unfleshing

Updated: June 28, 2025

He tried hard for his life, plunged into the sluice, and, with a bullet in his shoulder, and the blood hounds unfleshing his bones, he bore up for a moment with feeble stroke as best he might, but 'public opinion, 'succeeded in drowning him, and the same 'public opinion, calls the man who fired and crippled him, and cheered on the dogs, 'a gentleman, and the editor who celebrates the exploit is a 'gentleman' also!"

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4