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_Salem Observer_, April 12, 1834.
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From the "Essex Register," Feb. 19, 1820.
Burning of a Negro in Georgia.
From the Augusta (Geo.) Chronicle, Feb. 1.
_Execution_.--On Friday last two negro men, named Ephraim and
Sam, were executed in conformity to their sentence for the
murder of their master, Mr. Thomas Hancock, of Edgefield
District, South Carolina; Sam was burnt, and Ephraim hung, and
his head severed from his body and publicly exposed. The
circumstances attending the crime for which these miserable
beings have suffered, were of a nature so aggravated as
imperiously demanded the terrible punishment which has been
inflicted upon them.
The burning of malefactors is a punishment only resorted to
when absolute necessity demands a signal example. It must be a
horrid and appalling sight to see a human being consigned to
the flames. Let even Fancy picture the scene,--the pile, the
stake, the victim! The mind sickens, and sinks under the
oppression of its own feelings.
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