This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864* edition. Excerpt: ...and copper horns; to stand naked, while their masters or mistresses brand them infamously; to have their teeth drawn, to have red pepper rubbed into their excoriated flesh, to be bathed in turpentine, to be thrust into sacks with mad cats, to have their fingers amputated, to be shaved, and to be whipped from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864* edition. Excerpt: ...and copper horns; to stand naked, while their masters or mistresses brand them infamously; to have their teeth drawn, to have red pepper rubbed into their excoriated flesh, to be bathed in turpentine, to be thrust into sacks with mad cats, to have their fingers amputated, to be shaved, and to be whipped from neck to heel with red-hot irons. It is of no avail to deny this impeachment. Congress itself, which contains a majority of slave-owners, admits the truth. The American journals teem with advertisements of slaves, whose bodies are marked indelibly with the traces of torture. Cases are frequently tried in the law courts of the Union, of masters who have not only fogged their black girls to death, but have deliberately carved the flesh from their bones; and since the panic caused by Mr. Lincoln's election, these abominations have been redoubled.'" The " Cincinnati Gazette," which ought to have known how stupendous are the falsehoods in the above, not only publishes them without any denial, but calls special attention to the way in which the " London Chronicle" " denounces the brutality" of Southern slaveholders. We wonder if it ever occurred to those pious people who grieve so much over the cruelties practised upon slaves, that interest alone, to say nothing of humanity, would prevent any such treatment of slaves, worth from fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars a-piece, as is above recorded? We suppose not. The " London Chronicle" got its information, no doubt, from some roving Abolition liar like Rcdpath, and eagerly swallowed the story. The great Arrow-smith hoax of the London " Times" was a tame and spiritless affair compared to the above. It must indeed be a credulous community in which such vile misrepresentations can find belief, and...
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