, 1863-10-07

ren, Ill they had burnt mp; MrB. DiK, hus-
band killed, has three children, IL they had
children. all they had.. d..burntup; Mrs. schwAb,
husband killed, five children; Hrs. McFad-
den, husband killed, SIX children Mrs. Alice
O'Nen, husband killed, SIX children. 30
reads the heavy calendar, until / reach twenty.
nine, and seven widows burnt out who ware
EidoTe already: and suffering Of all sorts that
I encounter until reach sixty two. - can
enough for the demand" )" the merchantin the
only dry goods store left, said to me week
ago last night, with curious perp1edty, as l.
poor woman went array with some article Us
nearto black rs che could come
And 50 again take refuge in some other
gree, this awful dead level Of crime On the
one side, Jet, indeed, deepens the darkest
color on the other, In proving clearly
that these men were not maddened BY
drink, or swept along out OF their depth
by the occasion, hut tnat they acted. each
was burnt except the colored church that
caught by accident Then, no matter how
fe1cely they fought to defend their husbands,
no woman WAS harmed, no woman was tn-
kulted, except bY murder and Arson. No
child Tas hurt directly, though noticed one
be vas ehot down. Here and there you can
almost hoEe that in this lowest deep Of cru
city there Was some fe1enting-as, for in
stance, when one man went Into q cottage
yiEited, seeking the husband, to kill him,
robbed the wife Of her poor pewter jewelTy,
and then, looking at her little child asleep IN
the cradle, said, II will not burn your house."
then stooped and kitsed the child, and went
away. Or another, where number went to
a hnute, and ordering the woman out, as they
were going to burn II, she cried, %, then, as
yon hope for mercy, help me cut with my
h@1 III -vx,}64 %1nx%c ToA1to
see her;" and whom they saw her, went away,
and lhe house Waa spared Or another,
N N4cn nnmper ale up What the
Eoman coala elve I9em, 1aen Eala, - No@
s5 clss5 ou1' re "ant 70 ontn @ your a9use, a s1e
;n s+ha a thar .iuv" VIA un ss 70 hnrn - Ky s,
n.oases. ana taat WIS spalea. ~ h,oh iMo oInea
instances they spared houses IN Wnich men M
!ay slek. N many ney EVE Il lno ~
tracted women 80 many minutes IN which
to carry out whateyer they did not propose to
steal- IN some instances helped them to
intstance came an Incident that shoots .
ep]tnt Of Light across the horror. A little
woman with q great heart, receiving such
Permission, said, g. will you let me take my
carpets" and when permitted, deity rolled
her gooa MAJ who %as tSa d. in +th the
came staggering out under her burden, and
when one ot The men Offered to help her,
screamed sharp refusal, and dumping her
burden down In the yard, ran back for
chairs and tables to heap upon it, and
the man is alive still to lore her
So was good Methodist minister of ex-
ceeding small stature, asI hear, saved by car
pets, By the sisters with whom he stayed
over night, and another reports how appeal
ire to them on the ground that he was 4 Sun-
day School Agent, WIS bid to run then for
bis lite. And still another Instance is given,
husband, dressed him up 10 o woman with
elaborate precision, {there arc at least three
instances Of men who escaped &C, ] but as this
woman came cut with her prize, something
must hare excited the suspicion Of one of the
men % watching, Who shouted h ID oat m 1r haEshly:
woman va. thrown entirely OF her guard, and
cried: "Ob, spa1e him! it's my husband."
At which ali began to laugh, and bid him run
for bis lie.
And here, Us ever, In these fierce crises of
life and death, what We turn away tom In the
romance rs a. utter presumption on our cre-
dulitY, comes out real as life f,selE A man,
Hying in Lawrence to-day, who, running for
his life, made toward the rayine, with one or
more utter him, waiting for the exact moment
to fire, who coming to q little hollow, IN his
bis hand directly on HE with which be
rose on the instant with his face to the gal
lopiug foe. who when they saw him stand
SO. Wheeled sharply round and rode away, #
I were that man all the adverse philosophy
In this world could never shake my belief Ia
a verJ, very special and particular ProYi-
dence.
One hundred and forty-one men we're
killed instantly or have since died Of their
wounds, every one brutally murdered, Of
feripg no resistance. One man alone 50 fir
as / could learn reslsted-a little old man
Of seventy, who erapp1ed the leyelled reyol-
yer Of . ruf1ian and though he was entirely
unarued birse1f. In his iesperate strureie
for life hustled theftlloW about 30 that be H.
aliy 20 cot away. One hundred and eighty-tTo
honses md stores, including nearly tie entire
wseons were loaded with the poor cbarred
remains Of the murdered men Tint hnd been
exnosed to The fire. ana in A wild. sweet nlaca
or a 1imestone rfdre. oyerlooking he t.wn.
a Long trencf was aug and on
the Sunday after that fatal Friday
one hn1dred anif tWeuty.three bodies Of siai1
men were lid side bY side. amid such lameu-
tatIous rs hope peyer broke over that Nil
derncss before.
Nov, eyery widow, destitute woman
and wounded man neeaipe aid, IA. the
own OF Lawrence, I Yisited, minister
such poor words Is could come out Of nv
heart, heavier thsu It ever Tas before at the
frief of another. Then. with that nof,Ia
brother Of John Brown have already men
1Icped, went to the utterm most house burned
toward the border, seeking out every widow,
in the town had already received from the
conmittee Of relief there,-I believe as true
nrd honest men ns can be found on this conti-
nent, the stores Of clothing and provisions
sent in, and s. 600 in money, nearly all that,
SO far. had been sent in, untii I arrived there;
with The s. 600 from this city. 4 great nun
Der Of widows have gone to thefr friends In
the Fast. Icou1i MT reach them in nnv waY.
but to every widow in Lawrence, on the
road toward the border, OF living
with fiiends anywhere In the
country, that I could hear Of; to every NO
NAN widow already, ret more desolate In
Ibis desclation; to every wounded man in any
ttfaee1ipe @ M at % dlsadvantase: % to- to old t people
whose eons are slaia to black women ruined
as to Thite: with some aftemut at an aYerage
With reference TO The number Of their chi
dreu. the weight Of their cares and their
fitnefs to bear them in sums ranging from
Twenty-Five TO one hundred md twenty-five
do!lars, and wherever It was likely to be
enuandered pnttipg It into the hands of such
trnstv ruard}ans n we're entirely welcome to
or recomueaded br the committee, I distrib.
uted the nnoi p;ff If fhjs citv. a1,f1. tried in
son:e sm311 mPnsrre- fo stov whofever sore
T1ief. comes of ntter noyertT.ther result Of iii
and ofher th1pgs as WILL answer Tor the
piesenl, .o see talongn sne suresL neeaI 9se'y
W. ,s a ;a1aea m oo IA 4 abia ,,,d =
~ 1917; - .o tbraa 3,rdred Jo',,r4 :, .hs havs
49, a. oe"a5 ~ ,h;id4a, An5 c.nnnt
nlnsa - .v,3h,,+ H. one rord ofont the
committee md those Citizens 1ho from bc!ng
fsSs ta;s III sssTs sss% :! : = T. g
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