The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-10-05
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DEIsEH


IN cur last issue we gay" n hurried an
..,,nrpcnt that seypralncgroes had been
.uc..cd near IIockcrville, under the
.Iargu Of burning Mr.. Henderson Wag-
rors dwelling and the church at that
MACE. We stated That the negroes con-
...pl their crime, and were brought to
Winchester and put in Jail The leader,
one Granville Oliver, went to Mr.. Wa%-
n,r's house with murderous intentions.
with Gun or pistol in hand he stood guard,
and sWorc 10 Kill any one who might at
lrmpY to escape from The building, the
other negroes, meanwhile, applying the
torch. Fortunately Mr.. Wagner and fam
ily were not at home. There is no doubt
that this Granville was the leader of a
band of conspirators, and exercised over
them a fearful influence. And it appears
that lie was acting from motives of re-
vengc. Some time previous Il NUMBER OF
masked men made him set fire to the ne
rro church, and the remembrance OF tins,
no doubt. led him to lay the white peoples
church in ashes. With Il icndiShncSs
which remembers II Of the Indians ic-
rocity and barbarity when aroused
which bring 70 our mind the horrible
massacre of wyoming, this negro went TO
work., and in the death he afterwards met,
perhaps, in the abstract, the world was
benefited. 1t is difficult TO believe that
the blood ofSuch monsters is human. and
10 believe that the ends of justice can be
obtained under the tardy process ofldw.
If the perpetrators OF this burning had
been shot boldly upon the spot, as soon as
they were known to be guilty, we might
have called upon the nature Of humanity
in general to testify in bclalfo of the deed.
But when passion had time for reelection
when the guilty were put into the custo-
DIV of the law. now rising from the dust
into which the march of armies not long
since tramplcd it-whcn they were put
into the county Jail. then. most asSurcdly
should no remedy been asked but from the
law-no vengeance but redress by law
no Judges but those named by law ASH
was. according to the evidence Of eight or
ten men, given under oath, and which we
carefully took down, a body of masked
men took all law into theii W hands,
ronr into Winchester. made a merchant
furnish ro,o. and then they went to the
Toll LroLc if omen, and, REGARDLESS of what
ever resistance was made BY the guard, de-
lfDcratc}y shot one of the prisoners, and
then made him walk, in company with
the two others, to the town bridge where
they were hung to the projecting side
r,o'os of fine structure above the water.
LN.0' .., -, m.
and each one shot through the mead inc
effect of such action on ms community
thus imposed upon ana Oh our county,
and on society III general 0"" NC IoP'N
" tree governments j. IFUjl 'lI''li'""lc'
10 .Jt nothing OF inc "ePfe''"'i"h III pop
U.at.on and price OF properly "hlch must
'r>u". Many an innocent woman SUM
b '' nigIt mas Ue'h H'N'F"y an" even
"a. de men in society think OF leaving
'Jr come place where mob law, which Is
worse than no law. does not obtain.
We are profoundly panied because this
.%arrillo thing occurred. a foreign enemy
Is bad enough; civil wal is worse; but
he greatest enemy of freedoms right nd
srty. law, property, and everything sa-
red, is the mob composed as II a'""SSlS
4 vice. ignorance and fanatIciHm. wei
.., nifty i~norancc and regret Gnaticism.
h,,o M r,r,ov with thnm
'"' wv "a" nv. Nv i",'' n.
when drraycd against LA" ana oRDEN.
.Db men, what are We, and our best de
M. 49, ,,o.l. Lv orimo IN nunish
crime,
And Stay as if Death had but this one
gate?
Yea, when a little time would make all
such acts superlluous? These negroes
would. doubtless, have been hung. or put
in the pcnitcntiary, at least, for Ire II
not, then, indeed, would have been time
for such fearful vengeance. AS 1t Is, we
do dread the consequences. God knows
we have had enough Of violence, terror
and confusion! God knows our criminal
docket is quite large enough and we want
our courts and juries to rule cVeh thouSl'
they should be more tardy lhan mans
passion doth bear IN patience. we want
pc.yr--not the peace of deSoIation but
such rs comes from c4ualrlglt',
"Proportion'd like the columns to the tenn
pie,
H.Niha a,i aNlls tI,e"Sin WHY u,,oo
and hea,Itv'
so that no part could be removed without
Infringement Ofthe general symmetry