Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-03-19
BLACK AND WHITE.

important significance throughout the
United States and many parts of Canada.
This is very plainly shown in the late
fearful and bloody riot in Detroit.
In the forenoon of the 9th inst. man
named Faulkner, partly negro, was tried
for a crime the punishment of which the
law makes the same as for murder in the
first degree During the progress Of the
trial the crowd seemed very much excited,
and threats of various kinds were made to
the effect that the prisoner would be taken
out of the hands of the officer of justice
and dealt with according to mob law.
The court fearing that an attempt of this
kind would be made, had an escort of SOL
diers to convey the prisoner from the
courtroom to the jail after his sentence
States prison for life, was pronounced
While the soldiers were conveying the
prisoner to the Jail, the fury of the mob
showed itself in abusive language to him,
threatening to cut him in pieces if they
could get hold of him. So violent were
they that the bayonets of the soldiers
could hardly keep them back; and when
ever negro showed himself, he was SUBJ
ieoted to cuffs, kicks, and abuse of all
kinds. ra
After the prisoner was safely lodged in
Jail, without any apparent cause, but
Porteus-g guard like, the soldiers fired upon
the crowd, killing some and wounding
many. One of those killed was peace
able and unoffending German, who was at
the time standing on the sidewalk con-
versing with another man, and taking no
part whatever in the riot. When he fell
the Germans raised cry for revenge.
Their countryman had been sacrificed
for niger" The mob then rushed to
a part of the city occupied by the fated
race, where stood their church and school
house. They first attacked building
one end of which was used as cooper
shop, and where about dozen negroes
we're stopping at the time. Here the
scene is described as fearful. The in
mates of this dwelling had firearms
which they used with telling, though not
fatal effect upon the crowd. The doors
and windows were smashed in, and when
they could not thus dislodgs them, they
applied the match of the incendiary to
the building. AS the poor wretches tried
to escape from tho devouring element,
they were beaten; men, women and child
rem, in the most brutal manner, with
spades, axes, and every available weapon
and thrown for dead into the street, some
of whom were dead. Others, however,
were only beaten to insensibility. By
this time it was night and the madness of
the mob is. said, by eye witnesses, to be
beyond all description. The universal
cry was death to the d-n niggers
burn them out we can fight at home as
we'll as down South. The whole war is
for the cnrsed Niger"
Your correspondent lives on the Cana
da side, about two miles from the main
part of the city of Detroit, where We knew
nothing of what was going on till it be.
came dark. Then we could see the light
caused by the fires and hear the bells.
Soon refugees who had fled across the
river began to arrive, some of them in q
most sad plight, and told us the most ex.
aggerated stories as shown afterwards
We could judge of the frequency of the
fires, by hearing the bells ring an alarm
and then cease the fremen having ar
rived. In very short time they would
ring again, fire having broken out in ,
different place. About nine o'clock tn,
fires became much more numerous, for i
seems the blacks began to retaliate by
setting fire to the houses of the whites
This state of things continued with un
mitigated fury till near eleven o'clock
when some feld-pieces was brought il
from Fort Wayne, and a detachment o
soldiers arrived by special train iron
Ypsilati. The large number of soldier
, about Detroit seemed hitherto only to in
crease the fury of the mob. They wer
soon, however, inundated by these ne,
, arrivals, and dispersed.