The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-11-18
Brutal Murder of Negro, for Carry
ing An American Flag-Political
Ver -snce.-The Murderers Way
laid and Shot.


laid and Shot.
New IBERIA, La, Nov. l, 1870.
FnrroF JoURNAL:-Since closed my letter
OF w.. list, we have had quite an exciting
time in Mr.. Souder's neighborhord, about nine
miles by the bayou from the village. On
Monday the Slst, Governor Yarmouth and
General Sheridan addressed political meet
ing, at New Iberia This meeting was attend
ed by delegation of negroes from the neigh.
borhood known as Fausse Point; who attend
ed in procession, with national fag display
ed. They were in every way peacable and
orderly, and at night returned quietly to their
houses The flag was borne by peacable
colored man, who works and lives upon the
sugar plantation of Messrs White and Pinneo,
about two mics from Mr. Souder's, my broth
er-in-law, from where am now writing. a
little before o'clock, on Monday evening,
three men came into the quarters, of this ne
gro, armed with double barreled shot guns.
| One of the men enquired of the negro if be
was the man who carried the flag on that day,
and said to him-"I want that fag." The old
negro replied, 'yes carried the flag" ~
want to tell you how it was" at the same
time getting upon chair and reaching over
his head for the flag, where it had been laid
away The white man said to him "you have
no time to tell me how it was. Your time
has come" and he Immediately shot the negro
in the head, killing him almost instantly, and
TO make sure work, discharged the other bar
rel of his gun into the murdered mans mouth.
As the old man fell, his son, who had been
lying sick in bed, sprang up and seized the
rufian, when his comrade discharged his gun,
completely smashing the jaw and teeth of the
son, who was defending the dead body OF his
father The three murderers then fed, and
are still at large. 1t is pretty generally un-
derstood who they are, AMI that this crime
was committed to stamped the negroes and
deter them from voting at the coming election,
on the 7th. Candidates for Office are undoubt-
edly at the bottom of the affair and instigsted
the crime.
You will read, as hear repeated continual
ly, incorrect and gnrbled statements of the af-
| fair. But the facts are as l have written. I
was near to the scene of the tragedy, and have
for authority eye witnesses of the murder. I,
company vi h Mr.. and Mrs. Sauders, and my
daughter Norma, had on that evening called
at the residence of Messrs White and Pinneo.
As we were passing the yard in which their
negro quarters are located, we saw three OF
four horsemen leading two or three ssddled
horses, without riders, from the road into the
yard. About FIVE minutes after, horseman
dashed past our carriage and disappeared
Other horsemen rode rapidly behind Us, but
left the road without passing. About mid.
night we were informed of the bloody deed
and to-day learn the particulars as have Civ
en- them. The wound of the son will prove
to be mortal, no doubt.
LArER.-Wednesday morning Novs5d
have Just learned that in all probability the
avengers of blood are on the paths of the mur
derers. Last night, Us three men, Frenchmen
who are by the negroes believed to have beer
implicated in the affair of Monday night, wer'
riding along the highway, they were fired up
on and wounded by some persons sscreted il
the cane field of White and Pinneo One O.
the three is candidate for office, another
Justice of Peace. The shots which here free
were small bird shot, so that neither Of tht
men were fatally injured. There is great ex
citement, and the whole neighburhood Is pa
trolled by armed men, Cajans, some of whom
are determined upon war OF determination
against the whole colored population Al
, the negro men in the vicinity have fed, anC
the owners Of cane fields, now ready for thl
knife, see nothing before them but loss, ruiz
, and bankrupting, for want of laborers to saw
their crop. Forty hands are necessary #
gather and make up hundred acres Of cane
Messrs White & Pinneo will be great suffer
, era. Last year they only raised cane for seed
This, their second year of planting, woult
have been the first to yield them any return
and should they lose their cane now, it vii
be truly discouraGng. Ihaye Just met them
aud they tell me that the cattle are breaking
into their fields and destroying the cane, ant
they cannot procure men to watch it for them
because it is unsafe to be out at night, during
this excitement. The suffering and injury
inflicted upon o whole community, by few
lawless ruffians, cannot be told. This whole
affair is deeply deplored by the men Of prop
erty, law and order. The result will be tt
, intensity tho strife between the Americans
and French, and finally to unite the Ameri
cans and negroes into political. party fol
the overthrow and final expulsion of tht
whole Oajau population, from the country
The negroes have the sympathy of the good
and true men of the county, who will do all
in their power to protect them from future
acts of violence.
Since writing the above learn that the
three wounded Caiaus, are the identical three