Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-09-20
The OutEage in North Oar0lida.


There has been no minor incident Of
late occurance at the South which has
caused a more general ex preston of in
dianation throughout the country than
the whipping inflicted by set of ruf
I9,s1s In North Carolina on q poor, de-
fenselese eClored girl who had fallen
into tbefr mower. No single act OF m
bTTogTityr has more CleeI5SE indicated
tbe apinoosity yet existiIles 1l' Southefn
Eserts aofafnst the former slaves OF
sI4f,g5gFt Fy737rs1iiilSsisa it Would be 70 grQSt
the government OF these Pe2pie IN SilS
hands of their foTlIle1 .aaste r. 80
rTfe order OF CSentrai fen4e1 ~. SICK
1as eT,nr0vfTR the sentences inflicted on
the DerDstrators of the outrage, reviews
the evidence aud furnishes the 1olaottiL Lg
history of the affair. The Generat stayss
a7he evidence in the foregoing cases
elfseloses a deed of laEVless and luhu-
man violence. 1t appears that daugn-
4 Ter. ~ one ~. the prisoners, having at
tempted to beat a young colored glrl,
rnetvritb resistance which became sue
cessful. and resulted in the chaSGlseLlenb
Of the white by the black. This un-
lOOked-for reversal OF a long-accustoLn- m
ed relation filled the neighoorhoOd with
Z conservation and. rage. COuriers pass
ed to and fro from farm to farm, infia-m-
ing, the temper of the people, and con-
ceTting measures to produce terror
among the negroes. A meeting of citi-
zens was convened at a schoOl-honse
near the residence of the parties. The
accused were among those assembled.
The magistrate, Jenkins was invited to
lend the sanction of his presence, and
did so. Philhs, theyoung treedwoman,
was sent for. Dragged before this self
constituted 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 swOre she should be hung,
md all on naT
on or whipped the frightened 6lrl eN-
claimed that she had rather be whipped
than go to Jail This was taken as the
expression Of the assent which they de-
sired. Some sort of writing was drawn
up, called an indenture, by which p hill
lis having signed it, was made to bind
herself as an apprentice 10 one MIS-
g Harmon, who thereupon consented Gnat
her so-called ward should pc nORgeu'
Cluite- enough was thought to have Deen
thus conceded to the mOckery Of legal
formalities, and the impatient assem-
blage. consisting of all the prisoners
who have been convicted except the
magistrate, hastensd TO execute the PEN
atty awarded. PhiIlis was conducted
Into an adjacent wood, where, at a Spot
some sixty Yards remote from any road,
she was halted and told to take down
her dress. She not obey1nG with alac@
Tity, one of the prisoners snatcneo II on
her shoulders. Stripped to her waist,
whipped by five Of these men in success
sion, by whom, according to the testl-
mOnY of one of them, one hundred and
bwenty-six lashes were inflicted upon
her ha1f-naked body with lOds three
Feet long and one-half to three-eigh this
IF an inch thick. Her garment was cut
through and through; blood run 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 abdomen; till at last it
seems that one of the accused, an ap-
pIauding- -by-stander, not utterly insen-
sible to the suherings and sex of the
Wretched victim, was so far touched by
the spectacle of her torture that the cry
was wrung from him, "Boys, don t
hurt her breast ~ Having satiated
their savage vengeance her tOrmentors,
fatigued by their exertiOns, withdrew;
not, however, without considering the
proposal of one of the number to return
and give her ten more leBles each to
stop her screaming. Finally the poor
child, wounded and groaning, was per-
Tnitted to make her way to the house of
her mistress, where for days she suffer-
cd, scarcely able to crawl to her unre-
mitted task, or even to wear her clothes
Without pain
In the revolving crime briefly outlin-
ed all of these prisoners are shown to
have been eager participants. In the
interest of outraged justice it is to be
deplored that the perpetrators have
been adiudged to undergo punishment
10 inadequate TO the enormity Of their
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