Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1864-01-28
Per tie esliipclis Jsurrsl.
THE HORRORS OF The MOD
ERN INOIJISI0N s<lsse {

THE HORRORS OF The mon
ERN INCLUSION. l.s
Most persons are faniliar VII
: 1.-THE workings of that heE.born inst
Il tuition, established by FatEers Dom
d mic, for. pefsecuting Christians.
s But few persons know that tlrer
n ever existed on the. enlightened so
v Of America, an inqusition .yhos
y damnable crimes would make q Spar
t ish. Inquisitor blush.
r Many win doubt the truth of wins
h Estate. tits hard to believe that il
: this christian land human natur
could sinkso low, FOR that men coult
= tetrogada so far toward barbarisn
j as to take delight IN seeing their fel
: low beings suffer. But we know
: that familiarity with crime hardeni
the heart. During the terrible reig1
of the old inquision, even ioomen tool
their sewing and sat where they
could see the blood of the faithful
christians flow under the knife of the
executioner, considering it a pleas.
ant pastime.
Children who are used to seeing
the blood flow from the back of the
trembling slave, and the many other
cruelties and torments that brutal
slave-masters use to keep their
slaves in subsection, have the nat
ural affections of the heart scared as
with hot iron, and grow up under
these influences natural tyrants. They
often commit the most horrid crimes,
without one particle of remorse.-
But started out to give short ae-
count of the inquisition that was es-
tablished in Tarant County, Texas,
In the year 1861-not by the order of
the Rebel Government but the Gov
ernment, acquiesced in all that was
done by it the same as Pope In
nocent did in Father Dominick's
bloody concern.
To give correct idea of the mod.
ern Inquisition, 1 will give a short
account of the way they hung Crofford
who was hanged upon the same tree,
on which they hung Parson Buley.
They metin the dead of night no one
that did not own twenty negroes
could be member. Any member
could report, if he had heard a man
say, or had seen or known ofhis hay
ing said or done anything that would
lead them to believe he was q Union
man. 1t was only necessary that some
of the inquisitors should become con-
vinced that man was not for them,
even if he had not said word or done
= .L--hs~l ---s- -Ns4;.s+a5 ..1.erl, f~-l
them to report; yet such men were
often hanged, whipped, or made to
leave their families and property and
fly for their lives. Very often their pro-
perty was coniscslad and their wives
and little children left without bread.
Those that would, dared not help
them, for they feared the Holy In
QUESTION. This is the way they al
lowed free speech in Texas.
1t was reported to the inquisition
that a man by the name of Crofford
had sold shot gun to a nigger for
some hogs. For this he was con-
demned and four of the Inquisitors
were appointed to kill him. Van
Croford, was apoor man, made his
living by hauling about town with
his team. One beautiful morning
he took his two little boys on the
wagon with MIN and went down to
the bottom for load of wood. AT
ter loading his wood, and seating his
little boys one on each side of him
he started home a happy father
watching his little fellows crack their
Pecan whips and pleased with
their childish glee. His laugh was
mingled with theirs, as it fioated up
the bottom, in the pure morning air
to the ears of his cowardly execu-
TONERS, to tell them their victim was
near and unsuspecting. They hurried
on, and meeting HIM he spoke to
them for he was very well acquaint-
ed with them. They cursed him
and told him to get down that they
were going to stretch his d--dl
abolition neck. He sat as one dead |
with the lines in his hands until |
they jerked him down from be-
tween his children to the ground
and bound him, then they noosed a |
raw hide lariat around his ueck and |
led him a few hundred yards, to
tree where they had hanged others |
Throwing the other end of the lariat |
over a limb, the iron stake pin serv-
ing the purpose of weight to carry
it over the limb, they all got hold of
the lariat to haul him up. He begged
them to let him have a few moments
to pray aud to let his boys come to
him, who were but a short distance
of; but the fiends hauled away laugh
ing as merrily as if they had been
working at barn raising They drew
him up, tied the end of the lariat to
a bush, and thus he died, in blooming
health, in the prime of life, almost
within sight of home and loved ones.
All the crime he had committed was,
he loved the Union and our blessed
country. Hewas only one of the fifty |
one Union men that were hanged in
sixty miles of where l lived, by this
hellish inquistion and similar ones es-
tablished by the Slave Tyrants of the
South in 1861. Now / say Death!
Justice says Death! Let Freemen of
America shout Death! to the uphold