The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-06-10
The hanging of Gordon, the slave
Trader
By EPwAPp EvrnETr HALE.

New York was the great centre where
lbs slave Traders OF the world boughl
their vessels. Ilavpna was the great
centre where they laid their plous.
Boston New Bedford, New London,
Cadiz, BorceloHa, !he We tern Islands,
and koos NJ. wl,ety rIsg, were the
minor plO'es in lhs oprr4iiou. Tbs
yoTsgeS were s'r1ngpi a, Havana the
H6ios were i"Thy dred up ,n New
fork, thcnrr they tlpact - Sra.oi, kej
up tho rest o; sheit rquipglBl snl tht
tight papers elsewhere II New York
would no. answer, and brought up on
the Western Coast, l haze sen the
record which Mr. Arehb,ld, the Eng
lish Coaaql ag.! Commissioner 10 New
Work kept Of one hundred aud seventy
one Of these yesseIl in ibroe years tine
His seore, fg'ois boarded thcm IN Nav
Sors llsIbor. and described them for
him ia det,il, even down to the band
Of cigars which the cspaio lad in his
cAtip. Mr. Archibald sent tho lyscrip
Won 10 tho Adm rahty and lhty to tie
Coast. 'Le'me 60 b,lo", said an Eng
iah oGrcr, on bard a slager in one of
lic African rivers. You 90 below st
your peril Il wiltaks the risk. .ajd lhc
EogliShm0p, went bciow. md foun all
tho slave fitiaes, casks, cooking stove.
baoj-cllio end The rest, and Of conr,e.
seized TIC vessel. The oo..wilteA esp
tain, white With rego, swore between
bis .e|snehGl teeth. You would not
have known m' 6ut Tor your bloody
English Counsel in New York, Almost
every man of the rrojeotoro va, kaowo
TO the EDgI'sb goyey5p.eOt through this
steady secret eerviee, But they all ran
riot ill Mr. Lincoln came in. aud then
jjorc 6no day one G9rIon was arrested
for slavetnding, ano,her day he WAS
tisd. and another he waa hsogedl
Yes, my lritnd, lo wos h1ngel |
know abou; what 10 called Tho sqGr-d
ness OF human life. Fer my pat.
believe pdns life 10 rs sacrcd ~ hi,
liberty and more 70, And I believe
when bis coOnIry requires ether his litc
or his liberty. sho may use it. If she
iakrs the responsibility. 10 iii. case,
/ um very glad my country took ths
responsibility, Whatever Gordon's lie
may have becn worth TO him or to his
friends. Ihiuk this country put it 10
very good use when she hongel him
a storm Of pro'es, was made ogGnst his
desib. Tscnty i've thousand people
petItionsd Abraham Lincoln to spsre
lbH, mans life, aud Abraham Lincoln
rsru'ed. Gordon was haoged. Aud all
through Iho little pots and big pous Of
the United States 1t was known tha,
slave-trsder had been hanged. And,
when that was known. the American
slave trade ended. All up and iwn little
AEric,n rivers tia. you nsv,r heard l,he
names of, it vlsl G7@n that IN Amcri~
Can slaYO'lradet had been haOged, and
,eowardly pirates lemblej, and brave
seamOn cheered, when they heard it
Mothers Of children thanked such gods
Is they knew how to thank; and slaves
shut up in barfacoons, wsiing for tue
voyage, got signal that something had
happened which was to give them free
dom, That something was that Cord
on was haog,d. So far thatliLtle cund
10 threw its beams.
] al told. and believe, that when
,that poor wretch wos under sentence Of
death, his friends. kept lin in liquor
10 lie moment Of his death. so anxious
wero they lest he should compicqtc
noms of them by confession, And
when he was dead they celebrated his
death in the last great orgy Of the Sieve,
trade, in one drunken fsas, they ,ogcrh,
er, SO rcjoiocd we're they that they bal
escaped bis testimon,. Such ia the
honor amqag thieves. AtiaaHc Noqh,
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