.
Bolivar, to catch
40
on the road leading from Bolivar runaway negroes.
" March
2,
1853.
— West-Tennessee
to Whitesville.
I
am
ready
at all
timos
DAVID TURNER.
Democrat.'
The blood-hound was known in early Scottish history it was once vindictively put upon the trail of Eobert Bruce, and in
barbarous days, by a cruel license of war,
it
was
directed against
but more than a century has passed since the last survivor of the race, kept as a curiosity, was fed on meal in Ettrick Forest.* The blood-hound was emthe marauders of the Scottish border
ployed by Spain, against the natives of this continent, and the eloquence of Chatham never touched a truer chord than when, gathering force from the condemnation of this brutality, he poured his thunder upon the kindred brutality of the scalpingadopted as an instrument of war by a nation professing Tardily introduced into our Republic, some time after the Missouri Compromise, when Slavery became a political passion and Slave-masters began to throw aside all disguise, the blood-hound has become the representative of our Barbarism in
knife,
civilization.
one of
its
man who is,
worst forms,
when engaged
in the pursuit of a fellow-
asserting his inborn title to himself
is
and
this brute
indeed, typical of the whole brutal leash of Slave-hunters,
who, whether at home on Slave-soil, under the name of Slavecatchers, and kidnappers, or at a distance, under politer names, insult Human Nature by the enforcement of this Barbarism. (3.)
From
this dreary picture of Slave-masters
with their
and their triumvirate of vulgar instruments, I pass to another more dreary still, and more completely exposing the
slaves
influence of Slavery
I
mean
each other, also with Society
the relations of Slave-masters ivith or, in other words,
and Government,
the Character of Slave-masters, as displayed in the general relations of
life.
And here I need your indulgence. Not in triumph
or in taunt do I approach this branch of the subject.
Yielding
exigency of the discussion and in direct response to the assumptions on this floor, especially by the SenaIf I touch tor from Virginia, [Mr. Mason,] I shall proceed. themselves Slave-masters to see Slavery to the quick, and enable only to the
irresistible
as others see them, I shall
do nothing beyond the
strictest line
of duty in this debate.
One
of the choicest passages of the master Italian poet, Dante,
- Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Notes y Canto V.
