Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-10-15
Driving ont Irishmen from South
Carolina.

SdAOAA1cSs
We have noticed the expulsion of Col
well and Malone-two Irishmen-from
South Carolina, on suspicion Of being
Abolilionists.
We find in the New York Herald Mr.
Colwell's statement of the affair, as fol.
lows:
Having seen in your paper of the 14ili
ult.. a notice of the arrest of James Col
well and John Malone. at Cheraw, g. c..
charged with being Abolition agents, and
their expulsion from the State BY the
Vigilance Committee. and being myself
one of the parties referred to, | request
the use Of your columns for the purpose
OF making a statement Of the facts reIat.
ing TO the occurrence. | have been a
resident Of the Southern States for the
last three years, and for the last six
months a resident of Cheraw. S. C. /
have been engaged in the business Of
selling window shades, and at the time
of my arrest had four men employed
with me in said business. On the even
ing of Sunday, the 18th of September,
while stopping with one of my men. John
Malone, at the hotel of John Moore.
Cheraw, S. 9, the peorle assembled in
the bar room and commenced talking
about Kansas and Slavery. The con,
verSation became general, and in the
course of 1t Malone, who is a mere boy,
stated to John Monholland that he would
vote for Kansas being a Free State, and
assigned as II reason that he did not think
that a poor white man stood as good a
chance to get a living in the Slave States
as they did in the Free States. Monhol-
land replied hat the Irish Malone is
Irish in New York were worse off than
the niggers in the South. Several other
remarks were made Insulting to Malone,
when | inierfrred, and told them if they
wanted to talk, to talk to me. A man
by the name OF McClenahan, a store
keeper, then drew a revolver, and threat
ened to shoot me. l also drew a revol
yer and a bowie knife. and told them ii
they wished TO fight l was ready that
| was ready to die. if necessary, in de-
fence OF my right, and that of my friend.
to freedom of speech. Seeing me deter
mined, they cooled down. and after some
further braggadocio and abuse of the
North, dispersed. The next day Malone
and myself were arrested and brought
before what they termed a Vigilance
Committee, charged with being Adolf
ton agents. The Committee held three
meetings that day. and the evidence adj
duced against us was OF the most 1imsy
kind. Our having inquired the way to
different places of negroes whom We met
on the road was brought up as proof Of
IL being Abolilionists; al>o the fact tina.
Malone stopped at the house of DR.. Poe
TO yet a drink of water. A minority OF
the Committee wee in favor of iarring
and feathering US, but The maj ,rily final
" decided To send us to the Free States.
We were escorted 10 Vii rington, n. c ,
by a Sheriff and four Deputies. On ar
irving there, we were placed in charge
OF the Mayor of that place. While al
Wilmington, one of our escort, named
Zach. EIlarbee, a Shareholder, went out
through the town and reported that We
were Abolitionis,s, which caused a mob
to gather around the house where we
were confined and for a time we were
in imminent danger of being lynched.-
We could hear the MOI cry cat, chang
them,' chang the id sons of b-s."
&c, DE. From Wilmington we were
escorted by two consiables TO Norfolk.
Va, where We were confined two days
and nights in a foal apartment OF the Jail,
waiting for the steamer TO sail. We
were finally placed on board the steam
er, and our passage paid tc New York
where we arrived on MonIay. | have
merely TO state in conclusion. hat by
this outrage | have been deprived of all
my property, and am left in your city an
entire stranger.
JAMES HOT WFII