The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-18


exchanges short time ago:
Jane Grey Swisshelm, writing to the Pitts
burg Commercial, says: know one gentleman
who thought of emigrating South who took his
carpet-bag and went to spy out the land. All
looked propitious in most places, but after he
registered his name in a hotel i'll the southern
part of Georgia, he was handed a slip OF paper:
1--WE will meet ySu in your room tonight at
twelve o'clock. X X
He lit cigar and sat down in the office TO
read and smoke. A knot of ruffianly men gath
cred in and began noisy discussion on poll
ties, using the most insulting language toward
Yankees and nigger-worshipers, but he seemed
to take no notice.
After some time one of the ruffians staggered
up to him and inquired if he ''wasn't a YAM
kee?" He replied that he was, and supposing
that they were the K. X. who were TO see him
at Il O'Clock in his own room, suggested that it
would be better to have the interview there and
then. He said he came South TO buy land, not
to talk politics, but if they had anything TO say
to him he preferred hearing it before he went to
bed. He was not dis urbed, but concluded that
Georgia land would be selling at three cents per
square mile, with large discount on cash pay
ments, when he bought any.
In a Texas hotel he heard a knot of men dis
cussing the skinning of a negro, in which one
of them had taken part. 1t seemed to be a case
with which they were all more or less familiar,
but to the details of which, from participant,
they all listened as set of Rocky Mountain
hunters would do to a hero recounting his ex-
ploits in capturing a grizzly bear. He old just
how they had taken the entire skin, in one
piece, how the "nigger yelled" and struggled,
how they stretched the skin and nailed it
against u tree to dry, and how the victim lived
a half hour after the operation.
My in formant, who was q shocked listener to
the tale, and to the coarse, ribald jestS and
fiGhtful oaths which it called out, will not soon
emigrate South. The people of those States are
unfit for self-government. The nation should
have established military and territorial gov
ernments in all the Southern States, and no
man who took an oath or fought TO support the
Confederacy should ever have been permitted
to vote. The lands of the rebels should have
been confiscated and sold in small farms to pay
the war debt, and those States would have been
redeemed by such flow of emigration as
would ultimately place them on a sure basis,
financially and politically. This something
like 1t will have TO be done yet. This Govern
ment cannot afford to permit the largest and
best portion of her territory to be held by a set
of semi-savages, who undertake to build Chi
nese wall of prejudice around it, and to exclude
the citizens of other States or lands. Any man
who pleases has right 10 go there, get any
office he can, and stay long short time
as he pleases, and In this right the Government
is bound to protect not only its own citizens
but those of other countries.
JANE GRAY SWISSHELM.
As the Democracy is straining every
nerve to re-establish slavery, and will
succeed unless the Republicans unite as
one man to resist, it is well not to forget
the barbarism of slavery.
Dome years ago we published an ac-
count of one Maj Bawler a slave holder
of Virginia. Our parents knew him well,
and had personal knowledge of many Of
his cruelties. Once he whipped negro
woman to death, cutting off entirely
with his whip one of her breasts. While
she lay on the ground dead, her child
crawled to her, and commenced sucking
the other bloody breast.
During the winter of 1856 we were
teaching school and boarding around.
One night the man at whose house we
were stopping, related to us many Incl
dents which occurred in Virginia when
he resided there. lie was a strong pro-
slavery man, and related with much sat
how he saw three negroes hung
at one time. He said they were hauled
to the gallows on cart, and the ropes
put around their necks, and then the
cart was driven from under them. He
said they kept their feet upon the cart as
long as they possibly could, even to the
ends of their toes. scraping them off the
hind part OF the cart as it finally left them.
He said the bodies were then skinned,
.ad the skins thrown into back alley.