The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-02-23


for the abolition off (slavery)
GEO. WASHINGTON.
These must be terrible abolition doctrines
in the estimation of the slave driving De-
mocracy. Will not some good Democrat tell
us whether it was the opinions of Mr.. Seward
and Lincoln that produced the John Brown
invasion, or the doctrines of the individuals
above mentioned?
| l shall have more 10 say of John Brown
hereafter. Believing in the doctrines of
Jefferson and of the great statesmen that
have adorned cur country, l sign myself, at
tire risk of being called an abolitionist,
A JEFFERSON DEMOCRAT.
A Christian Preacher Whipped
i'm Texas.
Many -four readers are well acquainted
with Elder Solomon Mckinney, Of Bloom
| field, Davis county. lie is preacher Of the
Christian order, numerous and influential
denomination IN this region. MIR. Mckinney
has resided some FIVE or six years in Bloom
field. Agar ago this spring, or Whereabouts,
he removed to Texas, in search Of milder
climate, and where: being democrat and
holding slavery to be authorized by the
scriptures, he thought he could five in peace
and safety. lie settled in Dallas county, and
with his wife boarded in the family of Mr..
T. Smith, STAKEHOLDER and member of the
same church with himself. Shortly after he
had taken up his residence there, he was in
vited- to preach a discourse on the duties of
master and'slave, by MIR. Smith and he COM
piled with the request, most unfortunately
for himself as it turned out, for though the
discourse contained nothing necessarily
against the institution which southern min
listers have not been in the habit of preach
ing with impunity in the South, t commu-
nifty held meeting, presided over by the
sheriff Of the county, passed resolutions de
nouncing Elder Mckinney as an abolitionst,
and ordered him to leave the country. This
he was advised to do, and accordingly started
with MRS. Mckinney, brother named VIM.
Biount,. and a man engaged to take them out
Of the State. They had proceeded only a
short distance, however, when they were met
by mob, who forced them to return, and
placed Mr.. Mckinney in the Jail of Dallas
county, from which he was taken after dark
by the mob, stripped aesrly naked, his
wrists bound with cords and then whipped
on his back with raw hide until his flesh
was lacerated in the most shocking manner.
SEVENTY LAsHEs were we'll put on by seven
of the fends, ten by each, and then they ad-
minisbered double dose to Mr. Blount, sim
! ply because lie had the manhood TO say a
word in defence of brother in strange
land, and in such an extremity. They were
then suffered TO depart, with bleeding and
make their way as best they could out of
Texas. Nr. and Mrs. Mckinney returned to
Bloomfield, where they now are.
The above facts we CLEAN from lengthy
religious .iot-snal published at Cincinnati
They were not furnished by Elder NicKinney,
who has steadily declined to make any pub
LEGATION, but by his friends
,
the friends aad neighbors of Elder Mckin-
ney, held public meeting, without dis
tinction of party or Sect and passed the fol-
lowing resolutions, expressive Of their senti-
ments in re,spaisn to. his treatment in Texas,
which were Published in the Clarion, the
Democratic paper at Bloomfield, and which
we copy by request. We should have stated
that Mr.. Mckinney is advanced in years.
being some sixty years of age:
WHEREAS, Cur esteemed friend Elder Solomon Nc
Kinney, who removed from our midst to Dallas Coun
ty, Texas, last April, has returned with marks and
bruises his person, given while there, without any
legal authority excuse by dasardy set Of cravens
headed by the Sheriff of that county-whose cowar
dice only equaed their meanness and cruelty 10 an
old and inofensiye man WHO had gone to settle in
their country, and who had violated law divine
human And
| WnEREAs, We conceive it to be a duty neighbors
Of Elder Mckinney to give public expressions of our
opinions and feelings in regard to the treatment he
received in Texas therefore
Resolred That Elder Mckinney who has lived in ouI
community for the past six has conducted him
self as good citizen, kind neighhor, and exem
the rights of others.
Resolced, That recognize the right iu State to
mold her own domestic affairs In any manner warrant
ed by the laws of the United States and that deny
the right the United States State, individuals
to interfere with the domestic concerns OF States
! Eesotred, That acknowledge the right of citizens
fthe slavehodng States of this Union, TO hold in
bondage, according to their several laws slaves they
own or legally acquire, and uuqualifedly condemn il
any person or persons any interference with tina
right.
Resoiced, That We condemn the bastard and COW
ardly abuse heaped neghbor, Elder McKinny
by portion of the citizens Of Dallas county, Texas
headed by the Sheriff Of that county, in August last
and call upon the respectable portion of the citizen:
of that county to take such steps may be
to bring the scoundrels to justice.
Resotoed That without distinction ofparty or sect
We condemn the acts of the unprncipled mob in Dial
las county, Texas, who, in a mean and cowardly man
ner, abused our felowcitzen Elder Mckinney, under
pretence of his being Abolitonist Thrusting hin
in Jail, and at the hour of midnight, when coward,
thieves and robbers stalk abroad, brought him out
robbed hia and his friend of their property and
ey, tied him a criminal, stripped his clothes from
his body, and gave him seventy stripes his bacl
with cowhide.
Resotred, That we know Elder Mcklnneys antece
dents to be Of the strctest school, and tina
the had not been changed up to the time Of hi
departure from here to the sunuy chimes of Texas,
and that he advocated characterization Of tn,
slave to the master, either politician or as min
lister Of the Gospel, or advocated countenanced
interference with the relations existing between th