State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-11-13
From the Clsnton, La. Democrat.
INT ENDIARISM.

1t Is duty We owe the public 10 place in
Is possession FACTS that have been brought
% light IN relation to the burning of our
Court House, on the 9Th of March IasI, aud
OF which we gave an item in our paper of the
l2th instant: yet II is truly painful to state,
nat the prime mover-lf negro testimony
can at all be relied on-rs tolerable wealthy
Inhabltant Of the parish OF East Fellclanal
IL IS known, to most of OuI readers, that
argro cannot testify IN favor of, or against a
white man to MS conviction;-and this arises
aot from any discrepancy on the part of our
law makers, but from a correct knowledge of
he negro character, bond or free. Suffice II
| 10 say that wisdom Is apparent in the eHact-
| nent of thus law, and needs no cOmmenda-
ton from us.
| according TO previous arrangement, the
i've blacks, charged with being IN possession
tOf knowledge of this nefarous concern,
were placed at the ba. Oh last Saturday, Hon.
Judge SAUNDERS presiding, when the follow.
! g examination took place.
| Negro Bill-the principal, under the gui
dance and direction Of his owner stated that
| ne, in company with his master, did set fire
to and burn the Court -HoGes on the morn
| ing of the twenty-s' venh of March lastl-
hat when his master pointed out the build
| ,ng to be destroyed, b. ''dId not feel right,
loi, m other words, he knew he was doing
| 8 rong, and hesltated to comply with the bid.
ling of his master-whert upon, he was cur.
Sod tor c0wardly --, and his master
applied the brand htmse.f!
| The statements OF the other negroes wen'
strongly corrOborate the foregong-inas.
much, and fron other circumstances, that il
was the opinion OF the Court that the white
man in question iUGS guilty Of being princi.
pal in the AFFAIR." and he was arresred on
Saturday night last, and placed in Jail.
TN Monday mornidg, the 14th inst, he
was brought cut tor hearing, but nothing OF
consequence was done. The prisoners
| counsel, J. H. MUsE, Lsq., addressed the
Court, setting forth the impossbIIty of de.
| tanning him on the evidence adduced; but it
was overrult and the prisoner remanded.
On Tuesday, 18th, the prisoner was agaiu
brought into Court; and so strong were the
circumstances against him, that be was fully
| committed for trial at TIE District Court, to
be held in the town of Clinton, parish of East
F'eliciana, IN November next.
Considerable sympathy was eVinced by our
citizens for the Negro Bill, spoken of above;
for he it was who preferred giving inlorma
lion of the crime he had heen party in com
hitting, and run tn risk of being hung, to
entering upon similar expedition: as it is
said that it was the intention of his owner,
3. c. Walker, to destroy the Clerks Office
on the public square. Some went so far as
to suggest the propriety of giving Bill his
freedom: but from our soul we believe such
4 course would be returning evil for good.
The honorable Court has very justly pro
nounced Bill flee from the rope; and he is
happier now than if made President Of an
Abolition Society or waltzing with Miss An
gelica Grimke and Miss Enuella Tappan.