The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-17
From The Philadelphia Bulistincf Monday 81 tanOOn.
The Christians Tragedy.

The Christians Tragedy.
On Saturday morning the United States Mar
shall, District Attorney, and other officers, accom-
panied by force of forty five marines and civil
posse Of about fifty men, from the Sity, reached
Christiana, and, after securing the neighborhood
arrested twenty-iour persons. suspected of taking
part in the outrage of Thursday. The excitement
in the neighborhood intense.
The names Of the arrested parties were-J Joseph
Scarlet and Samuel Kendig, white and Wilson
Jones, Francis Hawkins, Benjamin Thompson,
William Brown, (No. - William Brown, mo. :, }
John halliday, Elizabeth Mosey, John Morgan,
| (boy,) Joseph Benn, John Norton, Lewis Smith,
George Washington, Harvey Scott, Susan Clark,
Tamsy Brown, Eliza Brown, Eliza Parker, Han
nah Pinckney, Robert Johnson, Miller Thompson,
Isaiah Clarkson, and Jonathan Black, all colored.
In the possession or rather upon the premises, from
which some OF the parties we're taken, several
! guns, dirks, and huge clubs, were found. Some Of
the guns were heavily charged, and now in the
hands OF the proper officers.
| Up to the last accounts Dickinson Gorsuch was
still alive, though il was thought he could not
| viye. Mr.. Gorsuch's pephew suffering from
| his wounds but will probably recover
On Saturday the United States Commissioner.
| Hon. Z. d. Ingraham, proceeded to an examination
| OF witnesses, as follows:
! Miller Knott, affirmed.-Resides close to where
the transaction occurred in salisbury township;
was not present when it occurred; mean the re
sistance of the law and the murder of Gorsuch;
there was no one with deceased when ] saw him
| iirst there many coored people there, he
tween seventy five and one hundred; knew Isaiah
Clarkson for one, Eze kiel Thompson boy named
Samuel BOOTH saw some white people there; knew
Elijah Lewis and Joseph Scarlet can't think of any
others; Clarkson was not armed; the others had
clubs; the man shot was on his horse in the lane
when saw him; had no conversation with Scarlet,
except when l assisted to carry deceased to Mr..
PownalPs house; the crowd had not altogether dis
| persed; Scarlet expressed no opinion when he car
ried deceased no report about arresting the blacks
saw no officer that know of the one we took in
was the son oil deceased; the old gentleman dead
was lying in the lane; the firing took place after
| the sun was up some time; good many guns or
| pistols were fired; saw man riding off armed, on
horseback; the firing was principally from black
men; there was halooing before the firing; did not
hear horn blown; Scarlet lives about miles
from the place; he was riding out the lane, and
had been there before me; after a while saw him
ride in again; the main body of the firing was
over; he must have passed within ten yards of
where the man was wounded; there was con-
versation between that recolect; | knew that
William Parker lived there, and that Pinckney did
also; Clarkson was there; had no conversation with
any person that did approve of the firing.
John Knott afhrmed--I live with my father; am
going on fourteen years; remember the killing Of
Mr.. Gorsucb; IL was little after the up
when the firing commenced, went over and
looked at il from the fence where the battle was !;
just above the house there were good many peo-
pie, many blacks; about twenty-five or ninety
black people; many of them were armed; saw no
Wnlte pc pIe matt knew; knew some OF the Dlack
people; Ezekiel Thomas was one, Samuel Smith
another, and one jackson; that's all know. They
were firing while stood at the fence and looked
over; the old gentleman who was killed after
he dead; he lay little piece from the house
in the lane; did not see him fall; saw the young
man that wounded; him led out of the
lane by another man; Parker and Pinckney lived
there; saw Parker after the fight was over; he
came out Of the house, and was talking with
white man; don't know who he was; saw the
young man carried over to Mr.. PownalPs house;
saw Scarlet there with the wounded man; when
first saw Scarlet ii was when the wounded
was lying by the side of the fence; heard Scarlet
talking with several of the people about there
white people; was not near enough to hear any
thing he said; went over before my father went to
this place; that Scarlet's horse hitched to
the fence; went home; got my breakfast; came
back, and then j his horse; they were stand
ing not very far from the door when they fired;
was told by Tamsy Brown that colored man took
money from the old man killed. the money
brought in and divided among the women, Abra-
ham johnson keeping portion of it himself.
Tamsy Brown, sworn.-Lve one mile from Pen
nipgtonvillc, with my grandmother; was at school,
and don't remember when the man was killed;
was at school the day he was killed; knows where
Parker's house ia; was never at his place; the name
of the man who lived with Parker Pinckney;
when came from school. first heard the man was
killed. from grandmother; don't know what be-
came of the money about the man killed; did not
tell any one that did; knew Hannah Pinckney
and Eliza Parker, who lived in that house; heard
talk Of it; young Knott was speaking to me when
we were coming up the lane; he asked If che did
not wish the men had staid at home; did not say
any thing then; did not tell the lad that the
Johnston came in with handful of money; know
Abraham Johnston, who used to live with Pnck
ncv, in the store; have not seen him this week;
don't know where he is now; don't know my age;
Susan Carkson is my grandmother; can't read.
George Washington Harvey Scott, sworn.--I live
killed, but had no hand in it; there over night,
and staid out doors in the road; there was no one
with me; was persuaded to go over by John Nor
gan and Henry Simms, coored men; did not tell
me what they wanted me to GO over for; cav them
both there, out by the door Of the house; they had
arms; there was good many colored people there;
did not see any but Morgan and Simms that
knew; saw them shoot, and saw the old gentleman
shot; he fell in the lane; he was shot by Henry
Simms; did not see the nephew shot, neither did /
see the nephew fall, for there such crowd;
have seen Scarlet, but don't know him; he not
there; saw no white man except Cassner Hanway,
the miller; John Morgan cut the old gentleman in
the head with corn. cutter after he (Mr Cor
such) had fallen; this was after sunrise; went away
soon as the old man was killed; left the other
colored people there; they had pistols, muskets,
and other guns; they wanted me to help, but
would have nothing to do with it, that is, in taking
their part in the fight, which TO kill the slave
holders did not understand who they were coming
there to take the mob was to resist all shareholders
the firing came from the house, down stairs; heard
a horn blow; the fight was beginning then; il was
blown from the house; the horn continued to blow
right on; the firing at first came in body, and
continued on then more and more; it then became
scattering; after the horn was blown they began to
assemble pretty quick.
John Criley, sworn.-Resde at Penning tonville;
have lived in the neighborhood twelve years; know
where Parkcr's house is; don't know Parker; know
MIR. Scarlet; have known him for the last seven
years. he is a farmer, and resides about threequ
tiers of mile from Parker's house; recoect the
time when the murder occurred at Parker's house,
and was there about nine O'Clock the same morn
ing; was told that Scarlet had been riding about
in the morning, and told the negroes TO attend to
that place; Henry MUIR, a blacksmith, told me; he
said that Scarlet had been riding round to the beet
of his knowledge, notifying the negroes.
Henry Cloud, sworn.-Don't know any thing
about Morgan having been there; the day before
the murder told him some people were up for
slaves, and asked him if he going out; he said
he going out that night, and my understand
ing that he intended to resist the process in
taking the slaves; don't know that he was out that
might.
Henry II. Kline, sworn.-I thought saw Scar
let coming from the of the murder upon
horse he was in hurry, but not at the place
at the time of the firing; | said, you the man
that gave the warning; asked him to stop, telling
him that man dead up the road, and asked
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