The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18
THE REBELLIOUS SOUTH.
Republican Officials I'm Perii-'rhe Ten
nessee Outrages-Lawiessnes Ma Ar
kansas, Texas, and other States.

THE GlBSON COUNIh lIENN. -tOhhOR.
Nashville Cor. Cincinnati " ,nmercial.l
The more the facts come out the
palmer it is that the murder of the 16
negroes taken from the Jail Mt Trenton
was one of the most unprovoked, delib-
crate, diabolical, inhuman, cold-blooded
and barbarous that ever occurred.
There have been murders just as bad,
but, from Adams time to the present,
there were never any worse. There
could not be. Every feature of this
case is particularly atrocious. These
prisoners had not harmed a single indi-
vidual, black or white, i'll person or
property. Their only offense was that
they had threatened to arm themselves
to resist the Ku-Klux. That any of
them had ever fired upon white men is
very doubtful, indeed, and we know
that, even was such the case, no white
man was hit or hurt. The cifcum-
stances all point to their innocence even
of that, for none of them tried to get
away before or after arrest. They all
protested their innocence. But even
had they been guilty of manifesting a
desire to kill two or three good citi-
zens," which is the white account, but
which is lie, they were in the custody
of the law. They were secure in Jail.
They could not have escaped punish
ment. for the whole legal machinery of
Gibson county is in the hands of the
whites they outnumber the blacks two
to one. Yet, in the face of all these
facts, the midnight murderers trod the
law under foot, took these men from
jail by force, tied their hands behind
them, and shot them down like wild
beasts. The creatures who would thus
murder their victims are unworthy the
name of men. They gave them no
chance for their lives. They acted like
savages of the very worst description.
What must be the condition of a COM
munity where seventy-five or hundred
men can be raised in single county in
a single night to do such a deed? A
hundred murderers in one county, and
cowardly, sneaking murderers at that
A hundred armed men take sixteen from
jail, tie their hands, give them no
chance for their lives, and shoot them
down? Are such people civilized, or
are they savages? Do the savages do
worse?
PERIL.
Washington Cor. New York Times.l
The opposition press are continually
denying the existence of the outrages
upon the colored people in the Southern
States, and insist that the reports con-
corning them are fabrications. There
is at last positive official information as
to at least one remarkable outrage.
The Postoffice Department have re-
ceived information that on Friday last,
near York Station, on the Alabama and
Chattanooga railroad in Alabama, q
passenger train was stopped by false
signal of danger, and the colored mail
agent on duty was shot in cold blood by
masked assassins. Congressman Charles
Hays, of Alabama, who is now here,
confirms this story, and gives some re-
markable instances of outrages which
have come within his own observation
within the last few weeks. Although
Confederate, Mr.. Hays has been
consistent Republican since the close of
the war, and has been a personal witness
of most of the troubled scenes in his
State since that time. He says to-day
that during the last twelve years, even
when Ku- Kluxism was at it's height, he
has never known time when the lives
of the colored people were so much en-
dangered, and free speech SO nearly
prohibited in Alabama as to-day. HIS
district, which is in the very center of
the Black Belt, has $4,000 colored ma
jority. He has been returned several
times to Congress by a majority of that
magnitude, yet he says that his own life
would be in danger to-day in Sumter
county, the strongest Republican county
in the district, and that if there was to
be an election held to-day, the intimida-
ton of the colored PEOPLE by the rebel
element is so great that the only votes
cast would be by white persons.
ESCAPE OF A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN.
Representative Charles Pelham, of
one of the mountain districts in that
State, who recently arrived there from
the North, was compelled to leave, un-
der cover of night, the county seat of
one of the counties of his own district
to escape from q contemplated attack
upon his life, of which he was secretly
warned by faithful negro. Some of
the white people of the town, it appears,
had assembled Immediately after the ar
rival of Mr.. Pelham, and mutually
swore that there should be one less
Radical member of Congress there, md
before morning. This intelligence was
secretly conveyed to Mr.. Pelham, who
left the hotel unobserved in the early
evening, and walked with negro guide
ten miles through the weeds to rail
road station. the Postmaster of one
of the towns of Mr.. Pelham's district
subsequently informed him that be did
not dare, for his life, to lodge him for
the night, because his (Pelham's) vote
for the Civil Rights bill had so incensed
the whites of the country that if he did
they would kill the Postmaster and Pei
ham both before morning.
OTHER CASES.
Judge Martin, the Sixth Auditor of
the Treasury, who has recently re-
turned from Alabama, felt that he was
in personal danger while on brief visit
to his own home, and for the
sole reason that he was known
as Republican. Mr.. Stokes, q
Republican employee of the House
of Representatives, who is campaigning
in Alabama, was surprised one night
| Last week in his bed room after he had