Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-21

were IduSnI 10 regdTu hS lhOI ShCLhlOo'
"grew by what it fed on" and became in
tensifed.
Gordon had held the office of church
warden of the parish, but ne became a
Baptist, and at the next election was dis
qualified for such an Office. His minions,
however, returned him, and the Custos,
the Hon. Macmillan A. Von heteihodt,
refused to allow him u seat at the vestry,
and on his persisting to occupy the seat
ordered him to be elected Upon this
Gordon instituted law proceeding against
the baron, and thenceforward, within and
without the Assembly, and wherever he
went, he was unsparing in his denuncia-
tions of the baron and the parochial au-
thorities of St. Thomas in the East.
His suit against the baron was tried in
the Circuit Court, before Sir Bryan Ed
wards and a special jury, and a verdict
was given against him. He then applied
to the Supreme Court, obtained a rule for
a new trial, when again it went against
him, and again he made application, and
had just obtained another rule for a new
trial. 1t will then be very well under
stood how all these things must have
wrought on the minds of the peasantry of
st. Thomas in the East. This man had
taught them to believe that he alone was
their friend, and that he was being perse-
cuted on their account. Then he caused
to be printed and circulated throughout
the parish incendiary placards, denOunc-
ing the " foreign Custos," and calling upon
the people to be up and be doing" A
short time before, his Excellency the Gov
ernor had caused q reply of the Queen to
certain Underhill memorialists to be print
ed and circulated throughout the country,
headed in large letters, 1.-The Queens Ad-
vice." and on those placards, leaving out
only the heading, this man placed his own
wicked teaching and exhortations, thus
passing them off as coming from his Sow
ereign.
Proofs adduced at the trial of Henry
Lawrence, (says one of the local papers,
fully establish George William Gordon's
onii+y o~-rl:~iu Ha 0sIU PUI ma dSIs at
Morant Bay. Letters were found in Law
rence's keeping, from Gordon, making
direct reference to the plot decided upon,
and indicating the Baron Won Ketelhodt,
the Rev. Mr.. Herschel and others, as vic
Tins, whose escape from the bloody death
designed for them should on no account
be suffered to take place. 1t will be seen
that thus the arch trailer, true to the sys-
tenn of hypocrisy which he had formed
for himself, died with a lie upon his lips.
He denied all previous knowledge of the
rebellion and of the tragedy enacted at
Morant Bay, and protested his innocence
to the last. These proofs and many others
that are turning up daily show him to
have been the prime move and promoter
of the foulest deeds of blood that have
marked the outburst of the rebellion.
THE RELIGIOUS ORGIES OF THE NEGROES.
Rev. Mr.. Sloan, one of the survivors of
the massacre, furnishes the following ac-
count of the religious" ceremonies of the
assassins: Under the mask of religion the
negroes living in the negro houses on the
estates, and in the mountains on plats of
land where they had theivishly squatted
or honestly purchased, had been imbued by
certain wickeda and desperate men with the
doctrine that the soil belonged to the
blacks, that the whites are tyrants and OPP
pressOrs, and that to exterminate, root and
branch, the latter, would be "doing Gods
service" and cause to dawn on the Island
an unending day of happiness. Among
the thick bushes on the mountains, where
most of the negroes live, in novels of their
own building, down in the gullies, %ravines
and convenient spots for hiding and hold
ing secret meetings nightly, and generally
from midnight towards morning, assem-
blies were convened, addresses made and
hymns sung under the leadership of some
one intent on a word of blood and pillage.
1t was impossible to sleep on a moonlight
night for the howlings of the wretched
delusionists. Frequently the promoters of
these orgies of darkness might be seen
riding along, dressed in the Anglo-negro
style-tall hat, black suit, white neck-tie,
extending from ear to ear-grinning sheer
ingly whenever a white man passed them,
The Same supercillious manner, too, was
manifested by their ignorant followers.
SCENE AT H EXECUTION.
On the north stands the ruins of the late
Court House, like a huge spectre, as a wit
ness against its sad despoilers, and before
it is the beam, and the crutched supports
and the ropes for so many necks. Imme-
diately in front of these, their faces to.
wards TO inc souGn,
are the doomed rebels. In the rear is
long line of untried common male rebels
taking up more than twO-thirds of the
south side of the square; their line being
thanked on the right by the rebel women,
and on the left by the twenty-five prison
ers Ihave named landed from the COrdelia
On the west are a few of the gentry and
inhabitants of the town. The east side is
an open space. To the northeast stand
prOprietors, magistrates, officers of the
army and navy, &c, and in the centre is
the Provost Marshal. All is silent as the
grave round that solemn spot where stern
justice is to be administered. The soldiers,
/ NTH Loaded r,Ao- In ,ro,,l -, Al 400,
of all, and the police are the guards for the
culprits. While the Jack Tars are ad-
justing the ropes the measured tread of the
Provost Marshal seems to count
the few seconds left TO the wretched
mOrtals. Soon he stops, and in a clear
voice calls out one by ono tho names of
prisoners to be executed. Lawrence was
first called. As the rope was placed
around his neck the blood rushed to his
face, and every one thought he was going
in a fit. The last taken out was Samuel
Clarke. 1 stood near to Mr.. Mclean, the
Clerk of the Vestry for st. David, and a
thought crossed me. There he was a wit
ness, Unexpectedly, to the execution of the
man who, all believe, was the murderer of
his father. Some years have elapsed since
that tragedy was enacted in a neighboring
parish, wherein Samuel Clarke was the
chief actor, and it seemed a just retribution
visited upon the head of this arch villain.
There is a deep silence again-then a
hush. The Provost Marshal puts his
watch to his ears to ascertain if it is still
going, then he holds it i'll his hand. care
you ready?" ayes, sir p ITO be hung r
pronounced loudly the Provost Marshal.
The planks are withdrawn, ard the bodies
Of these p%lOtters against peace and order,
life and property, swing in the air.
NEARLY TWO THOUSAND REBEL sHoT AND
HANGED.
Correspondence Kingston Standard.
1t tiia5 Hot be altogether uhinteresting
to your readers to know that slightly over
one thousand rebels have been hanged ard
shot in the parish of st. Thomas in the
East up to date; and it is not at all I'M
likely that ere the different courts martial
close their tha-o ~iu h~-s~-o-u
two thousand who will have paid the pen
atty of their vile attempt to exterminate
the white and colored races of this island.
The Assault on MIR. VaIIandiEham.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has the fol-
lowing in regard to the assault on c. L.
Vallandigham at Eaton:
The statements made by the CONNER
ciaL Of yesterday, in regard to an assault
upon Mr.. Vallandigham, at Eaton, are,
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