Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-07-05

horrors must assume q lOfm OF yet
more fearful dimensions, as we try to
contemplate them. Battling all at
tempts at description. they sink into
that chapter of Sir Thomas Browne.
entitled. "Of some Relations whose
Truth we fear" and among kindred
things whereof, according to this elo-
quent phil0sosher. there remains no
register but that of hell.
If this picture of the relations Of
slave masters with their slaves could
receive any further darkness. it would
be by Introducing the figures of the
congenial agents through which the
barbarism is maintained; the slave
overSeer, the slave breeder, and the
slave hunter, each without a peer ex-
ccpt in his brother, and the whole
constituting the ;riumvirate of slavery.
in whom its essential brutality, vul
garity, and grossness, are all en-
bodied There is the slave -overseer,
with his bloody lash fitly described in
his life OF Patrick Henry 10y Mr.. Writ,
who, born in Virginia. knew the class,
as last and lowest, most abject. de-
graded, unprincipled," and his hands
WELD at will the irresponsible power.
There is the vebreeder. who AS
sumes higher character, and even
enters legislative halls, where, in un-
conscious insensibility, he shocks
civilization by denying. like Mr..
Gholson Of Virginia, any legal dis
tinction between the ''iemale slave"
and the ''brood mare" by openly as
serting the necessary respite from
work during the CESSATION of the
female slave as the ground of property
in her offspring, and by proclaiming
that in this "virgintial' crop of hu-
man flesh consists much of the wealth
of his state, while another Virginian,
not yet hardened to this debasing
! trade, whose annual sacrifice reaches
%, 900 human souls, confesses the in
dignation and shame with which he
4, beholds his state converted into one
grand managerie, where men are reared
tor the market like oxen for the sham
bles." And lastly there is the slave
hunter, with the bloodhound as his
brutal symbol. who pursues slaves as
the hunter pursues game, and does not
hesitate in the public prints to adver.
tise his barbarism thus. ...........
"BLooDHoUyDs.-I have two of the finest
dogs for catching negroes in the Southwest
They can take the trail II hours after the
negro has passed and catch him with ease
! live four mites southwest of Bolivar, on
the road leading from Bolivar TO Whites
vile, am ready at all times to catch run
away negroes.
March ., 1859. DAVID TURNER"
West Tennessee Democrat.
The bloodhound was known in ear
" Scottish history; it was once vim
dictively put upon the trail of Robert
Bruce, and in barbarous days, by q
cruel license of war, it was directed
against the marauders of the Scottish
border; but more than century ha,
passed since the last survivor of tn,
race. kept as curiosity. was. fed OF
meal in Ettick Forest-("S
ay of the Last Minstrel"-Notes
canto W The bloodhound was EN-
ployed by Spain against the NATIVES
of this Continent, and the eioquenc'
of Chatham never touched a true
chord than when, gathering force from
the condemnation of this brutality. h
poured his thunder upon the kindre,
brutality of the scalping-knife; adop
ted as an instrument of war by ma
ton protesting civilization. Tardil,
introduced into our Republic som
time after the Missouri Compromise
when slavery became political pass
ion, and slave-masters began to throw
aside all disguise, the bloodhound, ha
become the representative Of our bar
barism in one of its worst forms
when engaged in the pursuit of a fel
low man who is asserting his inborl
title to himself; and this brute is, in
deed. typical of the whole brutal leasl
of slave hunters, who, whether a
home on slave soil, under the name .
slave-catchers and kidnappers or at
) distance under politer names: insul
human nature by the enforcement o
this barbarism. 3. From thi
jreary picture of slave-masters, witt
their slaves and their triumvirate O
vulgar instruments. | pass to anothe
! more dreary still and more completed,
exposing the influence of slavery
mean the relations of slave master
with each other, also with society an,
, government. or in other words, tn
+ character of slave-masters, as dis
: played in the general relations of life
And here | need your indulgenc,
: Not in triumph or in taunt do | ap
, proach this branch of the subiec
Yielding only to the irresistible.ex
gency OF the discussion, and in direC
: response to the assumptions on thi
g floor, especially by the Senator fror
r Virginia Mr.. Mason), shall proceed
If | touch slavery to the quick, an
' enable slave-ma. ters to see themselvs
{. as Others see them. | shall do nothin
n beyond the strictest line of duty
; this debate. One Of the choicest pa,
e sages of the master Italian poet, Dan,
1 is where scene of transcendent vi
y tue is described as sculptured in "vi,
: ible speech" on the. long CALLER
d which led to the heavenly gate. Th
n was natural. Nobody can look upo
a virtue and justice. if it be only in in
e ages and pictures, without feeling
:, kindred sentiment. Nobody can |
), surrounded by vice and wrong, by vi,
S lence and brutality, if it be only
l. images and pictures; without com in
;. under their degrading influence. y,
a body can live with the one withol
= advantapp. nahodv can l;,.o ~ :,