New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-05
DEMOCRATIC OUTRAGE.
A GERMAN CITIZEN HANGED, BEATEN AND
ROBBED.
FyO~ The QUINCY M B5ig FEB. %.

Fyo. The cTisey IIILJ Hhis FEB. o.
Yesterday respectable GsrRsn soS Sltssn 81 81
brotherin-law of Mr.. II. Dasbach, OF this city,
who has resided in LaGrange for the last twelve
years, was brought 10 Quincy victim TO tne
horrOrs Of PrO-Savery outraee-the recital OF Whch
ia enough TO make the blood Of any man who has
soul boil in he veins. We called upon Mr.. Sehaller
and obtained the statement which we P90heh oeloW.
We Jaw the bloody evidence of the terrible treatment
he bad undergone, heard the story Of tne aisl S a.
Of his statement He is respectable and inteihgehs
nan and his plain and simple account OF u oassfdy
outrage was venture TO say I'M oheity cIe1se1 oy
The hundreds of our citizens who called a, Mr.. Dss
bach 8 Yesterday. .
Mr. Schaller has always vetedth Democratic ucses,
AID we are assured by German ctzens Of quincy tns
in his visits this city lie hae defended the lnsutaSn
o. il existed in missouri That be Is lnnocenLo' Tue
charge Of assisting neoesto escape-As he lnsiss-"e
have no dOnbt.
Wetrust that our German ctzens especially those
who have been in the habit OF voting the Oemoetaue
ticket viii ponder well thf hsgous outrage and then
determine whether they can continue TO voc win d
party whose cardinal principle s the spread ana sHe
non Of that nftituton which is the parent OF eueh
dsunsble and brutal lswleSsnesR. =, q,
We are under obligations 10 the edltors OF me 10"
rne for the translation Of Mr. Scaallers statement;
STATEMENT or HR. sCHALLER
have been resident OF missouri i9r WE'VE ,
Of n q time in Lagrange IL toe Latter place nave
property / have never meddled with slaves or
Naverg and have always been Democrat 49,.
Late lat Fall or eaIlJ in the Winter heard tnat zen
Saves had run of; / know nothing about u TN
Heard of f. and do reeolect OF ever having seen
Dem. could therefore not have aided their escape.
Nobody In Lagrange ever suspected me OF phpeiiD8
with siaves tiIl last Sunday. went on thst Gay W
Csrton 10 invite some friends 10 party that was 70
lsle ulsoe last Tuesday. On my srriVai thSre W 40
waited mon by three persona, Jim hng, JOSH OWe1s,
AM Pin XVabster who informed me OF my being un1er
su,ncop ~ having aided the escape OF slave OF h1.
- Harr;s and would have 70 return win them "A.
frss took the matter for joke, but soon iouu u.
they were In earnest On the night on "hch sis 49,
ran Off who was caught again, az ten elo " Tn
prove by twelve or fou cen persons thaI ga az. 80
house III twelve o'clock, consequently eouu A'' A'
AIDED the negro ,oaso. and
asked for fair trial only easily could nave
10y innocence was taken 10 she Lagrange npueo'
and asked 10 be tried next day Monday D9t "as "a
fused On Monday night armed posse OF y =. "
men came tied our (my brother Williams, NOD d
tss who had been taken before my return rom SalI
toll aud nv hands and put into hack. Two others,
Frhhk Gerach and a Mr.. Holmes, were set Tree, Out
ordered 10 leave town. Oar hands were tied ana VIC
were driven in the hack about three mics 20 VIC 49,
Pills road where the hack stopped ana Mas ss' -,
out To nv question where they were taxing me 70,
/ got the answer that WA 10 be hanged. sskSa
them what for and received as an answer thst snou
tell them ali about the Niger scrsPts' ABOUT '%nuVo''
etc.
As knew nothing about them, had never seen . ~
beard of M VaDdoon could not give the answer
they wanted They took me about quarter OF l,'lo
into the woods and hanged me. caught ths Hse, DN
BY beating my hsnds with eicks they comgeioI n'v ~
let 80 my bold Soon was senseless; men olT,o
again, felt two persona, one on oaeh saa''