The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-06-04
Another Victim.

EE" Under this head the Dubuque
Times gives an account of another vic
tim to secession barbarity. The gentle
man is S. c. TAYLOR, formerly, we be.
lieve resident of this place, but a year
or two since connected with commits
sion house in ST. Louis. Mr.. TAYLOR has
for some time been located in Texas, and
dealt largely in patent rights, accumula-
ting in real estate, notes, bonds and
mortgages, some $4,000. These eviden-
ces of property he had at Paris, the
county seat Of lamar county, some dis
lance from where he was living, and, he
thinks, are all lost beyond recovery.
Mr.. TAYLOR, who had always minded
his own business, and kept civil tongue
in his head, was suddenly waited upon
by mob. and warned to leave the State.
The mob, he thinks, were melted to1
the act by number of men owing him,
and who hoped thus to get rid of the in
debtedness held against them. They
claimed that his wife's father, who is, we
we think, Judge NOBLE, of Delaware
county, was an abolitionist, and that be-
cause of this he could not be tolerated
Mr.. TAYLOR asked the privilege to go to
Paris and secure his papers, but was
told that ais life would not be safe unless
he made tracks northward in the shortest
possible space of time. Learning there
was gang ready to deal summarily with
himself and wife, he started on foot, &C.
companied by his wife, who was in fee.
BILE health. They were compelled to
avoid houses and plantations, making
wide detours through thickes for that
purpose. The sand was ANGLE deep, and
so hot that their feet were completely
blistered on the top and bottom. 1t was
on the 9th and 10th of May, and the sun
poured down upon them with boiling
heat.
They travelled thirty-fve miles, when
they came to an Indian Mission, and the
venerable preacher who presided there
treated them kindly, gave them shelter
and food. and sent them on to another
mission, where Mr.. TAYLOR obtained
funds to carry him safely out of the bar
barous land. They travelled to Little
Rock, Arkansas, thence to Memphis, and
thence to land OF freedom.
The Times says that before Mr.. TAr-
LoR left Texas he witnessed series Of
the most wholesale, brutal murders ever
enacted on the globe. Those fends in
carnate seized thirteen Northern men,
only tour days before he came away, and
because they declared themselves for the
Union they beat them cruelty till they
were almost dead, and finally wound up
the horrible tragedy by hanging them.
Every one Of the brave fellows shouted
for the Stars and Stripes to the last.
This is the kind Of despotism now
dulll1 the DOulu tidl ticS luc iOubuc
and represses the iongings of Union
men. 1t is a despotism that would dis
grace the kingdom Of Dahomey. 1t is a
natural outgrowth of the barbarous sys-
fem Of human slavery. No people can
take away the natural rights Of the black
man, scourge, scarify, debase and muir
der him at will, without becoming, also,
regardless Of the humanity Of white
men. 1t is the penalty he pays for his
sin against the negro, that he teaches
Jaw Of violence, that may at any time be
administered in his own case, or closes
his mouth and hampers his thoughts,
and makes him slave to public opin-
ion.
The truth of this has long been veri
fed in the South, and now more than ev-
CT before. Perhaps the reign of terror
now instituted by the slave oligarchy will
open the eyes Of the southern people TO
4 realization of the fact.