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MURDEROUS TREATMENT
OF A SLAVE GIRL.
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THE St. Louis
Republican gives an account of the death of a young
slave, in consequence of cruel treatment. Some of
our exchanges wonder that the matter is not
investigated. They don't seem to know that the
slave has no redress for wrongs inflicted - that the
whole system of slavery is a system of cruelty, and that
the laws which sustain it, authorize the taking of life
even, to secure obedience. Read the account.
"On Friday last, the coroner held an inquest, at the
house of Judge Dunica, a few miles south of the
city, over the body of a negro girl, about eight years
of age, belonging to Mr. Cordell. The body
exhibited evidence of the most cruel whipping and
beating we ever heard of. The flesh on the back
and limbs was beaten to a jelly - one shoulder-bone was
laid bare - there were several cuts, apparently from a
club, on the head - and around the neck was the
indentation of a cord, by which it was supposed she had
been confined to a tree. She had been hired by a
man named Tanner, residing in the neighbourhood,
and was sent home in this condition. After coming
home, her constant request, until her death, was for
bread; by which it would seem that she had been starved
as well as unmercifully whipped. The jury returned
a verdict, that she came to her death by blows inflicted
by some person unknown, while she was in the employ of
Mr. Tanner.
OUTRAGE ON PUBLIC DECENCY. - The St. Louis Organ
says that a shocking outrage on public decency was
perpetuated on Tuesday, in Third Street, near the
market. "A man, it appeared, had caught a negro
girl who was a runaway. He carried her into an
open lot, and in the presence of a crowd of men and
boys, stripped her naked, tied her feet and hands, and
in this condition chastised her with a horsewhip." - How
long shall such atrocities be tolerated?
Leeds Anti-slavery
Series. No. 39.
Sold by W. and F. G. CASH, 5,
Bishopsgate Street, London; and by JANE JOWETT, Friends'
Meeting Yard, Leeds, at 1s. 2. per 100.
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