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Miscellaneous Newspaper Excerpts
(As extracted from Genealogy Bank)
Source:
Frederick Douglass Paper - New York
Dated: July 14, 1854
BURNING A NEGRO - The Knoxville (Tenn) Register
has an account of the murder of Mr. MOORE, his wife and
sister-in-law, a girl of twenty, in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
A negro in the family was arrested on suspicion and confessed
having first killed Mr. MOORE and wife with an axe, and
then outraged the person of the young girl previous to killing
her. The people tied him to a stake and burned him, and we
for one have not a word to say against it. While the South
harbor and institution of Slavery and surround themselves with
brutified men, they must defend themselves by terrible means -
So barbarous a state of society requires barbarous punishments,
and the people who inflict them are not more to blame than for
the share of the sin of sustaining institutions which require
them. Burning a man for such a crime is a less punishment
than hanging one for an ordinary murder, and to our mind the
people of Tennessee are not more barbarous, in their
punishments, than those of Pennsylvania - Journal & Vinter. |
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