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Slayer Fined For Executing Individual With Human Traits
EVANSTON, Ill., July 1.—When a parrot teaches itself to swear it becomes an Individual with human traits instead of just a parrot. This is the decision of Justice of the Peace H. G. Williams.
Rutheda, the parrot of Mrs. Bertha Flugge, “was the purest and most clean-minded thing I ever saw” before it flew away from her, according to Mrs. Flugge.
Mr. Stephens, Vice President of the “Confederate States” in his recent speech at Savannah, has a great deal to say about the great principle upon which the new revolutionary government is founded—which truth he slates to be this: “ That the negro is not equal to the white man. That slavery—subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral (normal?) condition.” He does not tell us what he means by equality, and rings the changes on the word, very much as we have heard it done nearer home. From what he says, however, we presume he means some physical inequality, as he speaks of this, “great physical and moral truth.” We presume that he does not mean to state that any man may be rightfully compelled under the lash, to work for any other who is physically his superior. And so also of inferiority in moral- character or Intelligence—he would hardly assert these as justifying enslavement. Either of these principles put in practice would lead to strange changes. Mr. Stephens himself is physically inferior to the average of men of his age. He must refer to difference of race. For, in speaking of the scientific aspect of his principle and the slowness of its recognition in the world, he says: “Many governments have been founded upon the principle of certain classes; but the classes thus enslaved were of the same race and (so enslaved) in violation of the laws of nature.”
Indeed! The enslavement of the same race then is “in violation of the laws of nature.” What say Dr. Van Dyke, Dr. Thornwell, and Dr. Raphall to this? What becomes of all their arguments from the Bible in favor of slavery? The slaves held by the Jews were white; and so, according to the Vice President of the “Confederate States,” held as such “in violation of the laws of nature.” Mr. Stephens must be immediately excommunicated from the Southern Church, or the sound doctrine of the D. D.s will be in danger of being corrupted. Perhaps, however, he will hasten to retract so dangerous a statement
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 9. — Official letters from the commanding officer of Sidney Barracks reports that Pawnee Killer and Two Lances, accompanied by ninety-three lodges of Whistler’s band of Sioux and two of the Brule band, have left the reservation, and are moving to the hunting grounds south of the Platte, by way of Lewis Canon. They claimed that they bad the verbal permission of the Agent to do so. Two Lances reported two other bands near Lewis Canon, one of twenty-five lodges of Arrapahoes, and another of some fifteen warriors, after the Utes, who had a few days previous stolen a largo number of horses from there. There is no question but that the Indians are highly incensed at the treatment.
We should not be surprieed to hear by some arrival of the capture of the mines of San Luis and Zacatecas by two columns of Gen. Scott’s army, under special instructions from the War Department. We understand the expeditions were about to be organized for this purpose when the last official letters left Mexico for Washington. If we may believe the letters from the camp, written even before these expeditions were suspected, the effect will be to deal another heavy blow at the enemy, by cutting him off from some of his material resources. To show what were the speculations upon this subject, we lay before our readers the following extracts of a letter published in the last New Orleans Commercial Times, from a correspondent in the city of Mexico, of the 1st of December:
