Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-07-31
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A story is current in the radical circles at
Washington, and elsewhere North.a South.
ola case of exeessive cruelty in the county of
King William in the $50 ealledO State of VFir>
ginia. 1t represented that white woman
had in her employ former slave woman; that
for some offences, either real or imagined,
this former slave has been treated in the
most inhuman manner; subjected TO the
mostcruel punishment: such as being beaten
with hickory sticks, striped with lashes until
&c her back vas laid open in horrid gaping
wounds, and Z" her blood running from
hundred sores,' and e in this condition, roast-
ed, with devilish hate, before a Ere, before
which that of hell was pale and Intellectual; !"
and all sorts of other : malignant, vindictivc,
baEbarous and hellish bruisings, beatings and
burnings ofewhich deadly hate were cana
bic of inficting The picture has been pho
tographed in all of Its monstrosities {; and rad
ical congressueens have called upon the peo-
pie to come and view the horrid presentation,
and radical journals have daily called upon
their readers to pause and shudder over the
Scene, and invoke the wrath of an outraged
people upon the fendish atrocity" No sane
man believes this picture to be true repre-
sehtation of the facts-if there was anything
whatever of truth in it. Every man, who
knows anything of the character of the peo-
pie of King William, knows that any such
fragrant violation of common law and COM
mon justice would be investigated by the
Grand Inquest Of the county, and prosecuted
to the bitter end by the proper authorities of
the State. and punished to the fullest rigor
ofthe code. But supposing it all to be true,
is that any reason why the United States
army, or sufficient portion Of it should be
called to that county? Is not the rishtful
State power sufficient to be invoked for the
purpose of upholding the offended majesty of
the law? The radicals think otherwise, and
the army is not only called out, but the
world is called upon to view with holy horror
the whole people of the whole South.
About the same time of the perpetration of
this monstrous Southern outrage" by this
'swoman fend of the South there was a
man, somewhere at the North, who protested
to be an humble follower of the meek and
iOWly Jesus, fn1 set himself before men as a
teacher Of His religion. This man had a
little son of some three summers old whom he
was trying to teach to pray. The child Ell
Their from his extreme youth, or a rebelIious
spirit, did not pray up to his Northern parents
standard of divine invocation and for this
ottense he beat him to death. This more than
murder has received no judicial investigation
and no congressional denunciation has h ad
no senatorial photographs of the purpled
corpse hawked about the land; has had no
Sumner or Stevens or Wilson to CRY aloud
against, so that the nation might hear of the
infamy of Northern parents; has had no Stan
ton or Grant to call forth the regular army
of the United States to surround the scene of
the crime, to hunt down the criminal, or to
prevent similar outrages among that people !;
has had no radical journal to parade the deed
in great staring letters, and to say "of such
is the section of the NORTH In the one
clse the offender was Southern woman ::
In the other he was northern preacher who
rlnted forth his political radicalism to the
eminent satisfaction of his pious congregation.
if not to the glory of God, In the one case
the injured person was negro woman in
the other little white child, The one case
is heralded forth with all the distortions and
exageratiOns of which the radical mind is
capable, and is made to lash the people into
fury against the offender, and all Southern
slave holders, while the other is barely men>
toned as an Insignificant item of news, or to
be regarded as an evidence of the charity,
lOyingskindness, and great piety of him who
dealt the death blow, and of all those who
live around and about him.