The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-03-28
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Whipping New Yorker in Missouri.

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Here is su extract from letter written
by Fl. W. Beach of Essex County, N Y.
He had done work in Missouri, and after
brief visit to Wisconsin, returned to
Missouri to collect money due to bin.
The letter tells the result. Singularly g.
noush, the unreasonable young man seems
to be opposed to compromise in the case:
Nebraska City, Feb. 13, 1861.
DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER: When
| got back from Wisconsin, some one had
told them that | was a salaried 'nigger
thief; SO | was taken the very night got
back to where had been at work in the
woods by ten or twelve rufians stripped
bare, tied to tree. a rope put around my
neck and over a limb, aDd told that had
got to own up or be whipped to death.
| tried to reason with them, but they were
full of whisky. and of course it did no
good. They cut whip eight on ten feet
long (crotched), and then set one man to
pull up the rope, and another to apply
the forked CAD, aoith both hands until 1t IS
uSedup entirely, and then gave me a chance
to own up again. told them they could
probably extort anything they wished by
whipping long enough, bat that as long
as had my senses could tell them moth
ing different from what had. They got
another CAD then, and used it up in the
came way; put fresh hand at it of course
this time, whether to divide the honor or
to multiply the pain could not deter
mine. probably the latter. Thanks to
kind human nature, 1t refused to feel the
most Of the last fifty as they called it
The three that did the whipping and cho-
king were strangers. The others stood
off at distance, aud as it was between 8
and IL o'clock in the night, | could po.
recognize them. The leader has been
justice of peace, and is now Postu sster
at Fillmore, Missouri. They tried to
frigbten me with their revolvers, and one
that bad hold Of the rope, after they had
concluded to whip no more, stuck his re-
volver up to my head and With great grav-
ity and sterDness. said "Now, Cd
d-n you. own up, or | will blow your
ID brains out They caught hold OF
him and held his pistol. Then be swore
be would break uy neck, aud then jerked
up on the rope, but they at length united
me, not, however, until | bad promised
to leave and stay away, which is not hard
to do. The charge of 'Abolitionist' was
base fabrication, got up BY one or two
that were owing me, to get rid of paying.
Now | hope there may be civil war
anything for an excuse for me to go into
Missouri, to hunt some of those blood.
hounds; but will hold my temper.
The Essex County Republican says of
this case:
"Now, in the name of God and out
ragged hum anity, we ask, how long are
free born citizens of tbs Republic to suf-
fer such indigDities Are we men, or
slaves, to submit quietly to any hellish
outrage which these Slavery ruffans may
see fit to inhict on our sons and daugh-
tersl Ii our manhood is not entirely
gone, then in Heavens name let US de-
mand redress for this and similar outra-
ges, and also security and safety for our
citizens in the Slave States, and falling to
obtain both by fair and peaceable means.
then let US demand and secure at the poin!
of the bayonet. on the red field of battle,
if needs be, the rights which God and ma
ture have made inalienably ours"
We fear our Northern cotsmporary is
guilty of agitating the Slavery question.
Be cool; let US compromise.