New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-04-08
A TERRIBLE PICTURE.

We find in the Cincinnati Gazette some extracts,
purportng to come from the London Chronicle,
descriptive Of the horrors of slavery in this country
and the crueties and atrocities practiced by slave
holders. For the amusement of our readers we
Gull tie following
No country on the globe produces blackguard.
ism, a c0wardice, or a treachery, SO consummate
as that of the negro-driYing States in the new
Southern G0nfederacy. 1t is not enough for the
auctioneefs Of African flesh and blood that they
can torture their stripped victims, and commit as
sassination with impnnity; it is not enough that
they are privileged to fay or burn alive their
breathing chattels; they must stalk into the Senate
House armed with instruments ofmurder; they
must conspire to establish reign of terror by
means Of q cutthroat policy. They must plot to
take the life OF their new President, while the Re-
public is chafioting him to her sacred throne.
These malignant wretches, impish and paltry he
yond conception in their ideas of political revenge
endeavoring to bloWinp Abraham Lincoln with an
Internal machine on his journey from Cincinnati.
and schemed to originate a railroad accident by
which hundreds of lives might have been lost in
order to gratlfy their Jealousy of a man who has
triumphed over the most dangerous cabal in the
Commonwealth The worse element in the posi-
tionof the Union is this position of the South,
which hasderived from the Spaniard its barbarous
vanity from the Huron and Mohawk its savage in.
difference to suffering, and from the nongrels Of
the Gulf its loathsome habit of combining the
manners of the bull ring with the morals Of the
bordello. President Lincoln Is called upon to deal
with this sedtious turbulent and homieida nom.
lation. IT. to his credtthat he has nos vet been
provoked into repaying their menaces in such coin
as may be minted at arsenas and issued at the
cannon g mouth.
The South attempts to treat the North as il treats
It's own black vassas, who, like the serfs Of SPARTA
are seourged to death at the altar Of the only Cod
that eeotton planter Worships. And how is the
policy exemplfed Ever since Mr.. Lincon's as
cent to the Presidential chair the crueIties of the
/ hpn 5eoud inta ifsl
because tits feared that unless system of terror
be established, the hereditary bondsmen will make
weapons of their chains and crush oppression itself
under the heel of revoted Slavery. Notip diqiers,
acken ute Deys scene at the summit Of Nteii ere
cabEe Ioire'; not IN Rome, Wlen the poor captive
gut after being abused aDQs flung into
Itsa pond not IN Russia, 9oltea The eIectttioner
catts out The tongue of his knouted uictins. haze
horrors more terrible been recorded than haze been
testified to uaeeiag acittesses since the tstun3Dh of
Mr.. Lincoln. The oyer-worked, uadef-fed misera
blysead and Wretchedly.lodged slaves have been
compelled, as a means of repressing their intei
genGe, to work i'll iron collars, to sleep in the
stocks, to drag heavy chains at their feet to wear
Jokes, bells and copper horns; to stand naked
While their masterso or mistresses brand them in
famously; to have their teeth drawn to have red
pepper rubbed into their excofiated flesh, to he
bathed IN turnentine, to be thrust into sacks with
mad cats, TO have their fingers amputated to be
shaved aud to be whipped from neck to heel with
red-not IRONS. II is Of no avail to deny this nl
majority of slaye-owners admits the truth. The
American journals TEEN with advertisements of
slaves whose bodies are marked indebly with the
traces oftorture, Gases Frequently tried IN
tae ta'oe courts OF Tie Lslioa of masters scio haze
loS g ot lqg9ed their black girls 10 death, but hape
cafped the flesh from their bones aud
setses uss bsqtftg OF NE pnhic caused By M. Lin
| doubled. 80 &C. ~ = go n
The Cincinnati Gazette, which ought to have
known how stppendons are the lies III tic above
net only publishes them without any denial, but
calls special attention TO the way III which the
London Chronicle denounces the brataity,, of
Southern shareholders. We wonder II Il ever II.
Cured to those pions people who erieYe so much
over eltes praetieed upon slaves, that t,te
est alone, to say nothing of humanity, would pre.
vent any such treatment of slaves, worth from
iiltsen hundred 70 two thousand dollars Apiece as
is above recorded Wesupppse not. Tie London
Chronicle got It's information no doubt from some
rowing Abolition liar Ike Reapath, and eagerly
swallowed the stary. The great Arrowsmithhoax
of the Loadon Times was tame ana spiritleas
aiiair, compared with the above.