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"The Reign of Blood," Louisville (KY) Journal, October 28, 1851, p. 2.
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Louisville (KY) Journal
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The Reign of Blood
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Sayo Ayodele
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The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
THE REIGN OF BLOOD. - The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, speaking of the persons indicted for treason at Christiana and Syracuse, says:
“We hope the extreme penalty of the law, so apparent that it cannot be mistaken, will be put in force against the traitors, provided their guilt can be established. The whole South are awaiting the result with extreme anxiety. The body of the Southern people are loyal to the Union – they depreciate any and every circumstance or occurrence by which the bonds will hold it together may be relaxed. But they will not consent to live under it, if its laws may be set at defiance with impunity.”
The Washington Republic, a few weeks since, held similar language – it thought it would be a great thing to make an example of some of the Abolition agitators. The Journal of Commerce, edited, we believe, by men affecting great piety and philanthropy, dwells with apparent relish with the penalty of treason – hanging by the neck until dead – and undertakes to show that Fries was far less deserving of punishment than the persons arrested at Syracuse and Christiana. We also learn from a private source that leading Democratic politicians in Philadelphia calculate with certainty on hanging the Christiana offenders. There is some prospect, too, that the vampires in New York may have their appetite for blood gratified, as the telegraph announces that twenty of the prominent, respectable citizens of Syracuse have been arrested for treason; among them the Rev. Samuel J. May and Charles A Wheaton. – National Era.
The more intelligent the men are who committed the outrage at Syracuse, the less deserving they are of sympathy for any punishment that may be inflicted on them. The intelligent men, who participated in that affair, acted with a full knowledge of the nature of the crime and of the penalty they were incurring.
We do sincerely and earnestly hope, that, if these men are found to have been guilty of treason in forcibly resisting the execution of the fugitive slave law, the fearful penalty of treason will be sternly inflicted upon at least a portion of them as an awful warning to all other who may at any time feel tempted to the commission of a similar crime. They understood perfectly well, that, if they should by their example and their influence, cause the fugitive slave law to be practically annulled in the North, the inevitable result would be the dissolution of the Union, and hence they ought to be dealt with as men, who, by the practice of the species of treason most dangerous at this time, overthrow their country and its institutions.
“We hope the extreme penalty of the law, so apparent that it cannot be mistaken, will be put in force against the traitors, provided their guilt can be established. The whole South are awaiting the result with extreme anxiety. The body of the Southern people are loyal to the Union – they depreciate any and every circumstance or occurrence by which the bonds will hold it together may be relaxed. But they will not consent to live under it, if its laws may be set at defiance with impunity.”
The Washington Republic, a few weeks since, held similar language – it thought it would be a great thing to make an example of some of the Abolition agitators. The Journal of Commerce, edited, we believe, by men affecting great piety and philanthropy, dwells with apparent relish with the penalty of treason – hanging by the neck until dead – and undertakes to show that Fries was far less deserving of punishment than the persons arrested at Syracuse and Christiana. We also learn from a private source that leading Democratic politicians in Philadelphia calculate with certainty on hanging the Christiana offenders. There is some prospect, too, that the vampires in New York may have their appetite for blood gratified, as the telegraph announces that twenty of the prominent, respectable citizens of Syracuse have been arrested for treason; among them the Rev. Samuel J. May and Charles A Wheaton. – National Era.
The more intelligent the men are who committed the outrage at Syracuse, the less deserving they are of sympathy for any punishment that may be inflicted on them. The intelligent men, who participated in that affair, acted with a full knowledge of the nature of the crime and of the penalty they were incurring.
We do sincerely and earnestly hope, that, if these men are found to have been guilty of treason in forcibly resisting the execution of the fugitive slave law, the fearful penalty of treason will be sternly inflicted upon at least a portion of them as an awful warning to all other who may at any time feel tempted to the commission of a similar crime. They understood perfectly well, that, if they should by their example and their influence, cause the fugitive slave law to be practically annulled in the North, the inevitable result would be the dissolution of the Union, and hence they ought to be dealt with as men, who, by the practice of the species of treason most dangerous at this time, overthrow their country and its institutions.