The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-07-11

Slave-masters. Truths as simple as the gres
discovery of Calico are openly denied, and a
who declare them are driven to recant. "
condemn the Index Expurgatorous of the Re
man Church but American Slave-masters hav
an Index on which are inscribed all the generou
books of the age. There is one book, the mar
vel of recent literature, Uncle Toms Cabin
which has been thus treated both by the Churcl
and the Slave-masters, 50 that it is honored b,
the same suppression at the Vatican and g
Charleston.
Not to dwell on these instances, there is on
which has a most instructive righteousness
A religious discourse of the late Dr.. Channin:
On West India Emancipation-the last effort o
his beautiful career-was offered for sale BY
book agent at Charleston. A prosecution by
the South Carolina Association ensued, and the
agent was held to bail in the sum of one thou
sand dollars. Shortly afterwards, the same agent
received for sale a work by Dickens, freshly pub
lished, " American Notes." but, determined no,
to expose himself again to the tvrannical Inqu
ton. he gave notice through the newspapers
that the book "wOuld be submitted to highly
intelligent members of the South Carolina AssO
citation for inspection, and If the sale is appro.
we'd by them, it will be for sale-if not, not
AlsIcE dlSO W 6uOtucE IcCcut lilSttUCc, as re-
counted in the Montgomery Nail, newspaper
of Alabama:
Last Saturday We devoted TO the flames large nun.
lie Of copies Of Surgeons sermons, and the pie was
grsced at the top with copy OF Graves Great Iron
Wheel which Baptist friend presented for the purpose
We trust that the works Of the greasy cockney
may receive the treatment throughout the South
And the Phsrissical author should show himself
in these parts, trust that stout cord may speedily
lind its way around his eloquent throat He has proved
himself dirty, hOW-hre1 elanterer. and ought bo
treated accordingly
And very recently we have read in the Jour.
mails, that the trustees of College in Alabama
have resolved that DIR. Wayland's admirable
work on Moral Science contains abolition doc
trine of the deepest dye;" and they proceeded
to denounce "the said book, and forbid its fur
ther use in the Institute"
The speeches of Wilberforce in the British
Parliament, and especially those magnificent ef.
forts of BrOugham, where he exposed "the wild
and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in
man, were insanely denounced by the British
planters in the West Indies; but our Slave mas
teis 60 further. Speeches delivered in the Sem
ate have been stopped at the Post office; book
sellers who had received them have been mob
bed, and On at least one occasion the speeches
have been solemny proceeded against by a
Grand Jury.
All this is natural for tyranny is condemned
to &c consequent with itself. Proclaim Slavery
to be permanent institution, instead of tenn
porary Barbarism, soon to pass away, and then,
by the unhesitatinx logic of selfpreservation,
all things must yield to its support. The safety
OF Slavery becomes the supreme law. And since
Slavery is endangered by liberty in any form,
therefore all liberty must be restrained. Such
is the philosophy Of this seeming paradox in
Rapuh1o nd C1a-a Il, a.
selves apt in this work. Violence and brutality
are their ready Instruments, quckened always
by the wakefulness of suspicion, and perhaps
often by the restlessness of uneasy conscience.
in the Slave States the Lions Mouth
of Venice, where citizens were anonymously de-
is open; nor are the gloomy prisons
and the Bridge of Sighs wanting.
This spirit has recently shown itself with
such intensity and activity as to constitute
what has been properly termed reign of ter.
ror. Northern men, unless they happen to be
delegates to Democratic Convention, are ex-
posed in their travels whether of business or
health, to the operation of this system. They
are watched and dogged, as if in land Of Des-
pOtism; they are treated with the meanness of
q disgusting tyranny, and live in peril always of
personal indignity, and often of life and limb.
Complaint has sometimes been made of the
wrongs to American citizens in Mexico; but
during the last year, more Outrages on American
citizens have been perpetrated in the Slave
States than in Mexico. Here, again, have no
time for details, which have been already pre-
sented in other quarters. But the instances are
from all conditions of life. In Missouri, Meth
odist clergyman, suspected of being an Aboli.
tionist, was taken to prison amidst threats of
tar and feathers. In Arkansas, a schoolmaster
was driven from the State. In Kentucky, plain
citizen from Indiana, on visit to his friends,
was threatened with death by the rope. In Al
ALBANIA, simple person from Connecticut, ped
ding books, was thrust into prison, amidst cries
Of "Shoot him! hang him!" In Virginia, a
Shaker from New York, peddling garden seeds,
was f0rcibly expelled from the State. In Geor.
gia, a merchants clerk, Irishman by birth, who
simply asked the settlement of just debt, was
cast into prison, robbed of his pocket-book, con-
tanning nearly sl0O, and barely escaped with his
life. In South Carolina, stone.cutter, Irishman
by birth, was stripped naked, and then, amidst
cries of "Brand him." "Burn him =" "Spike
him to death!" scourged so that blood came at
every stroke, while tar was poured upon his Ia
cerated flesh. These atrocities, calculated, ac-
cOrding to the words Of poet of subtle beauty,
to make holiday in hell" were all ordained,
Wy viSiohCc SOhhiiiittceS W Uy tudt DuSleSt ma
gistrate, Judge Lynch, inspired by the demon
Of Slavery.
" lie let them loose, and cried Halloo
How shall we yield him honor due ~
In perfect shamelessness, and as if to blazon
this fendish spirit, We have had, this winter, in
a leading newspaper of Virginia, an article, pro.
posing to give twenty-five dollars each for the
heads Of citizens, mostly members of Congress,
known to be against slavery, and $50, 900 for
the head of William II. Seward And in still
another paper of Virginia, we find proposition
to raise $4,000 to be given for the kidnapping
and delivery of a venerable citizen, Joshua R.
Giddings, at Richmond, cor $4,000 for the pro-
duction of his head" These are fresh instances,
but they are not alone. At a meeting of slave
masters in Georgia, in 1885, the Governor was
recommended to issue a proclamation, offering
$1,000 as a reward for the apprehension Of
either of ten persons named in the resolution,
citizens Of New York and Massachusetts,, and
one subject of Great Britain-not one of whom
it was pretended had ever set foot on the soil of
Georgia. The Milledgeville Federal Union, a
newspaper of Georgia, in 1886, contained an
offer of $4,000 for kidnapping clergyman re-.
siding in the city Of New York. A committee
of vigilance Of Louisana, in 1885, offered in the
Louisiana Journal, $780, 900 to any person who
would deliver into their hands Arthur Tappan, a
merchant of New York; and, during the same
year, public meeting in Alabama, with person
entitled Honorable" in the chair, offered a
similar reward of $4,000 for the apprehension
of the same Arthur Tappan, and of La Roy Sun.
derland, a clergyman of the Methodist church at
New York.