The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-09-12

PETROLEUM y.1NAsBY, p. VI,
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Outrageous Whipping Case fn
j North CaPOlima-A Negro Girl
benten by ~ GOEnrni1tcc of CItI-
zens Sentence of the Military
COnrt ON the EsingIeaders.
Our dispatches have already mention
toned the conviction Of Abraham Jen-
kins, Justice of the Peace, and EIGHT
other persons, by a military court, at
Plymouth, N. c., for brutaIly beating
Phillis Ruffiu, a colored girl. 1t will
be remembered that the prisoners were
fined and sentenced to be imprisoned at
hard labor, and that Gen. Sickies has
confirmed the sentence. The details as
they reach us in Gen. Sickles' order.ar
frightful. We quote the following:
1t appears that daughter Of one of
the prisoners, having attempted tobeat
a young coIored girl, met with resist
ance, which became successful and re-
suited in the chastisement Of the white
by the black This unlocked for re-
versal Of long, accustomed relation,
filled the nsighborhood with consterna-
ton and rage. Couriers passed to and
fro, from farm to farm, infamino the
temper of the people, and concerting
measures 10 produce terror among the
negroes. A meeting of the citizens
was convened at school house near the
residence Of the parties. The accused
were among those assembled. phs
magistrate jenkins was invited TO lend
the sanction Of his presence, and did 60.
Phlllls, the young freedwoman, was
sent for. Dragged before this self-con-
stltuted conclave of angry men, whom
she had been accustomed from infancy
to call masters, some of whom she now
heard urging her incarceration. while
one sworc she would be hung, and all
agreed that she must be imprisoned or
whipped, the frightened girl exclaimed
that she had rather be whipped than
go to jail. This was taken as the ex-
preston of the assent, which they de-
sired. Some sort of writing was sdrayn
up, called an indenture, by which PILLS,
having signed it, was made to bind her
self as an apprentice to one Mrs. Ha-
mon, who, thereupon consented that
her so-called ward should be fiogged.
Quite enough was. .thbughttohaYe been
thus conceded to the mockery of legal
tormalities, and the impatient assem-
blage, consisting of all the prisoners
who have been convicted, except tho
magistrate, hastened to execute the pen
atty awarded. Philis was conducted
into an adjacent wood, where, at a spot
some sixty yardsremote from any road,
she was halted and told to take down,
her dress. She, not obeying with aIacc-
rity, one of the prisoners snatched it off
her shoulders. Stripped TO her waist,
except of her chemise, she was then
whipped by FIVE of these men in sue
cession, by whom, according to the les
timony of one of them, 126 flashes were
inflicted upon her balf-naked body, with
rods three feet long and one-halfto
three-eights of an inch thick. Her
garment was cut through and through;
blood ran from the wales raised ON her
lacerated back one CASH in her flesh,
three days after, showed four inches in
length the heavy blows fell upon her
person at random she was pushed she
was pulled; she was kicked in the ab-
domen, till, at last, it seems that one of
the accused, an applauding bystandqr,
not utterly insensible to the sufferines
and sex OF the wretehed victim, wasSo
tar touched by the spectacle of her tor
tnre, that the cry was wrung from him,
'Boys, don't hurt her breast :" Having
satiated their savage vengeance, her tor,
fatigued by their exertions,
not, however, without con
sidering the proposal of one of the mum
Der to return and give her ten more
ashes each, to stop her screaming.
Finally, the poor child, wounded and
groaning, was permitted to make her
way to the house Of her mistress, where
or days she suffered, scarcely able to
'rawl to her unremitted task, or even to
wear her clothes without pain.