Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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thought prqper to give an expression of their abhorrence
of his enormous crimes, and the scorn and contempt
they felt toward the blood-stained wretch.
Cousequently in various cities which we visited, he
was burnt in effigy-but always in a quiet and peaceable
manner, without any attempt at personal violence.
It may be here observed, that Bedinidid not receive
the scorn and contempt heaped upon him in this
country, because he was a foreigner; nor because he
was a Catholic priest; neither because he held ntirepublican
and despotic principles,' but because he
was proven to be a brutal murderer I The indignation
of the people was kindled against him, not only
on account of the part he acted in the apprehension,
and summary punishment of so many republicans,
and his signing the death warrant of Ugo Bassi, but
mainly for that most inhuman act of torturing the
noble hearted patriot.
It was certainly nothing new in this country for
the people to express their disapprobation and feelings
of abhorrence, by burning effigies. Have not our
own native-born Americans sometimes been treated in
the same way ~ Even honest John Tyler, merely for a.
political measure, which awakened a burst of popular
indignation, was burnt in effigy in many parts of the
Union. At Nashville, Tenn., the citizens, not content
with hanging and burning poor John's effigy,compelled
a negro slave to give it first a severe cowhiding.
But who made a. fuss about that 1 was it denounced
in the United States Senate 1 were the citizens of