Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-17

Our informant describes the pain of thi
infection as exceeding in severity any
thing which he had ever suffered before
His bach. and lower limbs are still GOV
cred with the scars of the wounds.
!. A bucket of tar was then brought, ant
two negroes were ordered to rub it upol
his bleeding skin, and to cover him from
1 head to waist. His hair and eyebrow!
were clotted with the tar. After thiI
part Of the ceremony was concluded be
!. was covered with feathers His pants.
looms were then drawn up to his waist
but he was not. allowed to put on his
ishirt or coat. He was conducted in this
fexposed condition, amid the shouts Of
the populace, to the railroad train, and
put on the negroes car. The engineer
blew a continuous blast on his whistles to
Isignalize the performance.
A citizen of Charleston on the tram,
who saw the poor fellows unhappy con-
dition, stepped into neighboring hotel
before the starting of the cars, and
brought cup of coffee and some biscuit
to relieve the sufferers ,faintness. Z
was a timely gift, and gratefully received,
But the Southern -chiFalry gathered
around the Southern gentleman, and
threatened him with summary ven
geance if he repeated his generosity.
The exasperated crowd detained the
train, and called for more tar and feath-
ers, for further infiction upon their
bleeding victim. More tar was brought,
but more feathers could not be found;
and after fresh tar was applied, cotton
was stuck upon it instead. i
When the train started for Charleston,
the mob babe him good-by, and told him
that when he reached this city he would
receive 130 lashesi At every station be-
tween Columbia and Charleston, the en-
gineer blew a prolonged whistle, and
gatherd mob to add fresh insults to the
wounded man. At length, on ARRIVING
he was met by the police, conveyed to
prison, and detained in his cell for an
entere week. Here he received, for the
first time, soap and water to wash off the
tar, and oil to soften his sores. A mob
several times threatened to break into the
prison to carry him out into the street,
and make public spectacle of him a sec
ond time. But he was kept tclosely con-
fined A physician called to see him, to
examine his wounds, who told him that
his case was mild zone, comparing it
with that of man who was then lying
in the City Hospital from the effect of
500 lashes, which had almost put amend
to his life!
On Saturday morning last, at seven
o'clock, the poor workman was taken
from prison, and conducted quietly on
board the steamer for New York. He
arrived in this city on Mehday last, whore
he is still staying, recoFe ag from the
.eGscts as his u -treatme ST. sna leoking
for work, which we hope may find.
We have only one comment to make
on this case. This man informed us that,
in common with the great mass of Irish
men in this country, he had always voted
with the Democratic party. He had
long known in Philadelphia that the
Democratic party upheld slavery, but he
never learned, until he went to South
Carolina, that slavery crushed the white
laborer, and that the Democratic party,
in upholding slavery, is therefore the
enemy of Irishmen, who ares nation of
laborers. In the Southern States, work
is looked upon as dishonorable, and work
men as degraded. This is what an Irish
stone e-cutter leared while cutting stone in
South Carolina We hope the lesson of
his experience may reach the ears Of his
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