St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1861-01-11
POLITICAL NEWS.

THE REIGN OF TERROR SOUTH
, Letter from n MinnesOtian in New
Orleans-.Tbe Murder OF the Thre'
: Carpenters al Frisrss Point True!
The St. Anthony Ee,os of the Sd pub
fishes a letter froua ALDERMAN McHERRo,
OF that city, who was recently in New Or
leans in relation to the treatment received
by himself and another Minnesotian, anC
. Northerners generally, in the South, anG
confirming the atrocious murder ofthe three
carpenters at Frlar's point, Mississippi
/ The Ne@s says: The wife of Aid. Nc
Heron, o this city received yesterday the
following letter from her husband, who is
now in Cincinnati. 1t adds another to the
lust of outrages, with which the press is
teeming. II is difficult to appreciate the
intensity of mingled fear and hate and
madness, which pervade community
where such ,outrages are permitted.
Mr.. McHERsoN is q we'll known citizen
OF st. Anthony Mr.. CoeGswELL was re-
Gently Deputy Sheriff for this county.
There may be some in this community de.
based enough 10 betray these gentlemen.
to the peril Of their lives. but We are hap
py not to know theni'
will now give you brief history OF the
! hat ial fN m Sh.u r,lo,,
and will in the first place state briefly that
! it was to save my life.
There is reign of terror in New Or
leans, as well as in the whole South. A
Northern man holds his life in his hands
after getting below Memphis, but nothing
to what it is below there.
After getting as far as Vicksburga Nor
thern man is abused on the smallest pre-
tense imaginable, and If there is q fire
gin house or other building burnt, from
any cause whatever, the cry is raised that
it is the work of an abolitionist, and wo
TO the Northern man that is found in the
neighborhOod.
II be escapes being hung he will be shaw
ed on the head, and branded on his cheek
or forehead, or If the punishment is meant
to be light, he may be tarred and feather
ed, rode on rail, and then started to the
nearest place to steamboat or the cars,
(being abused all the way and started
North on deck-passage, and if he has no
money, to depend on the charity of those
he may happen TO be with to keep from
starving. a-r.
This is no overdrswD picture, but does
not picture half the enormities prac.iced by
the chivalry Of the South.
There have been scores of men lynched
and hung in the South from no other cause |
that being Northern Republicans.
Although other charges, such as excit- |,
ing slaves, and giving them poison and |
arms and ammunition to kill their masters |
with are trumped up against them.
The matter of banging three men at Fri
ar's Point you have do doubt seen in the
papers also denial of it afterwards by
the Southern press, as also that the letter |
to be written by Halle giving
the account of it was forgery.
But tell you that il is, verify believe,
a fact that those three men were hung as
a ct stated, but they wish to cover that
like the others.
You don't hear of one case in Atty that
is perpetrated
The policy of the press in the South is
TO suppress the publication Of these things
and when they are published it is the ex.
ception rather than the rule
1t is truly a horrible state Of affairs In
New Orleans there is not even an aAusion
made to what has been done there, and
yet can furnish proof if my statement is
doubted, that there were, the week before
I left, six men hung for being abolitionists,
as all Republicans are called, in the city of
New Orleans.
There have been Aen without limit driv-
en- from the city by the vigilance committee,
so styled.
a,n, OF rather, was informed while in
New Orleans that the course taken by those
guardians Of southern rights and southern
honor is TO ascertain former residence and
then write to tho subservient tools Of the
South, in the North to find out what the
mans politics have been, and il he has been
honest enough to act a Republican he gets
his notice to leave instanter. Il
The usual limit is twenty four hours.
md it was on request of that kind that
CAb-IoOVS1uS W ACd'C iotnSt tuhll Lllt |
'isk of being taken out the next night and
,ung to lamp post. |;
You may think such things strange but
nevertheless thy are true. could not
write to you to warn you not to write me
anything politically; that would cempro- .
Mise me, fearing that the letter would be
opened and read. thereby preeipitating the
'ery thing was anxious to avoid Bu. {
I'm thankful that your own good sense gui- {
led you in the matter, and that you avoided
III things of the kind.
There were several of my letters opened, {
ome OF them were resealed and some had
written on the envelope 'opened by mis-
AXE by another person" Amongst that =
'umber the one you wrote me Immediately .
lfter election but you had the information [
10 worded, calling them ''Black Republi-
ans" that there could be no advantage
AIKEN
{. g. Cosgswell was also driven away.
de was notified at eleven o'clock on Sat
irday night to leave On Sunday. He could {
lot arrange his bushes by the time the :
rain went out on Sunday evening, and
vas positively hid until 4 O'Clock next
morning and then left He had been to ST.
louis, and only got back to New Orleans {
m the evening h- was notified to leave.
Don't it seem hard that such things should
'xist in this country? Yet such is the
,ase t"-.,'
would have remained in New Orleans
his winter had not been interfered with. 8
5ut am sure it would have been iool- ]
lardy in me to have resisted or not COM
'lied with their very moderate request.
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