North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-10
EXECUTIVE GLEMENCY--THEM MIN
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The people of Minnesota manifest great dis
pleasure because of the Presidents revoking
the sentence of death against the three hun
dred savages, a portion of those who recently
committed the murderous atrocities against
the white men, women and children of that
State, and their complaints are not without
good foundation. While the President can
issue proclamation setting free four millions
of slaves, in which he declares that nothing
shall be done to prevent "any efforts" they
may make to secure their freedom-thus in
viting them to butcher the whites, if necessa-
ry. to obtain their liberty, he is too tender.
hearted to allow sentence OF death to be ex-
ecuted against bood-thirsty. savages who
have committed, against the defenseless and
unoAending white people in their neighbor-
hood such atrocities as make one shudder to
think of. These red fends, incensed at the
failure of Mr.. Lincoln to pay them their annu-
tiles when due, murdered, it is said, thous-
and innocent men, women and children -
committed outrages upon women, whose
lives they choose to spare, worse thar death
itself, destroyed property to the amount of
millions, and desolated large region of coun-
try; yet Mr.. Lincoln, while he contemplates
with evident pleasure the fratricidal and
fluitless slaughter now going on between the
white people of the North and South, and
while he can cody authorize the negro slaves
OF the Southern States to cut the throats of
the white women and children of those States
cannot find it in his philanthrophic soul to
have the red devils of Minnesota executed
Ii they had killed half as many negroes as
they have white people, we doubt whether
Mr.. Lincoln would have revoked their sep-
tence.
Not long since Col. Cor Gen) McNeal, Or
Missouri, shet ten citizens of that State. he.
cause single man, residing in their neigh.
oerhood was missing and they would not. or
could not, give information where he was
These ten men were Observation-Disclosures
had never taken up arms against the govern
ment-nothlns whatever had been proven
against them, in any formal or lawful manner
lhey were arrested while III pursuit of their
ordlnaay occupations, aud told by this Nc.
Mel that, II the missing man We're not found
within certain time, they should be shot
Ihe man was not found and they were shot.
A description of the manner in which thew
met their fate appeared in this and other na.
pers, short time since, and our readers
doubtless remember with what courage and
herolsm they suffered this military murder
Abraham Lincoln, as Commander-in-C Chief oc
the Army, has never even reprimanded Nc
Mel, who still disgraces the American name
by holding undisturbrd command ofa nor.
OF the Union army. Yet Mr. Lincoln's heart.
which revolts not a: this cowardly murder of
White men, is to tender 10 allow the Indian
savages of Minnesota to be executed for the
damnable crimes and atrocities which thew
have committed.
Not long ago, Col Turchin, in Gen. Mitch
els command, gave his men four hours oe
freedom in Athens, Alabama, to do as thew
pleased. They repaired to youg ladies'
SEMINARY ana committed outrages which can
not be named in public journal. Turchin
was afterwards promoted by the President to
Brlgadier Gsneralship, and Mitchell was
canonIzed. But, Mr.. Lincon's Christian
heart cannot bear to think of the execution of
the Minnesota savages.
We do not wonder that the white people
OF Minnesota feel outraged and disgusted by
Mr. Llncoln,s revocation of the death sem
tence against the savagcs. The white people
OF the State have suffered indcscribably from
the outrages of these red fiends and their
future safety require that terrible example
should te made of those brutes in human
form. But Mr.. Lincoln has decided that the
lives and property of the whites are of secon-,
Diary Importance in comparison with the lives
OF the mnrderers and ravagers of their wives,
and daughters. .-Er.