Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-04-04
WHAT ARMING NEGROES HAS
DON E.-.THE HISTORY OF THE
san DOMINGO MASSACRE.
NJ IouIs scHADE, OF IOWA.

the morning Of the 23d Of August, 1871,
just before day, that a general alarm and
CONSERVATION spread throughout the town
Of the Cape. The Inhabitants were called
from their beds BY persons who reported
that al! the negro slaves in the several
neighboring parishes had revolted, and
were at that moment carrying death and
dissolution over the adjoining large ami
beautiful plain to ,he northeast The Gov.
eSsor and most of the military officers OF
duty assembled together, but the reports
were so confused aud contradictory as to
gaia but little credit. As daylight began
to break, the sudden and successive arri
val, with ghastly countenances, of persons
who had with difficulty escaped the mas
sacre, and flown to the town for protection,
brought dreadful confirmation of the
fatal tidings. .'S' - 3. '74 h
The rebellion first broke out on plan.
tstion called Noe, in the parish Of Aculi,
nine miles only from the city. Twelve,or
fourteen Of the ngleaders, about the mid
ole ut the hight proceeded to the ref merry,
| or sugar house, and seized Oh Young
man. the reGner's apprentice, dragged him
to the front Of the dwelling house, and
there hewed him into pieces with their cut
.!asses; his screams brought out the over
seer, whom they instantly shot. The re-
bels now found their way to,he apartment
OF the rehner, and massacreed him in his
bed. a young man lying sick in a neigh.
boring chamber was left apparently dead
Of the wounds inflicted by their cutlasses.
lie had strength enough, however, to crawl
to the next plantation, and relate The hor.
rors he had witnessed. He reported that
all the whites Of the estate which he haa
lef. were N urdered, except only the sur.
geon, whom the rebels had compelled to
accompany them, on the idea tha. they
might stand in need of his professional
assistance. Alarmed by this intelligence,
the persons to whom it wss comm unicated
immediately sought their safety in flight.
The revoIters Consisting now ut oil the
slaves belonging to that plautation) pro
ceeded ta the house OF u Mr.. CIemen, by
Whose negroes they were imtn, dIa,ely
joined, and both he and his reiuer we're
massacred. The murderer Of Mr.. Gle,
meut was his own pos,illion, (coachmsn)
aman to whom he bad always shown grea,
kndEess. The other white people OF this
estate contrived to make their escape.
At this juncture, the negroes on TIE
plat tation OF NJ. Fayile, few miles dis
tant, likewise rose and murdered Eve white
persons, one Of whom 1.-THE attorney Of the
es.ate) had a wife and three dau eh.ers.-
These unfortunate women, while inplor-
ing for mercy Of the savages on their
knees, beheld their husband and father
murdered before their faces. For them.
selves, they we're devoted to more horrid
fate, and were carried away captives by
the assassDs ~ 5.a
The approach of daylight served only
to discover sights of horror 1t was now
apparent that the negroes Of all the es-
ta'es Of the plain acted in concert, and a
general massacre of the whites took place
in every quarter. Ga some few estates,
indeed, the lives of the women we're spared,
utthey we're reserved only to crafty the
brutal appetites OF the ruGans; and it is
shocking to relate, that many ct them snt:
.Jered ciolations on the dead bodies either
husbands and Jat4ers. ..,.,,..
Inil2Ae Sandard Of the Negroes The
Body Of a Whts, ,Lyaat-!". In the town
itself, the general belief for some time
was, that the revolt was BY no means an
extensive, but sudden aud partial insur'
reclion only. The largest sugar planta-
lion on The plains was tha, Of Mons. Gal.
lifet, situated about eight miles from the
town. the negroes belonging to which had
always been treated with such kindness
and iberality, and POSSESSED 50 many ad.
vaniages, that it became proverbisl eex.
preston among tina lower white people, in
speaking Of any tnaa's goqd fortune; 20
osay u cst tAesreax IN negrc de Galiijet,
b ths7s as happy as one Of Galiife,s ne.
,sroes) Mona Odeluc. the attorney or
agent for this plantation WAS = member of
the General Assembly, andbeing fally per.
susded that The, negroes belonging to it
would remain 6rm in ,heir obedience. Dc.
tsrminsd to repair thither to encourage
them in opposing the insurgents to which
end hs dsaired the assistance Of a few
: soldiers from the town guard, WHICH was
granted him. He proceeded accordipgly,