The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1865-08-30

Affairs at the South.
The Wilmington N. Co. Herald in a re
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cent issue, says:
THE RESULT OF OBsTISACY-
uCen. Ames Gen. Duncan and Col Do |
milan have RECENTLY returned from an OIL |
cial visit 10 Fayetteville and vicinity. From
these officers we learn that We were prema-
tire in announcing the march OF troops 10
that Mace. Gen. Ames and company went
there with q view OF asceTtalning the truth
fnlneas Of certain reports that have conc
down here regarding the treatment oil col
ored people In that vicinity. The result OF
This Wait. we are Informed IL the substan-
tiation Of the fact that the negroes have
been cruelty treated 10y nOL only the civil
ans INIT the civil authorities there Two
De0roe7 were tied and publicly whipped by
arc aberif on the sentence OF magistrate
in the town OF Fayetteville. Other negroes
were tied TO trees and whipped, aud then
leff tied until a storm Frustrated the trees
and the poor negroes fell with them, and
Law a LONG time before being relieved. CIT
liens. too, have presumed 10 exercise the
authority OF masters over these people, anu
punish them at their will with such severity
as 10 them seemed fit. II Is even repOrte"
that negroes have been killed by the cru
elty of those who should be brought 10 pun
ishment.
tho nolicy of the government and military
orders. but positively forbidden by the laws
OF the State of North Carolina. All negroes
are now free. Why will not tho people learn
tbis fact and be wiser Because the people
people Of Fayetteville would not admit this
fact they have now got TO submit to II by
the compulsory power OF the bay0net IN
negro hands. The troops are now under
orders To 90 there. The Government Will
enforce It's policy. IL people will submit
willingly. well and good; otherwise they will
be- compelled to submit"
The removal OF X. II. Slough, for four
wears Mayor OF Mobile, and the appoint
ment OF John Forsyth, editor OF the Adre''-
tisey and Register to that Office, turned up
on the admission Of negro testimony IN the
MAYORS court, and decides the question for
all courts in Alabama. Mayor Slough de-
clined to receive such testimony, and de
Tended his action on the technical Ohjec-
ton that the negroes being excluded from
the courts by the laws Of Alabama, without
reference TO the condition Of slavery, and
such exclusion not being part Of the
slave code, the proclamation Of Governor
Parsons abrOgating the slave code did not
effect the established rules Of evidence Mr..
Forsyth ably combatted this in the columns
or the Advertiser, not, however, as "A mat
ter Of Justice to the negro, but as one oil
policy toward the Federal Government ;
claiming that the Mayors defence was
founded on a bubble. and that the State
should gracefully yield to the memorable
logic Of the situation" This ground was
pontment to Mr. Forsyth upon its being
decided to make change.
The Augusta Ca Chronicle and SEN
hnel, mnicts upon the Copperheads the FOL
lowing "most unkindest cut of all:"
I've caution the people of the South
against placing any relanc" ln the copper
head faction of the North True. this class
will talk smoothly. and promise eyerythins
Az they did i'm DAYS gone ty. Hut when 1t
comes 10 acts and fulhllmcnt of pledges,
they are utterly powerlc-s liefOre the last
struggle the South was he'd To believe that
great things la her favor could be accom-
plishcd by them. What was the result ,
These men who had for years used Southern
influence for their own benefit, were unable
10 keep even a single declaration they had
made much less 10 render the assistance
they had 80 pOmpOusly boosted they would
give.
A Washington special 10 the n. Y. Times
states that ut a recent political meeting in
Charles county, Md, negro was badly
beaten for cheering for the Union.
A correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune
writes from North Carolina:
"A new era has dawned, AMI Indignation
rules at Salisbury, n. &. IL seems that
some six weeks since Miss Temperance
Neeley. daughter of an old and prominent
citizen, shot and killed Galna. one of the
family female servants. Mrs. Neelcy was
fiogging GalIna's child, and when the dusky
mother came 10 the rescue Miss Temple shot
her dead. There was no witnesses 10 the
act except negroes, and under the old sys-
tenn OF affairs, the case could not even have
been brought TO trial, rs both the mother
and daughter would have been Jointly in
dicted, and then no evidence could have
been obtained to convict of any crime, the
testimony Of blacks being worthless against
whites. But Gen. SchOteld ordered the
young woman to be tried bya military com
mission, which has just closed ITS session
with verdict OF guilty.
at appeared in evidence that Galina was
raised on the place, and had been flvOrite
household servant; that she was twenty-lour
years old, the mother of six children. and
never married. even according TO slave-hOld-
ing customs; that she interceded 10 save her
child. pushed Mrs. Medley away. seized it in
her arms, and was making off for her cabin
when shot. Mrs. Neeley on the stand. dis
oil of 81 L.
only pleaded her daughters horror at the
act, and subsequent endeavOr To ameliorate
the condition Of things.
Except in the plea TO the jurisdiction of
the court, and the objections made 10 the
Introduction OF negro testimony the coun- |
sci for the defense did not allude to the /
condition OF affairs in the State which the /
case Indicated, only the act OF Galina-One /
from whom the accused had been TAUGHT tn /
expect seryile Obedisnce-in having violent
hands upon her mother, was urged in mitl- |
cation OF the offence.
Military commission, in passing sentence. !
are obliged to guide themselves by the laws /
OF the State in which the crime was COM /
mitted- By the Presidents proclamation. |
all laws in force in this State prior TO the
5Oth OF May, 1861, and not since repealed. /
winch are not in conflict with the acts Of
SOuStcsS, Ut tue proclamatIOns rerar,iiOo |
slaves, are still in force. The punishment /
for murder in North Carolina is death. The
penalties for manslaHghter are: BRANDING
on the left thumb with the letter IN and /
hne-to either OF which may be added i'm
Prisonment in the county Jail for a term not
exceeding one year.
Memphis is just now having its daily
murder, and the murderers 90 unwhipt of
Justice TORY. who shot ex-Capt. L. H.
Whitsitt in cold blood, on the 9th inst
was discharged from jail, after three davs
without examination, through 4 species of
local hocus pocus. At late hour on Mon |
day hit, the 18th inst, Mrs. Jane Sew !
mour woman OF sixty-nve years, was
shot dead while sitting in the door of her
house, for what cause will never be known
but with evident intent 10 kill on the mart
OF the murderer. The Bulletin cries ont
are murder, rapine, arson, and every 9TH
vi "en'Sn deed known in the black catalogue