The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-14
The Memphis MoI,.

churches. They claim that this il caused
by the teaching of the radicals, and the
consequence of the passage of
he Civil Rights Bill. 1t is useless to talk
% the devilish, ignorant element in the |
Democratic party. But there are honest, |
well meaning men still acting with that
who desire to do right If they |
knew what was right. To show such the
unimus of the party with which they are
acting, we publish few extracts from the
Memphis papers, giving aAsscripton OF
the recent transactions of the party:
"Robert Jones, (colored) had just came in
from the country, and was standing on the
corner of Beal and Causey streets, in the
forenoon. A man appearing to be police
man, took his pistol and 500 in money, and
as he turned TO leave, thrust knife into
his back, under the shoulder-blade. An
other, standing by, known TO be ponce
man, made no arrest Of the robber."
And again:
"A negro was shot in the knee near the
corner of Howard's Bow and the levee.-
This was done by well-known individual
for the sake of amusement and was laugh
ed at by the citizens who saw it,"
Here are specimens of Democratic bar
bacues which will greatly rejoice the DEM
ocratic mind:
ga large number of houses in South
Memphis, occupied by the blacks, and
some in other parts Of the city, were burn
ed. No effort was made to stay the flames.
In one case, four negroes were fastened up
in house and the house set on fire.
"a colored man on Alabama street in
forms us that his house was broken into
and about two hundred dollars in money
taken and he beaten over the head; and
the same party broke into his neighbor's
house, killed him, locked the wife and
children in the house, set it on fire and
burned it down"
ga house near Mr.. Ranlxin's school
house, which was burnt on Tuesday, was
fired during the night. A colored girl
II years of age, named Rachel Hatchell,
who had been scholar of Mr.. Rankin's,
was sick in this house, and on running out
was knocked down, shot, and thrown into
the fire. Her body lay in the ashes yester-
day morning, burnt to a crisp, excepting
her head and shoulders. Some one had
kindly thrown shawl over this horrid
spectacle"
After amusing themselves for some time
by roasting women and children, these chiv-
alrous Democrats resorted to the milder
amusement of shooting women, and rob-
bing, stealing, and burning property. We
quote again:
| "a colored woman named Rhoda Jacobs
while lying i'll bed with her child at her
home in South Memphis, was SHOT in the
breast.
eve heard the particulars of the robbing
of from ten to twelve negroes, from the
parties themselves. The sums taken ran
from the most trifling up to three hundred
dollars. One said he was ordered by a
policeman, on the corner of Beal and De
Soto, to give up his money and his weap-
ons. A colored man living in the northern
portion of the town, says they entered his
house on pretence of searching for arms,
and killed his mother, an old colored wo-
man, in her bed.
"Two or three negroes were shot in Chel-
sea.
"Six or seven houses occupied by ne
groes were burned on Echols street.
"a building, now private property, but
formerly belonging to the Government,
was burned on Gayoso, east of De Soto
street.
"The grocery at 81 Causey street, belong
ing to colored man, was entered and rob-
bed ofhalf its contents.
"Bob Church (colored) was shot in his
saloon, on De Soto street.
"a colored man, named Cook. n porter
in store on Main street, was shot near
the corner of Main and Exchange streets
"a colored boy on Main street had his
brains beaten out.
A. sI,, E,,aI L.
was quietly looking through the grating in
! front of the billiard saloon in the Gayoso
House. The ball missed him, aud passed
in close proximity to two OF the players.
"The body of negro who had been shot
lay in the morning at the corner of Herman
do and Beal streets.
"An attempt was made to fire every
Government building in town. In one
that was burned, it is said, that an inn
mense amount Of Quartermastcrs' stores
were destroyed.
"The carnival of blood and fire continued
the whole night. The sky was continually
lit up, sometimes by one, and again by
four or five fires in different parts of the
city, at a time. Crowds of armed rioters
were moving up and down the streets, fir
ing, shooting and threatening negroes anC
| Union men, The Post was repeated,
1 threatened with violence. Friends in
form us that at one time a crowd up Mali
street, seemed to have been fully decide,
that the damned Yankee-nigger-sym
thizing Post should be wiped out, and tina
they were the ones to do it. The only cal
we received, however, from these lovers c
a free press, were from two ruffians VIII
fred at the building, and ran with all thei
might. No damage was DONE"
To show how the Democracy love
schools, and the means of education geneI
ally, we extract further:
cloud and repeated threats were mad
by the rioters that when they had destroy
ed the colored school-houses they woul
kill the teachers. The threats were so vi,
, lent, and the rioters having already show
} themselves capable of any brutality, it wa
. deemed prudent that they should go Mort
, They all left for Cairo on the st. Lou
packet. Many of the officers on duty her
: sent their wives away with these ladies. ("
What destruction was actually wrougl
l on the property ofthe negroes themselv
) is thus summed up:
"The riot was kept up all Wednesda
/, night, Crowds of armed citizens we
J gathered at the corners. Many were ha
drunk, The great feat of the roughs WI
the burning of the colored school-house
churches and homes. They seem TO ha'
I acted in concert, and to have carried out
programme which had been previously q
F., ranged, This is shown by the clean swe,
l which was made of every building AS
p for "A colored school or place of worship
1 the colored people, hut most strongly
D the conduct ofthe rioters in the burnii