The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-12-14

. wonAss. RIGHTS CONVENTION IN DAN.
VIII

"A
vILLE.
wsssys. Edisers-Be not startled by the heading
If th,s article. Think not thai The Lsdes Of VIZ.
sesa ~ them b. heir moro aspiring sisters OF ne
North.
rnev have 100 lest IN appreciation Of theis
..,csS positsou Inisociefy, 20 digrsce themselves
k Xsscendinx 30 the level Of the roughef eek.
Tne eonvoStjpu 70 which seference b here made,
n enc Of the eessismoa Of Dansilo, for the vindt
css,oa and protection a. woman.
Il deeply regret the cause for such . needing Of
oar cifizens Il h % be iamcnted thsk there should
havo come among us iead In human for a whose
efrociles lnade Il proper that such demonstration
q en- sbope 30 chronicle, should hare been made.
was sesractcd By procession which was wending
ts way aioag the Main street Of our usually quiet
and orderly town. A. Il drew near discovered
thsk kwas composed Of very many Of our most
respectable citizens who were bearing on r0iI On
themesesr, found that one Matthew wightman, .
clerk living Ia the store Of VIM Robinson, Jr., had
commisted most brutal assault ON two very re-
spectable ladies Of the town.
Isseems that negro girl over whom said Wight
man exercised : temporary Ownership. and who
exerted over him . control which Q wife only
should have over her lawful husband, bad been
ordered BY him 10 20 TO the house of Robinson and
demand 10 be received ~ the washerwoman Of the
~
that she had no need Of her services, she returned
to Wishsman, telling him that she had been driven
oG, q the same time delivering made up message
from the lady ~ the house
The monster WiRhtman offended that one, who
4 said stood to him rim loco azoris" should have
besa ghus excluded from Rentee society, proceeded
0skS ckembev Of Mrs Robinson, who was conGned
d9e1o 81 sickneas, and expressing his indignation
prueooaedto make most brutal assault on Mrs.
Hckloou end her sister, (who staying with herr
bybeofing them both over the head and face with q
sdck which he had carried with him for that pur.
The young lady hasiag been feed to the floor ~ the
violence Of the blows. and MRS Robinson being CO
yered With blood from her own wounds supposine
that her sister was dead. Dye the alarm BY the c,y
rsscss. In the meantime Wishtmsn had left the
ef Mr.. Rsbinson the condition Of his family. The
only reply which Robinson made was. g Matthew,
yoa ought not 70 have done it, 70 which the latter
town, our citizens had seized the wretch, Wishtman.
the procession, a. above stated After riding him
thus through all the principal streets OF the town,
nth R saS with the Of tin
lodged him in jail that he might have all the benefit
On the ssms day he was examined before Colonel
Grasty. the Mayor, and Chas. III Cosby. an Alderman
Of the corporation, and committed Jail to await
his trial for assault with intent to maim dis6.
cure, disable and kill the two ladies above named.
On the same day there was very large Assem-
blaee Of oar ritizsus in the Court House DR.; Thos
r. Atkinson called to the Chair and VIM T.
On motion II Rev, s. s. Bryant, tbs Chairman wa.
Instructed to .ppons committee Of five, to submit
The commrtee, consisting of Rev s s. Bryant, J.
8. Pembsrton, Or. L. T. Wootton. VIM. Worsham
intions. which were unsnimoualy adopted and order
ed to be publshed in the Dispatch and the Danville
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