Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-08-07
THE MOB AND MURDER AT INDIANAP.
OILS.


The other day we copied a brief paragraph
from the Indiana Sentinel, concerning brutal
murder committed in indianapolis on the 4th Of
July. The Sentinel, the State Democrat paper,
represented the colored man murdered as steady
motfensive man, who had purchased his freedom
many years ago in Kentucky.
We have just obtained from an authentic
source further particulars of this most horrd out
rage.
The poor fellow was murdered by gang Of
drunken rulians, in the presence Of tco hundred
people-multitudnous voices exclaiminr, at the
time, 'the id niger, kill him They beat
him after he was dead. And as he lay with the
blood buehdng round him, the cry arose for
more blood The niggers are getting too ours
ed thick, and they ought to be thinned out'-'I
would as lieye kill negro as an ox-Damn
them--I wish every one was shot, and the aboIi-
tionists too-wcrc the EXPLANATIONS that broke
from infuriated lips. No effort was made to
stay the mob, though at any moment there was
enough good society to arrest the violence. In
about two hours, one of the murdcrcrs was sciz-
ed. Another remained in town twenty four
hours after the deed, when warrant being issu-
ed, he slipped Off
When the first arrest was made, as the
crowd was passing the post-ollice, one of them, a
member Of the city council, brutally assaulted
De Puy, the amiabe editor Of the Indiana Free
man, who abandoned his party last fall because
of its devotion to slavery. Other violence was
threatened when a Christian professor told him
he must leave the street or he would be murder.
ed. De Puy expostulated, but the reply Of the
man was, you have no friends here De Puy
escaped, and it was well he did, as the moi
made dligent search for him, for an hour after
wards
The councilman who had assaulted him, in
order to loresta all complaint, got a fellow o
his own kidney to complain Of him, and he wa;
fined two doIIarst As the justice was filing on
the docket, he requested him to make it three
dollars, and let him give the abotionist another
'whaling' and as he left, he remarked that he
now knew lust what it cost to whip an aboli
ZIONIST The brute Perhaps he may be mis-
taken.
DuIlHg all lhla lllHC, IL IS StulCu5 tlc gOOt
people of the city INDUCED in the most inAam
matory language. On the following Saturday
however, becoming ashamed of themselves o
recollecting probably the use which might b
made of the outrage and their conduct, agains
themselves, they raised a subscription, and hire'
two lawyers to prosecute the murderer A dep
utaton, consistingTof the Rev Henry Beecher
and lawyer, waited on De Puy to advise him t.
say nothing about the murder
This is so strange, SO notifying, so gross al
offence against ustice--a minister of Jesu
Christ, a professed anti-slayery man too, inter
posing to prevent the exposure of an act of in
fernal atrocity, and the denunciation of conduc
on the part of respectable citizens, utterly dis
graceltl-that we could not believe it, were
not for the character Of our informant.
Let De Puy stand his ground, He has friend
out of Indianapolis, ifhe has none in it. Tn
time will yet come when some of the dscreC
men there will think even him respectful
man, as those now who are not fair weathc
friends, deem him noble spirited one.--Ci,
J, HeraM