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Another Victim To Slaveholding Vengeance!

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Day
22
Month
September
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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i ne AüoiiiionistB nrc rcpresentcd m th 'fisons of Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia and tfaryhnd. Florida hns diseharged her i iel after burning inio hifl flesli the indel.ble 1 narks of her vengeance. From present ' )earancc9, cvery sluve State wil! son have ils roponion of victima from among the , nen of theNorth. Py tho following extiact rom tlie Worcestcr G.iz'!ite, it will be Fcen ( hat Georgia has just Fontenced a guiltlees Vlnssachusetts man to a felon's doom: , Mr. Paine. - It will be recollected by our eaders, that we gave a brief account, some ' ;me since, of the arrest of a Massnchusets reeman, by the name of Paine, in Alabama, ' ■harged with hnving aided a feüow man in the ' ecovery of his liberty, of which he liad been obbed. ' From recent intelügonce,we lenrn that Paine ' ios had a mock trial - for a trinl boeed upon he hypoiliesia that mnn can be property, must ' ie nothing else than a mockery of justice, - nd boen convicted and condemned to scven 'enrs confinement at hard labor in the penientiary of Georgiu! His brother who l'ues n thÍ8tovn, senl on funds to obtain for him :ounsel, but he miglit as well hnve Biink 'v in -ong Island Sound. As well maj' a counselor bay the moon, or cry peace to the nginw lillowe of the ocean as plead for merry or ustice before a slaveholding tribunal. Pine s an eduented mnn - has boe engngod in eacliing in Georgia for four years, and was lighly respectcd and esteemed even by the ihvcholders. But he hae touched the npplp f their eye, nnd, thouch pure ns tliean ;p1k in heavcn, he must suffer a feloñ'fl doom. Vire. Pairie, in n (le'icnte Ftatc of h'éahh hos led from the Nnd of whips and "knottnd icourges" to seek an asyluin in New En jl;ind. What a glorious privilege 'tis lo be thus irotected! In it not such protection fs viü.uree give to lambs?

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News