Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-10
More :" Trial. by Jury"

1 AxzssA sse
 The work of expressing the everlasting fnegr6' is getting a hugely in the southwest Tern coner of our sitate. About two yearsago
 an intelligent yoapg muIatto, in Greenwich
 married white da@sel of celtic origin. This 1 of course shocked the. pure taste of the " sub
 stantiaI men" of that good democratic town
 many of whom it seems had been his rivals for the hand and heart of the fair one. Perhaps her good taste in choosing a" respectable mulatto' |Fathsr than a [ tsubshntialp leuocrat, impproov- ed their sense of social honor and propriety. The unfortunate object of their envy was driv- en from2the State, by threats ofviolence. "A few weeks ago he ventured to return. An Almost immediately a system of persecution was begun. His life was threatened, his place of business was, broken up, and at last, on last Saturday night, "a formidable attack was made upon his 9residenceda We have not space for the details, but fifteen or twenty 'men, whose courage and patriotism had been stirred with eopious draughts of whiskey, came to the house of the negro, and demanded admittance in or der to- whip the nigger and send the white wench out of the Stato."t Mrs. Davenport, the negro's mother, ordered them away, but they began 10 attempt a forced entrance into the house: A gun was discharged once or twice over their heads, which only increased their threats and their efforts to accomplish their humane object the beginning of social reform. (''The colored troops fought nobly.') 4ys The heroic band at last rushed to the assault, | shouting as q rallying cry, come on and get the nigser out" They were brought to stand however by a shot from Mrs. Davenport, that struck their leader in the head and killed him almost instantly. When we renember that these heroes were all peace' men, wet not surprised that the attack was immediately aban- doned and that the reformers speedily assumed a 'peace fooling'' for some place of safety.
 ('For the colored troops had fought hobly. }
 The negroes were arrested, coroner's jury empanneled, the. body examined, several wit nesses' testimony taken, and it was found that Ludlam Chard came. to his death by a gun shot wound, in the hands of Betsy Davenport and that she was justified in the act (of wound ing LudIam Cbard in her hands,.
 ("The colorsd troops fought nobly.')
 But the learned jury y' found' good deal more than this. Though they justified the careless use of firearms by Mrs. Davenport they condemned most strongly the conduct oi her son in G marrying white woman, and liv ing with her in the house with others of his own color,' and in keeping pistol in ia house where both colors resort" When we consider how aggravated these crimes are for a nigger to marry fair daughter of the Green Isle, and take her to his mothers house to live !; and tc keep pistol to defend her person from the
 friendly attentions of her former lovers, who are anxious to'give her some advice, and 'spaint her black" and show her out of the State ;
 we are susprised that this intelligent demo
 cratic jury did not visit summary justice upor
 the offender. But they generously let him of
 with the advice to move out of Greenwich
 and escape the results of public indignation
 that might overtake him :, | notwithstanding al
 the care and rotectien witch the sabstantia
 men of tue town, such as are on this jury, car afford t.fd 'it.
 4 We presume MT. Davenport has followed
 their advice, though it must be a hard pul. ish
 ment to negro to not be permitted to live 1T
 so civilized Il town as Greenwich h }. 'f
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