Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1868 — A Slave Dealer’s Exeoution. [ARTICLE]

A Slave Dealer’s Exeoution.

A writer in the AtiantU, referring to the eX&fotion of Gordon, the slave trader, sdfsi “Whatever Gordon's* lift may* have been wdrth to him or hie friends, I think this country put it to a very good use When she hanged him. A storm of protests was mfd#: against his death. Twenty»j#v4. thousand people petitioned "Abraham Lincoln td spare the isatt’t lift and Abraham Lincoln refused.. Gordon Iras hanged. All through the little ports aud big porta of the, United States it was known that % slave trader had been hanged. And when that was known the America* slave trade was ended. All up anti down little African rivers thht yen never heard the names 6F, known that an American slave tra-. der had been hanged, the cowardly pirates trembled and brave seamen cheered when they heard it Mothers of children thanked such gods as 4 they knew how. to thank;" and slaves shut up in barraeoons, so t their voyage, got signal that som<*thin& hadhappened which war to give them freedom. That toatThing was that Gordon was hanged. So for that little candle threw iu beams/’