St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1861-01-11
POLITICAL NEWS.
THE nErGN OF TERROR SOUTH.
Letter from n MinnesOtfan IA new
Orleans--Tbe Murder OF the Three
Carpenter~ a. Friar,s Point True!

Levet1 from IAhhuceosAsAA A.A 49,
Orleans--Tbe Murder OF the Three
Carpenters ct Friar's Point True!
The St Anthony Eews of the Sd pub
fishes a letter fro,n ALDERMAN MCHERRoN
OF that city, who was recently in New Or
leans in relation to the treatment received
by himself and another Minnesotian, and
Northerners generally, in the South, and
confirming the atrocions murder ofthe three
carpenters at Frar's point, Mississippi.
The Neus says: The wife OF Aid. Nc
Heron, Q this city received yesterday the
following letter from her husband, who is
now in Cincinnati 1t adds another to the
list of outrages, with which the press Is
teeming 1t is difficult to appreciate the
intensity of mingled fear and hate and
madness, which pervade community
where such outrages are permitted.
Mr.. McHERsoN is we'll known citizen
OF St. Anthony. Mr.. CoGGswELL 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 them
| will now give you brief history OF the
causes that isd me to come to this place,
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 Vicksburg Nor
thern man is abused on the smallest pre-
tense imaginable, and if there is fire
! a 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 he 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
ne may happen to be with to keep from
starving. .-..
This is no overdrswp picture, but does
| not picture half the enormities practiced by
the chiyalry of the south.
There have been scores Of men lynched
and hung in the South from no other cause
that being Northern Republicans.
Althoug 81 other charges, such as excit-
ing slaves, and giving them poison and
arms aud ammunition to kill their masters
with are trumped up against them.
The matter of hanging 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
purporting to be written by Halle giving
the account OF it was a forgery.
But tell YOU that il il, verify believe,
u fact that those tnrue men were hung as
a st stated. bat they wish 10 cover that
Ike the others.
You don't hear OF one case in fifty 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 horrible state Of affairs. In
New Orleans there is not even an allusion
made to what has been done there, and
yet can furnish proof if my statement is
doubted, that there were, the week before
left, six men hung for being abolitionists,
as all Republicans are called, in the city Of
New Orleans.
There have been Men without limit driv-
en- from the city by the vigilance committee,
so styled
am. on rather, was informed while in
New Orleans that the course taken by those
guardians If southern rights and southern
honor is to ascertain former residence and
then write to the subservient tools Of the
South, in the North to find out what the
mans politics have been, and il he has been
honest enough 70 act Republican he gets
his notice to leave instanter.
The usual limit is twenty four hours,
and it was on request of that kind that |
lelt-cboosiDg to leave rather than run the
risk of being taken out the next night and
hung 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 precipitating the
very thing | was anxious to avoid Blu. ]
am thankful that your own good sense gui-
ded you in the matter and that you avoided
all things Of the kind.
There we're several Of my letters opened, |
some OF them were resealed and some had |
written OH the envelope "opeDed by mis-
take by another person" Amongst that
number the one you wrote me Immediately
after election but you had the information
so worded. calling them "Biack Republi-
cans" that there could be no advantage
taken.
G. G. Cosgswell was also driven away.
He was notified at eleven o'clock on Sat
urday night to leave On Sunday. He could
not arrange his bushes by the time the
train went out Oh Sunday evening. and
was positively hid until O'Clock next
morning and then left He had been to ST
Louis. and only got back to New Orleans
on the evening he was notified to leave
Don't it seem hard that such things should
exist in this country? Yet such is the
case.
! would have remained in New Orleans
! this winter had not been interfered with.
But am sure it would have been iool
hardy in me 10 have resisted or not COM
piled with their very moderate request.