Thank God! our feelings and love of order and
obedience to proper authority can never be put to such a trial;
for the moment we became free, and created our own political
institutions, we made it a fundamental article of our Constitution
of Government that "no magistrate or court of law shall inflict
cruel or unusual punishment." In Georgia such a punishment would
not be inflicted upon a white man for any crime; and in the name
of Heaven, who deserves the greatest punishment for offences,--the
white man, who is instructed in the principles of religion and
morality, and is therefore justly accountable for his actions, or
the negro, who is kept by the policy of the laws and the power of
public opinion in a state of absolute ignorance of his duties,
lest he should obtain a knowledge of his rights? D.
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Singular account from the "Salem Gazette," April 13, 1824.
ARREST OF THE DEAD.
The United States Gazette says:--
"While the papers from the south and the west are bringing back
to us the report from Mr.
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