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f The fo’lowirg address, from
t; <* ken. judpe Wilds (o John
Slau-r, convidled nr the Court of
i < Cons in fid* city, of killing
<*i having ordered id Le killed,
1 * negro Have, on board of his
vtiTel, we copy from the Gou
rd rof Monda y lr.ff. ‘1 his ad -
dress docs honor to the
; drlrtiesof the Judge, in his in
i’:.*, ini rapacity, as well as to his
feelings and fcr.timents as a
rr.cn. Every friend to humani
ty nn.ft hope, that, from the
leading ideas in a part of tire
fubtequent addrrfs to the prifo
r;er, fome reformation may be
t,Tided in our criminal rode ■>
1o far at Icaft, as, that man should
be taught to respect the rights
of man, into whatever fkuation
the caprice of fortune may have
j.laced us or< ur fellow beings.]
Ir 1 1 n Slatet. —YOU have
been con vidled -bv a jury of your
t.ounrry, of the V* ilful murder of
vour own slave ; and I am lorrv
so lay, the (horr, imprefiive,
1 ccmtrrdiffcd ttffimony, on
v. bii h that convicton was founcl
to, leaves but too little room to
doubt its propriety.
The annals of human depra
vity might be challenged for a
parallel to this unfeeling, bloody
and diabolical tranfadlicn.
Y 011 caused your un oil ending,
unrefifling Have, to be bound
hand and foot, and by a refine
'rr c.nr in cruelty, compelled his
companion, peihaps the friend
of his hearr, to chop off his head
with an axe ; and to call his bo
il',-, yet convidling with the ag
onies of death, into the water !
And this devd ycu dared to
pc pet rate in rhe very harbor bf
Ghat teflon, within a few yards of
rhe jfliore, urblufhinglv in the
face bf open day. Had your
mm derous arm been raffed a
f ui.tl your equal, whom the
laws ct fe if defence, and the
more 1 fdca-tous laws of the land
tee to piorccl, your crime
would not have been without
precedent, and w ould have Teem
ed h fs horrid.—Your per Tonal
ote. would at knfl have proved,
that though a murderer, you
were not a coward. Hut* you
too well kne w iha.. this unfortu
-1 ate man, whom < hancc has fub
*< Cted to vour caprice had nor,
Jvl 0 \ J
like yourfelf, chartered to him
1 the laws of the land, the fa
(red right of nature ; and that a
Hern bu r recefTary policy had
d< privtd him cf the rights of
it 1 f-dtfencc : too well you knew
t hut to you alone he could look
for nrotedlion; and that your
p-m alone ccuid shield him from
v pprefTicn or aver ge his wrongs;
\ et that arm you cruelly flretch
"d out for his defii ueffion.
T he counfc), who generously
volunteered his Services in your
iff half, (hocked at the enormi
ty r f vcur of'cmr, endeavored
to hod a ‘efurre, as well for his
ewn tetkngs as lor those of ril
v 1.0 hcaid your trial, in a de
rangement of your intellect.—
btverul witnt (tees Were examii -
id totf.ah'Ph 1 his fa ft: but the
:* ult of this teflimony, it is ap
; ihcnded, was as Hide iacis
irc.orv to his mind, as to those
eff 1i =e -.ry, to whom it was ad
el refT< J. i onct re Iyu IY this
ctehn*’ ~u. u: j 1 1 ic.stul
not from any dtfire u teve you
from the puiifhment rhat awaits
you, and wiuch you so richly
merit ; lut from the desire of
laving my country from the foul
reproach of having in its besom
futh a mender.
From the peculiar filiation of
this country, our fathers felt
thcn.felvesjuftified in lubjeflirg
to ?. very flight pnnifhmtnt, him
who murders a slave :—Whe
ther the present slate of society
requires a continuation of this
policy, fooppoflte to the appa
rent rights of humanity, ir re
mains for a subsequent leg:na
ture to decide—Their attention
would long e’er this, have been
direded to this fubjecl, but for
the honor of human nature, such
hardened Tinners as yourfeif, arc
rarely found to diflurb the re
pose cf society: The Grand
jury of this diilrift, deeply im
pre fled with your daring our rag.
againfl the laws both of God and !
man, have made a very flrong;
expreflion of their Feelings on
the fubjedl, to the legifiature ;
and from the wisdom and juTice
of that body, the friends of fiu
maniry may ccntedently hojit*,
loon to fee this, blackest in the
catalogue of human crimes, pur
sued with appropriate punifh
rrenr.
Ii proceeding to pass the fen
tence, which the law has provi
ded for vour offence, f con fete I
never fete moie forcibly che
want of power to make relpe
ed the laws of my country,
whole minister lam. You haye ,
already violated the majesty of
those lawi—You have profane
ly pleaded, the law under which
you Hand ccnvided, as ajufti
f. cat ion of your crime—You
have held that law in one hand,
and brandished your bloody axe
in the other, impiously contend
ing that the one gave a licence
to the uaredrained use of the
ether.
But, though you will go off
unhurt in perlbn, by the prelent
sentence; exped not to efeepe
with impunity. Y our bloody
deed has feta mark upon you*
which I fear, the good ad ions
of vour future life will not es-
J
face. Y r ou will be held in ab
horrence by an impartial world,
shunned as a monfret bv every
horn ft man—Your unoffending
pofleriry will be vifltea for your
iniquity, by the ffigma of de
riving their origin from an un
feeling murderer—Your days
which will be but few, will be
fpeht in wretchedness. Ar.c! if
your confidence be not Heeled
againfl every virtuous emotion ;
it you be not entirely abandon
ed to harclncfs of heart, the
mangled, mutilated eorpfe of
your murdered Have, will ever
be present in your imagination ;
obtrude icfelf into. ali your a
-1 ufements, aud haunt ycu in tire
hours of lilent c and repefe.
But, fiiould you disregard the
reproaches cf an offended world j
fnould you with callous
iiilcnfibility, the of a
guilty conscience > yet remem
ber !—I charge you remember !
that an awful peiiod is fall ap
proaching, nad with you, is dote
at hand, when you mull appear
before a tribunal, whole want of
power can afford no profpedt of
iit)mmiry ; when you mull raise
your biu©dy hanj* ac the br u i
r,n ur; nrt'a! cnmlfctent judge 1
IT number —i pray ycu re
member ! vvhiiH yet you have
tin e, that God is juff, and (hat
his vengeance will not deep for
ever.
‘3-
j4mthe.r French Fleet at Sea.
The Bririfh frigate Seaht>r f e,
anivfd at King Hon on the ißih
ult. dispatched from Lord Col
lingwooci, off Cadiz, with in
telligence that eighteen French
line of battle ships, fuppoftd to
be from Bred, hed been Been
Heeriiig Wed.—This news had
excited considerable alarm in
Jamaica, and it was expe<s!cd
that martial law would be pro
• laimed in a few days.
A gentleman who iefr Point
Pern*, (Gam) on the 23d ult.
in the br g Amity, capt. Dun
lap, for Savannah, and touched
at Sr. Thom as j from whi ch
place he failed cm the 3 iff ult.
has tornnlied us with the fol
lowing intelligence :—ln paffmg
die -finds of Nevis and St. Kitts
on the 26th ult. be counted nine
fail cf the line and one frigate,
under Britifli colours, being at
anchor tender the batteries, which
wr re iuppofed to be the fleets of
Admiral:-, Cochrane and Duck
worth united : —On his arrival
a: Sr. T hoaiar, he was inform
ed by the captain of an Ameri
can vessel, who had arrived the
day before from the city of St.
Domingo, that on the 26m ult,
in the Mona Piffjg'*, he was
boarded by a French squadron
of ten fail of the line and ten
fi 1 gates, by whom he was de
tained two hours. The fleet
was underflood to be command
ed lj Admiral Gantheaume.—
This intelligence was confirmed
by another vessel which arrived
at St. Thomas alto from the ci
ty of St. Domingo, the captain
of which fluted, that in corning
out of that port he pa Bed the
fame French fleet of ten fail of
the line and ten frigates, then
(landing in for that p!a~e.
This intelligence conf'i vns che
above account from Jamaica, of
a French fleet being: at tea.—
The gentlemen who fumTtees it
t omd at this port yeflcrdiv in
the ichocncr Adventure, having
got on board that vessel the day
before, off the mouth of Sa
vannah river.
PETEAS B U R G,
Tuesday, March 4, ISO 6.
C 0 Mai U KIC A TlO N.
lIORdID MURDER.
ON Saturday night the tft
in ft was murdered in Ids own
yard JoJ-n Bsrkly of Wilkes
county, by a (hut from the hand
of an unknown villain. It Teems
the unfortunate man heard a
ncife at his machine ho use, at
lome hour in tide night, and en
quired cf his family the cause ■,
his wire anfvvered, the presumed
He had as much right to know ai
any one, or words to that eflbff j
upon v;hich the unfortunate man
went our, cowards the machine
houte, and was heard to speak
with feme one . ill a Inert .ime
after the repost <ff a gun was
heard; w.'.en : :s wile iinmedi
a. • J ea c 1 an.)c. ; , i teit i\ i y ss
“* ** • *” •£ if ■< ij.’ Sr $
Or.c ball en’crrd Ms rr.cutb,
which so efFecled his tongue,
thir, though he lived a fhorc
time and was in ’vis senses, he
was urable ro (peak To as to be
lifiderflood ; couid he have been
underflood, it is highly
fumaplr, the atrocious villain
might have Fern dlfcovered—
w
ro matter wh.,c rhe charadler of
the unfortunate deceated might
O
be, it behoves every individual
in the community, and particu
larly the officers of justice, to
ule their utmofl exertions, to
diicoverthe offender, and bring
to condign punilhment the un
teelir.gand inhuman wretch, w ho
has thus dared and is fufficiently
hardened, to violate the laws of
God and his country —do we
live in an age of barbanfm, or
are we in a chi iff ian country—
it teems of late that no man is
fate even in his own house, bus
ic ff hoped that better days will
Toon arrive.
A Friend to Jliimanity.
NEWS CONDENSED.
The 27th bulletin of the
French army, dated 19th Nov.
announces the difpcrfion of the
Ruffians over the plains of Mo
ravia, and the capture of 2000
of them by General Sabaffiani;
on the fame day, Murat entered
Brunn, the capital of Moravia;
here he took 60 pieces of can
non and 300,000 lbs. of powder.
The 28th bulletin of the 2iib
Hates that Bonaparte entered
Brunn on the preceding day,
after a severe tonteft with a
body of 6000 Ruffian cavalry,
who iete xoo dead on the field
of battle.
The 29th bulletin of the 2iff
November, fays that Ney had
occupied Boxen, after having
taken a number of prisoners.
General Jai 1 ick, \v h 0 clefended
the Voralberg, had been cut off
——the Auffrian court had evac
uated Olnuirz, and retired to
Cracow, in Poland !
In Italv, MdTena carried eve
ry thing before him—at eaflle
Franco he joined Relgmer, and
defeated the Auffrians, taking
8000 prisoners, be Tides 600 kil
led and 600 wounded—in ccn
(equer.ee of this defeat the Arch
duke Charles was compelled,
precipitately, to retreat to Hun*
garia.
Our readers will fee by fome
paragraphs in this day’s paper,
that the probability is that the
French maintained their ground
and followed up rheir success as
in Germany and Italy. The
next mail will, it is expedited,
fatisfy the public on this im
portant head.
The comm'{Tinners of North
and South Carolina, have dila
greed relative to the long dis
puted boundary between those
two States.
A (liver mine has been lately
difeovered about 15 miles from
Morgantown in Virginia, it is
said to be excellent.
We underltem! that Benjamin
\V a.i, E sq. is re-appointed by
the Prefulent < f the United
States, Majflial.for che diftridt
of Georgia.
K .1
Six Indian treati’es, ratified
bv Te Senate, have been pre
ten ed on the 3d iter, to the Re
preihn ai'ves of the U. States in
congrr s, that tin y rnav make
appropriateon ter die ra iit*.,
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