The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-12-31
TEE WARREN COUNTY AFFAIR.
What Ludgea Esr0vsm and Hill
Say OF &c.
The Facts from n Republican
Stand point.

Extract-irom letter Of H. V r. in Cincin-
natl Commercially
I sought Judge G. F. Brown out this
morning, and had long conversation. -
He went over the whole ground, moth
ing extenuating, nought set down IN NAL
ice. He Is one Of the few to whom
have talked who did not appear to be
undulv biased one way or the other.
But he, fair minded and judicially train
ed as he Is, utterly condemns the use OF
force and violence to reach a wrong that
might be reached through the courts
WHAT JUDGE BROWN SAYS ABOUT THE
While Judge Brown strongly condemns
the hasty and illegal action Of the tax-pay-
ers, he as strongly condemns the action
of Crosby in summoning posse of ne
groes TO reinstate himself into Office by
force.
Well, Judge" l said, !" what do you
think of the action of the citizens in re-
polling by force, the attack OF the negroes
and driving them off? ?"
"They did exactly right" he replied,
g for it never would have done to let
those negroes into the city. They did
wrong in killing so many, but they did
right in driving them back. Rather than
let them into the city | would have
shouldered nv shot gun and went out
and fought with the rest. When 1t
comes othat, no matter how, every white
man is found shoulder TO shoulder. 1t
would never do to let lot of armed
country negroes into Nicksburg. They
might all get drunk and act like Iot.ei
wild beasts, and terrify our women and
children to death, if they actually did no
bodily HARM No, sir; the citizens did
right to drive away the negroes, but they
should not have killed more than was
absolutely necessary to accomplish 1t. 1t
matters not how illegal and revolutionary
the action of the whites, the entrance of
the armed negroes to the city could not
be permitted"
After writing this much [ took the
manuscript to Judge Brown to submit 1t
to him, so that if had mistaken his Ian
guage or views, he could correct it now.
/ did this out Of abundant caution, for IN
a matter like this mistakes are aggrava-
ting, if not dangerous.
Judge Brown Is well known in Ohio,
and what he SAYS should certainly have
weight with the readers Of the CONNER
cial. He was a member of the Ohio
State Senate from Trumbull county in
1866-67. He was held in high esteem
by the whites until he styled the tax pay
er's league ''mob." Well, in legal
sense, was it not r
CHANCELLOR Hull.
/ sought Judge Hill, and have had
several conversations with him. He
talks to me readily, and to him am in
debted for a great deal Of information
bearing on the troubles. He takes sub
stantialIy the same ground as Judge
Brown. While he condemns the hasty
and ill-advised action OF the whites in
summarily deposing Crosby, he says that
they were, under the peculiar circUm
stances. iustlfable in driving back the
so-called Sherif's posse of negroes who
attempted to enter the city. But they
should have used only force enough to
accomplish that, and not unnecessarily
harmed a negro. He does not beiive that
it would have been well to have admitted
the negro posse into the city, no matter
now 1Dl1dFtDllN ItSitI tiiCfi iiilNStVii'
But. ut the same time, he saws that
Croshv's bond was insufficient, and that
the citizens had perfect right to look
into the matter, only they should havsk
pursued legal means. He thinks their
resort to arms was hasty and ill-advised.
Yet, he SAYS most emphatically that their
grievances were great. and that they
have been borne long and patiently. He
is very severe upon the negro officials
whom the negroes have elected to rule
over the taxpavers Of Warren county,
and declares them to he. with few excep-
tions. a bad lot of black thieves and Tas
Gals. No Democrat could denounce
these thieves more emphaticaIiY than
does Judge Brown 'U nquestionablv,
sir. the reyroes Of Warren county have
done little in political way since they
were voters than to put Tascals In office
over taxpayers. The lot of the taxpay-
ers has been hard, | will admit, but
their remedy was through the courts.
The Judge hlames Crosby bitterly
He saws it would have all been settled in
dav, and Crosby continued in office,
under new bond, which the Judge be
lieves he could have given. had he not
hnrfifO OF 10 OaCkSoH anu cdHHc tldck
with that violent and incendiary- appeal
to the negroes to come to his aid. 81
lost all hope when / saw that" says Judge
Brown, q but could hardly believe that
Crosby was such an internal fool as to
nut his name to such violent appeal, in
which the taxpayers ives denounced as
"rufians," 'barbarians," 'epolitical ban
ditti, and so on. He might have known
that the white people would not stand
that from a negro. Immediately all our
hopes of a compromise, a new bond, and
peace, fell to the ground. Governor
Ames has been charged with advising
Crosby TO call the negroes to arms. He
did no such thing. On the contrary, he
and I advised exactly against it.
We knew what would be the conse-
quences if Crosby attempted TO bring
posse Of armed negroes to his support.
Crosby, in violation of his word not TO
do 50, called on the country negroes :;
they came, and we know the rest. y