The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-01-14
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Our readsrs have NOT. perhana forrot.~r ~
Charles O'Conor's eulogy, psonounced n ~ less
Unioe meeting. On that siust, benign ana hene6.
cent institution slavery. A remarkable IS.
ample Of the kindly and humanixing effect q
enis benign and bepe6ccnt institution has lust
been given, the history of which We COPY in
anober part Of this sheet, under the title Of IAN
lrishman's SuiIerings in South Carolina M.
OConor Will see that tue person TO whom the
adventure happened was one Of his own kindred
and viii mot fail, We hope, when be next repeats
hls Grafton, TO adduce Il = convincing example
Of the effect Of slavery in softening the manners
and frightening the civilization Of those regions
which are bleseed with it's influence
An Irish mechanic named James Power. Who
had always been good democrat and voted
with the pro-slavery party, went TO South Caro-
lima, and Was employed rs stone cutter on the
State House, magnificent building, the pride Of
the state, now going up in Columbia, where
there h college and professors, and a poDula.
ton not more barbarized, We suppose, than is to
be found In other towns of its size at the South
This man made the discovery that a white la
borer at the South, in consequence Of slavery.
which makes labor disgraceful, is looked upon
as belonging to degraded class. He said So
For this offence his apprehension was ordered by
Vigilance Committee; he attempted to make
from town, was imprisoned for three DAYS. with
out liberty 70 communicate with any of his friends
was then brought before the Mayor, where the
remark ne had made was proved, on which he
was remanded to Jail, kept there six DAYS longer
and halfstarved.
AT the end of this period two marshals took
the lrishman out of his cell, and made two ne
groes drag the poor man through all the muddy
p1ddies ON the way to the State House yard,
where crowd Of several persons were assembled,
headed by a troop of horse They marched him
in procession to place three rifles out of the
city, where, amidst brutal cries of vengeance
from the crowd, he received thirty-nine lashes
from cowhide, drawing blood at every stroke :
his lacerated body was then dsubed with tar from
the head to the waist, and next covered with
feathers. In this half naked state he was taken
to the railway, and put on board the negroes
car. Here the crowd detained the train made a
fresh application Of tar, and stuck it over with
cotton. The train took him to Charleston hut
at every stopping place on the way mob gather
ca to infilct fresh insults. At Charleston he was
kept In jail for week, and visited by physician,
VINO comforted him by informing him that his
case was mild one, since there was another man
then lying in the City Hospital, who had receiy
ed five hundred lashes instead of thirty-nine
and was nearly killed by the infection.
Last Saturday the poor Irishman was taken
out OF Jail, being supposed now able to travel
and put OH board steamer for New York where
ne arrived ON Monday, and is here irving to get
well and looking for work. The particulars we
have given, it will be seen, are parts of Powers
own story, but the Charleston Mercury had al.
ready informed the public that this man had
been publicly whipped and then tarred and
leathered, and that his crime was that he enter
tanned "anti-slavery opinions" as a white me.
ia n, 1,,- I'M
cipal facts are admitted, and the minor eireum.
stances are probably true. The remarkable
feature OF the case is the revolving brutality of
the southern population which it discloses. 1t
seems TO be one OF the effects of the stbenipn
and benehcent institution" that it noiishes A
wolflsh ferocty in the mass, and makes men in
different to human suffering The narrative of
James Power is made probable by the EXAMPLES
which we have of the atrocities committed on
other persons-such as the tarring and feather
ing and riding on a rail two poor Italian organ.
grinders in Alabama, on suspicion of being abo-
lltiousts-the tarring and feathering of man in
Clayton, in the same state, for the same reason
the tarring and feathering and duckine of
Sandy Tate, ScOtchman, at Salisbury. in North
carolina; and we might add to these the indg-
hlty to which two gentlemen who arrived i'm the |
steamer Huntsville from Savannah ON the 18th |
instant had been subjected; mob having seiz. |
ed them, shaved their heads on one side and |
sent them out of South Carolina.
The institution which has these blessed effects |
Is the one which Mr.. Buchanan tells us is estab |
ished and legalized by the bred Scott decision |
IN all the territories of the United States. until
they become states and are allowed to legislate
or themselves. Weare sure that the single case
'f James Power is enough to make every right
minded man pray that an institution which en-
'ourages such horrid brutalities may never be ex-
ended single rood beyond the space it now
occupies, and exert himself to exclude it from
he territories. Wherever it goes, neither the
PERSONAL liberties nor the personal safety of the
Whites can coexist with it; not only the black
mt the white population are the slaves of the
iigarchy.-N. Y. Eve Post