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

ia. PLANTS, EDITOR.
TUESDAY, january ~, s6(
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
s No. 4.
'Condition OF Society In the South
An Irishman's sufsrings IN south Car
olina.
Dear Telegraph In our last we CAV
some account of the expulsion from Ken
lucky of many of her peaceful citizens
for holding opinions adverse to the ia
natical slavery doctrines of the Dem
ocratic party of that State. We hav
just had short conversation with gen
tleman who spent some time in Kentuck,
recently, and were assured that persons
living in free State, where laws are en-
forced and rights respected, can form nc
conception Of the state of things in the
South. The most desperate characters
seem to be the most secure. Where the
forms of law are resorted to it is not fol
the purposes of justice. The murderer
in street brawl feels no fear of punish
ment, while the humble christian is in
daily dread of beingNdenounced as an
"Abolitionist." The man who can
drink, blaspheme, maltreat the negroes,
and curse the "Abelitionists, is free to
do whatever else he pleases The false
priest and hypocritical professor Of reli-
gion, who use the Bible to uphold op-
preston and its inseparable pollutions,
are there tolerated and caressed, while a
single prayer in the privacy of the FAM
lily altar, if offered up to God from a
pious heart, for the coming of His King
dom, and the doing of His will, upon
earth; if the worshiper is suspected of
unsoundness on the negro question, and
is overheard by the eavesdropper, is
sufficient to hurry him to the prison by
the authorities, or to the worse fate-the
brutality of the mob.
We here give the account of the treat
ment Of q young Irishman, as related by
himselfto the editor of the New York
Indepesde,t. But one solitary paper in
the State in which this savage and brutal
outrage occurred, had the courage or the
disposition to denounce the atrocity.-
The Charleston Courier, after giving a
full statement of the facts, concluded its
article ID flIese words: In the name of
ana lsls hon0f and iame 81 South
Carolina5 we protest against such acts
and such modes of punishment for Of
fenses which are amply covered by our
statutes" And for this protest the Gour-
aer is denounced as an abolition .
sheet by the other papers, and will prob
ably have to recant, or feel the vengeance
of the mob. Here is the account re-
ferred to:
~ lFrom the New York independently
The Northern newspapers have re-
Gently repubiished a brief paragraph
from the Charleston Mercury announcing
In very nonchalant style, that a work
man engaged on the State House, in Co
lumbia, s. c., was recently seized by a
mob, on account, as was alleged, of hold
ing anti-slayery opinions, and that he
received twenty mine lashes, and was
tarred and feathered, and escorted out of
the State. ssaz..se s.,i= .salaa
E-It tookaryery- few lines to tell this
story, according to, the style of the
Southern press; for it is q trait of South
ern chEalry, first to practice cruelty, and
then to suppress the facts.
We have seen this unfortunate man,
and heard his story, and locked at his
wounds. His name is James Power. He
is an intelligent young man, about twen-
ty-three years of age, native .of Wex-
ford, Ireland, and stone cutter by trade
He went from Philadelphia to the South,
and chained employment in Columbia,
where he had worked for nine months
The only opinion he ever expressed
against slavery was, that it caused a
white laborer in the South to be looked
upon as an inferior and degraded man
But this was enough! The remark was
reported to the Vigilance Committee
(composedfpf twelve MEMBERS who i'm
mediately lordered the police to arrest
him. He was seized two miles away
from town in attempting to escape. He
was brought back and put in a cell
where he remained for three days, during
which time he was denied the use of per
and ink, and all communication with his
friends outside. aa ~ z@
AT length lie was taken before the
Mayor Four persons appeared and bore
testimony to the remark which he had
made. The evidence was conclusive
He was returned to prison, and KEEP
locked up for six days. During this tim'
he was allowed only two scanty meals
day, and the food was carried to him b,
negro. He was then taken out of jai
in the custody of two marshals, who saie
to him: ie
-s9ssYou are so fond of niggers, that W
are going to give you niger escort ;
:. He was led through the main stree
amid great crowd, hooting and yelling
the marshals compelling two negroes t
drag him through the puddles ant
muddy places Of the street, and of tn
State House yard. As he was take
past the State House, three members Q
the. Legislature, including the Speaker
stood looking on and laughing! Tn
crowd gradually increased until it mum
bered several thousand persons, heade
by troop ofhorse.
After a march of three miles out Q
the city to place called "the Junction,
the procession was stopped, and prepare
ton was made for punishment. Th
ypopulace. cried Brand him!' "Bur