Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-07-05
From the watchman and Journal.

stick, then tied his feet together, and threw him
head foremost into hogsheadof water. When
the negro was taken out he was found to be
dead. a coroncr's jury sat around the body
and soon returned a verdict of "Died from con-
geston Of the brain" The Charlottesville Re
rietc, which records this fact, has also heard Of
"a case where a negro was recently punished in
a neighboring county, and died in a minute or
two afterwards. The verdict in his case was,
Died from a combination Of circumstances"
--Keaosha Times.
But this a combination of circumstan-
ces with which every man in this nation
has something to do! They involve guilt,
and when God makes inquisition for
blood, he forgets not the cry of the hum
BILE. When he chastises a guilty nation
for its sins, the innocent must suffer with
the guilty. Each Of the whippings,
poundings, burnings, groupings, maimings
and murders of those poor slaves are all
noted down in his book, and bye and bye
the day of retribution will come and who
shall abide its coming? The lesson
taught by all history is, that the persist
emily guilty shall feel the weight of His
hand who said, vengeance is mine, |
will repay" The blood of a few thou
sand slaves, which has been wantonly
shed during the last fifty years, may have
been forgotten by the slave oligarchy,
but not by the great ruler Of nations.-
That blood with Old John Browns and
all of that shed in Kansas in defence Of
liberty, and that of Bewley, and of hun
hreds of others Of Northern men who |
have been hung, shot, burnt, butchered
in the South because they s0ere NORTH
eTR men, and dared ~ advocate Gods
truth, cries for vengeance, and we have
reason to fear that God already speaks of
them who shed it as those ''whose iudg-
ment now Of long time lingereth not
and their damnation slumbereth IT,
We do not add one feather weight to that
punishment. Nay. we would avert it if
possible, and bring down for them bless
ngs; but justice in US and in universal |
humanity, cries out with the souls un-
der the altar of those that were slain for
the word of God, and for the testimony
which they held, and they cried with
loud voice saying: How long, o Lord,
holy and true, dost thou not avenge our
blood on them that dwell on the earth 7"
Little has been said OF these atrocities,
but they have been perpetrated, and they
constitute the testimony on which the
sentence of divine condemnation is based |
We have no opprobrious names to heap
on them, but the utter reckless disregard
of the sacredness of human life which
slavery eDgenders, the malignant suspi-
cions she fosters, and the hot revenge she
pours, in times Of the least excitement,
on all she deems enemies, are matters of
and they have thinued the
ranks Of many mans friends who have
or sojourned in the South. Nor
does it avail for these caviling and craven
apologists here to deny those things,
when Southerners not only own them,
but publish and boast of them. Sena-
tors and representatives in Congress as
sassinate, or attempt to, and threaten
those from the North with death if they
come to the South, and glory in it but
our penny sheets at home cry out won
lrou5Iy when these facts are recounted
acre.
This war is mostly for the punishment q
If those who have shed that blood and '
ostered that plague-spot in the nation, '
md who greedily retain that enormous '
ystem of absolutism which merges all in n
lividuality in the master, and makes all "
lnder his control the footballs Of his pas s
ion, and all who conscentously oppose =
t the object Of his scorn, hatred and vi t.
,lence. 1t was not iuaugurated for that, v
t is not now waged for that by the nation \
,ut Providence has other designs than d
han those which appear in The manifes- S
os of rulers. Slavery is the preventive b
If all loyalty. demanding the whole SER Fl
ice of its devotees, making its claims t
paramount to those of the national gov n
or even to those of God. In d
.ccordance with its behests, the bonds Il
nen are preserved SO long as they sub W
erve the predominant passion Of the HI
wnersy but when malignant anger rises, &C
/ destroys prudence and humanity in tr
aany instances, and justice being abol- th
she'd by the initiation of the system itself, cC
he infuriated master or oyerseer has only OF
0 beat and pound, and bind and drown oI
is victim, and a jury Of his countrymen,
aving the fear of slavery before their II
yes, have only to say upon their oaths, il
Died bya combination of circumstances" q
When some statesman, some moralist, a
ome human being utters protest against n