Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28
DispArcHEs from the city Of Mexico

Maria Bonilla and his wife. Dieya.
were burned at TIE stake by the order
of Senior Castillo, Alcaldc OF Jacobo.
The dispatch states that they had be .
witchcd one Silvestre Zacarias and
the day before the execution citizen
PorrSs as final test made Zacariss
take three swallows of blessed water,
whereupon the latter vomited frag-
mcnts of blanket and punches of
hair.
Tho Alcdlde states that the people
were exaspcrated against the sorcerera,
and demanded that they be burned.
The sentence was executed with his
approval. He adds that he has his
eye on other sorcerers against whom
complaint has been made by the citi-
zens. The Official Daiyo Of this city
confirms the report OF the outrage,
and says several families in the town
have since compelled the officers to
burn another old woman and her son
for the same cause. The general gov
eminent has asked the authorities of
Sinaloa to send detailed report Of
these proceedings, and to take meas
ures to protect the lives of persons
threatened with similar violence.
The reader will say that this is a
horrid state Of affairs and should be
stopped instantly and if by no other
way, then by the interference of other
nations.
That is true 1t is dark, dark picture
10 look upon, and should be suppressed,
bnt it only shows that Mexicans are
behind only little over a century. our
own ancestors.
In this land so far AS arraigning people
for witch-craft is concerned we have
struggled up through and overthrow
the ignorant, so called christianity,
which clamorcd for and endorsed It,
whereas IN Mexico the dark pail yet
ovorshadows them. Still further
while horrible death for sorccry is
obsolete among us, yet in our own
land In the last decade, Ku Klux
raiders slaughtered men, women aud
children for the crime Of making an
attempt to cultivate their minds and
even now--only last week-in the
State of Tennessee a man shot down an
officer of the law who sought to arrest
him for the crime of mercilessly whip.
ping the man and woman Of o family
that boarded teacher who was giving
instructions 70 colored people All
this the government does not sustain
1t is true, and in the last two years in
suppressing those outrages the Federal
courts were brought into requisitiou
and scores Of Ku Klux were sent Ia
Northern prisons, and yet in 90 doing
almost the entire democratic press oil
the North, the reformers of our day
berated the government for such actl
as an interference with State GOV.
ereignity and as An act of tyranny. i
Indeed in this land of boasted free.
dom, there are tens of thousands 70.
day, who, If they do not openly ap.
prove Of Ku Klux raids, so far lear
in their behalf, that when the State
fails 10 suppress them either because
its authorities don't want to Gas now
seems probable in Missouri) or because
they can't-are opposed to the inter.
ference of the general government.
The democratic party has yielded
hattlement after battlement in defense
of slavery, when driven from them
until at last.we find them making al.
most the last stand in the United Statel
Senate at this time id opposition Il
the civil rights bill. Inch by inch the,
have contested the field and stiIl they
fight. We say then that we look with
horror upon the burning at the stake
OF reputed witches In Mexico, and YET
We are only about . century inadyance
of them in this regard, and tens OF
thousands of our people are on . par
with them in only another form or
incentive to extreme cruelty to their
fellow men
VIZ have before spoken of VIM. w
Eaton, the new democratic Senator
elect in Connecticut, who was elected
by union of 90 called reformers witt
democrats. The Pittsburg Commercia
gives the following brief history o.
the man:
AT the outbreak Of the rebellion b.
threatened that the Massachusetts
soldiers enroute to Washington
would have to pass over his dead body
One night he was detected in an at.
tempt to tear down the United States
flag in the streets of Hartford. lie
not only opposed the raising OF troops
| aud revenue, but he cOuHseled armed
resistance to the draft and the collect
| ion of taxes. He denounced those
patriots who volunteered for the de
fenso OF the Union as "Lincoln hire
lings" and abolition assassins )" ant
he rejoiGed over rebel victories ani
mourned over rebel defeats. Hi,
speeches rocked with the most rance
r0us treason, Short Of taking vi
arms In its behalf, he did all no posi-
bly, could to aid the rebellion, ant
from the beginning to ..the end Of tn
war was, and glorified in being,
deadly, implacable enemy OF TIL
Government and Of the Union.
This position he has ever msintainet
always repudiating the hypocritica
departures of democracy, .a.St.k
The Buffalo Courier democratic
commenting upon his election show
that the elevation Of such men is il
accordance with the true interest Q
al the moves now made by the oppo
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