The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-07-19


1hNsday 1jtefnOOa Nay, 80, lct.
Committee q present, Mesl.
lays Kingsbury, Myers and Ewing.
AtnxANDnR HAY vas called and gWolA'
Question By Dir Barclay
wish you q state whether you were here
onthe FIRST week of December last; Whet1et
you had any conversation with 8lVnnAx
| PTERaAN, Or any other person from t.
County Of Philadelphia, as 20 what brougnt
them here; who paid them, and how mucD
they were 70 get; and any thing else you
know 10 relation to the disturbances
ABsaCer. was here, was speaking q
Murray Pierman towards to latter end Of the
week the Legislature met. / asked him
what they were all doing here9 He ans
wered, that they were selected TO come here
he did not know what for, but supposed Z
was in case Of q row that they could be reas
dy; that he had the right set Of men with
him. He said that they had already kept
him over his time; that they were 20 get
each, for three days, seventeen dollars and
a half; and that great many Of them had
spent their money already, il there was not
more money coming BY the next day, CoPBY
GREER and some of the best Of them would
90 home; Pieman told me they were but
cheers from Philadelphia. Some other man
from the County Of Philadelphia mentioned
to me, that If it had not been for ad-d
crowd of Anti Masons coming out Of the
street, where the Shakespeare House is,
towards the Capital, THEY WOULD HAvELAID
STEVENS, THE D---D RASCAL, Lowl They
had followed him from the Hill, and WeFo
IOGiting an opportunity TO- shoot him; the
man who was with him had pistol loaded
and cooked, waiting an opportunity to shoot
as Stevens would get to the light ola lamp;
just about the time Stevens got there, the
crowd came out of the street have alluded
to. He said, If there had been more Of them
there to screen each other, they would have
done it any how.
ALEXANDER HAY.
Sworn and subscribed before s. M. BAR
CLAY, Chairman.
The following Testimony, given before
the same Committee, has also been banded
to US for publication
Mr.. ]. B. QUIGLY was called and sworn.
Question by Mr.. BARCLAV:
l wish you to state what conversation you
heard between Gen. Thomas C. Miller,
Geo. r. ESPy, and Henry Petriken, IN re-
lation TO the difficulties which took place at
the organization of the Legislature.
ARsUer:-AbOut three weeks since,
was sitting in a room in Mr. BuehIer's Hotel.
Mr.. Petriken and Mr.. Espy were in the
room. Gen Thomas G. Miller came in soon
after; the conversations turned on the sub
ject Of the disturbances Of the fourth of De-
cember.-AfteT some conversation, to which
/ did not pay much attention, Gen. Miller
remarked. that they had held meeting pre-
vious to the evening of the fourth. IN the
meeting of some Of themembers of il obiec-
ted to offering any personal violence or in
jury to any person, but they were voted
down by large majority.-He said they
were determined set of men, and would
not listen 10 such proposition. After some
conversation, that do not remember, Mr..
Miller remarked, that the door of the Senate
Chamber, on the evening of the 18th, was
crowded, and that there was no possibility
of escaping in that direction; soon after, he
remarked that it had been a matter Of as
constituent to himself as well as to others,
how the Speaker Of the Senate escaped
being seized by two men at the Senate win
dow. He said il was well he did escape
for had they caught him, the clamp posi-"
would have been his fate THEY WOULD
HAVE HUNG HIM UP, OR STRUNG
HIM UP! .e
LR QtIGLY.
Sworn and subscribed beforel
me. this 9th Nav 1899