The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-09-10
JACKSON c. III. OHIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER o, 1874.

| the crime Is GnaC threats nave Deen mao
that no ''nigger school should be opene
there. These threats have come to tn
knowledge of the State Superintendent
of Public instruction, and is the onl
clue to the murderers-and that is
l very faint one The Governor has offeret
a reward of FIVE thousand dollars for tn
conviction of the murderers. 1t woult
be better for Tennessee to spend a hun
dred thousand dollars than not to hav,
these scoundrels caught and hung Blu
there is very little probability that it will
) be done There are fifty murders in thi
State to where there is one murdere
hung.
Julia was buried near where she fell
and last week her brothers took up hel
body and carried it through this city t.
their desolate home at Spring Hill. Las
night | had a conversation with Profes
sor Braden about the murdered girl. He
gave her the highest character. His lips
trembled and the tears came unbidder
to his eyes as he spoke of her; the sub
ject was painful. Only one consolation
he had-Julia was a Christian She has
gone to her maker, in whose eyes all are
indeed equal, for we are taught that God
is no respecter of persons We know
that while the laws of Tennessee are
oftener not enforced than enforced, and
the guilty in most instances go unpunish-
ed-these murderers, if not punished
in this world, can not escape in the
next.
The mask and the darkness of night
can not hide them there, nor can the fact
that the victim was ''nigger" be urged
in justification. vengeance is mine, |
will repay, saith the Lord" There is
solid consolation in this
Upon the heels of this diabolical MUIR
der comes a letter from Trousdale county
to the Union and Anaericon correcting the
Banner s account OF the killing, which said
that sshe was taken out of the house and
shot to death, and affirming (Which is
true) that she was shot in the house
Ihls he calls correction, and the Ban
ner account misrepresentation What
| difference does it make to the enormity
OF the crime whether she was shot in the
| house or out? He says of Trousdale that
''out of all the bright galaxy of counties
that form the proud old Commonwealth
OF Tennessee, none shine with a brighter
luster, or are distinguished for peace
morality order and law"
| What sickening stuff is this Yet in
! this State such gable always follows the
report of the pistol and the flash of
knife, and IS sung over the fresh graves
of the newly slain. To one who knows
the condition of things here it is doubly
| slckening. When the good citizens of
the proud and altogether law-abiding and
law-enforcing county of Trousdale swing
! the murderers of Julia Hayden from the
gallows, they can boast that the laws are
indeed enforced there; but until that is
done, or at least an honest, energetic,
faithful attempt made to bring them to
justice, the least said the better,
THE GIBSON COUNTY HORROR.
The more the facts come out the plain
er it is that the murder of the sixteen
negroes taken from the Jail at Trenton
was one OF the most unprovoked, deliber-
ate, 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 single individual. black or
white, in person or in property. Their
| only offense was that they had threatened
| to arm themselves to resist the u-Klux.
That any of them had even 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 cir
cumstances 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 "manifestine a
desire to kill two or three good citizens"
| 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 punishment, for
| the whole legal machinery of Gibson
county is in the hands of the whites,
they outnumbering the blacks two to one.
! Y ct in the face of all these facts, the
midnight murderers trod the law under
| foot, took those men from Jail by force,
| tied their hands behind them and shot
them down like wild beasts The crea-
| lures who would thus murder their vic
Tins 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 community where seventy
five or hundred men can be raised in
a single county in a single night to do
! such deed2 A hundred murderers in
one county, and cowardly, sneaking mur-
derers 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 civ
ilized, or are they savages? Do the saw
ages do worse?
And yet there are men who Justify
this deed Some one writes from Milan
to the Union and american, under date of
August 81 signing himself MAX" boldly
justifying the wholesale slaughter 1
transfer his justification" entirely to the
columns of the Con,mercial, for it Will give
Northern people more of an insight into
the condition of affairs here than | could
by writing columns. Now, | want you to
read carefully, and see just what a man
can say who iustifies the shooting of six
teen unarmed prisoners with their hands
tied:
MILAN, Tenn, Aug. 81.
"We are and have been for the week
past, living in state of terror, though
the excitement is seemingly abating.
:. succinct statement of the matter would
materially aid in the complete justifca-
ton of our citizens. For two months
past the negroes here, as elsewhere have
been gradually becoming imprudent,
and showing disposition to assert their
own privileges. or fancied privileges.
For instance, sidewalks are vacated by
them with reluctance, and in some in
stances, when the ladies had no escorts,
the negroes would force them to give the
entire sidewalk About ten days since,
Mr. Henry Burnett and 10. Hale, resid-
ing near Piclettsville, six miles east of
Milan, went to the grounds being used
by the negroes for a barbecue, and pur-
chased some of the meats prepared A
misunderstanding arose between some
of the negroes and these two gentlemen
(and they are gentlemen) and the ne