The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-09-10

intention then would have been tn
time to have carried it into effect Yol
will notice, too, that it was negro bal
becue. and that those two white men haC
no business to go there in the first place
Some days after this the negroes mad
iopen threats, &c. The absurdity o
this will be apparent to all. The negro
is not warlike creature. He never be
| gins disturbance with the whites. IL
these disturbances he is never the ag
gressor. The account continues:
"A company of negroes had previousl!
been organized at Humboldt, one a
Pickettsville, and one at Hope Hill, eigh
miles south of Milan, and regular com
pany and field officers elected. By pre-
concerted arrangement the companie:
from Humboldt and Hope Hill were tt
meet at Pickettsville, join forces to the
| Pickettsville company and kill Burnett
and 10. Hale, administer nine hundred
lashes to the back of Mrs. Burnett, burn
and sack Pickettsville, go thence to
| Humboldt, Trenton, Milan and other
points and sack. burn and kill-to use
| their own expression, take possession oil
| the country
This is almost too absurd to have been
penned by sane man. The whites there
outnumber the blacks nearly three to
the slightest disposition ito kill all the
whites and take possession of the count
ry," even were they able. There are
counties in Mississippi where the blacks
nearly. if not quite ten to one, yet who
ever heard of their making war on the
whites? They never do, and would not
if they numbered twenty or forty or fifty
to one. 1t is not their disposition.
would as soon believe that water would
run up hill, as to believe the foregoing
extract just quoted:
The account continues:
'The trial at Hope Hill of the leaders
disclosed the fact that all the men were
to be killed and the negroes each to have
a white wife Happily for US, one of
the band came into town at Picketts-
vile and informed the citizens of the
town Saturday evening of the intended
outbreak. Before the news could get
out to the citizens, young man named
Morgan and one named Love, who knew
nothing of it, were riding along the road
near Pickettsville, and were fred upon
by these banded negroes, and ones
Morgan s) mule was Killed, and Loves
shot SO it will die, Love and Morgan hap
PLY escaping. Some of these negroes
coming into town were arrested, and a
posse of citizens the next day, aided by a
company from Milan, secured the coun-
try, capturing about thirty"
Now, Morgan's mule was not hit, nor
was Loves. Both these animals are
alive and doing well, as l learn from a
gentleman from Trenton. 1t is very
doubtful whether Morgan and Love were
shot at at all by the negroes, much less
band of them. So many negroes
could have killed these two men, had
they desired, and the fact that they were
not hit nor hurt strongly points to the
improbability of their having been shot
at at all. You notice that the account
says that some of the negroes came into
the town after the shooting and were
arrested. If they had been firing at
white men, don't you know that they
would not have trusted themselves in
town so soon after? Besides, none of
them, whether in town or out, tried to
get away. They had done nothing to
run for, and they were all marched to
Jail without struggle.
The remarkable account continues
"Trial-a fair trial-was had before
Esquires Jordon, of Milan, Parker of
Pickettsville. and Fly, of Old South Glib
son, on Monday last, and sixteen were
sent to jail. The others were turned
loose, no proof being found against them.
Sunday all day and Sunday night the
negroes were swarming in the vicinity of
Hope Hill. Mr.. Cooke, passing by ne
gro house in search of a mule, on Mon
day, found company of about fifty ne
groes around, cleaning up guns and MAX
ing Warllke declarations and preparations
The citizens of Milan, Pickettsville,
Hope Hill and Humboldt dispersed them
capturing, Monday and Tuesday, six of
a ul NH
w Wednesday, and sent to Jail at jackson.
Last Tuesday night crowd of the in
furiated and justly aroused citizens of
Gibson county (of whom none were from
Mllan) went to Trenton, took these six
teen negroes out of Jail and shot them.
These negroes pretended to fear Ku-Klux,
and hence their arming Not Ku-
kluX has been seen or heard of in Glib
son county since 1862"
Now, mind you, when the negro armed
bands were dispersed" they made no
resistance whatever. Had they started
out with the intentions ascribed to them,
don't you suppose they would have made
some sort of resistance? During all this
time, while twenty or thirty negroes are
beng arrested, not white man is hurt.
The account is valuable, as it is Incl
dentally stated that the murderers who
shot the sixteen prisoners in cold blood,
were citizens of Gibson county" And
yet they can not be found, and no arrests
are made! And no arrests will be made
unless outside public sentiment drives
the people there to do.it.
Think what must be the condition of a
section, when a single county can in
night, turn out from among its citizens
seventy-hve men willing to override the
law, tie the hands of sixteen prisoners,
and shoot them down in cold blood
Here is the rest of the account:
Certain parties here are pretending to
condemn the shooting of these Williams at
Trenton. The majority of our people
have no words to condemn them. They
all, while depreciating lynch law, concur
in the opinion that the fate of these in
carnate devils is but what they so richly
deserved. We have no patience with
those who, far out of the reach of these
troubles, and knowing nothing
of the terrible storm that was lowering
for weeks over us can condemn us for
protecting our lives and the virtue Of our
dear ones. Let such people go North
where no such storms come Their ideas
are too high The people sleeping upon
a mine, like those of Milan, Pickett9ville
and Hope Hill have no time to argue.
They think they needed action, and
prompt action. As community we have
right to selEdefence, the same as an
individual. No man need cry ''hands off,
when the torch is at the door of the
homes of our people. The laws delay
is proverbial, and while we are idly send
ing to Trenton for writs of arrest for
these men and arguing against the sin of
mob law, these negroes might violate the