Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-27
FRATERNITY FURTHER ILLUsrRA-


FRATERNITY FURTHER ILLUsrAA-
Last week We gave an account OF a
brutal outrage committed upon the cap
tain and crew of small trading vessel,
by mob, in Georgia. As we then sta
ted, we could fll columns of the '7sle-
graph weekly with similar accounts. We
here give another, that our readers may
hAve some idea of the sacredness of
citizenship, in this boasted land of free
dena. .- sss
The despotisms of Austria and Italy,
ofwhich we hear 30 much, are tender
msrcies comparedwith the reign ofterror
now existing in many of our States.-
These despptisms of the old world, bad
asthey are, proceed according to the
forms of law, and people are not dis
turbedif they strictly obey these laws.
Tyranieal as these laws are, they are
still laws, and people in those countries,
although deprived of the inherent right
TO speak their honest sentiments, are
Rot in danger of personal insult and out
fseeso long as they do not viel,te the
s."-- a-eaueizvriisivs r-o.~~.-t per
sons Of the people, and life is secure.
But slave mobs, in the unreasoning
passion of fanaticism, seize, fog, tar and
FEATHER, imprison, hang, murder, or
drive ont the citizens who violate no
law, on the mere suspicion that they
hold sentiments opposed tohuman bond
sge. And this they do without the
slightest rebuke from the authorities,
either State or National. Indeed, the
perpetrators. of these enormities are en-
souragcd BY the rulers, and find favor in
high places just in proportion to the ex-
tent of their crimes, SO that no mans
person or property is secure who dares
to whisper word in favor of freedom,
-er who is suspected of even reading in
the privacy of his family circle, the wri-
tings of the best and purest men that
ever lived
Recently Mr.. Charles Recmelin, a well
known and highly educated and inhuen-
tial- German citizen Of Cincinnati, made
a flying trip through some of the South
ern States, and wrote and published in
the Cincinnati Commercial, in series of
short and interesting letters, some ac-
count of what he saw. These letters
we're written in an exceedingly mild
spirit, and with the evident design to
present the Southern people and their in
.titutions in the best and most favora-
BILE light they would bear So much
did his sketches partake of this charac-
ter that they were rather offensive to
many of his friends in Ohio. But in
one of his letters he gave plain and un-
vanished account of the auction Of hu-
man chattels in the slave mart of Nash
vile. This letter in due time reached
Memphis in the Cjmniercial, and sup
posing that Mr.. Reemelin was then, in
that..city, the mob was invoked by the
most infammatofy and fanatical appeals
of the papers; and but for the fact that
Mr.. Reemelin had left the city before
his letter in the Commercial arrived
there, there is no doubt but he would
have suffered the brutal violence of the
mob, if indeed his life had not been the
forfeit.
But our purpose in this article was
simply to call attention to the statement
Of Frederick Schaller, which is append
ed. Mr.. Schaller is German, who has
resided twelve years in Missouri, and is
certified BIZ some of the best men in H.
linois and Missouri, who have known
him long and we'll, as an honest, truth
full, industrious man, who always voted
the Democratic ticket, but never took an
active part in politics, and in no way in
terfered with the institution of slavery
Mr., Schaller's statement is fully sus-
tanned by the account given of the trans
action in the paper published at La
grange, in Missouri, where the lynching
took place.
The pro-slavery regulators, or self
styled Vigilance Committee of Lagrange,
pretended to suspect number of citizens
of that place with entertaining the idea
that free white labor was better for the
State than the labor of negro slaves, and
that they had in some manner been cog
infant of the attempted escape Of a slave
from that place. On this pretended
suspicion they seized Frederick Schaller,
and his brother, B. Sehaller, who were
Germans, and ~ Matti and and F. Kel-
Ter, Americans, on whom they perpetra-
ted their brutality. AS there was no
possible evidence against any of these
men, they hung Matti by the neck un-
til he was senseless, and then let him
down and demanded that he should tes-
. tify against the others. AS he had moth
ing to testify, he could not of course sat
isfy the mob in that way, but they would
be satisfied with nothing else. They
then stripped Matti and fogged him un-
til life Was nearly extinct, aud swore
they would torture him to- death if he
did not implicate himself and the other
%broe Whom he boJ H. ,ooo,,o,oJ