Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-13
Southern Reign of Terror--CarnivaI ef
Tar and Feathers

The Presidents bid for the Charleston nom
ination is full of commendation Of the kind
and humaDizing effects Of the institution o
Slavery-an institution which he tells the
American people is established and legalized
by the bred Scott decision in all the terrific
ries of the Unitcs States, until they become
States and are allowed to legisate for them
selves. We propose 10 illustrate the Presi-
dents laudations Vi Slavery by brief reference
to a few recent instances Of its benignity and
benifcence. First
+ THE KENTrcKY ExILEs.
! The dt tails of the driving our of thirty-six
peaceable and loyal citizens of Madison Coun-
! ty, Kentucky, by pro Slavery mob comsina-
! tieh, andsthe refusal of Gov. Aiagofin to af.
| ford them the slightest protection, are familiar
/ 10 our readers The case has few parallels IN
| the darkest despotisnls of The O!d W ord. A
! few evenings since, Rev. MIR. Boughton, one Of
the exiled. delivered an address ON the subject
in Cincinnati. We quote as follows: s ..4
| g1he state Of society around Bcrea he remar-
ked, is deplor;,ble The people art; poor, uneG-
| ueated, ignorant. Many rAen and women
among the people surrounding the colony, are
unable to read or write. Their habitatons are
| poor, many of them containing but one room,
without windows. Their clothing is poor, and
many are, even in the present inhospt4b,e
weather, but half covered. Among, such
people this mission was established to the wa
king up of lively interest in many places, in
favor of education and Of truth. The children
of many Shareholders were attending the school,
and the prospects Of business around were i'm
fI,n land 1onl, in ,,rioa
many facilities for a more comfortable life
were being introduced as the result of the la
Dor of a few who were engaged in the work
Much good had i'll this way already been ac-
compshed. Men from the North were OBJ
tanning IL favorable recognition as men of ell
terprise and Of real worth in the community.
he (speaker) had even attracted the attention
of one STAKEHOLDER that there was talk of his
being employed to oversee his farm.
In the midst of all this came the news of
the Harper's Ferry affair." the fear, the expul-
sion. Last Sabbath was an interesting and
solemn day at Berea. Assembled in the school
house and church, addresses were made by /
those who were to be driven from their homes, |
and by others, and afterward with many tears, |
and with much of regret parting took place.
few days after the people in whose midst
the now exiles had labored, entertained them
at dinner. On Thursday followed the exodus.
In the rain, the mud and the cold, they set out
for this region. The exiles in all this were |
hopeful and happy, the poor ones left behind
fearful and mourning. Those who expelled |
this COLONY were not the fiery fanatics of the |
rowdy class, but the wealthy and the strong.
who had long studied upon it,sbut wbo igno-
rant of the dtsigns of the mission thought it /
unsafe to allow its existence in their midst
During the first excitement there was no delay
in the continuationof the work, nor any WAIVER
ing in the prosecution OF the details of the bus
mess. All believed it safe to remain until the
determination to force an exile or to extermin-
ate by death, became apparent, then but two
alternatives remained, fight OF fight. Friends |
were around who would have resisted even I'M
to death but the colonists believed that they
should carry on their labor in love and in |
peace, and they preferred exile. with the silent
preaching their absence would furnish, to the
shedding Of blood. -.. !