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From the JUnset tfetoa. !RIOT AND HOMICIDE. gOn Saturday, the 5th inat., a most dis- isi graceful outrage, attended by a fatal re. sji suit, was perpetrated in this place. A G negro man named Nathaniel Morgan, ro commonly called “Nat,” who has resided to in Da Buque for several years past, was th suspected of having stolen some clothes A from one of his neighbors. At 11 o’clock Fi in the forenoon, a mob collected, took him ot from his house, carried him to the out- M skirts of the town, tied him to a post, and |£elt;ncindicted in the most barbarous manner several hundred blows with a cow-hide on his bare back, telling him in the mean time to confess the theft and show where the goods were concealed. After he had | thus been tortured, he said he would tell j a them where the goods were, if they would i jj atop whipping him ; upon which he was 1 untied from the post, and immediately fell upon the ground, through weakness and exhaustion. When lying upon the ground, we are informed that he was roused by ' kicks and blows, to exert the little strength ^ which he stiil possessed, and urged stag- jn gering along to his own house; and finding ^ none of the stolen property there, he was , compelled to walk up to a house on one 1 of the hilia in the rear of the town, in iQ which he told them they would find it.— 1 (1? Upon discovering none of the property |i ® AI. . _. . A _ mm ■ ui r\ v t- ^ r\ ■% w~ ii i m «arcuwC8there, the rioters again began to beat him and continued to do so, until life was extinct. Four of the persons who were the principal actors in this diabolieal outrage upon the law's of the country and the peace of this community, have been arrested, and are now undergoing examination before a magistrate, It is the general impression that “Nat” was innocent of tlte theft’ charged upon him, and only promised to confess, to avoid torture for the moment.We regret that it has fallen to our lot to record a transaction which is bo well calculated to injure and disgrace our townhtbilaglbihlt;Pi01mabroad, when wo are confident a largemajority of our citizens ardently desire to ! maintain tho supremacy of the laws. To ensure public peace and tranquility, pub-1 lie opinion must at ail times stamp the* seal of condemnation upon mobs assembled for the purpose of taking the law into their own hands. The enormity of tho transaction above recorded, will, it is to be hoped, so awake the moral secs© of the community, as to insure indelible disgrace and sure punishment by the agency ol law, and the regular tribunals of justicj! to all who may be engaged in lynchingand mobing. I o•O—O—O — - I d
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Madison Express
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Sep 19, 1840
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