In Missouri, Methodist
clergyman, suspected OF being an A10j.
! ZIONIST, was taken 80 prison amidst threats
| of tar and feathers. In Arkansas school
master was driven from tie State. In Ken
tucky a plain ci;izcn from ild;n1a, GA
visit to his friends, MAS Threatened with
death hy the rope III Alabama :. simple
person from Connecticut, peddling books,
was thrust into prison, amidst cries of
"Shoot himl hang himI' In Virginia, u
Shaker, from New York, peddsing garden
seeds, MAS torcihly expelled from the State
In Georgia, a merchants CLERK, lFlStitnhR
by birth who simply asked the settlement
of IL Just debt, was cast into prison, robbed
of his rocket-book, continuing nearly SlOO,
and barely escaped with his life. In South
Carolina II stone-cutter, Irisllman by birth,
WAS stripped naked, and then, amidst cries
of Brand him!' BURN him!" Spike him
TO deathI'' scourged so that the blood came
mt every stroke, while tar was poured upon
his lacerated flesh. These atrocities, cal
cnhtcd according to the words of poet
of subtle beauty, to "makc holiday in
hell" were all ordained, by vigilance COM
mittees, or by that busiest magistrate,
Judge Lynch, inspired by the demons OF
slavery.
'.TIe let them loose and cried Hloo
How shall we yield him honor duC:"
In perfect shamelessness, and, as if to
blnzen this ficndsh spirit, we have had,
this Winter, in a leading newspaper of
Virginia, an article, proposing To give
| 1wentv .fve dollars each for the heads of
citizens, mostly members of Congress,
known to be against Slavery, and $4,000
for the head OF William II. Seward. And
in still another paper of Virginia We find a
proposition TO raise S!O;O0O TO De gwen
for tue kidnapping and delivery OF ven
crnbie citizen, Joshua r. Giddings, ut
Richmond, s.or $4,000 for the production
of his head" These are fresh instances,
but they are not alone. AT n meeting OF
slavcmastcrS in Georgia, in 1888, the Gov
ernor was recommended to issue proc!a-
nation, Offering $4,000 as II reward for the
opnrclrcnsiou of either of ten persons
named in the resolution, citizens oil New
York and Massachusetts, aud one sun"
icct of Great Britain-not one OF whom 1t
was pretended had ever set fuot on the soil
of Georga. The MilIedgevi!le Fsdtra'
Union. a newspaper of Georgia, in 1896
contained an offer of $4,000 for kidnaP-
ming n Clergyman residing in the city OF
New York. a Committee Of Vigilance in
Louisiana. in 1885, offered, in the Lo",s!-
ana journal, $4,000 to any person who
would deliver into their hands Arthur
Tnppan, merchant of New York, aud,
during the same year, public meeting In
Alabama, with a person entitled "Honor-
able" in the chair, offered similar reward
OF $4,000 for the apprehension oil the
same Arthur Tappan, aud OF l.t 10Y onh-
deriund, clcrgymcn OF the MethooiSt
Church at New York.
EFFECTS OF THE INSTITUTION IN CONGRESS
SCENE BErWEEN FAIRFIELD, PENT0A AND
GOvERNoR WISE.
Tins. Sir. whether We look at individu-
ais or at the community where Slavery cX-
lists, at lawless outbreaks or at official con
duct, sluvemnstcrs are always the sanc.-
Enough YOU will say, has been shid. as:
enough to expose Slavery. but not enough
for truth The most instructive and most
Crevious part still remains. 1t is the eX-
hihitiOn OF slavcmhsteTs in Congressional
history Of course the representatives re-
fleets the character as we'll as the political
opinions of the constituents whose VIII II
is his hpast to obey. II follows that the
passions and habits OF slavemastcrs are
naturally represented in Congrcss-chas-
tened, to ii certain extent, perhaps, by the
requirements of Parliamentary law, bat
breaking out in fearful examples. Aud
here again facts shall speak, rs nothing
else can.
On the 18th of February, 1887, IL. NJ.
Whitney was nrraigned before the Honsc
OF Representatives. for contempt, in rctu-
sing 10 attend, when required, before a
Committee OF Investigation into the nd-
ministrution of the Executive office. Has
excuse was that he could not attend with
out exposing himself thereby to outrage
and violence in the committce-room; ami
on examination at the bar OF the House,
Mr.. Fairfield IL member Of the Committee,
afterwards n member of this ho6y, ana
Governor of Mnine testified TO the actual
facts It appeared that Mr.. Peyton'
slavemastcr from Tennessee, and Il mem
ber of the Committee, regarding certain
answer in writing by Mr.. Whitney TO- an
interrOgatory propounded by nm "s ouS"-
sive. broke out in these words:
.sMr. Chairman, wish you to inform
this witness that he is not TO insult me III
his answers; if he does, God d-n him,
will take his life on the spot'
The witness rising clNirned the Protec-
tiou of the Committee, on which Mr. Peyton
exclaimed:
God d-n you. you shan't speak; you
shnn't say one word while you arc in this
room; if you do will put You to death"
Mr.. Wise, another slave master from
Virginia, Chairman OF the committee, an"
lattcr!y Governor of Virginia, then inter-
"Yes, this ID insolencc is ins"Fer"-
bile. +"
Soon after, Mr.. Peyton observing that
tho witness was looking ut him, cried out:
..D-n him, his eyes are on mc-G0d
d-n him he is looking at nc; he shNu't
do it.-d--u him he shhn't look at me"
These things, and much more, disclosed
by Mr.. Fairfield in reply to interrogatories
in the House, were confirncd by other
witnesses, and Mr.. Wise himself, in speech
made the admission that he was armed
| with deadly weapons, saying
| ~ watched The mntiun of TINT right arm,