Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-09-26

TIE Osuass- sssssns.. Of Mr.. Br..sh..
Wehaveno desire to do injustice to Mr.. Brought
or any Of the parties implicated in the late dis
graceful and cowasdly assassination, and there
fore publish the following statement We are
glad that Mr.. B. is not in favor of ssmidnght as
sassinations," and hope that he had nothing to do
with this part of the proceedings. Law and or
der must be maintained at all hazards, and we
hope every good citizen will take this position, and
maintain it..
ST.. PAUL, Sept. q, 1854.
Mr.. EDrroK,-Sir,-Asy you have been misn-
formed relative to some particulars concerning
the late fracas, allow to state the case Just as
it is and make an affidavit of the same.
On the 2Sth day Of August, 1854, common
ced work for Eaton & Denison, at the Winslow
House, and asked permission to eat my meals
in the kitchen. Mr.. Eaton told me to eat where
pleased; therefore went to the kitchen for my
meals every day, when on the 10th of Sept.
went in for my dinner as usual sat down and had
got half through eating, when Bush, the porter,
came and sat down at the same table, "a place
which he was not accustomed to eat at, nor never
had eaten there except once-that was when
was gone then he insulted one of the white girls
at the same table, and she slapped his mouth for
him and got up and left the table.) After he sat
down, said, "Bush, had you not better wait 2''
Bush replied, ssno." told him it was no place for
him and that the rest of the colored men bad never
offered to do such thing. He said he did not
care for them he would eat his dinner and that at
that table. l told him if he did not get up
would go and find man in that house that could
make him {; he said that there was no man in that
house that could make him get up !; l told him
that would go and see and if l could not find any
one; that could make him get up God damned
quick, and got up from the table to go and tell the
! propretors of the house, when he got I'D and
pulled off his coat and wanted to bet one hundred
dollars that he could whip me. told him that
l would not fight colored man if could
help it. then started down stairs and he, Bush,
followed me part the way down stairs then
turned and went to the top of the stairs then saw
John Denison in the door and some one else.
disremember who. Bush then said, God damn
you, will let you know that am not working in
the South and if pay my board 1 can eat at the
first table. told him did not know as to that,
but one thing certain, he could not eat with me.
He said that was a laboring man as well as he
was and that he was good as was. told
him that if he was, he could not eat with me, for
would starve first. He then told me that was
God damned s-n of b-h. (pretty hard for
me to take3 stepped by him and took hold of a
chair, when he jumped close to me and said,
''God damn you, you raise that chair and you
wont live two minutes, where-upon let go of the
chair and left the room. The assertion that is
abroad and in the public prints, that the colored
help of the house eat at the same table, is false.
and can prove it by eleven good witnesses.
ZENAS c. BROUGHT.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 23d
day of September, A. D., 1854.
N. GIBBS, Justice of the Peace.
My principles are much against midnight
assassinations as any one. z. C. BROUGHT.
GYTThe only thing necessary now to arrive at
correct understanding of the origin of this diff
iculty, is the statement of Messrs. Eaton & Den
ison as to whether the table alluded to was that
at which the colored servants usually took their
meals. The public should suspend judgment un-
| til this statement is made.-ED.
GYAt Democratic Convention in Dakota Co.,
the delegates were instructed by a unanimous