gh he would have merited, perhaps more than any other
offender who has appeared in our times, the greatest sufferings,
yet such a sentence could not be carried into effect. The people
would have risen at once, animated by one sentiment, and without
the least previous concert have prevented it. Every man in the
Commonwealth, waiving all distinctions of condition or age, would
have been seen, without consulting his neighbour or considering
consequences, putting a new flint in his musket and girding on
his sword. Thank God! our feelings and love of order and
obedience to proper authority can never be put to such a trial;
for the moment we became free, and created our own political
institutions, we made it a fundamental article of our Constitution
of Government that "no magistrate or court of law shall inflict
cruel or unusual punishment." In Georgia such a punishment would
not be inflicted upon a white man for any crime; and in the name
of Heaven, who deserves the greatest punishment for offences,--the
white man, who is instructed in the principles of religion and
morality, and is therefore justly accountable for his actions, or
the negro, who is kept by the policy of the laws and the power of
public opinion in a state of absolute ignorance of his duties,
lest he should obtain a knowledge of his rights? D.

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Singular account from the "Salem Gazette," April 13, 1824.

ARREST OF THE DEAD.

The United States Gazette says:--

"While the papers from the south and the west are bringing back
to us the report from Mr. Degrand's paper of the attachment of a
dead body in Boston, the Eastern papers are bringing us
assurances of the total illegality of any such act, and a
contradiction of some of the important parts of Mr. Degrand's
tale of horror. At the time of the first appearance of this story
in our city, a gentleman of information assured the public
through the medium of our columns that any such act was unlawful.
The Salem Gazette appears to think that no act of the kind was
ever lawful in Massachusetts. The Boston Courier states that in
Feb., 1812, the legislature of Massachusetts passed a law making
it highly penal for any civil officer to take the body of any
deceased person, and the writer who furnishes this information
says that 'he never