St. Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1861-01-11


THE nEfGN OF TERROR SOUTH
Letter from MinnesOtian in New
Orleans--Tbe Murder of the Three
Carpenters e: Friar.s Point True!
The St Anthony Ee,os of the Sd pub
lishe- Il letter fro.n ALDERMAN MCHERRoN
OF that city, who Was recently in New Or
leans in relation to the treatment received
by himsel, and another Minnesotian, and
Norther.ers generally, in the South, and
confirming the atrocious murder otthe three
carpenters at Friar's point, Mississippi.
The Ne@s says: The wife of Aid. Nc
Heron, this city received yesterday the
following letter from her husband, who is
nov in Cincinnati Il adds another TO the
/ list of outrages, with which the press is
teemng |, is difficult to appreciate the
intensity Of mingled fea. and hate and
madness, which pervade community
! where such ousrages are permitted.
Mr.. HcaEaaos is a well known citizen
! oF St Anthony Mr.. CoGGswELL was re-
I Gently Deputy Sheriff for this county.
! There Inay be some in this community de-
based enough 10 betray THESE gentlemen.
! to the peril OF their lives, but We are hap
| py no. 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 a reign of terror in New Or
| leans, AZ vel 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 a Nor
.hern nan is abused on The smallest pre-
tense imaslnpbi and if there is fire
d gin house or other building burnt, from
any cause whatever, the cry is raised that
it is the work of an abolitionlst, and wo
10 the Northeru man that is found in the
neig ghborhood.
If he escapes being hung he will be shay
s,i on the head, and branded on his cheek
or forehead or # the punishment is meant
to bs light, he may be tarred and feather
ed rode on rail, and then started to the
nearest place To a steamboat or the cars,
,being abused all the way and started
North on deck passage, and if he has no
money, to depend 90 the charity of those
ne may happen 10 be with to keep from
starving
This is no overdrswu picture. but does
not picture half t!.e enormiIies prac-iced by
the chiyalry Of the south.
There have been scores Of men lynched
and hung III the South from no other cause
that being Northern Republicans.
Although other charges, such as e2ci,
.ng slaves, and giving them poison and
atins aud ammunition to kill their masters |.
with are trumped up against them.
The matter of hanging three men az Fri I
ar'S Point you have DO doubt seen in the /,
papers also a denial of it afterwards by !
The Southern press, as also that the letter |
porporting to be written by Halle giving |
the account ot it xhS q forgery. |
But / tell YUu ,Iat il j., verify believe,
y fact that those SITre men were hung IL
a st stated. bar they Pish 10 cover that
Ike The Others. /,
You don't hear uf one case in f!fty that |
is perpetratcd,
The policy Of the press in the South is
70 Suppress tbc publication Of these things
snd when they are published it is the ex,
cep,ion rather than ;he rule.
1t is truly horrible state o! affairs In
New Orleans there is not even an alluson
made to what has been done there, and
yet can furnish proof If ;ny statement is
doubted, that there were, the week before
left, six men hung for being abo,itionsts,
as all Republicans are called, in the city Of
New Orleans.
There have been ssen without limit driv-
en- from the city by the vigilance committee,
so styled.
a,n, or rather, was informed while in |
New Orleans that the course taken bY those
guardians II southern rights aud southern
honor il to ascertain former residence and !
then write to the subservient tools of the
South in The Nor,h 10 find out what the
mars politics have been and ithe has beea
honest enough T. act a Republican he gets
his notice to ieavc instanter.
The Usual lm.t Is twenty four hours,
and it was On request Of that kind that |
le.t-choosiug to leave rather than run the
risk of being taken o'lt the next night and
hung TO lamp post.
Yoa may thi'E such things strange but
nevertheless Thy are true, | could not
write 70 you to warn you not to write me
anything politically; that would compro-
mise me, fearing that the letter would be
opened and read. thereby preoiptating the
very thing vas anxious to avoid Bu.
am thankful that your own good seaae g1i-
ded you in the matter and that you avoided
all things Of the kind.
There we're several o: my letters opened,
some OF them we're rcsealed and some had
written on the envelope ''opened By mis-
take by another person" Amongst that
Dunher the one you wrote me immediately
afte. election but you had the information
so worded. calling them BLACK Republi.
cans tat there could be no advantage
taken.
{. g. Cogg>well wns also driven away.
He vas notified a; eleven o'clock On Sat
u'day night to leave Gn Sunday. He could
not arrange his bushes by the time the
train went out on Sunday evening. and
WAS positively hid until 1 O'Clock next
morning and then left He had been to ST
Louis, and only got back to New Orleans
on the e'ening h,, 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 an auTt it would have been iOci-
hardy in me ~ have resisted or not COM
piied with their "cry moderate request.
ss,f- Time does take the Buckram out Of
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