The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-20

cape Wfahout BEoIe~smtion-
From the Starkville New Era, sth
Our usually quiet, orderly aud law-abld-
ing village. has been the scene OF quite
lively excitement during the past week.
Cause, anticipated trouble with the eolored
population, threatened through the machin-
atoms and teachings of a man who has been
In our midst for the past eighteen months,
by the name OF
M'LAUGHLEN.
This man came here as a school teacher
and preached 70 the cOlored people, aud
from the day Of his arrival has made them
entirely and exclusively bis associates eat
ing, drinking and sleeping with them, not
with our white population-this was a mat
ter OF taste and his right-doing many
things that were
REPuLsIvE
To the feelings and detrimental to the inter-
est OF our white population. Six months
ago he gave up teaching, and, we under
stand preaching, and formed a stock COM
he has since been superinrending for them.
It has been noticed for a long time thae
there were large congregations Of
FREEDMEN
at this store, IL being closed at very UNI
seasonable hours, but our people, though
not liking, said nothing.
After the organization Of he Board OF
School Directors they, upon the Endorsement
of this man as satisfactory 20 the freedmen,
appointed two OF our citizens Co the charge
of the eolored schools &C this place. Shortly
after which, he commenced trying 20 pro-
duce.
DISSATISFACTION
among the freedmen with their teachers
but had failed, so tar, TO have them remov-
cd fhoro No ronlnUaI mr.
sented to the Board, and majority of the
negroes being satisfied with the teachers.
For the last four or five weeks, there has
been noticed going into his store at night,
which Is at the west end OF town, armed
negroes; sometimes five, six and several
times ten or twelve, and tne door closed. IL
aroused
SUSPICION
that all was not right, and an eye was kept
on the place and the actions OF those ylsitiI Z
it.
On last Tuesday night, about IL o'clock
there was crowd OF about forty negroes
seen TO come out of the front door. and IN
order, after getting out, they fired of a gun
the company dividing into two squads, one
ers on horseback. The parties seeing thi:
proceeded to
AFRO USE
some of our citizens so as to be prepared In
case anything should be attempted. In GO
ing by Fosters mill TO arouse persons in that
portion of town, there was observed squad
of fifteen or twenty negroes near there
Within thirty or forty minutes, we hao
gathered some thirty-five men and proceed
ed to police the different roads leading into
the place, also our principal street, which
was kept up until morning. When morn
ing came and Mclaughlin had opened hii
store, party went there with a
SEARCH WARRANT
and examined his store for arms, supposinl
there were arms deposited there. Only sis
guns found. He was very indignant ant
highly incensed at this,and said they shoulG
suffer for it. During the day there were
| good many rumors and conversations over
heard, which led our citizens to believe tina
we should have
TROUBLE
at night. The sheriff was waited upon gnC
he called upon the citizens, who Responded
almost unanimously, to guard their own
| Squads of men were thrown out on th'
| principal streets leading into town-signal
arranged to concentrate the men shouls
anything occur. About twelve o'clock a
night party of
ARMED
men, numbers variously estimated, fanke,
the
IA GUARDS
and came over the gullies into the ravin
| and up the hill by the courthouse, went {,
McLaughlin's store, burst In a panel Of th'
door, and we think, had IL not been for SOM
Of the guards hearing the noise and cominl
up, they would have broken down the doc
and have taken Mclaughlin with them
The guard coming up was halted by then
aud asked who they were, and upon reply
ing they were friends, were told they wan
ted no friends, that they were running tina
sHEBANG;
then after telling Mclaughlin, who wa
hallping, yelling and calling upon the Lor,
My turns, that ifhe did not leave before th
next night they would kill him, departe'
whence they came.
On Thursday morning, some Of our cit
liens called upon Mclaughlin and told hin
they thought he had better leave, the
could not sit up to guard him; that IL b
remained he would certainly be
KILLED.
He thought so too, for he was dreadfull
frightened, and knew or ought to hav
known, that he had no claim on this com
munity to protect him. He said IL the cit
liens would guard him to the railroad, b
would leave this was promised him. Befor
night, however, he mistrusted that he woul
notbe safe with
GUARD,
slipped of and it is supposed made his wa
alone through the by-ways TO the railroad
He is gone, a happy radiance, and IL "
have no more such characters, we will hav
a quiet, peaceable, orderly law-abidln
community, of both black aud white. Nc
Laughlin expressed himself as not beliey
ing
III NEGROES
reliable when Il came TO the test.
We are proud to speak of the orderl
manner In which our citizens conducte
themselves under the peculiar circumstance
they have been placed. for the past few day
A NOBLE WoRK.-The citizens Of Amt
county have erected at Liberty, the county