Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-05-30

hung until be was dead. and then they
called him a damned Lincolnite Union
shriker, and said, "Como on tits your iuro
next" He sank, but they pVopej him up
and led him 10 the halter, and swung both
of on the same gallows. en
THE CASE OF IAUN.
They camo after that for another man,
aud they took J. G. Haun OUT Of jail--a
young man Of fine sense, good address, and
ofexcellcnt cbaracter--tall spare made man,
leaving wife at home, with four or FIVE
helpless children. My wife passed the
farm Of Hauu's the other day, when they
drove her out Of Tennessee and sent her on
TO New Jersey--I thank them kindly for
doing so--and saw bis wife ploNing, en-
doavoliug to raise corn for her suffering and
starving children.
That is the spirit Of secession, gentle
men. And yet you have n set Of God for
saken, unpriDcipled men at the north who
arc apologizing for them and sympathizing
with them. When they took Haun out
and placed him on The scaffold they had
drunken chaplain. They were kind enough
to notify him an hour before the hanging
that he was to be hung. Haun at once
made an application for Methodist preach
er, Union man, TO come and pray for him.
They denied him the privilege, and said
that God didn't hear any prayers in behalf
Of any damed Union-shrieker, and he had
literally 10 do without the benefit Of the
clergy. But they had near the gallows an
unpriucipled, drunken chaplain of their
own army who got up aud undertook to
apologize for Haun. He said ;--"This
poor unfortunate man, who is about to pay
the debt Of nature, regrets tho course he
took. He said he was misled by the I'm
ion paper" Haun rose up, and with
clear, stentorian voice, said, "Fellow citi-
zens-Thero is not word Of truth in that
statement. have authorized nobody to
make such statement. What | have said
and done / have done and said with my
eyes open, and if it were done over, would
do it again. am ready to bang, and you
can execute your purposes" He died like
n man, he died like Union man, like an
East Tennesseean ought to die. As God
is my judge, would sooner be Haun in
the grave to-day than any ono of the
scoundrels concerned in bis murder.
WHIPPING UNION MEN.
In the county Of Knox, wherc I reside,
and only seven miles west of the town of
Knoxville, they caught up Union men, tied
them upon logs, elevated the log upon
blocks six or ten inches from the ground,
out the men upon their breasts, tying their
hands and feet under the log, stripped their
'acks entirely bare, and then, with switch
IS, cut their backs literally to pieces, the
blood running down at every stroke. They
'ame into court when it was in session, and
when the case was stated, the judge replied
These are revolutionary times, and there
s no remedy for anything of the kind"
A DAUGHTER SAVES HER FATHER.
One event after another occurred, final.
y man Of excellent character, ono of
Andy Johnson's constituents from Green
county, by the name Of Hessing Self, was
condemned to be hung by this drumhead
court martial, and they were kind enough
TO let him know that he was 10 hang few
hours before the hour appointed. His
daughter, who had come down TO admins
ter to his comforts and consola,ion--a most
estimable girl about twenty-one years Of
age-Elizabcth Self, tall, spare made
girl, modest, handsomely attired, begged
leave TO enter the jail to see her father
They permitted her, contrary to their usual
custom and savage barbariiy, to go in
They had him in small iron cage, ter
rible affair; they opened little door and
the jailor admitted her. A parcel of us
went to witness the scene.
As she entered The cage where her father
was-who was to die at four O'Clock that
afernoon-she clasped him around the
neck, and be embraced her also, throwing
his arms across her shoulders. They sob
bed and cried, they shed their tears and
made their means. stood by. and | new
er bebeld such sight since God Almighty
made me, and hope l may never see the
like again. When they had parted, wiring
ing each other BY the hand, as she came
out of the cage, stammering and trying TO
utter something ineligible, she Iisped my
name. She knew my face, and could un-
derstand as much as that she desired me 10
write dispatch to jeff Davis and sign her
name, begging him to pardon her father
l worded it about thus:
Hon. JEFFERSON DAvIs-My father,
Hessing Self, is sentenced to be hanged at
four o'clock to-day. am living at home
and my mother is dead. Ny father is my
earthly all upon him my hopesare centred,
and, friend, l pray you to pardon him.
Respectfully,
ELIzABETH SELF.
JEFF. Davis, who had better heart than
the rest of them, perhaps, Immediately re-
sponded-for he could not Withstand the
appeals of a woman-to General Carroll,
told him not to hang that man Sell, but TO
keep him 10 Jail and let him atone for his
crimes certain time.
RELIEF WAITED FOR.
Hanging is going on all over East Ten
nessee. They shoot them down in the
fields, they whip them. and strange as il
may seem to you, in the counties Of Camp
bell and Anderson they actually Iacerate
with switches the bodies of females, wives
and daughters of Union men--clever, re-
spectacle women. They show no quarters
10 male or female; they rob their houses
and they throw them into prison. Our
ails arc all full now, and we have complain
ID and fought hard that our government
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