New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-12

the overseer and white child was lost in the
flames. The incendiaries, eight or nine in number,
were seized by the neishbors and two of them i'm
msdistely hanged. The rest were con6ued in
log house, and chained to the floor. A torch was
then put to the building and the miserable creatures
roasted by slow fire, while the air was rent with
their cries. This story, we grant, is not authentl-
Gated by q responsible name, and comes only on tbs
authority of Northern paper, which is not sup
posed to be capable of telling the truth upon this
subject OF course, therefore, we cannot vouch
for its TRUTH but can only say that it was widely
published at the time in the papers OF the country,
and was never, to our knowledge contradic'ed; nor
do we see why it should be doubted, any more than
the ordinary public intelligence to which implicit
ciedepce is given on newspaper authority.
But let us come down to more recent instances,
and to papers that never lie at least on this topic.
81 have Just received" writes q correspondent OF
The N. O. Picayunc, at Jackson, Mississippi, on
the 25th of December, 1855, the particulars Of a
most herrid affair just transpired at Lexington,
{" in this State" A young lady of the neighbor-
hood was assaulted on lonely road, by slave,
who attempted to violate her person. She was
rescued. however, before he hM accomplished his
purpose, and after being deposited in place OF
safety. the alarm was raised, and hunt for the
negro. who had fed. was instituted. He was soon
found. and execution was speedy. He was taken
into Lexington, chained to a stake, and burned
alive.
The Montgomery (Ala) Mail of April 3, 1856,
says: awe learn that the negro who murdered
"Mr. Capeheart was burned to death yesterday,
at Mount Meigs He acknowledged himself
guilty"
In 1856, DIR. ParsoUs of Boston, gentleman OF
UNREASONABLE character, published little work Of
travels at the South. He copies from The Sumter
(Ala.) Hhig an account of recent burning OF
slave in that county Dave" the slave, belonged
to James ID. Thornton, was accused OF having
murdered daughter of his mistress, and, after his
arrest confessed his guilt. Thornton and his friends
took him from the jail BY stratagem, and bore him
off in triumph. " They left in high gee, says The
Hhig, and carried their prisoner to the appointed
place of sacrifice. Here he was tied to stake,
with fat ligbtwoodp piled around him, and the torch
was applied in the presence of two thousand
"persons who had met there to witness the novel
scene" There were, it seems, some rumors
aHoat. that "Daye" was tortured, but these, The
Hhig declares, were "entirely untrue" So, burn.
ing alive is not torture in Alabama. an inqliring
mind, which ia not sensitive might seek to know
what is.
Dr. Parsons gives another instance which oc-
cured not long before his visit in Georgia. the par
tlcuars of which he received from eye.witnesses.
A slaye had received from bis mistress some punish
ment of great severity, when he seized Ratchet,
and, as he supposed, killed her, though she after
ward recovered. On committing the deed, ne ran
at once to the Court House and surrendered him
self to Justice. Justice in civilized countries would
have been hanging. In Georgia, it was this: The
slave was given TO the mob, who first gave him
fifty lashes day for five days to prepare him for
what was to follow. On the following Sunday, he
was taken from the jail, and suspended, naked,
by his two hands, from the limb OF large
oak tree near the Court-HOuse. fire made
Of hard-pine shavings was kindled beneath
him, and then the clear bright flames quickly as
" cended curling about the limbs, encircling the
body, scOrching the nerves, crushing the fbers,
L" charring the fesh--and, in mortal anguish, b
"w was lin the words of an eye-witness) sweating,
"'as it were, great drops of Blood" But before
life was entirely e1tDguished the lungs, the heart,
the liver, were cut and torn from the body, with
knives fastened upon poles, and with these quiver-
ing organs elevated above the crowd, the execution
ers shouted $50 shall it be done to the slave that
murders his mistress !" IL was in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Five
that all this was done in the presence of crowd of
from ten ID fifteen thousand persons-about five
years before the time when, and six hundred miles
from the place where, Mr.. Davis denied that the
South ever burned negro alive.
On the 9TH of Janury, 1857, three years ago, Mr..
John Kingsley, of Portsmouth, Ohio, wrote to the
AntiSlarcry Standard of this city. that he was the
week before in Carter County, KY, where he saw
negro tied TO stake, a pile of dry wood heaped
about him. and set on fire. The nan belonged to
one VIM NcMinDis, of that county, and was sus-
pected of planning an Instruction. lie was first
whipped, 200 iasheS, but denied bis guilt. Fire
was then tried, and though not burned to DEATH he
died next day. DIR. Kingsley, unable TO remain
anu Nllntss the suneigs vi INC asohiLcu CieaLuic,
rode away and attempted to excite the neghbors to
a rescue; he was told to mind his own business.
tn. Union Springs (Ala.) Gazette of the Odd
December, 1853, gives the particulars of the MUIR
der OF Mr.. j. by his slave boy Milford. He had
been whipped and chained up from Saturday to
Monday, and, when released by hs master, seized
an AK and killed him. The negro made no attempt
Il. IL