The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-05-25
Another Specimen Radical.


We gave a short account IN our last is
sue of couple Of radical in North Caro-
lima, who were engaged in running the
FreeduIen's Bureau aud also the profitable
busircss Of running plantations by means
Of sentencing negroes, for petty misde-
meanors, to work, them " free gratis"
We have nov to show up another radica!
Bureau agent, who is at present in Mobile,
and who, according to his own showing
is one Oft the most nhuman monsters that
ever lived. His name is PoILLoN; but be
fore We 90 any further, let US listen to
some of the delightful ISLANDERS that be
writes TO a radical paper about matters in
Alabama:
CAS- late as September, the roads and
rivers were patrolled by armed citizens A.;
the oVerseer, the lash and the blood, hound
were IN full force and death, or the most
lnGuman cluelties we're perpetrated on the
freedmen who attempted to escape the
bondage and its aggravated cruelties, which
tue planters now forced upon them. Ev-
cry devilish and inhuman device that a
fiendlsh nature could iutllct on these sub
mlssive beings was executed with unrelen-
ting baroarity. Men and women were
shot add hung, dogs were constantly on
the track of the flying victims, and when
torn down by the fierce brutes their lacer>
a,ed bodice were hang some were burn
ed to death one woman was nailed up in
a;chicken coop and her living body thrown
into the river and drowned one family OF
five, the aged parents and the infant; all
were cruelty murdered on one spot, and
their mutilated bodies exposed to the hogs
and buzzards to feed on. | saw one man
whose face and body was frightfully torn
up with cotton hook. Two grown chill
dren were marked with slit and crop in
each ear, besides the horrors I wrote
you in former letter.) Many more MUIR
ders were added to the ghastlv list. On the
night of the 28,h of December last, four
innocent victims-two men ard two wo>
men-weEe cruelty hung by the neck with
trace chains, without judge or Jury, and
with out a shadow of crime on them.
Numbers of bodies were floating in the
Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. In one
report made by numerous respectable
witnesses Of the sad spectacle, there were
five bodies-three men and two women
found tied together and floating down the
Tonbigbee river. A preacher in the pull
pit at Bladen Springs stated tina. the roads
in Choctaw county stank with the dead
bodies Of servants who had run away from
the masters. Hundreds were murdered
to deter Others from running away
These are The lies that this radical writes
of christian and civilized people to boil
ster up his Bureau and his radical breth
rem. Now, this radical PoILLoN, accord
ing to His oagn admission, was for a num-
Der Of years engaged in the African slave
trade, in kidnapping aud transporting ne
groes from Africa to the Island of Cuba.
On one occasion, having on beard of his
vessel (of which he was captain,) abou.
seven hundred negroes, all manacled and
confined below decks, as be was approach.
ing the coast Of Cuba, he was chased by a
British manof war, and, in order to effect
his escape, was compelled to run his YES
sci ashore and abandon her; which be did.
Before abandoning her, however, he scut-
teled and sunk her, sDih all the negroes or,
board, thus .wiping out In case of his cap
ture, all evidence Of the character Of bis
vessel