The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-31
A Specimen Brick.

A Specimen Brick.
The Republican leaders evincs just
now a strong disposition to again set
the Northern heart ablaze against the
people Of the South by their exagge.
ration Of real occurrences of violence
in that unfortunate section, and by
their Endorsement as true Of p1eten-
ded assassinations of negroes by
whites. The inventive faculties of
every scalawag and carpet'basger are
put to work to manufacture riots,
murders and assassinations commits
ted, as alleged, for the purpose Of ter
rorizing the true friends of the Gov
eminent. Loyalty is again on the
rack, and the people of tho North
must to the rescue-until after the
elections. A scallawag by the name
of HAYS, a member Of Congress from
Alabama, has been making himself
conspicuous by his lies and exaggcra-
tons against the people Of his own
State. He addressed a letter recent
ly to Hawley, of Connecticut, IN
! which he undertakes to give an &C.
| count of the mistleeds of the whites
Of his District against the loyal blacks.
Before narratiug his chapter Of hor-
rors, he is careful to say that he will
be particular to relate no rumors, to
color no atrUcity, to set down nanght
iu malice, but simply to give we'll au-
thenticated facts, with dates, lnames,
and localities, SD that every man in the
land may himself verify the accuracy
of his statements, if he deems it ne
cessary. That is to make the North
ern people receive his statements in a
less questioning spirit. With this
preface We give q specimen brick of
his structure of falsehoOds. In giving
an account of the persons who had
suffered violent deaths in his Con-
gressional District, he says:
"Again, l gather, from the Meridian
Mercury (Democrat) an account of
the killing of five negroes in North
Sumter on the night of August q,
1874. Nothing is known as to ,rhy
these negroes were killed. They
were all shot. The correspondent of
the Mercury, writing from Gainesville,
Alabama, August 26, 1874, facetiously
remarks that two of the crowd went
dead in corn-tieid.' This Dems-
cratic correspondent concludes his ar
ticle as follows: All these deaths
occurred on the night of the Oath, ex-
cept the negro women, who was kill
ed early on the morning Of the 25th.'
Mr.. Vincent 1.-THE gentleman who gave
the correspondent the item Of news)
being asked If it was good night
for killing',' answered No; it had
been dry for some weeks"
Though he says nothing is known
as to why those negroes were killed,
yet in the introductory remarks of
his letter to Bawley he says the hor-
rors he is going to narrate were COM
mittel to terrify the true friends of
the Government. And in the above
statement the object EVIDENTLY is to
make the country believe those five
negroes were killed by whites be-
cause they were negroes. The Mon
gomery Advertiser publishes the &C.
count from the Mercury, from which
the Hon. Hays made up his romance,
and which number of the Mercury, he
must have had before him when he
was connecting his story. This is
what the Mercxry contained:
GAINESVILLE, ALA. I
August 26, 1874. !
editor Mercury Five negroes
came to q sudden death on the night
of the gath, ia the Tompkins neigh
borhood, north end Of this country.
It appears that two negro men Fent
dead in corn-field for stealing corn,
at the handsiof unknown parties. A
third was killed in a fracas with 9TH
or negroes. The fourth man was
playing with a negro girl, gun in hand,
and was accidently killed by the dis
charge of the gun. The fifth tragedy
was that Of q negro woman, whose
husband deliberately shot her in the
head, producing instant death. He
had previously threatened to kill her.