New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-06-13
What the ed are Doing
In Alabama.

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ATLANTA, GA, MAY 80, 1872.
Ifthere be any good Republican dissatisfied
with Gen. Grant, and inclined to favor Mr..
Greeley for the succession who requires
reason why he should not support the latter
in the coming Presidential contest, let him
come down into this section of the country
and witness for short time the doings of
"Honest HOrace's" new and most Jealous
allies-the reconstructed, atfiliating DemOc-
racy. Then, if his opportunities tor seeing
and hearing be moderately fair, and be not
utterly blinded by prejudice, two chances to
| one he will return North to his home COM
pletely cured of his unhealthy desire for a
new political leader, especially such an one
as the Chappaqua philosopher, backed by
his untrustworthy and INSCRIPTIONS sup
pOrters.
These reflections were induced by the re-
port of most atrocious crime, surprising in
cruelty anything i'll my experience in this
country, which was committed recently in
Montgomery, Alabama. A colored man had
married white wOman-which, by the laws
of the State of Alabama, he had perfect
| right to dO-and was living with her in a
small house in the outskirts of the city. The
citizens living near this colored man and his
white wife, as well as many others, had ex-
pressed their dissatisfaction at his course,
and threatened him with violence unless he
put away his white bride and agree to forever
live apart from her. This the negro would
not do, believing no doubt, that he had as
good 4 right TO please himself in the selection
OF helpmate as any of his white brethren.
Consequently number of men collected to-
gether one night about a week ago, and, in
accordance with their previously proclaimed
intentions, proceeded to the house of the
negro, surrounded it to prevent the escape
of the inmates, then deliberately set to work
battering down the door. This being frail
and poorly made, opposed but a slight bar
rer, and soon gave way, revealing to the two
terrified occupants of the cabin the murderous
gang outside, who now quickly crowded into
the apartment. The negro, so startingly
| aroused from his slumbers and without
weapons of defense, was able to make but
| little resistance against the well-armed mis-
creants who had come thirsting for his life,
and it was but few moments ere his bloody
and mutilated body lay corpse upon the
floor. Meanwhile others of the attacking
party had secured the trembling and helpless
partner to the poor's negro's social offense,
and had firmly bound her with cords upon
the bed. The next step of the heartless mis-
creants was to thoroughly saturate with tur-
pentine the garments of the poor woman and
the bed on which she lay. Then setting fire
to the cabin, with its one dead and one live
occupant, the human fiends withdrew a short
distance, from whence they watched with
demoniacal delight the completion of their
handiwork, the screams of their tortured vic
tim falling unheeded upon their ears, and
awakening no sentiment of mercy or pity in
their callous hearts.
With the falling of the roof and sides of the
burning building, this band of wretches were
satisfied, for their vengeance was appeased,
and they dispersed.
The next morning the charred and sicken-
ing remains of the negro and his wife were
discovered amid the smoking ruins of their
late happy home and the alarm given to the
proper municipal authorities. But these tax
ing no active measures for the ferreting out
the dastardly perpetrators of this most hellish
outrage, Gen. Henley, the United States
Marshal for Alabama, was appealed to.
Through that officials exertions, assisted by
his entire corps of deputies, several Of the
men engaged in the outrage were discovered,
arrested, and lodged in the jail, the informa-
ton on which the warrants were issued being
based in every case either on previously de-
clared threats of the parties, coupled with
their subsequent private boasts of having
participated in the deed, or upon the confess
sion of an associate. No sooner, however,
were these men locked up in the the Jail than
threats of forcibly releasing them began to
be made by their friends and sympathizers.
In view of these threats, and fearing that
they would be put into execution, Judge
Busted, of the United States Circuit Court,
at that time engaged with his official duties
in Montgomery, wrote an urgent appeal to
Gen. Terry, the military commander of this
department, for company of soldiers to
guard the Jail, preserve the peace, and up
hold the laws.
The appeal was very promptly responded
to by Gen. Terry, and a company of infantry
detached from the garrison at this place and
forwarded to Montgomery, where it arrived
about the 9th inst. The presence of regular
troops in the place now made it impracticabe
for the friends Of the accused parties to at
tempt any open demonstration for the latter's
liberation. But the intention to effect il by
some means or other was not abandoned, and
the second night following the arrival of the
company the colored jailor was decoyed from
the Jail and foully murdered, his dead body
being cast into n dry well, where it was found
the next day. 1t is believed the TAILOR was
decOyed into the power of party of men with
the object of getting from him the KEYS of
the Jail. But the faithful fellow, not having
the keys with him, chose rather to sacrifice
his life than reveal the place of their deposit.
What will be the next act in this bloody
drama cannot be foretold. But the prisoners
are still in the Jail, which is now eflectually
guarded by the soldiers, whose presence there
will be necessary so long as the prisoners are
confined therein.
Before closing this letter wish to answer
in advance very natural inquiry which will
arise in the minds of many of your readers:
Why hasn't some account of this diabolical
affair aDpparQd in tho nIDilShed
on the spot or in the near vicinity OF its oc-
currence? Because the publishers of the
newspapers referred to will not permit ac-
counts of such doings to enter the columns of
their sheets. And why? Because they are
secretly, intensely and bitterly disloyal in
sentiment, whose mission it is to suppress
everything likely to reveal the true state OF
affairs in the localities of their publication,
In the whole State of Georgia there is not
one Republican journal through whose col
umns such facts as have related can reach
the public eve And the State of Alabama