The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
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we We're all scared. hardly knew what 10 do
y he was trying to tie up the calf and then
come to join you? '''S'
A. Yes, air.
Q. You did not see him killed?
a, No, sir; did not see him killed hnt beor0
IN! a guns when they went off; but did not know
2 Where did you go with your children
plantation. o'H'1 S'00 "a NY
Q. Into the woods?
A. Yes. sir.
t. How long was you there?
a We were not there very long before .thev GOT
scared and then we came ont eO'
Y end when you came out you found him?
q. Where was he shotP
ing)
Q. What was his name?
A. Handy.
q. How many children have youp
A. Three children
Y. when did you bury him?
r,1 a l never got the chance to bury him until
wednesday. | had to come 10 town TO GET the
paper, and did not get back until near night,
ana ala not have time to do anything
y DID you bring him in wagon !?
A. No, Sir.
Q, What did you do
-, "A; he was close to my house, l took him up to
9. Who got him to your house?
q Two colOred mem
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You got him into the house that Monday
A. Yes, Sir. it was after dark before coulI oct
any one to take him up,
SIR, you may read again all the stories
OF pothos, whether found in prose or
poetry, and whether you find il in the.
tender love and touching fidelity of the.
"Slave of Martinique" When
Sadly looks he, deeply signs he It's the Haytfan
aail he sees
Like white cloud of the mountains, driven
seward By the breeze.
Or the angelic and devoted Evang ell
inc, as
She pressed once more tn lifeless head to her
BOSOM
Meekly she bowed her own and murmurad.
Father. 1 thank thee ~
Or wherever it be, whether in legand.
song, or story, you shall never see more
pathos compressed into one sentence
tran you would have seen could YOU
have beheld this poor, simple, ignorant
woman as she described herself fleeing
across the fields with her children, and
heard her say and have done:
kept going on and looking back, and ain'b
seen hEnt come get!
. Mr.sPvaker, this sad catalogue of
wrongs might be continued, hut must
not trespass further upon the time CT the
House for this purpose. 7 will cite
only one or two other cases from the
majority report of our committee:
A poor old man, Mingo Green, very old, and SO
deCreplt that he Was compelled to support his
steps with a cane, a local exporter of some note
CHANGED to meet party of those patrols and was
PUT to death aud left lying in the road with the
top OF his head cut smooth off; or, as the witness
expressed, 1.-THE whole inside of his head showed
white like q china bowl"
The case Of Anthony Mack deserves some
notice. This man was charged with commanding
the patty that killed Vaughn. A warrant was
issued for him: he was arrested in Yazoo County.
and delivered to two men, one of whom WasHogan'
TO be brought to Vicksburgh for trial. On the
way these worthy officers of the law killed their
prisoner, but the place and manner of his death
are not known,
From all the information before us. the COM
mttee find that in the whole affair two viii te men
-DFOWu anu NauR0n-dpQeGr TO nave been
killed, and twenty nine blacks. more than half of
whom were deliberately put to death in cold
blood. How many mere are missing and
unaccounted for, lying in the cane impossible
to ascertain. One OF the witnesses stated that
We Qhe commtttee) never coulu find out; "but we
watched where the buzzards hover, and there we
dn6 the dead men,
So great has been the loss of order, and SO
unrestrained were the worst elements In Vicks-
burgh during three days from the 9TH to the 9th
that the best people of the city, the very men whs
dreaded that violence would be offered TO the
judges both OF the law and chancerY courts
and made arrangements with Mr. Rigby,
president of the railway. by which a speciaI
train was secretly prepared to start from
the round-house nearly half q mile from the
depot totake these officers ofthe law out of the city
and out of the power OF the mob. Carriages were
procured and the judges taken by back streets to.
the waiting train, put in the cars carefully
and sent off with instructions to
engineer and conductor not to stop till they reach
ed Jackson Such was the state of affairs in;
Vicksburgh undor tie rule of the mob; such will.
be the case in any other place where law is over
thrown and the violent rule Of irresponsible men
su bsrituted for orderly government.
Sir, have heard something here about
the "bayonet submitting to the ermine."
[ think it would have required pretty
lively chase for the baYonet TO have
submitted to the eImine on that eventful
night. Now, Mr.. Speaker, have not
cited these instances of cruelty to claim
that the white people at Vicksburgh
acted wholly without provocatiou~
There are TWO sides to this question as to
IL! others. That adventures had foist--
I'd themselves upon thu people, that taxes.
lad been high, that some colored official
disputed. But the great mistake ofall
vas in selzing upon Crosby, the sheriff.
Who was shown to have been guilty ONO
,fiense, and, with the courts open and
with ample, legal, and
peaceful remedies at hand, invoking the
,oir;t of the xnob and LATINO Ioosa unon