Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-10-30

to the iavages ol the enemy, and the cru
el les which they exercised on such Of the
miserable whites as fell into their hands
cannot be remembered will ont horror, or
lepented in terms strong enough TO con.
ycy proper idea Of their atrocity.
THE HORRORS fSCREAsE---wilITE MEN SAW.
Ell AsUNDER.
They seized Mr.. Blcn, an officer Of the
police, and having nailed him alive to ono
Of the gates Of his plantation, CHOPPED off
his limbs, one By one with an axe.
A poor man named Roberts, aarpcn-
ter by trade, endeavo,ing to conceal him.
self from the notice Of the rebels, was dis
covered in his hiding place, The sava-
ges declared that he should die in the way
of his occupation. Accordingly they
bound him between two boards, and de-
liberately sawed him asunder.
Man,ier CatddineOu, planter Of Grand
Rivierc, had two ma uraI sons by black
woman. He had manumittcd them in
infancy and bred them up with great ten.
derness They both joined in the rev olt
and when their father attempted to di-
vert them FROM their purpose by soo;h-
ing language and pecuniary considera-
tion, they took his money and they stab
bed him to the heart.
All the white, and even the mulatto
children whose fathers had not joined in
the revolt, were murdered without ex2ep-
ton, equcntly before the eyes or cling
ing to the bosoms of their mothers
Young women of all ranks were violated
by whole troop o! barbarians, and then
generally put to death. Some OF them
were indeed reserved for the further graf
ilicaton of the lust cf the savages and
others got their eyes scooped out with a
knife.
DAUGHTERS RAvIsnED ~ TIE PRESENCE or
THEIR FATHERS.
In the parish Of Limbc, at a Place call.
ed Great Ravinc, venerable planter, the
father of two beautiful young ladies, was
tied down by a savage ringlGader o: a
band who ravishcd his eldest daughter II,
Ills presence and delivered over the other
to one of his followers. Their passions
being satisfied, they murdered both the
father and the daughters.
In freqrcnt skirmiohes between the for
aging parties sent out by the negroes
(who after having burned every thing,
were in scarcity Of provisions and the
whites, the rebels seldom stood their
ground longer than to receive and return
one single vollel but they appeared again
the next day, and though they were at
length driven out of their entrenchmcnts
with infinite slaughter, yet their numbers
seemed not diminished. As soon as one
body was cut off another appeared, and
thus they succeeded in halrassing and de.
stroying the whites by pcrpetua! fatigue,
and reducing the country to II desert.
TWO THOUSAND PERSONS MAssAcEED.
TO detail the various conflicts, skirm
ishes, massacrcs and scenes of slaughter,
which this eXterminating war produced
were to offer disgusting and trightiul
picture--a combination Of horrors
wherein we should behold crueltics uneX
ampled in the annals Of mankind human
blood poured forth in torrents; the earth
blackencd with ashes and the air tainted
with pcstilcnce. 1t was computed that
within two months after the revolt first
began Wpword oJ' tcO Thousand aChtte Per-
sans IF at conditions, Hod 6een n'0sSacr6a.'
thai one hundred and eighty sugar plan
tations, and about nine hundred coffee,
cotton and indigo settlements had been
destroyed-the buildings thereon being
by fire--and twelve Christian
families reduced from opulcncc to such
state of misery as to depend altogether
for their clothing and subsistence on pub
lie and ptivate charity! OF the insurgents
it was rcckoned that upward of ten thou
sand had pclished by the sword or by
famine, and some hundreds by the hand
of the eXccutioner.