Carrying The Joke Too Far

-A late number ofthe Tennessee Review, s'tatc-s that a bilí of indictment had boen found against Geo. Smith. John H. Tobb, Lofte.n Duke, James Pearce and Leroy Brown, for the marder of a slave bebngmg to a Mr. Miller. They had all got into a drunkenspree, and under the inlïuence of liquor, cnliced the negro into a loft. and hung him for fun, intending to cut him down in a moment or two, before life ahould be extinct. Their drünken frolic was carried too far - the negro xjied. This is one of the horrid consequencbs of making a human beinginto property. Thes hang-' j men would scarcely have ventured thcïi' efyeriment8 on a íree white man. But a slave cqn obtain no legal rcdrcss against any personal 1 lencc